riot

Footage on social media appeared to show fireworks being set off as officers in riot gear attended the scene.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

SEATTLE—As the U.S. ran riot in its opening game of the World Cup, the man in the opposing dugout could tell exactly what was happening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

The military thus far has had limited involvement in clearing roadblocks, playing a supporting role to the riot police.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

The president’s son visited Navarro in prison while he served time for defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Did they think they were going to start a riot or something?

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

“There were demonstrations in the streets, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, drug revolutions, sex revolutions, riots, race riots. So we thought, what a good time to go out and do Black and white comedy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

An original yeshiva here, set up in the early 20th Century, was abandoned in 1929 during major sectarian riots in the British Mandate period.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Indeed, what now looks like nightly riots began with reports of maggot-infested and spoiled food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

“You all must listen to everything I tell you now. Tonight we will sleep at Kazi’s, so it looks like we’re not here. The riots are getting closer.”

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani

Dunn said officers wanted acknowledgment for those members of law enforcement who were present at the insurrection, as well as accountability from those who rioted.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

Hearst’s desperate father, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, spent $2 million on a food giveaway, and crowds rioted as food was flung from trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

Thousands of South Africans rioted in protest at his 2021 jailing for contempt of court, and a recent poll estimates that almost one in three South Africans approve of him.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

In October 1962, federal marshals escorted Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, while white people rioted on the Oxford campus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Austria-Hungary, threatened with a complete breakdown of order as people in the cities starved and rioted, signed an armistice agreement on November 3.

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

Between them they faced 52 charges, including rioting, which were all denied.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

Amid rioting, the shah fled Iran once again on Jan. 16, 1979, never to return.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

They would be elderly people rioting, but they would still riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

HIs performance was uneven as unrest turned into rioting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

A group of black leaders, including Ida Wells-Barnett, gathered at Olivet Baptist Church to discuss the black community’s response to the rioting.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield