2015年8月15日星期六

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Front-runners Clinton, Trump descend on Iowa State Fair

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:32 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greats the crowd at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, in Des Moines. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)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.


AT&T helped U.S. NSA in spying on Internet traffic: N.Y. Times

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 04:44 PM PDT

A man walks past the AT&T store in New York's Times SquareTelecommunications 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.


Families' fury over China blast missing

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 08:30 AM PDT

A man stands by a board with missing notices in a temporary shelter in an elementary school in Tianjin on August 15, 2015Furious, 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.


U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites: media

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 07:28 AM PDT

Guantanamo detainees exercise at Camp Delta.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.


Glitch that canceled more than 400 U.S. flights is fixed - FAA

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:29 PM PDT

United Airlines planes are seen on platform at the Newark Liberty International Airport in New JerseyDisrupted 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.


U.S. flag raising in Havana reveals old wounds run deep

Posted: 14 Aug 2015 04:12 PM PDT

Cuban and U.S. flags hang from a resident's balcony on the day the U.S. opened its embassy in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez said their nations would continue to disagree over issues such as democracy and human rights. But they also said they hoped to make progress on issues ranging from maritime security and public health to the billions of dollars in dueling claims over confiscation of U.S. property and the U.S. economic embargo on the island. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)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.


Western wildfires: Wind, heat, dry land fueling large blazes

Posted: 15 Aug 2015 02:06 AM PDT

The steep slope above U.S. Highway 12 and right up to the Clearwater River west of Kamiah, Idaho, smolders Thursday, Aug.. 13, 2015, while firefighters battle a fire complex. Wildfire season accelerated in Idaho on Thursday as evacuations were ordered in the northern part of the state. (Barry Kough/Lewiston Tribune via AP)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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