American Airlines Lifts Ground Stop; Hundreds Protest in Syria Over Christmas Tree Burning

American Airlines on Tuesday lifted an hour-long ground stop of all its flights in the United States due to an unspecified technical issue, a notice on the U.S. aviation regulator’s website showed. A U.S. NGO said Austin Tice, the American journalist missing in Syria, “is alive and we know that as a fact.” Meanwhile, protests b...