| Front-runners Clinton, Trump descend on Iowa State Fair Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:32 PM PDT  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As Hillary Rodham Clinton walked among the booths of funnel cakes and corn dogs at the Iowa State Fair, trailed by a massive pack of media and onlookers, Donald Trump's helicopter circled the fairgrounds in the air above.
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| AT&T helped U.S. NSA in spying on Internet traffic: N.Y. Times Posted: 15 Aug 2015 04:44 PM PDT  Telecommunications powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided extensive assistance to the U.S. National Security Agency as the spy agency conducts surveillance on huge volumes of Internet traffic passing through the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing newly disclosed NSA documents. The newspaper reported that the company gave technical assistance to the NSA in carrying out a secret court order allowing wiretapping of all Internet communications at the headquarters of the United Nations, an AT&T customer. The documents date from 2003 to 2013 and were provided by fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the Times reported.
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| Families' fury over China blast missing Posted: 15 Aug 2015 08:30 AM PDT  Furious, frustrated and fearful, relatives of the missing in giant explosions in Tianjin besieged officials Saturday demanding answers on their loved ones' fates – only for security to intervene instead. Three days after vast explosions lit up the night sky and left scenes of utter devastation across an industrial zone in the northern Chinese city -- and scores dead -- a father said he had yet to hear from his firefighter son. "The authorities have not contacted us," he said in flat tones, wearing a blue worker's cap typical of the Maoist era.
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| U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites: media Posted: 15 Aug 2015 07:28 AM PDT  The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston, South Carolina, in the coming weeks. Republicans, who control Congress, swiftly condemned the idea of moving detainees into the United States and close to major military posts, according to Fox News.
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| Glitch that canceled more than 400 U.S. flights is fixed - FAA Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:29 PM PDT  Disrupted air travel along the heavily populated U.S. East Coast was resuming normal operations on Saturday after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it had fixed an automation problem at an air traffic center that led to hundreds of flight cancellations. The FAA said an air traffic center in Leesburg, Virginia was thought to be the cause of the issue which canceled more than 440 flights for hours and caused hundreds of other flights to be delayed during the busy August travel season. More than 440 flights were canceled at airports along the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, according to flightaware.com, a service that tracks global air service.
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| U.S. flag raising in Havana reveals old wounds run deep Posted: 14 Aug 2015 04:12 PM PDT  It may have been 54 years since the American flag was last seen waving above the U.S. embassy in Havana, but mixed reactions to Friday's flag-raising ceremony revealed that the scars of Cuba's brutal past run deep — and won't heal overnight.
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| Western wildfires: Wind, heat, dry land fueling large blazes Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:06 AM PDT  Winds in the West are helping stoke wildfires sweeping across the Northern Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, posing problems for firefighters trying to contain the flames fed by drought.
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