News without the noise · New York Edition
Sunday, July 5, 2026 · 2 stories
The fire broke out after 9:30 p.m. BROOKLYN (WABC) -- The FDNY responded to a rubbish fire that broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge as the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks were going off. Videos quickly began circulating online showing a large fire on the bridge.
Jin Mingri, founder of the Zion church, was detained in Beijing in October 2025 Underground church leader Jin Mingri has been released from prison in China and has travelled to the US, less than two months after his incarceration was raised directly by Donald Trump. The pastor and founder of the Zion Church had been imprisoned following overnight raids across China in October, described by Christian groups as one of the strictest crackdowns on religious activity in the country's modern history. US calls for China to release 30 leaders of influential underground church China arrested 30.