QUICK HITS

1 Ryanair sees travel rebounds threatened by lockdown: Ryanair Holdings Chief Executive Officer Michael O’leary said steps aimed at containing spiraling coronavirus infection rates in Europe are putting the region’s travel rebound at risk. Measures including a return to lockdown conditions in Austria mean airlines face a “fraught” period through Christmas as they wait to see whether a resurgence in demand will be strangled off, O’leary said Tuesday in a webinar broadcast by Eurocontrol, criticizing the curbs as illogical.

2 Rittenhouse gives Fox News interview: Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, said in a wide-ranging interview that aired Monday night he’s “not a racist person” and supports the Black Lives Matter movement. “this case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” the 18-year-old told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview.

3 Strongman dies: Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who seized power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds while in office, died Tuesday. He was 90.

4 Burglaries hurt Best Buy: Best Buy Co. shares tumbled the most since the start of the pandemic after the electronics retailer said increased robberies by organized groups of thieves are adding to an array of profit pressures. Burglaries range from dozens of people rushing into stores and grabbing merchandise to theft by smaller groups, some of them brandishing guns or crowbars, said Chief Executive Officer Corie Barry.