assault
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As part of investigating the assault on SW, detectives learned that Brambles had been released from custody under California’s parole laws for elderly inmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Australian police dropped assault charges on Wednesday against a man lauded for his bravery during last year's mass shooting at Bondi Beach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Represented pro bono by the Deborah Project, which defends Jews who are under assault in education, they could afford to keep fighting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
It doubles the maximum penalty from 12 months to two years for those who assault police or other emergency workers.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The main bulk of Rabadash's men had been on foot ready to assault the gate.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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“Operator assaults have been cut in half, and serious assaults are down 67%.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
On Instagram, Sakhi posted photos and videos of police assaults and detentions alongside reels mocking officers standing beside them.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Malian army confirmed the rebel assaults on the four towns and Kenieroba on Facebook Saturday morning, asserting that "these attacks were vigorously repelled" and that "the situation is completely under control."
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
By catching “the occasion by the forelock,” as one admirer later put it, Washington’s twin assaults revived both American fortunes and his battlefield reputation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
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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
The protests have intensified in recent days after security guards assaulted a man near the protected area and footage of preparatory construction work and bulldozers on the beach was released.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
In many of the cases, Bis said, the claimants impeded or assaulted agents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
A psychiatrist who decided he could not detain Valdo Calocane under the Mental Health Act after he assaulted a flatmate said the Nottingham attacks killer "wished to take control" during his assessment.
From BBC ● May 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
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The man hailed a hero for tackling one of the gunmen who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach has pleaded not guilty to allegedly assaulting his father, a Sydney court has heard.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her 30 years ago, people familiar with the probe said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
As ProPublica and others have reported, citizens — including Garcia Venegas — accused of assaulting officers have not always been charged with assault.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
Weinstein was initially convicted of assaulting Mann in 2020, but that verdict, along with another charge, was overturned in April 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
The winds that had been assaulting us suddenly disappeared.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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