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Sean Duffy said ATCs who did not call in sick during the government shutdown would receive $10,000 checks.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesSean Duffy said 776 air traffic controllers would receive checks for working during the government shutdown.He said the $10,000 bonus checks would be given out in early December."Santa's coming to town a little early," Duffy said in his X post.Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said about 800 air traffic controllers who worked during the government shutdown would get $10,000 bonus checks.Duffy said in an X post on Thursday night, "Santa's coming to town a little early.""776 patriotic men and women will get $10K checks, just in time for Christmas," he added, specifying that the checks would go to rewarding people "for showing up to work EVERY DAY." The video accompanying Duffy's post included a clip from the 2003 movie "Elf," as well as a clip of President Donald Trump saying air traffic controllers who worked without pay during the shutdown should be rewarded.Duffy also said in the video that the checks would land in early December.The 43-day government shutdown, the longest in US history, saw more than 13,000 air traffic controllers across the country working without pay, per a shutdown plan by the department on September 30.Representatives for the department did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.Duffy's announcement follows a similar one last week by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.On November 13, Noem said Transportation Security Administration officers who worked during the shutdown would get $10,000 bonus checks. She did not specify how many TSA officers would get these checks.On November 11, Duffy said the department may penalize controllers who called in sick during the shutdown before missing their first paycheck."My concern is, for those air traffic controllers who, before they missed a paycheck, and were in the shutdown, they decided on a continual basis not to show up for work," Duffy said to reporters in Chicago last week, and said he questioned their "dedication" and "patriotism."The National Air Traffic Controllers Association union told the Associated Press in a statement on Thursday that only 311 of its more than 10,000 members would receive the checks."We are concerned that thousands of air traffic controllers who consistently reported for duty during the shutdown, ensuring the safe transport of passengers and cargo across the nation, while working without pay and uncertain of when they would receive compensation, were excluded from this recognition," the union told the AP.Read the original article on Business Insider

"The Wizard of Oz" and "Wicked: For Good."Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images; Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures"Wicked: For Good" is the sequel to "Wicked," a musical prequel to "The Wizard of Oz."Dorothy's adventure in Oz happens concurrently with the events in "Wicked: For Good."Here's what you need to know about how the two stories intersect.Note: Major spoilers ahead for "Wicked" and minor spoilers for "Wicked: For Good."Last year's musical blockbuster "Wicked" was clearly presented as a prequel to "The Wizard of Oz," but its sequel, "Wicked: For Good," overlaps heavily with Dorothy's adventures in Munchkinland and the Emerald City.The 1939 film starring Judy Garland and other interpretations of Oz, such as the '70s-era musical "The Wiz," are based on the original book by Frank L. Baum, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," written in 1900.However, the Broadway show "Wicked" and its two-part film adaptation starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West."Maguire's novel reframes the plot of the original book and classic film. Instead of focusing on Dorothy, Maguire shifts the perspective to that of her antagonist, the Wicked Witch of the West.Elphaba, as she's christened by Maguire, is the hero of this version; her backstory reveals trauma and noble intentions that contextualize her treatment of Dorothy. Meanwhile, Maguire rewrites Glinda, aka the Good Witch of the North, to follow a muddier, more complicated character arc.The stage adaptation of Maguire's book has been a resounding success. Since its debut in 2003, "Wicked" has become the second-highest-grossing Broadway show, selling over a billion tickets.Continue reading to understand how "The Wizard of Oz," "Wicked," and "Wicked: For Good" dovetail on a timeline.'Wicked' starts at the end of 'The Wizard of Oz,' after Dorothy melts the witchThe Wicked Witch of the West melts in "The Wizard of Oz."Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images"Wicked" closely follows the first act of the Broadway musical. The movie opens on a puddle of water and a witch hat lying on the floor of a castle, hinting at the events in "The Wizard of Oz."In the opening sequence, the camera briefly pans over Dorothy and her crew — the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion — following the yellow brick road as a winged monkey soars over Oz.The next scene shows Glinda arriving in Munchkinland to confirm the rumors: "The Wicked Witch of the West is dead," she announces. The subsequent celebration is soundtracked by the musical's opening number, "No One Mourns the Wicked."Glinda doesn't explain exactly what happened, but those familiar with "The Wizard of Oz" will remember the fateful scene when Dorothy accidentally splashes the witch with a bucket of water. ("I'm melting! I'm melting!")After the Wicked Witch has vanished, Dorothy brings her broom to the all-powerful Wizard in Emerald City, in hopes of exchanging it for a trip back to Kansas. Instead, the literal man behind the curtain is revealed.The Wizard admits he has no real power to help Dorothy and flies away in a hot air balloon, so Glinda steps in to help. She tells Dorothy that thanks to her magic slippers — taken from the feet of the Wicked Witch of the East — all she has to do is click her heels and chant, "There's no place like home."Dorothy follows her advice and wakes up back in Kansas. This is presumably when Glinda travels to Munchkinland (via bubble, of course) to spread the word of the witch's demise. There, she's confronted by a Munchkin, who asks, "Is it true you were her friend?"Glinda…

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