assassination
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An attorney for Caldwell disputed the findings, calling the allegations anonymous conjecture and character assassination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Next I headed west on Wilshire to the RFK Memorial I wrote about 10 months ago, near the site of the 1968 Bobby Kennedy assassination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The verdict means that almost nine years since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Maltese authorities have failed to identify and convict the mastermind.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Nine years after Daphne's brutal assassination, the institutional failures that enabled her murder remain unaddressed and unreformed," her family said in a statement reported by local media.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Have you ever seen the videotape of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
Presidential assassinations have been spawning conspiracy theories since Lincoln.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
"It makes sense that Vahidi and Mojtaba Khamenei have not been seen because Tehran is still worried about Israeli assassinations."
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Kalshi, which is a U.S.-regulated entity, doesn’t allow bets on wars or assassinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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