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Ukrainian intelligence agent Vladyslav Reut says he did not kill Anastasiia Berezovska - a woman suspected of trying to assassinate a multimillionaire in Monaco - despite earlier confessing to it.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Allen, charged Monday with trying to assassinate Trump, graduated from the California Institute of Technology, one of America’s most rigorous schools, and went on to complete a master’s in computer science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The Church Committee recommended, and Congress subsequently enacted, dozens of sweeping reforms to foreign intelligence collection activities, as well as restraints on future efforts by the U.S. government to assassinate people.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

A man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison at a US court for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist highly critical of Tehran.

From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026

He was convinced that if anyone tried to assassinate him, these two stocky morons would be powerless to prevent it, but he trusted that their presence would at least scare off spontaneous detraaors.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

It assassinates the peace of families, it cuts away honor from the family name, it lets out the vital spark of life, and is followed by inconsolable death.

From Fifteen Years in Hell by Benson, Luther

Fear is the dungeon of the mind, and superstition is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Error endlessly assassinates itself in a futile effort to escape its immortality.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Smith, Wallace

With his pen, as Cellini with his dagger, he assassinates; his cynicism serves him for a coat of armour.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

I think of you always; Jack also; I have told him so much, he assassinates himself with desire to see you all.

From Fernley House by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

The widow of assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk came face-to-face Monday with the man alleged to have killed him, during a court hearing in the western United States.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Marx was largely unknown outside of Colorado’s evangelical community before Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Over the past year-and-a-half, Muscovites have woken to news that army generals in Moscow have been assassinated, and drones have been targeting the capital.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

One poignant example: Mary and her husband were holding hands in their box at Ford’s Theatre when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

During the course of the evening, Lincoln talked in detail about the night his father had been assassinated.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The man accused of assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has apologised to the ex-leader's family for the first time.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025

A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023

One of the pieces of information revealed was a psychological evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for assassinating John F. Kennedy.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy more than 50 years ago, has been recommended for release by a California parole board.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

Their mission was to strike a blow against Austria and the Hapsburg monarchy by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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