Families' fury over China blast missing

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• Families' fury over China blast missing
• Queen Elizabeth II leads ceremonies in Britain for VJ Day
• Italy: At least 40 migrants dead at sea, 320 others rescued
• U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites: media
• Sheriff's deputy fatally shot in Nevada, suspect dead
• Flights grounded along U.S. East Coast due to tracking problem: FAA
• U.S. flag raising in Havana reveals old wounds run deep
• Islamic State leader raped American hostage, U.S. finds
• Western wildfires: Wind, heat, dry land fueling large blazes
• Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day

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.

Queen Elizabeth II leads ceremonies in Britain for VJ Day Posted: 15 Aug 2015 08:48 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — Veterans wearing medals, some in wheelchairs festooned with the Union flag, paraded through central London on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over Japan and the end of World War II.

Italy: At least 40 migrants dead at sea, 320 others rescued Posted: 15 Aug 2015 09:23 AM PDT ROME (AP) — At least 40 migrants died Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes, and some 320 others aboard were saved by the Italian navy, the rescue ship's commander said.

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.

Sheriff's deputy fatally shot in Nevada, suspect dead Posted: 15 Aug 2015 10:14 AM PDT The deputy was fatally shot when a male suspect came out of the house and opened fire on officers who were responding to the domestic violence incident that left a woman injured, the department said in a Facebook post. Three children, between the ages eight to 13, and one adult were subsequently evacuated from the residence in Carson City, Nevada, about 30 miles south of Reno.

Flights grounded along U.S. East Coast due to tracking problem: FAA Posted: 15 Aug 2015 10:56 AM PDT More than 100 flights were grounded at airports along the U.S. East Coast on Saturday due to a problem with a flight-tracking system in the Washington, D.C. area, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. There were 134 flights canceled at airports in Baltimore and Washington as of 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, according to flightaware.com, which monitors global air traffic. Several hundred flights had also been delayed up and down the East Coast, with some the worst waits seen at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which saw departure delays of about 2-1/2 hours, it said.

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.

Islamic State leader raped American hostage, U.S. finds Posted: 14 Aug 2015 10:07 PM PDT American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.

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.

Cost of hunt for escaped NY killers topped $1 million a day Posted: 14 Aug 2015 12:08 PM PDT Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year.

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