hate crime

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Recent Examples of hate crime Soliman is also charged with 12 federal counts of hate crimes and entered a plea not guilty. Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 30 June 2025 On top of the state case, Soliman was also indicted on 12 federal hate crime counts. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025 That makes the Bay State fifth in the nation for anti-Jewish hate crimes. Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 6 July 2025 The launch of the hate crimes and bias incidents hotline in King, Clark and Spokane counties occurred almost exactly a year after The Center Square reported that Oregon’s hate crime and bias incident hotline mostly tracks legal activities. Tj Martinell, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for hate crime
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Noun
  • Between 1991 and 1992, Kansas City police recorded 59 bias crimes, but only one was classified as a gay bashing.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
  • The findings revealed not only a considerable number of bias crimes but also that some were committed by a specific member of the Kansas City Police Department. ACT-UP’s protests faced backlash, which was reflected in letters to the editors of The Star.
    Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Without a robust knowledge foundation, these early wins can mask serious risks—from compliance breaches to costly decision errors.
    Stéphane Donzé, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Pilot error caused the crash, according to a final report from the National Transportation Safety Board.
    Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Yet getting the balance right is critical because one man's debts are another man's assets, and to be successful, money has to be a good storehold of wealth (as well as an effective medium of exchange).
    Ray Dalio, Time, 22 July 2025
  • Term premium is the extra return investors demand for holding long-term government bonds rather than rolling short-term debt, compensating for uncertainty about inflation, fiscal policy, and future interest rates.
    Bob Haber, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • In no other part of the city was the crime that high for such a small area.
    Ella McCarthy, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • After years of searching for witnesses, detectives tracked down two additional people who provided crucial information about the crime.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • The flimsy pretense for the raid was that some NABU officers had been involved in traffic accidents and violations.
    Steve Cortes, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
  • When an agent malfunctions in a production environment, the potential consequences include operational disruptions, security breaches, compliance violations and reputational damage.
    Olga Megorskaya, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Under President Donald Trump, the agency now plans to abruptly end all of them, regardless of prior findings of wrongdoing.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 18 July 2025
  • Rozier hasn’t yet been charged with a crime or accused of wrongdoing.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The felony charges against two CityBeat journalists, who were arrested while covering a protest on the John A. Roebling Bridge, have been dismissed.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 24 July 2025
  • Colon-Johnson is facing three felony charges of hit and run great bodily harm, second-degree reckless injury and knowingly operating a motor vehicle while suspended causing great bodily harm.
    Jessica Van Egeren, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • However, the two journalists continue to face multiple misdemeanor charges in connection with the demonstration on the John A. Roebling Bridge.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2025
  • The woman was expected to be charged with 78 felony counts of animal cruelty and abuse and five misdemeanor counts of animal torture; the man faced two counts of the former and one of the latter, booking logs show.
    Ethan Wolin July 25, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2025

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