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The Friday shooting, in a Christian village south of the capital, Amman, was a rare assault on Christians in the Muslim-majority country neighboring Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"The female politicians who responded almost ubiquitously reported experiences of either unwanted approaches, persistent unwanted contact from people, or experiences of threats or of assault," she told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

Vividly before Frodo’s mind came the memory of Boromir’s assault upon him, and for a moment he hesitated.

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

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

“And I’m going to stand up to those assaults, and Californians will continue to stand up to those assaults.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

For the past few months, the territory near Kramatorsk and Slovyansk has been the main focus of Russian ground assaults.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Just as had been the case so many times before, our naval bombardment and air assaults hadn’t been very effective in knocking out the coastal defenses.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 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

Years later, she’d had a panic attack at a water park in Denver, when Percy and she were assaulted by mechanical spiders.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

First Minister John Swinney has apologised to a Dundee girl who brandished weapons at a Bulgarian man who was later convicted of assaulting her, after previously warning against "misinformation" around the incident.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

But in the midst of all that thunder, all that news assaulting our ears, we heard not a word.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver