Nancy Pelosi as a flash point in the party's reconciliation.
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Clinton's record was a flash point at the Golden Dawn.
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The likeliest potential flash point is the South China Sea.
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And in San Francisco it's become a particular flash point.
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Jobs data on Friday could also be a flash point.
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Freedom of expression became a flash point in this shift.
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The home quickly became a flash point of national tragedy.
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The crime quickly became a religious flash point in India.
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The OCO account has been a flash point in recent years.
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The Bronx fire has become a flash point for The Times.
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The rollout was a disaster, and the flash point was privacy.
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He's a flash point, and people love to mention his name.
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Taiwan has long been a potential flash point for military conflict.
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Bathroom rights for transgender people have become a cultural flash point.
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That outsize attention became a racial flash point on social media.
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So who controls the process could be an early flash point.
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Could Europe be the next flash point of instability for the markets?
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Clinton's speaking fees were a flash point in the Democratic primary season.
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Clothing has been such a flash point for debates around Francis's papacy.
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In Chicago, the surge in violence has become a national flash point.
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Facebook has become a flash point for the spread of false reports.
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Crudes with a low flash point ignite easily and can cause engine issues.
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Essential health benefits are another current flash point, but they need not be.
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International trade deals have become a flash point in the U.S. presidential race.
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Santa Anita has been a flash point in the dialogue about horse safety.
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This rule is yet another flash point in the controversy over immigration reform.
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It's become a flash point for some — who gets to tell whose story.
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Iraq is not only a counterterrorism theater and flash point for outside powers.
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Midazolam, a sedative, has become a flash point in the death penalty debate.
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They're also worried about demonstrations getting out of control at the flash point.
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Cows, a flash point in any discussion about climate change, may also present problems.
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Sunderland has been a symbolic flash point in Britain's decision to leave European Union.
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Executive actions were a flash point between Mr. Obama and Republicans; several said Mrs.
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So, where's the flash point of that this year that people can look to?
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That has made Ceuta the latest flash point in Europe's wider conversation about migrants.
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Does it capture a flash point in a team's season or an athlete's career?
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Syria has emerged as a flash point between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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The issue has become a flash point in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Montreal, which has a sizable English-speaking minority, has long been a flash point.
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That made Geto Boys a flash point for cultural conservatives upset about rap lyrics.
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However, the flash point in any negotiation is likely to be his choice of successor.
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California (surely the state now most tempted to leave the union) is the flash point.
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These days, the house is also emerging as a flash point in Hungary's culture wars.
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The Mueller report continued to be a flash point between the White House and Congress.
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The development institution has become the latest flash point between the world's two largest economies.
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CreditCredit For nearly two months, the flash-point region of Kashmir has been locked down.
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Yet Ma'ale Adumim has become a flash point of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
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If health care comes up, as it never ceases to, that could become a flash point.
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I think Detroit specifically, it becomes apparent, is really this flash point for violence right now.
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Clinton's comments and try to turn them into a flash point in the general election campaign.
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Another flash point has been the court's rulings criticized by victims' families in capital punishment cases.
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In the midst of a ferocious legislative election year, the issue has become a flash point.
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An act of resistance became a flash point in the struggle for L.G.B.T. dignity and equality.
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Last year in Italy the Group of 7 meeting was a flash point on climate change.
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The idea of building a border wall remains a central flash point of the Trump era.
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But some say it may not be the last flash point over voting access in Georgia.
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By Friday, the decision had become a flash point for arguments over politics and press freedom.
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Could somewhere like Half Moon Shoal be the next flash point in the South China Sea?
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Whether the Saudis would be banned from fuel production quickly became a flash point in Congress.
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Scooters have become the latest flash point of anger against the tech industry in its hometown.
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Ms. Liu became a flash point again when she was nominated to the Treasury Department post.
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In my case, the flash point was an explosion in southern Afghanistan that decimated my platoon.
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But as the antagonists get closer to Al Bab, the encirclement could become a flash point.
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It is also likely to become a flash point in the upcoming national elections, in October.
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By the time he walked free this month, that issue had become a national flash point.
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After all, the university grounds had long been a flash point for demonstrations in the capital.
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Since then, however, immigration has became a flash point of division between the industry and the administration.
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The issue has already become an election flash point, particularly as immigration remains in the national focus.
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The next flash point could be a joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise starting on Aug. 24.
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Last summer it became a flash point in Honolulu's campaign to rid the streets of the homeless.
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The use of fetal tissue for research purposes has long been a flash point in abortion politics.
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In other words, the border wall has become another flash point in our ongoing political civil war.
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The latest flash point was the blistering exchange between Newt Gingrich and Megyn Kelly of Fox News.
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The migration crisis continued to show itself to be a flash point across the Continent on Thursday.
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Huawei has become a flash point in the broader trade dispute between the United States and China.
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His protests during the anthems became a cultural flash point, even though he wasn't in the league.
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The merger has become a political flash point, attracting critics from both sides of the aisle. Sen.
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The wiretapping of Mr. Page as part of the Russia investigation has been a political flash point.
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Rousing and infuriating, cerebral and vulgar, the original event marked a flash point in second-wave feminism.
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Security experts have long warned that the dispute is a flash point of conflict in the region.
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This area has also been a flash point for another hotly disputed policy enacted by the administration.
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Iranian participation in the pilgrimage had become yet another flash point in their sectarian and strategic conflict.
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Over the years, it has become a flagship and a flash point of the Israeli settler movement.
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Over time, the series became a flash point in a growing debate around sexism in video games.
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Still, because the ID debate is a particular flash point, its findings are a real public service.
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The cartoon became the latest flash-point in a long-running fight over The Times' coverage of Israel.
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They have no business and no rank to be speaking for the country at a geopolitical flash point.
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It has also become a flash point for conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran that threatens regional stability.
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But this year it has become a volatile flash point in the immigration debate ignited by Mr. Trump.
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There's a new flash point emerging in the debate over rewriting the nation's tax code: corporate interest deduction.
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Paid political advertisements on social media have emerged as an early flash point in the 2020 presidential race.
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The courts have been a partisan flash point for decades, but the intensity has increased in recent years.
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But in Minneapolis, as in districts across the nation, discipline policies are more than a political flash point.
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As yet another flash point in the continuing nationwide debates over immigration, the case had attracted considerable attention.
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The date memorializes a conflict that became a flash point in the organized labor movement around the world.
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It was not the first time that Ms. Sanders had become a flash point for heated partisan debate.
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Muslim head scarves, veils and burqas have also been a flash point in France for over a decade.
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This flash point of humanity shining through athletics has gone viral on social media as a novel event.
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Even Clarence Thomas, whose confirmation hearings marked a flash point in sexual and racial politics, drew no filibuster.
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The Florida State case was a flash point for mishandlings and cover-ups of sexual assault on campus.
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The West cannot afford another flash point; a war between Azerbaijan and Armenia could pull in Turkey and Russia.
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Arizona is both a flash point in the nation's immigration battles and a microcosm of a changing United States.
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Suddenly, the morning of anger and disappointment and the years of frustration and impotence come to a flash point.
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One flash point came when he questioned the hall's involvement with a $100,000 prize given out by Warner Music.
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Isoparaffin solvent (early boiling point 225 ° C, flash point 92 ° C, density 0.79 g / cm3, viscosity 3.57mm2/s). 4.
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We revisited the night, 18533 years ago today, that became a flash point in the modern gay rights movement.
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But a retrospective of the British designer Mary Quant reminds us of an earlier fashion flash point: the miniskirt.
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The museum has become an ideological and political flash point, and its director may be out of a job.
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The push to rethink the law could become the latest flash point between Silicon Valley and the Trump administration.
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Her arrest a little more than a year ago remains a flash point in relations between Washington and Beijing.
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With news helicopters hovering above, the intersection became the flash point in the 123 riots that rocked this city.
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Competing rulings this week were the latest flash point in a controversy ignited by a satire released before Christmas.
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Amona is a flash point for the settler movement, and the case had gone through the courts for years.
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The question of Mr. Kushner's access to intelligence was a flash point almost from the beginning of the administration.
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The flash point of "Tea for Trump" was a dress sent down the runway to the North Korean national anthem.
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Michoacan has long been a flash point in Mexico's drug war, and battles between criminals and security forces are common.
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Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, has long been a flash point for conflicting concepts of America and its promise.
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Whether the state is spending enough money on education has become a key flash point in the race between Gov.
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Kashmir, a disputed region caught between India, Pakistan, and its own fight for self-determination, is a nuclear flash point.
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There is no doubt, however, that the subject of relations between Muslim men and Hindu women is a flash point.
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Trade talks that just last week seemed close to fruition have abruptly become a flash point in the rocky relationship.
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But not entirely, because one essential flash point of present-day America "The Handmaid's Tale" ignores is race and ethnicity.
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Election loss More than half a million Syrians live in Istanbul which is the flash point for the new crackdown.
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The Fed's swap lines with other central banks, which let them borrow dollars from America, might be a flash point.
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The issue became a flash point for social conservatives who argued that transgender people had no place in the military.
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Some 14,000 American troops remain in Afghanistan, and their continued presence there has become a political flash point in Washington.
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It was the latest flash point in a broader debate over freedom of speech and culture in the Bolsonaro era.
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The burgeoning industry became a flash point in San Francisco and, more recently, Paris is cracking down on such offerings.
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The death became a flash point in the debate over changes to the criminal justice system adopted in New York.
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A killing that has shocked a community in Queens has become a flash point in the national debate over immigration.
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So he fought desperately to stay in office in a bruising primary that remains a flash point in Mississippi politics.
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And about how the case has, over the past decade, become a flash point in the Idaho city and beyond.
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But the most commonly accepted flash point occurred in 2009, with the emergence of a wide receiver named Robert Woods.
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Waters has become a flash point in a debate within the Democratic Party about how best to push back on Trump.
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The latest flash point: the recent state budget that served as a cudgel to exert his dominance over Mr. de Blasio.
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While the conflict remains unresolved, the waterway has come up as a flash point in U.S.-China relations in recent years.
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But negotiations between the two countries over the $4.5 billion project have become a flash point, even stoking murmurs of war.
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This unwieldy club of nations — and such costly compromises — are a constant flash point in the debate over the European project.
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The South China Sea issue has emerged as a flash point of conflict between ASEAN and China — and within the group.
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A further flash point is plans to set a limit on dismissal payouts that labor courts can order employers to pay.
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The billions of tax dollars up for grabs have turned this deal into a political flash point and made it risky.
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Trump also tweeted about China's theft of U.S. intellectual property, which has been a continual flash point in U.S.-China relations.
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What began as a parent's well-meaning intervention in her child's social affairs morphs for Peter into a developmental flash point.
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But Francis kept him on, and Cardinal Ezzati became the flash point of survivors' ire for mishandling several cases of abuse.
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Long a flash point for partisan disagreement in Washington, the tax cuts are expected to play a major role in Nov.
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The issue has become a political flash point among Democratic activists and an increasingly tricky balance for Ms. Pelosi to strike.
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The issue of immigrants obtaining driver's licenses has been a flash point in New York state since 2007, when former Gov.
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The Red Sea port of Al Hudaydah, and the so-named city, has been a major flash point in this war.
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But a new retrospective of the British designer Mary Quant reminds us of an earlier fashion flash point: the miniskirt revolution.
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We look in detail at a flash-point case: the pope's choice of Bishop Philip Boyce to head an Irish diocese.
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Wealth Matters This week is the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a flash point in the financial crisis.
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Planned Parenthood has been a flash point ever since 1916, when Margaret Sanger was arrested for handing out birth control information.
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She was an active trash talker, and became a flash point for Warriors hecklers, but seemed far from bothered by it.
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Immigration has been the biggest flash point between President Trump and the tech community during the president's first year in office.
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After Officer Holder's murder, Mr. Howard's case became a flash point in the national debate over proposals to overhaul sentencing guidelines.
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Public restrooms in America — long a flash point of exclusion by race, gender, class and ability — have gotten much, much better.
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The abortion ruling has been a flash point in Kavanaugh's confirmation process, which entered its third day of hearings Thursday morning.
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That event became a cultural flash point, spun into an existential crisis on Wall Street about the evils of conspicuous consumption.
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The fatal shooting of the 12-year-old became a flash point in the national debate over police killings of African-Americans.
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Michoacan has long been a flash point in Mexico's drug war, and battles between criminals and security forces are a common occurrence.
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Keystone XL has become a major flash point in the growing war between environmentalists and the oil industry over expanding pipeline infrastructure.
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In the last year, The Los Angeles Times has become a flash point for disagreement between the company and its California newspapers.
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Critics of the change see it as just another example of political correctness run amok — another flash point of the culture wars.
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This now promises to become the flash point in the divorce and it has the potential to become a fierce legal battle.
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Letter To the Editor: "Oakland Is Flash Point in Billionaire's Push for Charter Schools" (front page, March 5) explains the dispute well.
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Many are now studying The Gambia example, looking at the factors that enabled a peaceful resolution so soon after a flash point.
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The Taiwan Strait was once Asia's most ominous flash point, with the potential to drag the United States into war with China.
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Again, with football occasionally, this has been the biggest flash point, because I think it's sort of the most troubled sport, right?
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"The installation had become a flash point for violence and was disrupted from its original intent," the museum said in a statement.
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A proposal to modify a new bail law has become the latest flash point in one of Albany's most bitterly fought debates.
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"Iraq is potentially the geopolitical flash point for 2020," said Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, a market research firm.
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That made the event a flash point in the public debate over class, poverty and the responsibility of government to its citizens.
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Despite scoring relatively high in accountability and transparency by nonprofit watchdogs, the foundation nonetheless became a flash-point in the 2016 election.
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But enlisting transgender people and paying for their medical transition has become a political flash point, and there has been strong resistance.
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The role of commander in chief became another flash point on Thursday, when Mr. Sanders argued that his judgment was better than Mrs.
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A lot of traffic intention that has raised fears that this contested body of water could become a flash point between competing nations.
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Blakeman was an alternate official at the A.F.C. championship game last January, ordinarily not a job that becomes a flash point of controversy.
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Skouries has been a particular flash point with authorities, with differences persisting for years over testing methods applied to comply with environmental regulations.
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Behind the scenes, the idea of auto-enrollment has become a flash point for conservatives who say it's no different than a mandate.
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In a letter to the FHWA, he said the flash point for these particular HDPE tubes is 341 degrees Celsius (645 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Can the next American president prevent the Kurds and their control of key oil and gas fields from becoming a new flash point?
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The plight of those fans is the latest flash point in a long-running debate in Israel regarding sports on the Sabbath generally.
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This expansion of China's military power in the Pacific is an intensifying flash point between China, the United States, and its Pacific allies.
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Mr. Brunson's case, and the efforts to free him, has become a flash point in the relationship between the United States and Turkey.
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The first flash point erupted in the first half when Mexico Coach Juan Carlos Osorio swore at his New Zealand counterpart, Anthony Hudson.
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"We are getting closer and closer to that flash point, but we don't know exactly when it is going to happen," she said.
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The standoff over the shooter's phones marks the latest flash point in a years-long debate over law enforcement's access to encrypted data.
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And their amendment is now a major flash point in negotiations with the Senate that kicked off Thursday over a final defense bill.
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But a flash point could come if Democrats press to subpoena Mr. Trump's tax returns, a move that could scuttle the entire inquiry.
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As Google's work force swelled past 100,000 employees and the nation's politics became even more partisan, Google's culture has become a flash point.
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As Google's work force swelled past 100,000 employees and the nation's politics became even more partisan, Google's culture has become a flash point.
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The episode is the latest flash point in a slow-burning battle over morality and civil rights in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority nation.
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Despite their debilitating cancers and other comorbidities, the polarizing election was a flash point for these patients—it aroused their most charged emotions.
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Skouries has been a particular flash point with the authorities, with differences lasting for years over testing methods applied to comply with environmental regulations.
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But while China has been ambiguous about precisely what it claims, the waters around Vietnam's southeastern oil fields have long been a flash-point.
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The ongoing debate over the use of unsporting and cruel predator control methods on national wildlife refuges in Alaska is one recent flash point.
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We spoke to our San Francisco-based reporter who has been covering Airbnb, Katie Benner, about why the company is such a flash point.
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Nor would it have become a flash point in the meaningful, if volatile, dialogue about race during the height of the civil rights movement.
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It's the latest flash point in the running debate over whether Mr. Trump's business holdings create conflicts of interest with his duties as president.
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If there's one thing we've learned, it is that guns have become a cultural flash point in a nation that is unequal and divided.
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Several nations also hope to place a strong emphasis on collective action against climate change, a subject that may become a political flash point.
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We're covering a new potential flash point in Iran, the strategy that bested President Erdogan and plans for the world's first time-free zone.
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The protests along the fortified fence that separates Gaza from Israeli territory have become an acute flash point in the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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But the push by House Democrats to reverse the Trump administration's education regulations could provide the biggest flash point between the House and Senate.
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Anything can become a flash point during the holidays — your run included, especially if you're the only person in your family who does it.
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A photograph of hundreds of children in Henan Province, taking a test outdoors in dense, filthy air became a flash point for public anger.
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Along with recent MacBook keyboard troubles, this has functioned as a sort of flash point over discussion that something isn't right with Apple's hardware processes.
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"Tax regimes are becoming a flash point in trade relations again", said Simon Evenett, a trade professor at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland.
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The flash point: The Senate's failure to pass health care reform led to a "profane shouting match" of a phone call between McConnell and Trump.
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Go deeper: Venezuelan border clashes further isolate Maduro's regime Trump links socialism in U.S. to devastation in Maduro's Venezuela Marco Rubio on Venezuela's flash point
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The progress in artificial intelligence has become a flash point for converging fears that we feel about the smart machines that are increasingly surrounding us.
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Air travel can be a flash point for discrimination, and transgender and nonbinary travelers in particular can face additional difficulties when going through airport security.
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The wall funding is a probable flash point between the two parties, as Democrats are loath to grant Mr. Trump his wish of building it.
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But even the modest change has ignited a new debate, with the program turning into an unexpected flash point in the discussion over affirmative action.
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LOS ANGELES — The kidnapping drama "All the Money in the World" has become a new flash point in the debate over gender equality in Hollywood.
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One flash point is the matter of providing young undocumented immigrants with a path to citizenship — and the specifics of what that path would entail.
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The flash point in this case was a meeting Germany's foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, held with some nongovernmental groups while on a visit to Israel.
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The announcement preceded a Turkish incursion that turned what had been a largely peaceful Kurdish-administered stretch of northeastern Syria into a new flash point.
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The President's signature campaign promise has become a flash point between Democrats and Republicans and even among GOP members in the House and the Senate.
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Britain also offered assurances to Nissan, whose plant in Sunderland became a flash point in the time before the vote over the so-called Brexit.
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If you wanted, you could discover auguries of almost any contemporary flash point in the great comedy: global warming, drug abuse, male privilege, transracial adoption.
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A member of the European Union and of NATO, Latvia — along with its Baltic neighbors — again risks becoming the flash point between Russia and Europe.
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At one flash point, a protester hurled an object through the passenger window of a police van, which sped away in reverse as demonstrators cheered.
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Huawei, one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, has become a major flash point in a larger battle between China and the United States.
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And so, I think that was a moment that put the press and the White House at a sort of flash point, this like clash point.
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Trump's executive order on immigration was his administration's first major flash point, but less than a month into his first term, it won't be the last.
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Among different crude grades, heavy-sweet oil is the most suitable to be used for ship engines as it has a higher flash point, he added.
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ZTE hasn't been quite the same political flash point as Huawei in recent years, but the company's been subject to its own scrutiny from U.S. authorities.
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Those actions have become part of the latest flash point at the Central California university over racist or insensitive incidents on the campus in recent years.
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After San Bernardino, that was such a flash point between business and government, which is sort of one of the reasons that we're all here today.
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China has been blocking fishermen from a reef near the Philippines for four years, in another flash point in the dispute over the South China Sea.
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The confrontation between the parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, and Mr. Trump has emerged as an unexpected and potentially pivotal flash point in the general election.
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The messages have become a flash point for Republicans who say the Strzok-Page exchange is proof of anti-Trump bias operating within high government levels.
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The fight for transgender students to have access to bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, which became a flash point in 2016, continued throughout 2017.
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Wade has dominated the conversation among both liberals and conservatives, becoming a flash point in the partisan battle over President Trump's pick to fill the seat.
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The program, aimed at shielding roughly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from being deported, has been one of the many flash-point issues of the Trump administration.
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It has subsided since then, but how to handle those already in Europe, and those seeking to come, remains a political flash point across the continent.
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El Paso, the Texas border city where the president held a rally in February calling for his wall with Mexico, is emerging as a flash point.
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The most dangerous flash point has long been the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the rest of the world.
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Headlines, predictions, sightings and tidbits that months and years later are recognized as the flash point for much larger shifts and trends can often get overlooked.
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AirPods have been the subject of hilarious tweets and countless memes while also becoming a flash point in debates about the environmental implications of personal tech.
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The meeting promised to be a flash point in the standoff pitting President Trump and his congressional allies against his own administration's top law enforcement officials.
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For decades, the mountainous region of Jammu and Kashmir has been a flash point for India, which is predominantly Hindu, and Pakistan, which is mostly Muslim.
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That's why Klobuchar bungling an interview in Nevada and awkwardly being unable to name the President of Mexico could provide a flash point in Wednesday's contest.
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The speech by President Jair Bolsonaro's culture secretary was the latest flash point in a debate over art and freedom of expression under the conservative government.
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"Warren's latest plan signals that it's time to talk about Joe Biden's record," by David Dayen Can bankruptcy law become a flash point in the primary?
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The CNN report of Sanders' comments quickly became a flash point in the Democratic race and upended a peace accord between the two leading progressive candidates.
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If couples fight over who gets to hold the television remote, surely strangers sharing an apartment spar over that flash point and many others as well.
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The war is the biggest flash point in a broader conflict between Moscow and the West, triggering international sanctions and rippling into the American impeachment hearings.
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We talked to top experts and delved into our photo archives for this article about the history of Jerusalem, and why it's such a flash point.
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The arrest of the journalist, Marzieh Hashemi, 59, had become a flash point of tension between Iran and the United States for more than a week.
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But his government has been battling growing violence and mounting pressure from regional strongmen, including in Amhara, a flash point in increasing ethnic clashes in Ethiopia.
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The sticky issue of cross-examination The right of an accused to cross-examine his accuser and witnesses during a hearing is a flash point of debate.
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And his series of derisive exchanges with a Muslim couple whose son was killed fighting in Iraq developed into a potentially pivotal flash point in the election.
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Her six-year tenure at the Home Office showed her to be a tough operator and put her in charge of a number of flash-point issues.
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"We are the flash point for incidents related to the disparities when something bad happens, particularly to people of color," Chief Ramsay said in a telephone interview.
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The confrontation between the parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, and Mr. Trump has emerged as an unexpected and potentially pivotal flash point in the general election. 38.
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The list, which was created soon after multiple accusations of assault against Harvey Weinstein became public, was an early flash point in the nascent #Me Too movement.
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A once-obscure program named Discovery has become an unexpected flash point in a local debate about specialized school admissions and the national fight over affirmative action.
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The recent amendments to the bill also raised questions about coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, which has become an emotional flash point for opposition.
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Another flash point in this debate came after a recent episode of The Daily, the highly popular podcast anchored by Michael Barbaro, a former Times political writer.
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But what people eat can be a sectarian flash point in India, especially since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party took power.
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At 12 inches tall with a scantily clad, curvaceous body and stiltlike legs, she flew off shelves and quickly became a cultural flash point over body image.
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The competitiveness of the market has been a flash point for generic drug-makers, as interim CEO Yitzhak Peterburg blamed his company's recent poor performance on saturation.
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The decision to prosecute Sergeant Azaria emerged as a flash point in the debate over the Israeli military and its role as the nation's conscience and protector.
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One of the things that is interesting is that this movie went into production before that huge flash point #MeToo moment and so much has changed since then.
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A volatile day of trade for the yuan stoked fears that Beijing's currency management could become the next flash point in the trade dispute with the United States.
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The US and China obviously don't share a border, so unless the flash point happens to be North Korea, boots-on-the-ground battlefield scenarios are pretty farfetched.
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Obviously, there's nothing new about white nationalists or neo-Nazis in America, but did yesterday strike you as a flash point event that might trigger more organized violence?
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His arrest has become a financial flash-point for the few Western investors who still want to invest in Russia, particularly as some of his colleagues remain jailed.
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That became a flash point for national anger over executive pay at a time when Citigroup had accepted bailout money from the federal government after the financial crisis.
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The case of Mr. Brunson, who has been accused of aiding the failed coup in Turkey in 2016, has become a flash point in the two countries' relationship.
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The length of the season has become a flash point in Baltimore: Management wants to reduce the musicians' paid weeks of work to 4503, from the current 2450.
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But Goldman Sachs is a flash point in the rise of economic inequality — and Mr. DeMeyer lifted more than 500 bottles of Mr. Solomon's wine without anyone noticing.
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When members of the gang were charged in the murders of Kayla and Nisa, the case became a flash point for the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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The new data comes at a time when the nation's changing demography has become a flash point in American politics, spurred in part by President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric.
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The former New York City mayor's stop-and-frisk policy has become a campaign flash point, and the underlying issues resonate strongly in this county of 216 million.
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But the campaign has become a flash point in an increasingly contentious relationship between the French government and a local population bristling against French bureaucracy and overseas control.
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The standoff between the tech giant and the Justice Department has become the latest flash point in a years-long debate over law enforcement access to encrypted data.
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The case could become a new flash point in the years-long dispute between the FBI and the tech industry over special law enforcement access to encrypted data.
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Indeed, Charlottesville has become a flash point in a debate about how cities across the South should reconcile themselves with their past and, specifically, with the Civil War.
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Florida's Stand Your Ground law became a national flash point after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the 2012 fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.
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With the president's wall having become a flash point, the political costs to Democrats for cutting a deal seen as advantageous to Mr. Trump would be steep. 2.
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Arriving in the opening months of the #MeToo movement, the story became a flash point for conversations about consent, gaslighting and needling women to the point of acquiescence.
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With China closely backing Pakistan and the US supporting India, Pakistan and India's rivalry has long been seen as a potential flash point for a global nuclear conflict.
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And perhaps it surprised no one that the postmortem controversy pushed its way once again into the streaming music world, where XXXTentacion had become a flash point in life.
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It quickly became the rallying cry of protests around the country, and Garner's death became a "pivotal flash point" for the Black Lives Matter movement, the Washington Post reports.
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Along the way, the two have become something of a punching bag for hip-hop's conservative wing, an unlikely flash point in the genre's ever-roiling internal culture wars.
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Others: Bodyguards and Assassins (Amazon) is another historical epic; Kung Fu Killer (Netflix) shows Yen in contemporary action hero mode; Flash Point (Hulu) sends Yen undercover in the Triad.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: The article states: But in Minneapolis, as in districts across the nation, discipline policies are more than a political flash point.
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In the decades since, the massacre at Hue has become a touchstone and a flash point for debates about the war, both within Vietnam and in the United States.
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Migration has become a flash point in Europe, generating heated debates about who should be responsible for the flow of migrants crossing the continent's borders and arriving by sea.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainThe Democrats' siege is over Kelly leads McSally by 7 points in Arizona Senate poll Coronavirus emerges as flash point in 2020 campaign MORE (R-Ariz.).
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That bilateral meeting was more about a different security flash point between the United States and Turkey — the purchase by Turkey of the Russian S-400 missile defense system.
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These companies have nevertheless become a flash point for people struggling with evictions and higher mortgage payments, regardless of how involved they are in forcing harsher terms onto tenants.
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His party championed a court ruling that allowed a Hindu temple to be built on the site of a centuries-old mosque, touching on a dangerous sectarian flash point.
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This week's rulings are yet another flash point in the country's culture wars, which have grown increasingly bitter since the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.
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In November 2016, the region became a flash point for those opposed to resettlement when a Somali-born Ohio State University student was killed by police after attacking pedestrians.
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He was fond, to a fault, of the phenomenological idea of "the percept"—the flash point in the mind where perceptions take form, an instant short of full consciousness.
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This pipeline became a major flash point for climate activists during the Obama administration — and Obama eventually rejected TransCanada's application, ruling that the project was not in the national interest.
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The Supreme Court has become the latest flash point for LGBTQ politics, agreeing to hear a case about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 2365 and workplace discrimination.
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"Amazon has ended up becoming a flash point and a symbol for inequality in modern society," Beth Gutelius of the Great Cities Institute at the University of Chicago, tells Axios.
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The IEX has been a flash point in the broader debate over technological changes that have altered the basic functioning of the American stock markets over the last two decades.
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How to handle a recovery that has delivered steady but less than spectacular growth has not only been a flash point among Fed bankers — who will next meet on Sept.
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That's particularly true at a moment when fake news is such a flash point, and when The Times is dispensing advice to another publisher on how to solve its problems.
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Republicans and Democrats both seized on the ruling as a rallying point, hoping it would mobilize voters for a presidential election in which immigration has become an intense flash point.
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The country's immigration and asylum policies have been a political flash point for years, and the conflicts have grown since the surge in migration to Europe in 2015 and 2016.
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The 2015 killing of Mr. Jones, a church band member without a criminal record, became a flash point in a string of contentious shootings of black men by the police.
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Yet 40 years later, whether children thrive better with their mothers in the home or at the office continues to be a flash point among women and in American society.
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The agreement has recently become a flash point for nationalist and far-right groups in Europe, who have called it an effort to impose a globalist agenda on sovereign governments.
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The flash point of the tension was a fight between Yankees catcher Austin Romine and the Tigers star Miguel Cabrera that touched off a full-scale brawl between the teams.
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"Our experience has been that the most successful mobilization moments have some kind of trigger or flash point," said Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the anti-Trump organization Indivisible.
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And they focused on the flash point in this case: that Stephon Clark was gunned down in his own grandmother's backyard while armed with nothing more than a cell phone.
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Common Sense The trustees of Cooperstown, N.Y., hardly expected their village (population 4003,2400) to emerge as a flash point in a national debate over climate change and socially responsible investing.
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The two sides met to discuss the impasse in the trade dispute, and Huawei, one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, has become a flash point in the battle.
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The resolution also makes clear that Democrats will not support loosening or eliminating environmental regulations in order to foster greater investment, setting up another potential flash point with the Trump administration.
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The cousins are among 12 young Palestinians killed over three months who were from this town of about 24,000 people, a few miles from the city of Hebron, a flash point.
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INGRAHAM: But I think we can all agree, the president needs to address this from the Oval and this should become a flash point now, not after the midterms, but now.
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The damage award brought an end to a protracted legal battle over the foundation, whose giving patterns and management became a flash point during Mr. Trump's run for office in 2016.
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But the billions in tax dollars up for grabs in this merger — and in further tax inversions that might follow — have turned the Pfizer-Allergan deal into a political flash point.
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The incident became a possible flash point for the Black Lives Matter movement's roving attention, but the story soon faded, and in January, a grand jury declined to indict the officer.
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When "Falling Down" was announced, in August, it quickly became a flash point and a distraction, and a source of dissent within the group of people responsible for shepherding Peep's estate.
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Reminder: The U.S. Commerce Department blocked sales of American technology to Huawei in May over national security concerns, turning the Chinese telecom giant's status into a flash point in trade tensions.
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ICE has become a political flash point for its role in immigration enforcement, which has included arresting, detaining and deporting thousands of undocumented migrants — many of whom have no criminal records.
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More than 700 people were injured in the disaster at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, which emerged as a political flash point over the role of wealth and class in British life.
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President Trump's on-the-fly decision to pull United States troops out of Syria is the latest flash point in the Republican battle to shape and define a "conservative" foreign policy.
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Google emerged as a flash point in the latest skirmish of the culture wars this month after one of its male engineers posted a critique of the company's efforts to diversify.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has formally objected to the World Bank's plans to continue lending to China, the latest flash point in a long-running battle between the world's largest economies.
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The big picture: The contract has become a flash point between Amazon and Trump, who has singled out the tech giant and mentioned the JEDI contract in tweets and private conversations.
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But tweets by President Trump have suddenly turned the latest caravan into a major international incident and the most recent flash point in the politics of immigration in the United States.
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Last month India revoked the longstanding autonomy of the mountainous border region, the flash point of two wars with Pakistan since both achieved independence from Britain more than 70 years ago.
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More than a decade ago, Denmark became a flash point for Islamic extremism after a Danish newspaper published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, spurring outrage and protests across the Muslim world.
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And last month, Hindu fundamentalists scored a big court victory allowing them to build a new temple over the ruins of a demolished mosque in the flash point city of Ayodhya.
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The messages have become a flash point for Republicans because Strzok and Page were involved in two high-profile probes: the Clinton email investigation and the beginnings of Mueller's Russia probe.
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The most likely flash point seemed to be China, the subject of much Trumpist tough talk, where disputes over islands in the South China Sea could easily turn into shooting incidents.
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They have since become a heated flash point for debates about China's authoritarian rule and the impositions the country places on foreign businesses to maintain good standing within the country's massive economy.
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Why it matters: Meng's arrest and possible extradition has become a flash point in trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada, as Huawei is one of China's most highly-valued technology companies.
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The prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his Bharatiya Janata Party swept India's elections in May by campaigning on a Hindu nationalist agenda, and the court case became an emotionally charged flash point.
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Riding a surge of outrage from the #MeToo movement, the reauthorization debate is going to be a flash point with any opposition evoking howls of protest and accusations of racism and sexism.
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The closure of the foundation is a milestone in what has been a two-year investigation after the nonprofit's management and giving patterns emerged as a flash point in the 2016 campaign.
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El Paso has been a flash point for much of that unrest, with hundreds of migrants now being held in a makeshift encampment under a bridge near where Mr. O'Rourke was speaking.
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As this city in central Virginia has become the latest flash point in America's fight over white supremacy, a deep-rooted struggle for equality has weighed heavily on Charlottesville's shrinking black population.
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The role of the DNA database in investigations became a flash point in the trial of Chanel Lewis, a Brooklyn man convicted in April of murdering Karina Vetrano, a jogger in Queens.
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Even with the Obamacare flash point out of the picture, House Republican leaders will have a hard sales job to persuade their fractured conference to swallow another kick-the-can spending bill.
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In the time since, the onetime national flash point has been mostly eclipsed by the impeachment inquiry, immigration policies governing the southern border and a torrent of other news out of Washington.
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When President-elect Donald J. Trump chose Rex W. Tillerson for secretary of state, the Exxon Mobil chief executive's ties to Russia emerged as a possible flash point in his confirmation hearing.
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The role of the DNA database in investigations became a flash point in the trial of Chanel Lewis, a Brooklyn man convicted in April of murdering Karina Vetrano, a jogger in Queens.
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It sits within the sacred compound revered by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and by Jews as the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, a frequent flash point for violence.
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Washington (CNN)The death of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov could pose serious challenges for the US in areas such as counterterrorism and could become another flash point in the contentious US-Russia relationship.
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The company itself also has been the focus of an ongoing legal battle, with both Wilson and Defense Distributed serving as a kind of flash point for the debate around 3D-printed guns.
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People who know Trump well say he is trying to thread the needle between the cultural flash point of school shootings and the cultural bedrock of middle America's attachment to the Second Amendment.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticizing what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticizing what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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Semiconductors have been a major flash point in the ongoing trade war between the two countries, with U.S. officials criticising what they say are state-subsidised efforts to undermine the U.S. chip industry.
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The law has emerged in a flash point this election year, as Mr. McCrory seeks a second term, but its fate will not be settled until long after ballots are cast and counted.
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The reopening of schools at the end of a wave of protests has been a flash point in the past because government officials projected it as "a sign of normalcy," Ms. Kumar said.
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And this movement is absolutely not just limited to Hollywood — this was a real flash point in 2018, and I'll be forever grateful for that, but we've got much more work to do.
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The deteriorating conditions at the New York City Housing Authority, the most recent flash point in Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio's long-running rivalry, also took center stage in Friday's budget presentation.
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The role of A.S.R.C., a private company that counts 13,000 Alaska Natives as it shareholders, has become a flash point in the debate between Native communities over the fate of the coastal plain.
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It was part of a counterintelligence inquiry that has become a political flash point, as President Trump and his allies have accused American law enforcement and intelligence officials of spying on his campaign.
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In the last two weeks, "Old Town Road," the viral hit by the rapper Lil Nas X, has become a flash point for conversations about what is, isn't, or might be country music.
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The trial began in July 1970 and became a flash point in a period of political unrest as thousands of protesters gathered on New Haven Green and the governor mobilized the National Guard.
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Making matters worse, the call just came from Washington – another carrier group needs to be sent to the Mediterranean immediately, to help stabilize a flash point in the Global War on Resource Scarcity.
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On the day of Gray's funeral, the mall, in West Baltimore, had been a flash point of confrontation among police clad in riot gear, protesters, and looters, but now the scene was placid.
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The U.S. garrison at Tanf, by the Syrian-Jordanian border, is now one potential flash point, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group has warned, because Iranian and Iranian-backed forces are deployed nearby.
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With the special counsel's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election continuing to shadow President Trump, the administration's decision to lift sanctions on Mr. Deripaska's companies has become a political flash point.
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A flash point came in the recent Alabama senatorial campaign, when the Republican candidate, Roy Moore, was accused of sexual misconduct involving girls as young as 14 when he was in his 30s.
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"Li Wenliang's death has become an emotional flash point," said Wang Yu, a Wuhan man in his 20s, showing the torrent of comments on his phone about Dr. Li in his social media feeds.
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"Mato Grosso do Sul is an obvious flash point as it has a lot of land that is lacking formal title and it's of interest to international investors," Micklethwaite told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The city and its surrounding county are seen as a potential flash point for Donald Trump to pull off an upset victory in Pennsylvania because of a combination of hard data and emotional appeal.
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We all know Washington is famous for fudging numbers and subjective math, but even in a town where climate change is a flash point, both sides of the aisle could agree: This sounds fishy.
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The Rust Belt district became a flash point in the battle for the House majority, with Democrats looking for a symbolic victory in a deep-red district to send a warning sign to Republicans.
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With six governments — those of China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei — claiming overlapping parts of the South China Sea, the resource-rich waterway is a potential flash point for regional military conflict.
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The case became a flash point in national discussions over whether police officers are too quick to shoot people and whether they are adequately trained to work with people suffering from severe mental illness.
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The issue became a flash point that helped derail Republican efforts to repeal the law last year, with opponents of the party's health bills speaking loudly against weakening protections for the sick and vulnerable.
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Manbij emerged as a potential flash point between the United States and Turkey, which are NATO allies, after Mr. Erdogan sent Turkish forces to seize control of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in January.
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The domestic surveillance rules have become a flash point between Democrats and Republicans because Trump has pushed to change them in the aftermath of the investigation of Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections.
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With the sharp increases in use and overdoses, syringe litter has become a significant flash point for the town's middle-class residents, particularly because tourism is so important for Eureka and the surrounding region.
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There's an obvious counterexample, one that Silver hesitates to acknowledge: the N.F.L. The controversy that resulted from Colin Kaepernick's kneeling during the national anthem in 23 has been a political flash point ever since.
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The protesters had initially planned to target Hong Kong's international airport, a symbol of the city's position as a global finance hub and the site of a key flash point in this summer's unrest.
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The city was a flash point for the factional violence that accompanied the Cultural Revolution, and Liu remembers hearing gunfire at night and seeing trucks filled with men clutching guns and wearing red armbands.
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Mr. Trump later belittled this man and his wife, parents of a soldier killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq, and the confrontation emerged as an unexpected flash point in the general election. 35.
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But he did not appear to refer to Scarborough Shoal, a major disputed reef in the South China Sea north of the Spratlys that has been a flash point between the Philippines and China.
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Kusasalethu, which employs about 4,500 workers, has been a flash point for labour violence and strikes in recent years, threatening the viability of the mine and underlining the social risks of mining in South Africa.
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Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Christ, a high point of the movie season, an opportunity to get drunk around your family, and a flash point in the largely imaginary culture wars.
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Some conservatives seized on the issue making it a flash-point and objecting to, at times using highly inflammatory rhetoric, building a mosque so close to the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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While Shaffer sees escalation between Iran and the Saudis as a potential threat to oil prices, Kent Moors, director of the Energy Policy Research Group, considers Bahrain to be the "flash point" for the Saudis.
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"That tech is now a flash point in campaign debates is a reflection of the industry's power and ubiquity in American life," said Patrick Ruffini, a Republican strategist who has worked with the tech industry.
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The 2010 law, seen as the signature domestic achievement of Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, has been a flash point of American politics since it passed, with Republicans including Trump repeatedly attempting to overturn it.
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The episode became a political flash point, one that Ekirch suggests played a role in delivering the presidency in 1800 to Thomas Jefferson and helping establish the United States' policy of granting asylum to refugees.
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The murders of Kayla, 2000, and her friend Nisa Mickens, 2500, two American-born teenagers who were killed in a suburban cul-de-sac, became a flash point for the administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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The availability of voter data has become a flash point in recent years, as digital privacy concerns have gained prominence, and as President Trump's administration has sought to collect voter information for apparently political purposes.
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The great flash point, of course, was the attack on Manchester City's team bus outside Anfield before last year's meeting in the Champions League quarterfinals, an act met with outright and understandable fury by City.
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Her case became a new flash point in a national debate over the administration's hard-line immigration policies, eliciting outcries from members of Congress as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics, an advocacy group.
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The scooters, owned by tech start-ups who see the ride-sharing company Uber as a role model, have become the latest flash point in the simmering anger against the tech industry in its hometown.
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The gesture is a telling one, because—in France as elsewhere—what actually happens in any flash point between suspects and officers of the law matters less than what can be proved to have happened.
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The shop has been the target of countless more protests and repeated vandalism apparently trying to force it out of the neighborhood, which has been a flash point in the debate over gentrification for years.
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But because Mr. Trump maintains an ownership stake in the Trump Organization, with vast hotel, residential and commercial real estate holdings that foreign governments can direct business to, emoluments are once again a flash point.
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At the flash point of the 1965 riots, the only historical marker I found didn't commemorate that event at all, but rather the 2001 killing of a school crossing guard in a drive-by shooting.
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The presence of MS-133 is a frightful reality for immigrant families who escaped the same violence in their home countries, even as the recent deaths have turned into a flash point on illegal immigration.
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Although both sides pledged for now to talk and to avoid confrontation, the remarks by the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, highlighted the stakes in a part of Asia that has become a geopolitical flash point.
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When construction began in 21982, the project galvanized Mr. Birbach and his neighbors and became a national flash point for white resistance in the wake of the civil rights movement and commitments to racial integration.
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Since then, Ukraine has become the biggest flash point in the broader conflict between Moscow and the West, triggering European and American sanctions against Russia and rippling into the impeachment hearings playing out in Washington.
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In particular, Italy is seen as a next potential flash point as opinion polls show the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which is calling for a referendum on the euro, is likely to win the elections.
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Other games, even ones released in 2017, used loot boxes, but since Electronic Arts, a company (at times unfairly) seen as the embodiment of consumer exploitation, was the publisher, Battlefront II became a thunderous flash point.
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On Sunday, it took on another longstanding flash point among blacks that nevertheless is rarely addressed in TV drama: colorism and how it shapes prevailing commercial ideals of beauty, especially in regard to African-American women.
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The most recent flash point for fans and U.S. Soccer has been Rapinoe's decision to kneel during the national anthem and the federation's response, in which it said it "expected" players to stand for the anthem.
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Some of these frustrations boiled over into a tense, seven-day teachers' strike in Chicago in 2012, which was widely seen as a flash point in the national debate over more businesslike approaches to managing schools.
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The Jacir Palace sits along a stretch of road that has become a main flash point for protests, only yards away from Israel's 26-foot-tall concrete barrier separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem, the contested holy city.
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The role that readers play in shaping children's books has become a flash point in a fractious debate about diversity, cultural appropriation and representation, with some arguing that the reliance on sensitivity readers amounts to censorship.
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The pollution has been blowing across the de facto border between Russian-controlled Crimea and mainland Ukraine, already a geopolitical flash point since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, prompting sanctions by the United States and Europe.
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Mr. Polanski, who fled the United States four decades ago while awaiting sentencing for statutory rape, remains a flash point for controversy and was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018.
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Something as simple as a school field trip can become a flash point: For refugees torn away from a world they loved, adapting to a new one without losing their identities is a fraught balancing act.
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But elimination of the provision has emerged as a flash point in the nascent debate over the plan, with Republicans in high-tax states worried about backlash from residents who could see their tax bills rise.
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Korine was only 2212 when Larry Clark's "Kids" (on Monday and Tuesday), for which he wrote the screenplay, became a cultural flash point because of its depiction of sex and H.I.V. among New York City teenagers.
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Hill has become a flash point this fall: Some critics say she should have been punished for calling the president a white nationalist, or that there should be no surprise ESPN objected to tweets about NFL advertisers.
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And when it is done, this landmark section of the contentious wall project — a symbol of Mr. Trump's presidency and a flash point for his critics — will extend the hard border with Mexico by just eight miles.
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One idea focuses on the neighborhood of Baba Amr, one of the districts that was a flash point of fighting and was eventually destroyed in a brutal siege that has been compared to the battle of Stalingrad.
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WASHINGTON — With guns emerging as a major flash point in the presidential race and campaigns nationwide, gun-control advocates are spending tens of millions of dollars on a central message: Stronger firearms laws can reduce gun violence.
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Days later, Palestinians are likely to flock for Friday Prayer to the holy site in the Old City that contains Al Aqsa Mosque, which has often been a flash point in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The Trump administration continues to view Huawei with skepticism and has been trying to convince its allies that the company could enable Chinese espionage, turning Huawei into a flash point in the wider U.S.-China trade war.
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The carillon has become a flash point in a dispute among some members of St. Martin's and the Episcopal Diocese of New York over how to repair the instrument and the rest of the decaying church building.
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Many students were aghast that a white tenured professor would be comfortable comparing the phrase, an internet meme that is quickly becoming a generational flash point, to an epithet associated with the horrors of slavery and racism.
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At a time of escalating tensions between the United States and China over trade and technology, Nasdaq's curbs on small Chinese IPOs represent the latest flash point in the financial relationship between the world's two largest economies.
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He will also not take a position on a disputed area of the Old City, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Haram al-Sharif to Muslims, which has been a flash point for tensions.
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Another flash point for some critics of the Senate bill: whether it would require congressional ethics panels to approve the reimbursement of any harassment claims approved by the Hill's workplace misconduct adjudicators at the Office of Compliance.
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Mr. Igbokwe's rental was on the edge of a neighborhood known as Flamingo Park that has become a flash point in the battle between residents and companies that offer short-term rentals in Miami Beach, including Booking.
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Here is a look at how the battle over the 22012,250-mile pipeline has become an environmental and cultural flash point, stirring passions across social media and drawing thousands of protesters to camp out in rural North Dakota.
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Encryption would greatly reduce a company's ability to detect the illegal activity, and has become a flash point in light of Facebook's decision to soon encrypt its Messenger app, which is responsible for millions of reports a year.
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Democrats have sought to make it both a flash point in the battle over whether to confirm Judge Kavanaugh and a crucial prong in their strategy to retake control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
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The Trump administration continues to view Huawei with skepticism and has been trying to convince its allies that the company could enable Chinese espionage, turning the company into a flash point in the wider U.S.-China trade war.
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As immigration intensifies as a flash point of the Trump presidency, with tear gas being fired at a migrant caravan and the price tag for separating families continuing to rise, Mr. Sanchez is central to the administration's plans.
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On Monday, the graphic video footage was shown on the first day of Mr. Dungay's inquest, reigniting long-simmering anger about the deaths of Indigenous Australians in custody, which are a flash point of race relations in Australia.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainThe Democrats' siege is over Kelly leads McSally by 7 points in Arizona Senate poll Coronavirus emerges as flash point in 21625 campaign MORE (R), has seen her favorable ratings drop substantially in recent months.
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But the military exercises are a continuing flash point, said Adam Mount, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, and curtailing them could be an important gesture that could coax North Korea toward dialogue.
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Kusasalethu, located 90 kilometers west of Johannesburg, has had a troubled history and been a flash point for labor violence and strikes in recent years, threatening its viability and underlining the social risks of mining in South Africa.
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The rape and murder of a 92-year-old woman in Queens became a flash point in the broader debate over immigration on Tuesday when federal authorities contended that the suspect should not have been in the country.
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With the EU struggling to contain dissent over migration policy, some officials in Brussels say they worry that Spain could become a new flash-point, even as overall numbers of arrivals into Europe from Africa are in sharp decline.
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Metro was the flash-point for this unequal tug of war between Wall Street and Main Street, only because Detroit was the obvious destination for many of North America's smelters when demand collapsed in the wake of the GFC.
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Mr. DeStefano is among a group of people pushing the State Legislature to extend the ban to these local courts — another flash point in the debate over how much power sanctuary cities should have to restrict federal law enforcement.
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Huawei has become a flash point as governments around the world set policies for creating the high-speed 5G networks, which many in the technology industry believe will lead to breakthroughs in transportation, health care, manufacturing and other fields.
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As temperatures creep higher, though, you run the risk of reaching the flash point, at which gases can ignite in the presence of an open flame, or the fire point, at which the oils themselves can spontaneously catch fire.
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A rebel enclave still holds on in the south, supported by the United States and Jordan; the area is also a flash point for tensions between Israel and Iran as Hezbollah digs in near the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
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Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured "Saturday Night Live" cast member, will serve as M.C. of this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the annual media jamboree that has become a flash point on free expression in the Trump era.
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This month, Mr. Barr ordered reviews of several politically sensitive cases handled by career prosecutors in Washington, including that of the president's former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, which has become a flash point for pro-Trump activists.
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Last week a new Pew Research Center poll showed that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now believes that colleges and universities — the flash point of our current culture wars — have a negative effect on the country.
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A photograph of the black leaders smiling and chatting with Mr. Trump around his desk was widely circulated and instantly became a flash point for students who believe the administration has been insensitive to the needs of black Americans.
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The fate of Ms. Muthana, whose family lives in Alabama, has raised novel legal issues and become a political flash point since she surrendered to coalition forces fighting ISIS and said last month that she wanted to come home.
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The veil worn by some Muslim women also has become a flash point in France, which passed a law in 2010 banning face-covering garments like the burqa or niqab in public, although the law did not explicitly mention Islam.
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Make it "The four networks rotate …" ••• Oakland Is Flash Point in Billionaire's Push for Charter Schools Print readers had to follow along to the jump of this front-page story to find out who the "billionaire" in the headline was.
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The fight has fueled a debate over privacy and civil liberties versus security, becoming a flash point in the growing tension between technology companies and the government over who can have access to private customer data and under what circumstances.
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"What's happening with Chobani is one more flash point in this battle between the voices of xenophobia and the voices advocating a rational immigration policy," said Cecillia Wang, director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar A once-obscure program named Discovery has become an unexpected flash point in a local debate about specialized school admissions and the national fight over affirmative action.
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Indeed, N.F.L. players kneeling during the national anthem, a movement started by Colin Kaepernick and echoed by others, became a cultural flash point last season after President Trump aimed his ire on the movement, accusing them of disrespecting the troops.
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It emerged as a flash point in the raging debates over traditional opera productions versus modern ones, and was never far from the surface when people discussed Mr. Gelb's tenure and the pluses and minuses of a 21st-century Met.
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MANILA — Three church bells taken from the central Philippines as war booty by American troops more than a century ago were flown to their original home Tuesday, ending a contentious flash point in relations between the two longtime military allies.
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The exchange was the latest example of how the potential for pardons — whether hinted at by Mr. Trump and his team or sought after by people caught up in the investigations swirling around him — has become a more public flash point.
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The latest A.C.A. challenge, however, has brought us together — an unholy alliance that conveys an enormous amount about the weakness and dangerousness of the newest legal challenge to a statute that continues to be a political and legal flash point.
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"That video was such a flash point — just watching it felt like you were being injured," said Lori E. Lightfoot, who at the time was president of the Chicago Police Board, an oversight agency, and who now is running for mayor.
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Trump's D.C. hotel has become a flash point for critics and ethics experts who claim the for-profit hotel bearing the president's name allows individuals and groups, including foreign diplomats, to influence the president by spending money at the lavish hotel.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump, following days of bellicose threats toward North Korea and jitters about a looming trade war with China, moved on several fronts Monday to ease tensions in East Asia, after making the region a flash point for his administration.
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Much of Asia's oil imports transit through the channel and into the South China Sea, which is home to territorial disputes among China and various other claimants and is a flash point of military tensions between the United States and China.
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Mr. Trump's surprising victory has sent shock waves around the world, but the possible consequences are particularly acute here in the Baltics, a region long seen as a potential flash point because of its physical, linguistic and cultural proximity to Russia.
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Construction of the route a half-mile from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation has become a global flash point for environmental and indigenous activism, drawing thousands of people out here to a sprawling prairie camp of tents, tepees and yurts.
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Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, was a man on a mission at the United Nations, imploring members last week to persuade India to lift its siege of Kashmir, a longtime flash point between the two nations, which both have nuclear weapons.
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Immigration was once again the flash point during a debate in September at Texas Southern University in Houston, where protesters were escorted out of the auditorium yelling and wearing shirts arguing for the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
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But it is particularly disturbing to see Berkeley become a flash point for opposing groups who are not even affiliated with the campus, or to see breathless protest coverage by a media that rewards stories of conflict over those about conversation.
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The controversy came to a flash point this week, when about 20 medical professionals hauling coolers with flu vaccines showed up at a migrant detention center near San Diego, announcing their plan to inoculate everyone inside the facility who consented.
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In his latest moves to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor, Mr. Trump resurrected the Keystone XL pipeline that had stirred years of debate, and expedited another pipeline in the Dakotas that had become a major flash point for Native Americans.
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Why it matters: The Flores Settlement has been a key obstacle to the Trump administration's efforts to crack down on immigrant families illegally crossing the border, which reached a flash point earlier this year with the administration's "zero tolerance" family separation policy.
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A Pennsylvania appeals court on Friday threw out some of the more serious criminal charges against three high-ranking former Penn State administrators whose handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal continues to be a flash point for the state's flagship university.
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Now a long-shot legislative effort by a Florida congressman to prevent such a move by the federal government has become an unexpected flash point in the battle over disclosing climate-related risks — with potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in the balance.
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The "Formation" video preceded "Lemonade," setting the table for its messages of black empowerment with rich Southern gothic imagery and provocative messages about police violence against black bodies, which made Beyoncé a culture-war flash point in a way she had never been.
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WASHINGTON — A Libyan man was found guilty on Thursday on two terrorism-related charges arising from the attack on a United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012 that killed two Americans, including the ambassador to Libya, and became a political flash point.
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In November, his party celebrated the win of a flash point legal case in which the Supreme Court ruled that Hindu nationalists could build a temple over the ruins of a centuries-old mosque that had been razed by a Hindu mob.
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has not set foot in South Carolina recently, but he has become a flash point among the Democratic presidential candidates as they compete for black voters in Saturday's primary there and in the bigger, diverse Super Tuesday contests next week.
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An additional 500 or so people were trapped between two border posts, but still on the Turkish side, at the long and heavily militarized land border that has turned into the flash point of the tug of war between Turkey and Europe.
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BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — After five teenagers were found dead in this Long Island town last year, murdered by the members of a transnational gang with ties to El Salvador, a local problem turned into a national flash point, a referendum on illegal immigration.
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The highway has long been a flash point for battles between New York and the Seneca Nation, the so-called Keeper of the Western Door, whose sovereign territories are spread out over five noncontiguous reservations running from Niagara Falls to the Pennsylvania border.
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But a look at Mr. Warsame's case — and the substantial cooperation he provided to the military and law enforcement — suggests it could again become a flash point in a debate over which system — civilian or military — is best to handle terrorism cases.
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Kellyanne Conway was shown repeatedly trying to make Mr. Trump understand how his words could be offensive to women, particularly talking about the weight of Alicia Machado, the Miss Universe pageant entrant who became a flash point at the end of the campaign.
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But on Friday, an altercation between one of La Morada's owners and police officers turned the haven into a hostile flash point, fracturing an often strained relationship between police officers in the 40th Precinct and the community they serve in the South Bronx.
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The bride represents not only a connection to a key work of phallocentric Modernism, but also a flash point in society's idealization and subjugation of women — a balling-up of the warring strains of purity, desire, bondage, and freedom that animate the entire exhibition.
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Yuen Long has been a flash point in the protests since July 22, when a mob of men in white T-shirts with sticks and metal bars assaulted dozens of people, including journalists and a pro-democracy lawmaker, at the Yuen Long train station.
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Because of the gun violence and red-state-versus-blue-state vibe of the trailer, which shows 12 strangers suddenly waking up in a remote location and being hunted by a group of rich elites, the movie had become a flash point of controversy.
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Among the many moments when Broadway show music and modern pop have bowed and curtsied to one another, Jonathan Larson's score for "Rent" is arguably the flash point when they fell into each other's arms and sealed a partnership that continues to this day.
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But it's a nearly impossible undertaking because Stonewall, which was more of a nebulous moment than a self-conscious flash point, defies the simplification opera demands — not least of all because the bar catered to everyone on the queer spectrum, and they all deserve representation.
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Just hours after the agents, who had been on duty, were found in a dark culvert off Interstate 10, about 100 miles east of El Paso, politicians seized on the news as a flash point in a broader debate about immigration and border security.
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Yet the sight of Ms. Hill sitting by herself as a bank of white men peppered her with condescending and withering questions became a flash point for many women, both a symbol of what they were up against and an inspiration to push back.
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The episode comes at a time of growing tension on both sides of the border and promised to become the newest flash point in the story of a caravan that was the target of President Trump's anti-immigrant rallying cry during the midterm elections.
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None of the mayor's flash point issues — his trip to Germany a day after a police officer's death; a controversy over a Christopher Columbus statue; a former militant marching in the Puerto Rican Day Parade — have resonated in the mayoral race, but they do here.
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At first blush, it looks like a crisis for CBS: broadcasting an episode of its hit reality show "Survivor" on Wednesday in which one contestant outs a rival as transgender during an elimination round — a violation of privacy as well as a cultural flash point.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state's Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flash point in the national debate over gun violence.
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Sebastian Gorka, a West Wing adviser to President Trump who has become a flash point for controversy, is likely to be moved out of the White House in the coming weeks for a different role in the administration, two senior administration officials said Sunday.
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Now, the interrogation has become a flash point in the opening round of what promises to be a lengthy litigation over evidence in the case, in which Mr. Durst is charged with the shooting death of a confidante, Susan Berman, at her Los Angeles home.
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Bahrain, where the American Navy's Fifth Fleet is based, has been a political flash point since the Arab Spring protests of 2011 led by the nation's Shiite majority were put down by the Sunni-led government with the help of other Persian Gulf Arab states.
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Mr. Cameron returned to London from Brussels this weekend with a deal he says protects Britain's "special status" within the European Union and provides some disincentives for immigration from other European countries, the most recent flash point in the long-strained relationship with the 28-member bloc.
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While European nationals working in Britain make up just 5 percent of the 31.5 million-strong work force, compared to 11 percent from overseas, they have become a visible flash point in the overall debate about whether and what type of immigration really works for Britain.
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The policing of hate speech online has become a flash point for many a flame war, these past few months especially, as white nationalists, neo-nazis and others with abhorrent but strictly speaking quite legal viewpoints struggle with being banned repeatedly from the internet's biggest platforms.
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Ms. León spent Monday morning at Central High School, where former President Bill Clinton and a host of dignitaries honored the eight surviving members of the group, and listened as they shared memories of their harrowing year on the front lines of a civil rights flash point.
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"I stand behind Andrew Gillum when he's on the job to stand behind our black men," Kayla said, applauding his opposition to Florida's Stand Your Ground law allowing shootings in self-defense, a flash point after George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin in 2012.
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With most polls finding that both Republicans and Democrats favor protecting coverage for people, the proposed changes to such protections have become the flash point that could derail yet another attempt by the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers to vanquish President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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To understand how President-elect Donald J. Trump's spontaneous meal this week at the "21" Club, the Manhattan nightspot, could turn into a flash point on the future of American journalism, it's best to start with what the news media already knows about its future charge.
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While the tensions from the protest two years ago have calmed somewhat at Ithaca College, the free-speech protests that have turned aggressive and occasionally violent recently at schools like Middlebury and the University of California, Berkeley, mark another flash point for colleges across the country.
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Her painting "Open Casket" (2016), which depicts the corpse of Emmett Till, was shown at the Whitney Biennial this year and became a flash point for protests and heated conversations about whether white artists (like Ms. Schutz) have the right to portray black experience and pain.
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No one knew quite what to expect at this year's edition of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the chummy Washington ritual that became a flash point over press freedom in a year when the relationship between the White House and its correspondents is anything but friendly.
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And in December of 2015, a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, in which the perpetrators were radicalized by terrorist messages consumed online, created a flash point around phone encryption after the FBI asked Apple to allow suspect Syed Rizwan Farook's phone to be brute-forced.
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The death of the woman, Deborah Danner, became a flash point in the national, racially charged debate over whether police officers are too quick to shoot people and whether they are adequately trained and sufficiently conscientious in their dealings with people suffering from severe mental illness.
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Perhaps with a view to that potential flash point in western Syria, and another one farther east around the city of Manbij, Mr. Tillerson vowed after the meeting that the days when the two countries operated independently in the fight against the Islamic State were over.
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The technical flash point for this involves an anti-Trump conservative outlet, the Bulwark, sending a pro-choice liberal to CPAC and the tweets she sent from that event, a few days after McKay Coppins wrote about the Bulwark, which sees a moral imperative to shame Trump backers.
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But as newspapers across the country continue to suffer — and as more of them come under the ownership of public companies like Gannett or investment firms looking to wring profits from a troubled business — The Post has also become a flash point in the newspaper industry's battle for survival.
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By the next day, the disturbing footage of her collapse and news of her death had spread on social media, prompting an outcry online and renewing calls by some to put an end to New York City's carriage-horse trade, which has for years been a political flash point.
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Thirty years have passed since Spike Lee's revelatory look at racial tensions on a sweltering block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, became a flash point for conversations across the United States, but the vitality of Lee's filmmaking, his characters and the Public Enemy backbeat remain as strong as ever.
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But as the 2019 Women's World Cup came into view, FIFA repeatedly declined to confirm whether V.A.R. would be at that competition as well, turning the issue into another flash point — alongside artificial turf fields and unequal compensation and bonuses — in the broader gender equity debate in soccer.
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The moment was, in fact, a scene nearly a year in the making, one whose flash point came last March when Shiffrin, 103, ascended to the title of world's best women's skier — a designation the 33-year-old Vonn had passionately guarded as her own for many years.
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On Sunday, Mr. Rodriguez was found beaten to death outside a home in New Cassel, N.Y., and on Wednesday, his killing became a new flash point in the debate over criminal justice changes enacted by the New York State Legislature in 2019 at the urging of progressive lawmakers.
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"The repression visited upon the Rohingya by a powerful government largely consisting of leaders from another religion present a potential, transnational flash-point for jihadi-Salafi organizations," analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a recent note, referring to an ultraconservative sect of Islam.
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For the first time, it puts the Philippines on the map with failed states such as Libya and Afghanistan as places where Islamic State allies have sought to seize territory for a caliphate, giving the group another regional flash point in its effort to spread its influence globally.
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That was the edict from the organizers of the Asian Cup match here on Thursday, an attempt to limit even the opportunity for a flash point in the first soccer match between Saudi Arabia and Qatar since the start of a bitter political feud nearly two years ago.
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The fight over border funds, however, when House Democrats were forced to accept a bipartisan Senate agreement over their own measure, has served as very real flash point between the factions of the Democratic caucus -- and the fallout has continued to percolate over the course of the 10-day congressional recess.
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It was a good location, hard up against the narrowest stretch of the ASEAN buffer zone, with good transportation options to most of the American-administered eastern half of the capital, and close to the Yasukuni Shrine, which everyone expected to be a flash point one day or the next.
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It swept down Fifth Avenue and into Greenwich Village at a moment in history that many said was a crucial one, a half-century after the landmark Stonewall uprising: More gay rights have been affirmed than ever before, but L.G.B.T.Q. issues remain a flash point in the nation's culture wars.
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But "The Parisian" is among the first to be set in the era before the founding of Israel: before the 1967 war that led to occupation and the displacement of scores of families, before the uprisings known as the intifadas, before the Palestinian-Israeli conflict became a global political flash point.
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The political debate came amid more anger on Monday over the sentencing of a young migrant, believed to be from Afghanistan, to eight and a half years in prison for killing his 15-year-old German ex-girlfriend, in a case that became a flash point for fears over immigration.
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The children say their father severed ties with the family in 2012, but the Chinese authorities have still held them for months under a practice known as an exit ban — a growing tactic that has become the latest flash point in the increasingly rancorous relationship between the United States and China.
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Lebanon has long been a flash point for regional tensions, and there are fears that if it becomes the latest stage for the escalating rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran — as war-torn Syria has been in recent years — the tiny Mediterranean country could face economic collapse or even violence.
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Syrian government troops moved into towns and villages in northeastern Syria on Monday, including the flash point region of Manbij, setting up a potential clash with Turkish-led forces advancing in the area as long-standing alliances in the region began to shift or crumble following the pullback of U.S. forces.
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But the scale of his advertising effort has become a flash point in the race, attracting a flood of criticism from rivals who argue that Mr. Bloomberg is benefiting from a political system — and party — that makes it far too easy for billionaires to buy their way into the contest.
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Deir al-Zour, home to most of Syria's modest oil reserves, continues to be a flash point for possible tensions between the two rival coalitions fighting the Islamic State: Russia, Iran and the Syrian government on one side, and the United States and the Syrian Democratic Forces on the other.
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In addition to declining to take a position on the ultimate shape of Jerusalem, Mr. Trump called for the status quo on a disputed area of the Old City, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, which has been a flash point for tensions.
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Bank officials noted that the employees had not received similar payments in the past, and that the transactions surrounded the date of a critical referendum on whether parts of Crimea should secede from Ukraine and join Russia — one of Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy concerns and a flash point with the West.
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Because moviegoers have been conditioned by countless courtroom dramas (and sometimes by real life) to expect an emotional flash point that encapsulates a moral truth, you long for a delicious turning point like the lawyer Joseph N. Welch's lofty dressing down of Senator Joseph McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954.
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Mr. Clark's death has been a flash point in California, where it's the latest version of a tragic story line that has played out across the country: An unarmed young black man is killed by police officers who said they believed he had a gun and believed their lives were in danger.
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The latest flash point in a loud debate over immigration occurred this week when the country's minister of integration, Inger Stojberg, lashed out at a middle-class family of Syrian refugees, whom she accused of abusing the Danish benefits system and called "greedy" in an opinion article in BT, a Danish newspaper.
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Israel has been a key flash-point for tensions in the Middle East between Jewish and Muslim people, and while politicians continue to work on (and fight over) the route to a peaceful future, some of the most interesting developments for cooperation and progress are happening not in political halls but in the tech world.
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Saturday looms as a flash point in Venezuela's crisis, which threatens to spill into civil strife, as thousands of members of the opposition, spurred by their leader Juan Guaidó, are expected to dare dictator Nicolás Maduro and his military to stop them from forcing emergency medicine and food across the Colombian border into Venezuela.
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The British steel industry's woes have been caused in part by the European Union's inability to agree on higher tariffs on Chinese steel, making the fate of the Tata plants another flash point in Mr. Cameron's campaign to persuade his country to vote to remain in the bloc in a referendum on June 23.
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As suggested by the trailers, it is abundant, and it became a flash point during the production when a "Westworld" casting notice informed would-be extras that they may be required "to perform genital-to-genital touching" or "pose on all fours while others who are fully nude ride on your back," among other indignities.
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For Mayor Bill de Blasio, the slow pace of the investigation has allowed the Garner case to linger, a reminder of a flash point during his tenure and a sign of his struggle to balance his pledge to champion criminal justice reform with the practical realities of overseeing the country's largest local police force.
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Albuquerque has emerged as a flash point for people from the United States and Latin America who are pursuing applications, thanks in part to the expertise of historians such as Ms. Koplik in certifying Sephardic heritage, and the openness of the state's Jewish Federation to examining applications from people who are not practicing Jews.
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The Volksbühne had become a flash point for a tense debate about the city's future, fueled by concerns about gentrification and globalization, ever since the announcement two years ago that the theater's longtime director, Frank Castorf, was to be ousted and replaced with Chris Dercon, the former director of the Tate Modern in London.
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The decision on the lucrative contract — which is likely to remain a flash point if the loser protests the decision with the government or considers mounting a legal battle — comes just days after Defense Secretary Mark Esper recused himself from the decision-making process because his son works for one of the previous competitors.
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Then watch this video showing how the border has become a flash point as President Maduro has ordered the military to blockade bridges on Venezuela's boundaries to prevent the political opposition from bringing into the country tens of millions of dollars worth of food and medicine donated by the United States, Colombia and Venezuelans abroad.
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Weeks after he was nominated, Kavanaugh's extensive paper trail both as a judge on the DC Circuit and as a staff secretary in the Bush-era White House remains a flash point between the two parties with Republicans accusing Democrats of leading a fishing expedition for irrelevant information and Democrats accusing Republicans of obscuring Kavanaugh's past record. Sen.
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The city's embrace of using budget hotels to house the homeless has become a flash point this year; civic groups in Queens used lawsuits and boisterous protests — including one in front of the home of Steven Banks, the commissioner of homeless services — to fight the city's plan to convert a hotel into a homeless shelter in Maspeth.
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In the music industry's most closely watched copyright case, a federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a jury's finding that Robin Thicke's song "Blurred Lines" infringed on the copyright of Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up." When the case went to trial in 2015, it became a flash point in the music industry over the limits of copyright.
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Indeed, there was a new potential flash point in Iran's standoff with the United States, stemming from its vow last week to step away from some of the limitations imposed by the nuclear deal, a year after Mr. Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement that was negotiated between Tehran and world powers in 2015.
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In the decade or so since Vampire Weekend emerged from Columbia University with wry, literate, quasi-comic indie rock run through with African guitar filigree, the band has been many things: a signature return-of-indie-rock avatar, an argument for musical omnivorousness, a flash point for conversations about cultural appropriation, a worthy festival band and more.
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While the pipeline had not attracted anywhere near the attention of the Keystone XL or Dakota Access pipelines that carry oil in the Great Plains region, within the insular world of New York politics it became a flash point in a larger debate about fighting climate change, spurring economic development and whether it was possible to marry the two.
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The American government's affiliation with the woman, who said her name was Azra Turk, is one previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point in the face of accusations by President Trump and his allies that American law enforcement and intelligence officials spied on his campaign to undermine his electoral chances.
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It has served as a political flash point since Attorney General William P. Barr revealed in the spring that he planned to scrutinize the beginnings of the Russia investigation, which Mr. Trump and his allies have attacked without evidence as a plot by law enforcement and intelligence officials to prevent him from winning the 20033 election.
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The police have not explained how the mistaken arrest of Mr. Blake occurred, but the episode — which came a little more than a year after Eric Garner died after a police officer placed him in a chokehold — became another flash point in the national debate over how the police use force in encounters with unarmed black civilians.
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The wiretap of Mr. Page emerged as a political flash point in early 2018, though it was one relatively narrow aspect of the sprawling inquiry that found that Moscow sought to help Mr. Trump win the election and that his campaign expected to benefit, but found insufficient evidence to charge any conspiracy with the Trump campaign.
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That measure, crafted by Representatives Jerrold Nadler of New York and Adam B. Schiff of California, the chairmen of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, would also make several other adjustments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which governs national security wiretapping on domestic soil and has become a political flash point in the wake of the Trump-Russia investigation.
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UNITED NATIONS — Access to food and medicine, a recurrent weapon of war in Syria, has emerged again as a political flash point: The Syrian government's most powerful ally, Russia, is balking at the proposed renewal of a United Nations measure that allows aid deliveries to pass through Syria's borders into rebel-held areas of the country, without permission from government authorities.
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The debate over how to receive immigrants in a country that both depends on their labor and criminalizes them as intruders has emerged as the signature flash point of the Trump administration, which has swept a growing number of undocumented immigrants like Mr. Geh into detention at places like Otay Mesa and vowed to secure the border against future illegal crossings.
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Streaming eats up a big chunk of viewers' time, though it's still outweighed by traditional linear TV. That's according to the latest Total Audience Report from Nielsen — its first Total Audience Report to use smart TV data from Gracenote, and one that's particularly focused on "the flash point of the 'streaming wars'" (as Senior Vice President of Audience Insights Peter Katsingris puts it in his introduction).
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The fight between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon has emerged as an early flash point in the battle to define the future of the Democratic Party in the age of President Trump: a contest between an accomplished and pragmatic governor who controls the classic machinery of Democratic politics, and an upstart challenger with little track record but white-hot rhetoric of unfiltered liberalism to rally the base.
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But with a white man re-elected as mayor (Bill de Blasio), a white man as governor (Andrew M. Cuomo), a white man as attorney general (Eric T. Schneiderman), and white men as city and state comptroller (Scott M. Stringer and Thomas P. DiNapoli), race has emerged as a flash point in the elbows-out battle to lead the City Council for the next four years.
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But increasingly facial recognition is moving out of the labs and into the domain of big business, as companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google stake their futures on AI. And as consumers are increasingly aware of the power of the data they leave like breadcrumbs across the internet, facial-recognition datasets are becoming a flash point for worries about privacy and a future where surveillance may be more commonplace.
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The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village flash point of gay rights, was enshrined as a National Historical Landmark; an AIDS memorial was erected on Greenwich Avenue; Jason Collins played with the Brooklyn Nets as the NBA's first openly gay player; Laverne Cox went from waitressing in Union Square to gracing the cover of Time as a transgender icon; and Ritchie Torres, a city councilman, became the Bronx's first openly gay representative.
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The state of play: The two suits were filed in the Eastern District of California — one by the RNC, the California Republican Party and several California Republican voters, and the other by Trump and his campaign — and mark "the latest flash point between the White House and the state of California, which is involved in more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration," the NYT's Annie Karni writes.
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The crude theater of this presidency does not play well with people who came of voting age following leaders like President Reagan, President George H.W. Bush or President George W. Bush, or congressional figures such as Jack Kemp and Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanJudd Gregg: Honey, I Shrunk The Party The Hill's Morning Report — Dems detail case to remove Trump for abuse of power Social security emerges as latest flash point in Biden-Sanders tussle MORE.
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"I hadn't done anything bad and yet I was still detained when I was an innocent person," said Ms. Vera, whose one-year sentence was ultimately suspended after her case became a flash point in Spain's free speech debate A European privacy standard from 2014, known as the Right to Be Forgotten and which lets people petition Google to remove search results about themselves, has also been criticized for blocking legitimate material.
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