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Three foreign nationals were arrested in connection with the alleged assault, police said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The famed railroad line along the San Clemente coast has found itself on the endangered list amid a relentless assault from rising seas and punishing surf.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

A joint response committee made up of disability rights and other civic groups have criticsed this ruling, saying a victim's ability to resist an assault should not impact the verdict they receive.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

It wasn’t clear to the troops what caused the radio outage during the trench assault, which could have stemmed from a hardware or software issue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

This was no assault upon the Dark Lord by the men of Gondor, risen like avenging ghosts from the graves of valour long passed away.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Such combined assaults expose a vulnerability in Western air defenses that rely on expensive interceptors to shoot down incoming projectiles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

On the London Underground, recorded assaults increased 20% to 5,534 in the latest year, but reported workforce assaults fell 3% to 3,525.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Since then, Colombia has stepped up air assaults and authorized joint military operations with the United States.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

His 2020 conviction and 23-year prison sentence in New York for other alleged assaults was overturned and juries were deadlocked in subsequent retrials involving one of his accusers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Conviction rates are lower than when the person assaulted was sober.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

After the story was published, Leto said in a statement released by his representatives to the BBC: "I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false".

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Leto, in a statement shared with The Times on Wednesday, denied the allegations raised by the BBC documentary: “I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Hearing Platner deny that he assaulted Fifield, and seeing so many rally behind him and against her, was too much.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

For while our noses and lungs feasted on nature’s goodness, our eyes were assaulted by evidence of her savagery.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

England striker Ivan Toney has pleaded not guilty to assaulting a man at a central London nightclub.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Robinson has served jail time in the U.K. on charges including assaulting an off-duty police officer, using a false passport to enter the U.S. and mortgage fraud.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Under Essayli, federal prosecutors in L.A. have aggressively charged protesters with assaulting and impeding the actions of immigration agents, filing more than 100 cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Also on Thursday, a second man, 50-year-old Matt Styler, of Gosport, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

She walked outside, into the assaulting Phoenix heat, then went back inside.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers