assassination
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The operation was reportedly prompted by an Iranian assassination threat.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises -- US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of Cuba's main ally and benefactor, the Soviet Union.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He doubled down on the need for the space after an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in April.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
On election day, Pelosi lost the Democratic vote to Harry Britt, who succeeded Harvey Milk on the Board of Supervisors after Milk’s assassination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
After a failed assassination attempt on the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa that he blamed on the Sudanese government, entering Egypt for most Sudanese meant entering illegally.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
Vietnam, inner-city riots, and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had cast a pall over the Day-Glo optimism of the Love Generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Unlike so many retellings of famous assassinations, attempted or otherwise, Harron’s movie gets to the heart of its subject’s discontent without dwelling on dramatizations of Solanas’ fragile psyche.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
Presidential assassinations have been spawning conspiracy theories since Lincoln.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
"Well, you know, I've studied assassinations," Trump said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 26, 2026
Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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