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Luigi Mangione has abruptly withdrawn the psychiatric defense that threatened to become a central battleground in his upcoming murder trial over the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to new court filings obtained Thursday.
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Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
The assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 and the Cedar Revolution that followed forced the Syrian troops out of Lebanon.
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Mireille Rebeiz,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that the killing has the hallmarks of a political assassination.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
Poland’s prime minister says the shooting death of a Russian dissident artist outside his home bears the hallmarks of a political assassination that, if Kremlin-ordered, could constitute state terrorism.
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Emma Burrows,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
The assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 and the Cedar Revolution that followed forced the Syrian troops out of Lebanon.
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Mireille Rebeiz,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that the killing has the hallmarks of a political assassination.
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ABC News,
18 June 2026
Poland’s prime minister says the shooting death of a Russian dissident artist outside his home bears the hallmarks of a political assassination that, if Kremlin-ordered, could constitute state terrorism.
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Emma Burrows,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assassination
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Humans remain the legal and economic endpoints of responsibility, while agents take on more execution inside systems that can verify identity, constrain behavior and audit actions after the fact.
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In the wake of King's execution, Nathan continues to run the Denise Amber Lee Foundation and travel the country to share her story with 911 emergency workers.
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Investigators said interviews with Sayer after his arrest indicated he was influenced by the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 that left 13 dead.
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Sacramento County prosecutors have placed Martin and Payton at the center of the massacre, a shootout at 10th and K streets that prosecutors say was fueled by gang rivalry, score-settling, anger and bravado, with deadly consequences.
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
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The coup ended with the slaughter or imprisonment of most of its participants.
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But all this bloodshed in her name is getting to the Black Queen, who has already lost one son to the war and sent away her three youngest children to keep them safe.
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Some took place in dormitories on campus, examining quiet moments between friends or lovers—even these inward-looking stories weren’t spared bloodshed that year.
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David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, told the the Washington Post he was arrested on June 19 and charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property.
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This came on the heels of another round of tornadoes just four days earlier that leveled buildings and caused widespread destruction across the region.
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The size and speed of the Gen 4 car on the circuit used in January might create either carnage or a Monaco-like parade without the Monaco glitz.
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The most shocking of the weekend’s carnage was the mass drive-by shooting at a large Juneteenth gathering in Roseland on the South Side in which at least 14 were injured.
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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