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Union support for John Kerry is no surprise, but it's not usually visible from 20,000 feet in the air. Mark McClain, who leads the Northwest Airlines pilot group at the Air Line Pilots Association, has plowed the word "Kerry" into his soybean field near the airport in Des Moines, Iowa.

A person riding in the extra seat in the cockpit of a Horizon Air passenger jet tried to shut down the engines in midflight and had to be subdued by the two pilots. The San Francisco-bound flight on Sunday diverted to Portland, where it was met by law enforcement officers. . . . . “We’ve got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit. And he — doesn’t sound like he’s causing any issue in the back right now, and I think he’s subdued,” one of the pilots said on audio captured by LiveATC.com. “Other...