A California town’s beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide?A California town’s beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide?

Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Niño rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate crisis San Clemente is one of southern California’s most picture-perfect beach towns – a capital of American surf culture since the 1950s. In two years, ...

‘Keep away from the doctor’: a visit to an influencer’s wellness event, where the advice could kill‘Keep away from the doctor’: a visit to an influencer’s wellness event, where the advice could kill

Barbara O’Neill, identified as a risk to public safety in Australia, dismisses antibiotics, vaccines and scientifically proven cancer treatment at UK conference A roar of laughter erupts from a crowd inside a large conference room at the De Vere Cranage Estate hotel. The joke? The idea that visiting the doctor ...

Can Ken Paxton outrun a trail of scandal to win US Senate seat in ruby-red Texas?Can Ken Paxton outrun a trail of scandal to win US Senate seat in ruby-red Texas?

The Republican state attorney general appears uniquely ill-chosen as a candidate – but he is a political survivor who could yet frustrate Democratic dreams Depending how you look at the situation, it is either predictable that Ken Paxton, Texas’s attorney general and Republican candidate for US Senate, is struggling in ...

Attacked from the sky: Sudanese goldminers count deadly cost of eking out a living on the Egypt borderAttacked from the sky: Sudanese goldminers count deadly cost of eking out a living on the Egypt border

As civil war has left their country in ruins, many young Sudanese have turned to artisanal mining. An airstrike on a mine last week killed more than 100 and has provoked anger against Egypt, seen as the most likely suspect Torches still fixed on their heads but tools cast aside, ...

There’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred’: Far right gains predicted as Israel heads to the pollsThere’s a lot of racism, a lot of hatred’: Far right gains predicted as Israel heads to the polls

Whether or not Netanyahu can hold on to power, Israelis are expected to vote in a more rightwing Knesset Four decades ago, when the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane won a single seat in Israel’s Knesset, other legislators passed a law to prevent him running again, left the chamber when he ...