US releases on 12 November came mainly from federal agencies. The Justice Department announced actions against dark web drug markets, Gootloader malware and North Korean cryptocurrency theft, while DHS reported fiscal year 2026 immigration enforcement figures. Other items include a US-Japan statement on seabed minerals, VA homelessness housing totals, NASA Hubble lens images and a Georgia jobs announcement.
Thursday 12 November 2026 (America/New_York source-local date) · 11 releases · MediaRelease.co editorial digest
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced that online plumbing, HVAC and electrical supplier SupplyHouse will invest about $19 million in a new logistics operation near Locust Grove, creating 330 jobs in Henry County. The 715,000-square-foot fulfillment center includes 35,000 square feet of offices at 3090 Highway 42. Construction is due to begin in November 2026, with full operation expected in 2027.
First Lady Melania Trump visited Fort Rucker, headquarters of U.S. Army Aviation, to honour soldiers and the families who support them. She urged Americans to remember service members’ families with an open seat at Thanksgiving tables and spoke about the military’s duty to defend the Constitution. She also visited students at Ellis D. Parker Elementary School. The release includes her prepared remarks.
NASA has released a Hubble Space Telescope gallery of gravitational lenses that prepares for follow-up observations by the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Astronomers will use the varied lenses to build models of the mass in each foreground galaxy, including dark matter, and may test a dark-matter theory. The lenses were first detected with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument at Kitt Peak, then observed by Hubble.
The Interior Department has released findings from a joint U.S. Wildland Fire Service and U.S. Forest Service investigation into the 27 June Knowles Fire accident in western Colorado, which killed four federal wildland firefighters and injured a fifth. The report says the Snyder Fire overtook the crew, and cites extraordinary fire behavior, strained communications, incomplete situational awareness, jurisdictional complexity and gaps in aerial supervision. It identifies improvements in communications and observation.
The Department of Veterans Affairs permanently housed 48,968 homeless Veterans in fiscal year 2026, an average of more than 4,000 a month. That is the second-highest annual total since VA began tracking unique Veterans housed, behind 51,936 in fiscal 2025. VA Secretary Doug Collins said the work is changing tens of thousands of lives. The release also lists steps taken since January 2025, including more than $2 billion in grants.
The United States and Japan have issued a joint statement on seabed mineral resource development, following a U.S. interagency delegation visit to Japan. It cites progress under a March 2026 memorandum between the U.S. Commerce Department and Japan’s trade ministry, including a working group meeting in Toyama on 11 and 12 November. The governments list shared priorities: industry engagement, secure processing capacity, technology safeguards, joint research and regulatory exchanges.
The Department of Homeland Security says Immigration and Customs Enforcement set records in fiscal year 2026, with more than 491,000 immigration arrests and 483,200 deportations. The deportation figure compares with 442,640 in fiscal 2025. DHS reports more than 48,000 arrests and 44,000 removals in September alone. Secretary Markwayne Mullin credited ICE personnel, and the release lists examples of people arrested during the year.
The Justice Department’s JCODE team and Europol have announced Operation TorNado, a coordinated action against Dark Web drug markets. It led to 354 arrests worldwide, including 132 in the United States, and seizures of over $234 million in cash and virtual currency, about 5.7 metric tons of drugs and 209 firearms. Activity spanned the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and prosecutions are under way in more than 20 U.S. federal districts.
The Justice Department and FBI, with international partners, have removed Gootloader malware from more than 100 servers, including compromised WordPress sites, and seized U.S. domain names used to control it. Since 2018 Gootloader has infected at least 25,000 computers worldwide and featured in ransomware attacks on at least 44 U.S. victims, causing roughly $28.8 million in losses. The action was coordinated with Operation Endgame, with help from the Shadowserver Foundation.
The Justice Department has announced coordinated actions against North Korean cryptocurrency theft. Prosecutors seized cloud infrastructure behind the FaceStealer social-engineering scheme, which the FBI says stole more than $400 million over 18 months. Separately, a court authorised the seizure and restraint of more than $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency recently stolen from the Binance exchange. The FBI published a report on how the scheme works.
DVIR.io has launched six free one-page printable Driver Vehicle Inspection Report templates for truck drivers, owner-operators and small transport businesses in the United States. Designed around 49 CFR 396.11 and 396.13, the set covers tractor-trailers, straight trucks, buses and motorcoaches, pre-trip and post-trip checks, a 7-day log, and intermodal equipment. Each template can be downloaded after email confirmation, and the service also supports a later shift from paper to digital DVIR forms.
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