11pm ET, November 14 | The latest headlines from NPR
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11pm ET, November 14 | The latest headlines from NPR

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 15, 20264 min
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back up to speed following yesterday's nationwide ground stop.

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This is NPR News Now. The latest headlines every hour. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lyndi Kenyon. Thousands of passengers are still stranded as the U.S. air travel system slowly gets

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back up to speed following yesterday's nationwide ground stop. As NPR's Joel Rose reports, aviation regulators are laying the blame for the telecom meltdown on a federal contractor. Aviation Secretary Sean Duffy says the massive outage that brought the U.S. aviation system

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to its knees started with a routine router upgrade by contractor L3Harris Technologies. This was an FAA system that didn't meet the moment. A contractor didn't meet the moment. Or the equipment didn't meet the moment and caused the outages.

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