US policingCalifornia city to pay $5m to family of Willie McCoy, who police shot 55 timesThe 2019 killing of the 20-year-old rapper raised scrutiny of Vallejo police department, which has a history of brutality
A California city has agreed to pay $5m to the family of a 20-year-old who was sleeping in his car when police approached and shot him 55 times in 2019.
The life and death of rapper Willie McCoy, 'executed' by policeRead moreThe city of Vallejo, north-east of San Francisco, said in a statement on Wednesday that the city council approved the payout to the relatives of Willie McCoy, an aspiring Bay Area rapper fatally shot by six officers in a case that sparked national outrage. Read More...
From the Guardian archiveUS newsExecution of the Rosenbergs – archive, 1953On 19 June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in the United States for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia. Read how the Guardian reported their deaths.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed early this morning at Sing Sing Prison for conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia in World War II.
Only a few minutes before, President Eisenhower had rejected a last desperate plea written in her cell by Ethel Rosenberg. Read More...
Ask PhilippaPornographyYou’ve discovered that you and your husband have different views about porn – and this may have triggered your teenage trauma
The question I walked in on my husband watching porn and now I feel extraordinarily hurt and abandoned.
My grown-up children have left home and I have managed to have a rewarding career. However, having a good relationship always eluded me until I was in my 50s.
I have been married before and I am in my early 60s now. Read More...