assault

Ahead of a fresh assault on the 24-hour record, Damien will next take on the one- hour, unweighted challenge.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The university hired former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to lead a review of how the school responds to sexual assault cases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Strong’s post also addressed the timing of the monologue given the recent high-profile sexual assault case at Cornell University.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev summoned the Russian ambassador over the incident, the second such assault on commercial shipping in the area in a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

It was no brigand or orc-chieftain that ordered the assault upon the Lord of Mordor’s greatest foe.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dan Schorr, a former sex crimes prosecutor, told the BBC that New York law still protects victims of assaults who have chosen to drink or take drugs.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

They said “conspiracies to impede federal law enforcement and assaults on federal officers are against the law.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Navier-Stokes problem, which deals with complex fluid dynamics, had withstood the assaults of mathematicians for almost two centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle was damaged, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The following day, a 72-year-old Fresno resident shot and wounded an ICE agent whom police said had fallen asleep on the resident’s daughter’s front lawn, appeared “intoxicated and agitated” and allegedly assaulted the resident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

In May 2023, shortly before the first baby was due, the woman called the police alleging she had been assaulted by the man.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Not one of my classmates spoke to me, no one but the kid who accidentally assaulted my shoulder with his bio book.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

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

Former boxing world champion Joe Cordina has denied assaulting a man outside a petrol station, a court has heard.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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, 50-year-old Matt Styler, of Gosport, pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

French, British, and Belgian armies, meanwhile, were assaulting German defenses along the rest of the Western Front.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman