12:30 Report — Holiday travel hampered

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12:30 REPORT

Merry Christmas Eve!! 🎄I hope you’re all having a fun, relaxing day. Before you get back to your festivities, here’s a quick primer of what’s happening in the world:

American Airlines briefly grounded flights this morning for technical issues. Where does Matt Gaetz go from here?Biden appears to be taking a back seat in his final weeks. Trump threatens to retake control of the Panama Canal: What’s his play?Tiger Woods’s son got a hole-in-one.

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✈️ News This Morning

 

John Candy and The Kenosha Kickers could fix this:

(I had to look up the name of John Candy’s polka band from “Home Alone” — the one that drove Kate McCallister back home in the snowstorm. That feels like a good trivia question.)


American Airlines briefly grounded all flights this morning — Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year — due to an unspecified technical issue.

If you’ve been on social media this morning, it’s been intense: Social media users have been rattling off complaints over hampered Christmas Eve travel.

Keep in mind: The ground stop was lifted at around 8 a.m.

Check out this graphic of flight traffic at 7:45 a.m.........

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