Thousands of people remain stranded after Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport lost power Sunday, grounding more than 1,000 flights. Electricity went out around 1 p.m. due to a fire at an underground power facility, according to Georgia Power. Electrical service was restored and lines were long but moving Monday morning as passengers boarded planes, attempted to reschedule flights, and picked up baggage. Delta Air Lines, with its largest hub in Atlanta, offered passengers a free one-time change to their flights.

Managers closed a mall south of Birmingham, Ala., early Thanksgiving night after several fights broke out among shoppers hunting for Black Friday deals. Police in the town of Hoover denied reports of gunfire outside the mall, saying firecrackers likely caused the popping sounds.

Uber acknowledged on Tuesday it covered up a year-old hacking attack that compromised the personal information of more than 57 million riders and drivers. So far there is no evidence that the data was misused, according to ride-hailing service’s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, in a posting on Uber’s website. The hackers took the names, email addresses, and mobile phone numbers of riders and drivers from around the world, and the driver’s license numbers of at least 600,000 U.S. drivers.

President Donald Trump is expected to name Federal Reserve board member Jerome Powell to succeed Chairwoman Janet Yellen when her term expires in 2018. Powell, 64, has supported Yellen’s cautious approach to raising interest rates. He spent years working at investment firms, but unlike the past three Fed leaders doesn’t have a doctorate degree in economics. Investment strategist Mona Mahajan of Allianz Global Investors said Powell, like Trump, might be more inclined than Yellen to relax some of the stricter regulations that were imposed on banks after the 2008 financial crisis.

Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for research showing people’s financial choices often don’t follow rational economic theory. His work brought greater understanding of the psychology of economics, Swedish Academy of Sciences Secretary-General Goran Hansson said.

Toys R Us announced late Monday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to ward off creditors owed $5 billion. The company said its stores would remain open for business as usual through the holiday shopping season. The retailer has struggled since its heyday in the 1980s and ’90s as toy sales have migrated online and to discount retailers such as Walmart. More recently, children have turned away from traditional toys and toward mobile devices for entertainment.

In The Upside of Inequality, a runner-up for WORLD’s 2016 Book of the Year in the Understanding America category, Edward Conard attacks the notion that the richest 1 percent of Americans are causing slower or no wage growth among the rest. He shows how innovators or entertainers who achieve economywide success will multiply their money in comparison with teachers or bus drivers who can’t serve more people than they used to.