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In a failed assassination attempt on the leader of Bulgaria's ethnic Turkish party, Ahmed Dogan, a man is seen jumping out of the audience and onto the stage where Dogan is speaking.

A Florida police officer quit after admitting he told colleagues that he would volunteer to assassinate President Obama.

“The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment in Robert A. Caro’s monumental biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, addresses Johnson’s assumption of the Oval Office following John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Osama bin Laden in his final days schemed over an effort to kill President Obama as well as other top U.S. officials, documents recovered from his compound show.

A plot to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been foiled, Russia's state-run Channel One TV reported Monday, less than a week before presidential elections that Putin is expected to win.

Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki told Kurdish leaders there would be “problems” if they do not turn over a vice president who has been accused of assassinations.

An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House believed he was Jesus and thought President Barack Obama was the Antichrist, according to court documents and those who knew him. At one point, he even suggested to an acquaintance the president was planning to implant computer tracking chips into children.

A man charged in a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States has pleaded not guilty in a New York City courtroom. Manssor Arbabsiar, who did not speak during the proceeding, entered a not guilty plea on each of the five counts.

Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday denounced allegations by the United States of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, suggesting they were a pretext for further building an international consensus against Iran, state media reported.

The United States called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to "step down now" following the assassination of a prominent Kurdish opposition figure amid continuing violence in the nation.