10 things you need to know today: June 20, 2023

Tourist submersible goes missing on dive to see Titanic wreck, Blinken and Xi make "progress" in talks to ease U.S.-China tensions, and more

A TV shows Secretary of State Antony Blinken meeting with China's President Xi Jinping
Antony Blinken talked with Xi Jinping for about 35 minutes
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1. Tourist submersible missing on dive to Titanic wreck site

The Canadian and U.S. coast guards launched a rescue mission Monday after a submarine on a tourism expedition went missing on a dive to see the wreckage of the Titanic about 435 miles off the southeastern coast of Canada, and about 900 miles off Cape Cod. The vessel carries a four-day oxygen supply. OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the Titanic trips, said it was "mobilizing all options" to rescue the vessel, which has five people on board, including British billionaire Hamish Harding. The U.S. Coast Guard said the mother ship lost contact with the submersible Sunday about an hour and 45 minutes into its dive to the Titanic wreckage, in water 13,000 feet deep.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.