Leicester This article is more than 1 year oldRoss McCullam jailed for life for murder of Megan NewboroughThis article is more than 1 year oldLab technician to serve minimum of 23 years for killing colleague at his parents’ home in Leicestershire
Ross McCullam has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 23 years for the murder of his colleague Megan Newborough.
The 30-year-old lab technician strangled Newborough, 23, and cut her throat at his parents’ house in Leicstershire before dumping her in nearby woodland. Read More...
OpinionUS politicsThe US election looms. Arab Americans feel stuck between a rock and a hard placeMoustafa BayoumiArab, Muslim and younger voters face a choice between Biden, who does little to stop mass Palestinian death, and the xenophobic Trump
We have a chaotic and unpredictable election year ahead. That would normally elicit anxiety, but mostly I’m feeling hopeless. The election is less than a year away, and Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk to its lowest level yet, clocking in at a paltry 38%, according to a recent Washington Post average of 17 different polls. Read More...
MississippiInterview‘We ferried 500 men out’: how an organizer foiled one of America’s biggest human trafficking operationsWilfred ChanIn his thrilling book The Great Escape, Saket Soni tells the true story of a brutal labor camp in Mississippi
Few labor organizers tell stories as skillfully as Saket Soni.
Originally from New Delhi, Soni enrolled in the University of Chicago at 18 to learn how to write plays. “I think my parents may have been the only ones in Indian history to let their son come to the United States to study theater,” he says. Read More...