Assaults
How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack
WASHINGTON — Within hours of the brutal attack last month on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the House, activists and media outlets on the right began circulating groundless claims — nearly all of them sinister, and many homophobic — casting doubt on what had happened. Some Republican officials quickly joined in, rushing […]
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Can It Get Any Worse for Rudy Giuliani?
“When did Rudy Giuliani go off the rails?” is a question that many Americans and New Yorkers in particular have been asking for years now, arriving at no obvious consensus. Old-time observers of the local political scene like to revisit the time, two decades ago, when he famously berated an advocate of ferret ownership during […]
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Man Accused of Hitting Giuliani Faces Lesser Charges After Video Emerges
The complaint charging Mr. Gill says he hit Mr. Giuliani so hard that the blow resulted in “substantial pain to the back and left side of his body” and caused Mr. Giuliani to stumble forward. But footage of the episode, which was obtained and published by The New York Post, appears to show Mr. Gill […]
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Attack on Women in China Stirs Outrage, and Competing Narratives
BEIJING — The man walked into a barbecue restaurant in northern China and approached a table of three women. He put his hand on the back of one, who shook him off. In response, he slapped her — then, with several other men, savagely beat her and the other women, hitting them with chairs, kicking […]
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Dave Chappelle Attacked at the Hollywood Bowl
Dave Chappelle was finishing his standup act at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles late Tuesday night when a man armed with a fake gun hurled himself at the comedian, knocking him to the floor and shocking the crowd, according to the police and witnesses. Mr. Chappelle, 48, was uninjured, the police said. The weapon […]
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Man Who Assaulted Flight Attendants Gets 60 Days in Jail
A 23-year-old Ohio man who the authorities say groped two flight attendants and punched a third before being duct-taped to his seat amid jeers from his fellow passengers on a flight last summer was sentenced on Tuesday to 60 days in jail. Parts of the episode, which occurred during a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia […]
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Will Smith Resigns From Academy After Slapping Chris Rock at Oscars
LOS ANGELES — Will Smith, who slapped the comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars, said Friday that he was resigning from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying that he had “betrayed” its trust with conduct that was “shocking, painful, and inexcusable.” The sudden announcement came late Friday afternoon, days after the Academy […]
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Will Smith Apologizes to Chris Rock After Academy Condemns His Slap
LOS ANGELES — Will Smith apologized to the comedian Chris Rock on Monday evening for slapping him during Sunday night’s Oscars telecast after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which administers the awards, denounced his actions and opened an inquiry into the incident. Mr. Smith, who had pointedly not apologized to Mr. Rock […]
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Man Hit Woman in the Head 125 Times Because She Was Asian, Officials Say
A 67-year-old woman, wearing a white face mask and dark hooded jacket and pushing a shopping cart, enters an apartment building vestibule in Yonkers, N.Y. As she moves to unlock the door, a man comes up behind her and hits her in the head with a roundhouse right hand. The force of the blow knocks […]
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