Friday, November 13, 2026
President Donald Trump said on 12 November 2026 that US tariffs on Mexico would be 'immediately doubled' unless Mexico stops migrant caravans moving north. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum replied that no caravan has reached the US border since he returned to office, and that one group has already shrunk to fewer than 100 people.
The SS United States, the 990-foot liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record set in 1952, was deliberately sunk in the Gulf of Mexico about 22 nautical miles off Destin, Florida, on Wednesday 11 November. Okaloosa County says it is now the world's largest artificial reef and plans to open it to divers once a survey confirms where it rests.
Democrat Scott Colom has defeated Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi by about 4,600 votes out of roughly 962,000 counted, after eight days of ballot counting. He will be the state's first Black US senator since Reconstruction and its first Democratic senator elected since 1982; results stay unofficial until counties certify on 13 November.
Ryohin Keikaku, the company behind Muji, apologised on 12 November for keeping about 1.09 million full MUJI Card numbers it should have deleted years ago, which may have been accessed in an October cyberattack. It will pay reissue fees for about 345,000 cards that are still valid, while its Japanese online store remains offline after a separate wave of credential-stuffing logins.
Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka formally resigned on Thursday 12 November, handing his letter to the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) after court rulings undermined the school documents behind his 2024 candidacy. President Prabowo Subianto must now nominate two candidates, and the assembly has up to 60 days to elect a successor.
A three-storey building with a shop and four flats collapsed into a neighbouring excavation pit in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on 11 November 2026. By 12 November officials said eight people had died, including two children and two construction workers, and 18 were injured; prosecutors are examining whether any criminal conduct contributed.
Google DeepMind says AI agents built on its AlphaProof Code framework have mathematically proved key security properties of the compiled code behind the Signal protocol, generating about 6.5 million lines of machine-checked proofs in four weeks. The result covers Signal's core one-to-one encryption library under stated assumptions, not the whole Signal app or every messaging service that uses the protocol.
Emailed bomb threats reached about 6,300 state schools in Italy and hundreds more in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, prompting precautionary evacuations. Police in every country involved said the threats were not credible, no explosives were found, and investigators are trying to trace the sender.
Millions of workers in Spain joined a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, the country's first since 2012, to protest against soaring rents and house prices. Unions and tenants' groups put participation at about 4 million, and the stoppage lands less than three weeks before a snap general election on 29 November in which housing is a central issue.