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Outdoor workers are vulnerable to prolonged heat waves like the one hitting Texas, which climate scientist warn are becoming more common.

Global heat waves show climate change and El Niño are a bad combo

Scientists say worsening heat waves have a clear link to climate change. This year, a seasonal El Niño pattern will also be adding fuel to the fire.

Ángel Marín, his wife Carolina and their 4-year-old son, Matías, left Venezuela to try to start a life in the U.S.

Why one family is joining a historic wave of Venezuelans migrating to the U.S.

Millions of Venezuelans have migrated to escape authoritarian rule and their country's worst economic crisis. For the first time, they're the largest group detained for entering the U.S. irregularly.

10 years later, the 'Beyoncé' surprise drop still offers lessons about control

On Dec. 13, 2013, Beyoncé fans got a holiday gift no one expected. A decade later, the artistic and economic impact of her fifth album is still reverberating.

Jefferson Ncube, an illegal diamond miner from Zimbabwe, works on his latest tunnel at an abandoned De Beers mine near Kleinzee, South Africa. Ncube is a univeristy graduate, but has been unable to find employment.

Diamond diggers in South Africa's deserted mines break the law — and risk their lives

Photos show the desperate search for scraps left by big diamond operators. But amid rampant poverty and unemployment, zama-zamas see no other way to provide for their families.

In this photo taken Sept. 5, 2023 Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov attends a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine.

A man shot dead in Spain may be a Russian army defector

A man who was shot dead in the region of Alicante, in Spain, is believed to be Maksim Kuzminov, a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine last year.

Salman Rushdie says writing <em>Knife</em> allowed him to change his relationship to the attack. "Instead of just being the person who got stabbed, I now see myself as the person who wrote a book about getting stabbed," he says.

Two nights before the attack, Salman Rushdie dreamed he was stabbed onstage

Rushdie was onstage at a literary event in 2022 when he was attacked by a man in the audience: "Dying in the company of strangers — that was what was going through my mind." His new book is Knife.

The Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse, which houses the U.S. Southern District Court of California, is pictured in downtown San Diego on April 9, 2024.

Federal judge bans 'excited delirium' from upcoming Chula Vista police misconduct trial

The decision comes just months after California lawmakers outlawed the use of the disproven medical theory as a cause of death.

A view of the destruction caused by demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, during a protest over the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teaching training school in 2014. The group of demonstrators knocked down one of the doors of building with a pickup truck.

Protesters ram a truck into Mexico's presidential palace over missing students

Protesters broke down the door of Mexico's presidential palace with a truck on Wednesday, demanding answers for 43 college students who went missing a decade ago.

SDPL Trivia @ Storyhouse Spirits

Librarians know trivia - do you? Grab some friends and join us at Storyhouse Spirits for some nerdy bar trivia with the San Diego Public Library! For more information visit: sandiego.librarymarket.com

Mokdad with the instrument he invented, named "Adad."

ISIS destroyed his instruments. He made a new one from scraps and composed an album

Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.

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