10 things you need to know today: August 21, 2017

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1. Navy ship collides with oil tanker, 10 sailors missing

A Navy guided-missile destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, collided with a 600-foot oil tanker near Singapore early Monday, suffering "significant damage" to its port side, the Navy said. Rescuers from several nations searched for 10 missing sailors, and four sailors were transferred by helicopter to a Singapore hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. The ship was able to continue to port under its own power. The ship was making a routine stop after completing a sensitive freedom-of-navigation operation by sailing past China's man-made islands in disputed South China Sea waters. The incident occurred days after the Navy relieved the top commanders of the USS Fitzgerald, which collided with a merchant ship off Japan in June, killing seven sailors.

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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.