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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Tessa Flemming |Maddy Morwood |Jesmine Cheong |Lewis Wiseman |Aoife Hilton |Phoebe Hosier | +1 more
At least 10 people have been killed as fires continue to burn around Los Angeles, with authorities confirming the disaster has destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Liana Walker |Barbara Miller |Jade Macmillan |Phoebe Hosier
Just a few weeks ago Sacha Strebe had taken steps to protect her Altadena home from wildfires. She cleared fuel around the property, removed vines from the house and ensured her family had an action plan. But three days ago when fires broke out in Los Angeles, with 160-kilometre-per-hour winds and no helicopters able to douse the blaze around her house, it was destroyed.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Carrington Clarke |Emilie Gramenz |Phoebe Hosier
When the blockbuster TV drama Succession injected a sudden plot twist into its final season, the real-life family that inspired the series took notice. The award-winning show — about a family that controls a media empire — is, very loosely, based on Rupert Murdoch and his children. When the cantankerous protagonist dies in the show, his succession plan isn't perfectly clear, and his children go to war over who should get control of his company. Obviously, this part was not lifted from real life.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Phoebe Hosier
Donald Trump's election victory has unleashed an online assault on women by some of his male supremacist supporters, who have been publishing threats of violence to their millions of followers. Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assaults and threats against women. One of the most viral posts, Nicholas Fuentes tells women: "Your body, my choice.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Emily Clark |Phoebe Hosier
Thousands of people have joined the Women's March in Washington DC as a feminist show of strength and to drive support towards the person vying to be the first woman elected president of the United States. In their chants and on their signs, those in the crowd on Saturday, local time, found some creative ways to make their feelings known. It came amid national debates about legal access to abortion and a woman's right to make choices about her own body ahead of the US presidential campaign.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Carrington Clarke |Bradley McLennan |Phoebe Hosier
It's a perfect late October Autumn day that greets Donald Trump in Greenville, North Carolina. The leaves are on the turn, resplendent reds punching through the sea of green. Red punctuates the waiting crowd too, with the identifiable MAGA cap proudly displayed by many of those lining up and particularly popular among young men.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Barbara Miller |Cameron Schwarz |Phoebe Hosier
Soujoud Hamade can't get the video of the burning man out of her head. "It's a horrendous, horrific image that will be imprinted in my mind for the rest of my life," the Michigan lawyer said. Shaban al-Dalou was a day shy of his 20th birthday when he burned to death in his family's tent last week as a result of an Israeli strike near the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Brad Ryan |Phoebe Hosier
Two days after Donald Trump claimed Haitian migrants were eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, the former president turned his attention to another part of America. "A small, 4,000-person town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania – have you heard of it?" Trump asked the crowd at a campaign rally in Arizona. "Charleroi – a beautiful name, but it's not so beautiful now," he said, blaming a "flood" of Haitian migrants for "bringing massive crime to the town" and sending it "virtually bankrupt".
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
rnz.co.nz | Phoebe Hosier
By Phoebe Hosier in Butler, Pennsylvania, ABC NewsFirst person - We came for the spectacle, to witness the man who's dominated headlines and reshaped American politics in the flesh. We left frazzled and shell-shocked. Stumbling out of the airstrip with a sea of Trump supporters, an avalanche of disjointed thoughts ricocheted around my head. Had we really just witnessed an attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump?
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Phoebe Hosier
We came for the spectacle, to witness the man who's dominated headlines and reshaped American politics in the flesh. We left frazzled and shell-shocked. Stumbling out of the airstrip with a sea of Trump supporters, an avalanche of disjointed thoughts ricocheted around my head. Had we really just witnessed an attempted assassination of former US president Donald Trump? I blinked into the crowd of panicked punters, the sound of gunshots still sounding in my head.
