Evening Wire: Florida Plane Crash Co-Pilot Identified & ‘Dire’ Disease Warning Issued | 11.2.26

The episode opens with the identification of Natalia Filguera, 20, as the co-pilot of the Learjet 60 that crashed in Florida Sunday, killing all nine people aboard. Filguera earned her pilot’s license at 17, graduated from flight school, and hoped to become a commercial airline pilot. Audio reportedly captures her communicating with air traffic control as the jet rapidly descended, ending with her shouting, “We’re out of time.” Investigators said severe weather may have contributed. Separately, hackers sent false nuclear, chemical-weapons, and fighting alerts through emergency apps in Ukraine and Russia; officials confirmed unauthorized access.

The report says supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, and Estonia suffered refrigeration failures apparently caused by cyberattacks, following a similar incident that disrupted hundreds of French stores the previous month. Attackers reportedly raised refrigerator and freezer temperatures to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Carrefour said 15 Belgian stores were affected, while other chains reported problems at dozens of locations. Thirteen SuperValu stores in Ireland removed chilled and frozen products from sale as a precaution. Authorities had not yet established the cause or full scope of the latest attacks, underscoring that the hacks were affecting ordinary domestic commerce as well as wartime communications.

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed told CBS’s 60 Minutes that Palestine has a right to exist, but said Israel has that right only “if there is a shared understanding.” He said he supports equal rights, peace, dignity, and self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, including two states if both peoples choose that arrangement on equal terms. The report recalled an earlier recording in which he said he struggled with Israel existing as a Jewish state. Asked about biological males in women’s sports and spaces, El-Sayed said such conflicts were manufactured and argued parents should coach children through information rather than try to shield them from the internet.

The Trump administration said it would continue fighting after a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit concerning Alaska’s Senate race. The Justice Department alleged Democratic operatives, including staffers for nominee Mary Peltola, helped recruit people named Dan Sullivan to siphon votes from Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan; it sought to delay certification if those decoy votes could have changed the result. DOJ said Alaskans deserved a fair election, while Peltola denied knowing about the alleged scheme. Trump also said the United States and Canada were nearing a deal that would remove tariffs on American farmers and include a Canada-funded Keystone pipeline expansion.

The Heritage Foundation’s Legal Action Center filed for a temporary restraining order to stop the national Daughters of the American Revolution from dissolving Texas’s 84-year-old Martha Lahr chapter and taking its roughly $16,000 in assets. DAR’s national board voted October 10 to dissolve the chapter and demanded its assets by November 9 after members led an effort to bar men who identify as transgender from joining the women’s organization. Chapter member Laura McDonald said members lacked a fair chance to defend themselves. The chapter’s attorney said national leadership investigated but did not charge it with misconduct; Heritage attorney Leah Patterson said disagreement was not grounds to seize the group.

A federal judge dismissed charges against FBI officials Nikki Flores and Bradley Benavidez, who were accused of lying to Congress about the bureau’s investigation of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the Biden family. After an hour-long hearing, the judge found no probable cause and called the indictments rushed and an example of Justice Department weaponization. Health officials meanwhile warned that an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was spreading at an unprecedented rate. The WHO declared an international emergency in May; nearly 5,000 people had reportedly died from the Bundibugyo strain, which has a high fatality rate and no approved vaccine or treatment. The CDC said U.S. risk remained low, but travelers arriving after November 3 must attest they had not visited the DRC in the prior 21 days.

The closing story concerns Martha Stewart’s Halloween costume: she dressed as a homeless person and carried a sign reading, “I’m hungry, help me.” After online backlash, Stewart said the costume was intended to raise awareness of homelessness, then acknowledged it was “insensitive and not funny.” She posted a second apology because she believed the first “didn’t go far enough.” Some followers defended the costume as a joke, while others said the reaction might have differed if she had dressed as an inmate. The hosts then pointed listeners to DailyWire.com and mentioned earlier coverage of Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers, AI and crypto market turmoil, unrest in Europe, and an attempted high-court coup in Poland.