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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced Monday that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines, ordering them to pay refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

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U.S. fines airlines $7.5 million and they must refund customers for canceled flights

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced action against six airlines, but only one is a U.S. carrier; the others are foreign. "It's too little and too late," one consumer advocate says.

"Stolpersteine," or "stumbling stones," a decades-long project to remember Holocaust victims, are seen here in on the streets of Berlin. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption

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What the U.S. can learn from Germany about grappling with dark parts of its history

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Democratic candidate for Arizona governor Katie Hobbs attends a campaign rally on Nov 6. in Tucson. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption

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Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs elected governor over Trump-backed Republican Kari Lake

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First-grader Rylee plays with a puppet during class. Ryan T. Conaty for NPR hide caption

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In one first-grade classroom, puppets teach children to 'shake out the yuck'

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Barred owls are known to be aggressive and territorial. A barred owl similar to this one recently attacked a Washington state woman — twice. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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An owl twice attacked a Washington woman. A biologist says it's becoming more common

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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced Monday that the department is assessing fines totaling $7.5 million against six airlines, ordering them to pay refunds to hundreds of thousands of customers. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

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U.S. fines airlines $7.5 million and they must refund customers for canceled flights

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