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HONG KONG — A fourth crew member has been rescued Monday after a storm sunk an engineering vessel two days earlier, according to Chinese authorities.

The crew member was rescued by a navy ship Monday morning and is in stable condition, according to a statement by Guangdong maritime authorities. Rescue work is still ongoing.

The latest rescued person was part of a 30-strong crew on board the Fujing 001, a China-registered floating crane, that was involved in building several offshore wind farms, according to local media reports.

The vessel snapped...

Police believe black man Jayland Walker fired first before being shot more than 60 times by officers.

Sixty-seven MPs and Lords have said Hikvision and Dahua surveillance equipment should be banned.

Independence Day arrives at a time when the United States is roiled by hearings over the Jan. 6 insurrection, awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns and struggling to maintain the common bonds that keep it together.

Yet many also see cause to celebrate: The pandemic continues to be on the wane and, despite its faults, America’s democracy survives.

“I think many of us are feeling conflicted about celebrating 4th of July right now,” obstacle race champion and attorney Amelia Boone tweeted as the week gave way to the long...

SYDNEY — More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds have been told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes on Monday as Australia's largest city braces for what could be its worst flooding in 18 months.

Parts of the city of 5 million people are facing a fourth flooding emergency in a year and a half after torrential rain since Friday caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks.

"The latest information we have is that there's a very good chance that the flooding will be worse than any of the other three floods that...

The crisis-hit country's next shipment of petrol is not due to arrive until later this month.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Sunday that Ukrainian forces would regroup and return to fight Russian troops in Lysychansk after withdrawing from the city over the weekend.

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is encouraging Americans to join him in giving up added sugar throughout the summer.

“I have been running now for almost seven months straight, but my weight has been going up and down because you can't outrun a bag of Oreos, you can't outrun a late night pint of vegan ice cream," he said in

Officials in the region of Karakalpakstan say thousands of people are being treated in hospital.

Anthony Albanese visited the devastated towns of Bucha and Irpin, describing what he saw as a 'war crime'.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) returned from a visit to Turkey over the weekend saying he will do everything in his power to close a sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara.

President Biden signalled

President Biden will return from Camp David on Monday in time to host an Independence Day celebration at the White House for the second year running.

Starting at 5 p.m., Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host a July 4 barbecue for military families, during which the president will deliver remarks to celebrate the occasion, the White House announced Sunday.

The president and first lady will then take in the fireworks on the National Mall from the White House.

Biden's second July 4 in office comes as his popularity has taken a turn for the worse.

"Today, all across this nation, we can say with confidence: America is coming back together," Biden said during his Independence Day speech

Fourth of July celebrations across the country are returning to their normal format after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to go virtual for the past two years.

From Grammy-winning musical performances to elaborate firework shows, America's birthday parties are back with a bang.

Here are the largest July 4 celebrations taking place around the country.

Wisconsin Lt. Governor and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes was filmed on video decrying the founding of America as terrible and "awful."

In a video posted Sunday by Milwaukee-based talk show host Dan O’Donnell, Barnes, a Democrat, can be heard telling an audience "things were bad, things were terrible," while discussing America’s origins.

"The founding of this nation? Awful," Barnes continued, adding that Americans ought to commit themselves to doing everything possible to repairing the harms of the past.

These harms, he said, include slavery...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has is airing a new ad in Florida targeting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and GOP lawmakers over a wave of new legislation targeting LGBTQ rights, voting rights, so-called "critical race theory" and abortion.

In a 30-second ad that will start airing on Fox News on Monday, Newsom, who is running for reelection, invites fed up Floridians to move to California, which he says still believes in protecting personal freedom.

“It's Independence Day. Let's talk about what's going on in America. Freedom. It's under attack in your state your Republican leaders, they're banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors,” Newsom says.

The ad shows DeSantis shaking hands with former President Trump with the words “Freedom is under attack”

“I urge all of you live in Florida to join the fight, or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate and the freedom to love,” Newsom added. “Don't let them take your freedom.”

Both DeSantis and Newsom are seen as potential presidential candidates for their parties, having developed national profiles through their leadership of two of the country's largest states. Polls show DeSantis trailing only Trump as the presidential pick among GOP voters, while Newsom has said he has "sub-zero" interest in seeking the White House.

DeSantis and his state party stirred national controversy by passing a so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill, prohibiting teachers up to grade 4 from classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

He has also been among among a number of GOP governors who have restricting voting rights amid Trump's false claims of a rigged election in 2020, and moved to severely restrict abortions even before the Supreme Court's decision last week to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Newsom has previously boasted that California's economy is healthier than Florida's, and has shown an appetite for engaging Republicans across the country.

The 54-year-old governor