assault
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"We continue to encourage anyone who believes they have been a victim of sexual assault, no matter how long ago it happened, to get in touch with us."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Federal prosecutors initially filed assault charges against Sosa-Celis and another man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, but later dropped them.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
The jury could not reach a verdict on the assault charge and the Crown Prosecution Service did not seek a retrial, so the count was allowed to lie on file.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Jerome Powell weathered a sustained political assault on Fed independence and brought down inflation without a recession.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
While that assault was carried out, federal agents arrested 450 suspected anarchists and Communists in raids staged in nine other eastern American cities.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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