assault
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In the air assault on Iran that began Saturday, American fighter pilots are flying sortie after sortie alongside refueling tankers, reconnaissance planes, bombers, drones and other U.S. aircraft.
The Sentencing Bill will also "modernise" hate crime laws in Northern Ireland and introduce a new offence and higher sentences for assaulting those providing a service to the public or performing a public duty.
From BBC
TMTG’s original mission, according to its own publicity statements, was to build Truth Social into an alternative social media platform “to end Big Tech’s assault on free speech by opening up the Internet.”
From Los Angeles Times
On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the concern was what Tehran would do if Israel launched an assault first.
He told reporters who called his cellphone that the assault could continue for four or five weeks.
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