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Recent Examples of assassination
Looking at the historical data, Bloom found that some big spikes in the VIX were correlated with major political events, including the assassination of J.F.K. and the start of the first Gulf War.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Secret Service pick: Trump taps agent who shielded him in assassination attempt to lead Secret Service
Last month a man attempted to scale White House fence
The shooting comes a month after a man was taken into custody after attempting to scale the White House South Lawn fence.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
The shooting comes after President Donald Trump's new leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, expressed fears over an assassination attempt on his life.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
The weapons smuggling spike to Haiti began two years ago, U.S. authorities say, coinciding with the escalation of violence carried out by armed groups since the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Secret Service pick: Trump taps agent who shielded him in assassination attempt to lead Secret Service
Last month a man attempted to scale White House fence
The shooting comes a month after a man was taken into custody after attempting to scale the White House South Lawn fence.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2025
The shooting comes after President Donald Trump's new leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, expressed fears over an assassination attempt on his life.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
The weapons smuggling spike to Haiti began two years ago, U.S. authorities say, coinciding with the escalation of violence carried out by armed groups since the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025
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Another clip verified by CNN shows a militant dragging a middle-aged man – identified by local sources as villager Yazan Mostafa – out to his execution, carried by other unidentified fighters.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die on Tuesday despite a judge's order last week temporarily halting the execution in a ruling that was overturned by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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There remains some debate over whether the attack led by John Mason, a Connecticut Colony founder honored with a statue in a niche on the Capitol, can be celebrated as Pequot War victory or a criminal massacre of women and children.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Orlando City Council last month endorsed a design for a memorial unanimously approved by the Pulse Memorial Advisory Committee, which included relatives of the 49 people who died in the massacre and some members who had visited the club that horrible night in June 2016.—
Stephen Hudak,
Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2025
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The women in the fresco are both hunters and dancers, suggesting that the duality of slaughter and revelry was a central tenet.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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More victims sent to slaughter In 2024, pig butchering revenue grew nearly 40% year over year, with the number of deposits to pig butchering scams growing nearly 210% over the same period, according to Chainalysis.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2025
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Any bloodshed is almost always strictly in service of a joke.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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The resulting bloodshed brings the pair of goofy gendarmes into bewildered action, as the Zero cavalry trots in on short-legged white horses and Jony, Line, Rudy, and the local One leader, Jane (Anamaria Vartolomei), deploy on their respective sides.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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But when a new threat presents itself, the group reunites to figure out their mission and prevent Earth’s destruction.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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Here, Clay, played by Al Freeman Jr., is a fool too easily lured by Lula’s unhinged seduction, all but assuring his destruction.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
8 Mar. 2025
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By the end of the carnage, the pop star is incarcerated for the murders, but the Levelists, who all managed to escape the compound before police arrived, are spread out across disparate communities, blending in, waiting.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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Nihilistic action comedies such as Novocaine are built on juxtaposing irreverent humor with cathartic carnage, which can sometimes feel off-putting and contrived.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Assassination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assassination. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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