News - Friday, November 13, 2026

Believe it or not, there was a time when we didn’t have every Thanksgiving tip and trick available at the click of a mouse or the swipe of a finger.

We had to gather our Turkey Day knowledge the old-fashioned way: by watching television.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is moving forward with plans to offer two 90-credit-hour bachelor’s degrees designed for law enforcement and corrections professionals. The proposed Police Science and Corrections Science programs would provide a shorter, potentially more affordable alternative to traditional 120-credit-hour degrees.

The Bethlehem Center will host its annual fundraiser Saturday beginning at 6 p.m. at the Unum Suite at Erlanger Park, 2587 Chestnut St., Chattanooga. The event will feature dinner, drinks, live music and a live auction. Keynote speaker Jon Johnson will discuss how his involvement in building a baseball field at Howard High School demonstrated the power of investing in communities. Proceeds will support The Bethlehem Center’s educational, leadership development and community assistance programs, including Read to Lead Academy, The Beth’s Farm and Client Choice Food Pantry. Sponsorships, tables and individual tickets are available at thebeth.org/dinner-of-champions.

The Tennessee Aquarium is launching an expanded veterinary program that includes construction of a $5 million animal hospital and new educational partnerships designed to train future veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

The initiative builds on the Aquarium’s 34 years of experience in aquatic animal care and establishes partnerships with the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine (UTCVM) in Knoxville and Chattanooga State Community College’s Veterinary Technology Program.

A confrontation between two motorists in Hamilton County might have ended with little more than frayed nerves and a few choice words. Instead, it ended with gunfire, a wounded man and bullets striking nearby homes.

Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 400 block of Fuller Lane in the Bakewell community Oct. 31 after a reported road rage incident escalated into a shooting, HCSO officials say.

Preserving wealth requires asking different questions from the ones that built it. Once you’ve accumulated meaningful assets, the focus shifts from growth alone toward stewardship, or keeping what you’ve built, directing it purposefully and making sure it continues to serve the people and causes that matter most to you. 

By Sheryl Rowling | Morningstar 

A successful retirement depends on income, spending, taxes, and flexibility, not a seven-figure balance.

You’re nearing retirement, but you haven’t saved $1 million. That doesn’t mean you can never retire. Here are eight financial do’s and don’ts for savers with a six-figure nest egg.

With the Tennessee Titans’ bye landing pretty much in the middle of the season, let’s do a midterm report card on where things stand in Robert Saleh’s first season at the helm.

Obviously, with the Titans at 1-7 on the season, there won’t be many guys on the honor roll for a team that has been the worst in the league over the past couple of years and might be hard-pressed to even match the three wins they scored in 2024 and 2025.

There are plenty of three-row SUVs on sale, but few can match the extroverted style of the Dodge Durango. With its prominent chin, bright paint colors and hood scoop, the Durango forgoes sleekness for six-pack muscle. Dodge is even doubling down on the muscle theme by making a V-8 engine standard on every 2027 Durango.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says it has returned more than $12 billion, or almost 99%, of the revenue obtained from the sales of Venezuelan oil since it ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro in January.

In a report released Thursday by the State Department, the accounting firm KPMG said the sales of Venezuelan crude, along with minor amounts of gold, minerals and fertilizer, produced $12.26 billion. Almost all of the money has been returned to Venezuela under the terms of a broad energy deal reached with the country's interim authorities, according to the report.

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market shook Thursday, but it largely absorbed big swings for Nvidia and oil prices and finished with relatively modest losses. The moves suggested Wall Street sees limited fallout for the artificial intelligence industry, which carries immense influence on the market, despite the sudden fall of one of its biggest evangelists.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week.

One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that Huang had an affair with a businesswoman U.S. intelligence suspects to be a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies. Separately, the outlet and later others found Huang was said to have had another affair with an Nvidia executive who reported to him directly — compounding calls for him to step down.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday directed Vice President JD Vance to shift his focus away from the Iran war and instead devote himself to fighting what the president says is corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states.

NEW YORK (AP) — International health experts are meeting this week to determine if the United States and Mexico have forfeited one of their greatest public health victories — the elimination of measles.

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to medicine, but vaccines had safely stopped the virus' spread in the U.S. for 30 years. Over those decades, measles had become a medical rarity in the U.S., with deaths from the disease virtually unheard of. But in the past two years, large outbreaks have hit multiple states, spawning thousands of illnesses, including about a dozen deaths.

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Ford will open the doors to its new Vault this weekend to some lucky gearheads and fans of history.

The 123-year-old carmaker on Saturday will allow select members of the public and employees into the Ford Vault to take a gander at everything from rare concept cars and Hollywood Mustangs to historic police cruisers and even a 1938 ambulance. Tickets were snapped up quickly, but Ford Motor Co. said there will be future showings.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada threatened Thursday to sue automaker Stellantis and recover hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding after the company shifted planned vehicle production to the United States during President Donald Trump's trade war and agreed to sell its idled assembly plant in Brampton, Ontario.

HONG KONG (AP) — From Asia to the U.S., Microsoft's outage involving services like Outlook and Teams has dragged on for hours and impacted users, companies and some government operations as the technology giant struggled to fix the issue.

Microsoft said the outage was affecting a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users to be down.

BERLIN (AP) — It was the sound of e-silence. No Microsoft Outlook email chimes, no Teams message pings, no new notifications and, very possibly, no work getting done.

Microsoft 365 teetered on the edge of becoming Microsoft 364 as the global outage stretched from Thursday into, ironically (or fittingly, depending on your personal outlook), Friday the 13th. The disruption has impacted an unknown number of netizens, but the total could be as high as 450 million — the figure the tech giant touts as the number of paid customers of the Microsoft 365 apps.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Southeast Asian leaders and their key counterparts, including from the United States and China, will renew their alarm over the escalating threat of online scams, according to a draft statement seen by The Associated Press on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — High airfares could become the new norm as airlines contend with soaring jet fuel prices and mounting operating costs, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines' chief said Friday.

Wong Hong, director-general of the association grouping 18 airlines in the region, said carriers were trying to contain ticket prices while protecting their finances and avoiding fare increases that could drive passengers away.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has quietly fired or removed several top officers in recent months but broke with its usual practice of announcing those changes, drawing pushback from Congress.

Two Democratic lawmakers said Thursday that the Navy failed to inform Congress that it fired the entire leadership team of a nuclear-powered attack submarine last month after an underwater collision. Separately, the sea service in September fired the commander of a destroyer deployed to the Middle East, according to a defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive personnel matters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Thursday that it had seized more than $1.2 billion of cryptocurrency reported stolen last month from Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.

The theft of about $6.3 billion from Binance is regarded as the biggest crypto heist in history, and the FBI has previously attributed it to a North Korean hacking group known as TraderTraitor. The U.S. government and private sector have so far combined to freeze more than $2.7 billion of the stolen funds, and the Justice Department said Thursday that it has now obtained court authorization to seize or restrain more than $1.2 billion of that total.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale inflation cooled a bit last month yet remains elevated, evidence of stubbornly higher prices that have soured Americans on the economy and fueled big gains for Democrats in the midterm elections last week.

The Labor Department's producer price index — which captures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.3% from September to October, down from a 1.4% jump in the previous month. Yet compared with a year earlier, it climbed 6.5%, up from 6.3% in September and the biggest increase since November 2022, the government said Friday. A year ago, wholesale inflation was just 3.1%.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday he was frustrated with the Commerce Department's delay in implementing controls over the export of certain Nvidia chips to China.

Bessent said on CNBC that his department, along with the departments of State and Defense and the U.S. Trade Representative, were in favor of adding Megaspeed to an export control list for months but that the Commerce Department was in charge of the matter.

DENVER (AP) — A Democratic political organization is announcing a new effort to shape how to talk with voters about artificial intelligence, deepening its investment on an issue that an increasing number of party leaders believe creates a stark contrast with President Donald Trump's opposition to regulating the powerful technology.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's stunning resignation has sent ripples through the global technology industry, with rival chipmakers itching to take advantage of the uncertainty and others wondering if the downfall of one of AI's biggest cheerleaders will dampen the mood around the civilization-altering technology.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed has proposed "TrumpCare," a golden insurance card providing universal healthcare, dangling the president's name on the ambitious Democratic plan.

James Talarico has suggested Donald Trump could become a man of history like Lyndon B. Johnson, who was seen as a master of congressional dealmaking.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Democrats take over Congress in January, one of their many oversight targets will be Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose overhaul of longstanding vaccine guidance and cuts to medical research over the past two years have drawn fiery criticism. Some high-ranking lawmakers have suggested impeaching him.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Richard Hudson wanted a triumphant return to Capitol Hill this week after steering Republicans to another majority. Instead, the North Carolina Republican is facing the reality that he and dozens of colleagues will soon clear out their offices.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has functioned for nearly two years as an extension of the White House, unchecked by a Republican-controlled Congress as it pursued investigations into President Donald Trump's enemies, fired waves of career employees and defended administration stances that judges across the country repeatedly deemed legally dubious.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday heaped praise on Mississippi's Sen.-elect Scott Colom for courting some of his hardcore MAGA supporters in the final days of the midterm election campaign, a rare example of the Republican president showing admiration for a Democrat.