There's been a lot of flash points in this Administration.
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America faces flash points and threats from around the globe.
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Go deeper: South Asian flash points in the India–China rivalry.
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Syria and Iran were other flash points expected to be discussed.
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Elizabeth: There are these flash points now in our political culture.
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Ms. Nixon's plan also weighs in on a few political flash points.
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L. Build the muscle in the networks in between crisis flash points.
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Both have been political flash points between the two men in the past.
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It is now one of the key flash-points in the bigger trade dispute.
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Right now there are two fairly obvious potential economic flash points: China and oil.
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Go deeper: Nepal is just one of the flash points in the India–China rivalry
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The distinction has been one of the flash-points in the debate over Russian hacking.
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The two black teenagers were killed in separate shootings in Florida that became racial flash points.
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The Taiwan Strait continues to be one of the most dangerous flash points on the globe.
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One of the biggest flash points is a proposed change to the popular mortgage interest deduction.
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Though the Soviet Union collapsed some 20053 years ago, the division, and the flash points, remain.
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Cowen analyst Jaret Steinberg said there are enough flash points to keep her from being seated.
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Whites and blacks now routinely push to try to resolve racial issues before they reach flash points.
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The president's push also has national security officials thinking about the economic angles of international flash points.
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In this race, some major issues have been perennial Montana flash points, like gun policy and land use.
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The two candidates also differed on a range of flash points, including gun control, immigration and offshore drilling.
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But there's little doubt the global flash-points that he's struggled to contain will persist well past next year.
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January to February and July to August are flash points that ask you to adjust and make vital changes.
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The jagged line separating Eritrea from its former ruler, Ethiopia, has been one of Africa's most combustible flash points.
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The occasional broadside notwithstanding, I gleaned nothing about most commenters' personal politics or religion or other definitional flash points.
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Whether food actually needs soil is one of the flash points between organic traditionalists and people like Mr. Musk.
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"We cannot become the party of the checklist," said Ms. Raimondo, alluding to litmus tests on cultural flash points.
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But since Trump's inauguration, Bannon's comments and characterization of the American political, corporate, and media establishment have become flash points.
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Let's instead look closer at the five key flash points which I think really tell the story of this picture.
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He called his opponents' version "a fiction" and defended his decisions, many of them flash points for the partisan divide.
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There have been other flash points like this before, but they've all faded once Trump was persuaded to back off.
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It is one of Asia's most dangerous flash points, where a million troops have squared off along the disputed border.
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FIFA had highlighted the potential for controversy at Friday's game, and the potential for flash points over chants and banners.
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Issues like environmental regulation and recreational marijuana use have also become political flash points, and the wildfire was no exception.
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In addition to Taiwan, there are plenty of potential flash points in the relationship between the United States and China.
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Over the past year, issues that were never particularly heated — like, say, plastic straws — emerged as contentious cultural flash points.
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JW: The thing is, what we have to talk about though is why these items are flash points right now.
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One of the biggest political flash points on the island centers around an unfinished $4.2 billion resort, the Baha Mar.
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"These financial flash points are usually set very young in our life, and we carry them around with us," Horwitz said.
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"Museums are flash points within this larger cultural moment where we're dealing with issues of individual and collective identity," she said.
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Trump and Abe have fostered the type of international partnership that American presidents have long sought as they confront global flash-points.
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Another entry in the book addresses the bike lane, which today is one of the most volatile flash points of civic life.
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Biden and Sanders, united in going after their mutual enemy President Donald Trump, clashed on the typical array of party flash points.
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But the criticism of Court and support for renaming the arena among current players have magnified compared with her previous flash points.
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Kennedy sided with liberals in key decisions on abortion and gay rights, issues that will be flash points in the Kavanaugh's confirmation battle.
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But there are flash points: The board would hold veto power over government officials if their proposals threatened to financially hurt the island.
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As debate continues over the effectiveness and practicality of a wall, there are a number of potential flash points along the southern border.
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Women in head scarves had become symbols, flash points, everything except individuals with complicated personal reasons for expressing themselves in a particular way.
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However, the "strike premium" has been fully unwound from the copper price even before some of the most obvious flash-points have been negotiated.
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There are a few reasons Democrats are trying to use these two issues as flash points, according to a source familiar with Democrats' thinking.
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And Texas — where about a quarter of the roughly 211 million Mexican-Americans in the United States live — is one of the flash points.
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There are multiple flash points in this society, mostly to do with sporting smarts or carnal braggadocio, but racial bias isn't one of them.
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That has further escalated the debate following the shooting, which struck on a series of charged political and cultural flash-points of Obama-era America.
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In each, character-driven sketches are set to flash points of absurdity, with uncoupled dialogue between individuals interrupted by bursts of visual effects and animation.
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"All the flash points are defused in the new deal compared to the earlier one," one Sri Lankan government source privy to the discussions said.
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Why it matters: The South China Sea is among the more potentially volatile of the growing number of flash points between the U.S. and China.
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It's believed that Israel began its program in the 1950s and that its weapons can reach Libya, Iran, and Russia, creating potential flash points there.
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One of the biggest flash points in the debate over Republican legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is the future of Medicaid.
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The limits of that freedom are being increasingly tested by jury-rigged militias at demonstrations, public meetings and other political flash points around the nation.
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The question going into Thursday's debate is whether what has played out over the last three weeks will become flash points on the debate stage.
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Tensions between Taiwan and Beijing, which claims the self-governing island as part of Chinese territory, have emerged as one of the region's flash points.
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The annual commemorations, seen as triumphalist by many Catholics, were flash points during 30 years of sectarian violence, in which more than 3,000 people were killed.
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"A game of chicken is being played around Asia's flash points," said Brendan Taylor, an expert on the South China Sea at the Australian National University.
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Regardless of party affiliation, the effects of the movement for black lives are impossible to ignore, two years after one of its most galvanizing flash points.
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Polls show Russians' dissatisfaction with Mr. Putin rising over the last year and a half, and flash points of protest have popped up across the country.
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Los Angeles's Hall of Justice, where the young men were tried and convicted, is two blocks away; flash points of the riots erupted in the area.
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As ISIS is forced into retreat, the potential flash points for confrontation between US-backed forces, Assad regime troops and Iranian militias are only likely to increase.
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"There is a clutch of younger artists that have become flash points," added Ms. Worth, who singled out Mr. Fordjour, Julie Curtiss, Tschabalala Self and Loie Hollowell.
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EAMON JAVERS: One of the flash points as you know with Director Comey and President Trump was this question of loyalty, which is important to the President.
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For another, Trump's own messaging could play a role in shifting the focus from a contracting economy to other flash points that continue to rally his supporters.
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After five elections and nearly $1 billion spent on them, there is little consensus on how voting should happen, and elections have become flash points for instability.
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A million troops have squared off along the disputed border, one of Asia's tensest flash points and the source of two previous wars between the two countries.
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In quarters where racism wasn't denied or diminished, it was regarded as a diffuse problem, delinked in most ways from the biggest political flash points of the day.
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Quick take: What stands out is the brittleness of politics across the planet — in Iran, the Korean peninsula, Russia and Saudi Arabia, to name a few flash points.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow welcomed the disengagement of Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists at two flash points in eastern Ukraine.
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WASHINGTON — Over the past two decades, Taiwan has slipped from its position atop the list of flash points in the complex relationship between the United States and China.
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Wade have emerged as one of the major flash points in the fight over filling the seat left by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy when he retires this summer.
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The Trump administration should closely monitor all these flash points along China's frontiers, any one of which could provoke a major military confrontation, if not next year, soon thereafter.
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There may be one or two obvious flash-points on the labour contract horizon such as Escondida, but no-one is suggesting there will be 30 plus strikes next year.
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It opens and closes with her, and is ultimately most focused on fleshing out the media flash points of her story, with vignettes of the other women's stories interspersed throughout.
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When you double tap the shutter button on your camera, the flash points out at the subject, calculates the distance, then points itself at the ceiling and does the same.
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As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.
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The Palestinians observed a general strike on Tuesday in protest against Mr. Pence's visit, and there were minor clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces at some familiar flash points.
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The list of flash-points extends from the annexation of the Crimea through interference in U.S. elections to the alleged poisoning of a former Russian agent and his daughter in Britain.
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This one, which credits some 400 "executive producers," is easily the best—she's never been so catchy or sexy, and along with unabashed politics catchy and sexy are her flash points.
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But on Thursday, in a sign of the new political flash points on the corporate landscape, a follow-up message was posted to the company's website with the original email attached.
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His schedule over four days is stacked with one-on-one talks with foreign counterparts eager to discuss those global flash-points, as well as the deepening standoff with North Korea.
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Concerns about the absence of checks and balances on the first use of nuclear weapons have spiked because of Donald J. Trump's bellicose temperament and shallow understanding of nuclear flash points.
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In both, the justices considered a host of flash points in the culture wars involving the L.G.B.T. community — including sports, dress codes, religious objections to same-sex couples and, especially, bathrooms.
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With flash points like Hong Kong, the South China Sea and Taiwan, tying the hands of each side by binding their economies together is the best way to keep the peace.
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They missed the wakeup call in opinion surveys showing a lack of public confidence in the direction of higher education overall and that colleges were becoming flash points of partisan polarization.
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Future flash points The most alarming scenarios for what happens next could unfold if Iran refuses Trump's offer of talks -- which is not accompanied by any kind of economic or diplomatic carrot.
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The trailer offers a lush, dreamlike look at flash points in the two men's relationship—Elio feels miffed by Oliver's brusqueness, makes fun of his manners, and admires his confidence with women.
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Members of Mr. Parker's team of Hollywood advisers also privately worried on Wednesday that additional details about the 1999 case, including that his accuser was white, could emerge as new flash points.
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Several oil tankers were reportedly attacked or sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates over the weekend, raising fears that shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf could become flash points.
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One of the latest voting flash points is a common practice known as "ballot bundling," in which political or civic groups collect mail-in ballots and take them directly to election offices.
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From there we shift our focus stateside to galleries highlighting topics that are sure to be flash points in the 2020 presidential election, including immigration and the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
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The two biggest flash points over the new plan now under review on Thursday appeared to be labor law reform and the cost of the pensions due to Puerto Rico's retired government workers.
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I do know that this feels extremely important, this video, arguably the most important video of the year, and there are at least five vital flash points throughout that deserve our special attention.
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But Mr. Cooley and Mr. Hood's new songs, including those on the 2014 record "English Oceans," pivot more frequently from the metaphoric to specifically address flash points of the late-Obama political era.
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Possible political flash points during the trip could come over what UK officials privately say is heavy US pressure for Britain to bar China's Huawei from building part of the country's new 5G network.
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Death comes to the forefront of art and culture whenever humankind faces some kind of stress point, whether it's the Black Death or WWI—9/11 is one of those flash points for us.
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What concerns Democrats is that the elevation of national issues, and particularly the Supreme Court, which is so easily linked with abortion and other cultural flash points, may exacerbate their difficulties in rural America.
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The app's developer denies the map enables illegal activity, saying its function is "for info" purposes only — to allow residents to move freely around the city by being able to avoid protest flash-points.
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He called heightened tensions between the United States and Iran 'particularly troubling,' but his remarks amounted to a laundry list of flash points, both major and obscure, from Burkina Faso to Venezuela to Australia.
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As soon as Trump announced that he would be picking Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement, Democrats began gearing up for a fight — with plans to leverage issues like abortion and healthcare as key flash points.
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Taiwan is only one of a growing number of flash points in the U.S.-China relationship, which also include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and China's increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea.
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Religious conservatives have gained such leverage over American politics, particularly on the right, that the public debate over questions of morality and faith still tends to center on flash points like gay marriage and abortion.
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Beyond Mr. Nimr's case, however, there have been several flash points between Iran and Saudi Arabia in recent months, with the nuclear deal and the wars in Syria and Yemen driving most of the tension.
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Venezuelan embassies around the world have become flash points for the competing claims of Guaido, the head of country's National Assembly, and Maduro, a socialist who took over from late President Hugo Chavez in 2013.
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Among the biggest flash points for AT&T of late has been the company's cooperation with the National Security Agency in spying on the torrent of internet traffic that flows through the nation's communications pipeline.
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There are plenty of flash points ahead, including next year's World Cup in Russia, where human rights remain a major issue, just as they did when the Russians hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
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World leaders On Monday, Trump sat for meetings with the leaders of Pakistan, Poland, New Zealand, Singapore, Egypt and South Korea -- which all come carrying a unique set of policy flash-points and interpersonal dynamics.
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The barriers set up by pro-democracy demonstrators to block police movements have become flash points between these protesters and supporters of the government, with scuffles often breaking out when people try to dismantle them.
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However, all the potential labour flash-points have so far passed peacefully and mine production grew at a healthy 5 percent clip in the first half of this year, according to the International Copper Study Group.
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Here are the five flash points you can expect as the Senate Republicans debate their way forward on health care: Medicaid Medicaid has long been in conservatives' crosshairs, but the benefit for states has been undeniable.
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However, all the potential labor flash-points have so far passed peacefully and mine production grew at a healthy 5 percent clip in the first half of this year, according to the International Copper Study Group.
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But within hours of the plan's unveiling on Wednesday, flash points emerged over measures that supporters said could hurt the housing market, raise borrowing costs and increase the tax burden on families in high-tax states.
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The Russians stole the identities of American citizens, posed as political activists and used the flash points of immigration, religion and race to manipulate a campaign in which those issues were already particularly divisive, prosecutors said.
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Those unasked and unanswered questions got us thinking about some other recent popular-culture flash points: Jordan Peele's horror film "Get Out" and a scandalous Pepsi commercial, starring Kendall Jenner, that hit the internet last week.
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In February, the Justice Department charged 13 Russians and three companies with stealing the identities of American citizens, posing as political activists and using the flash points of immigration, religion and race to manipulate the 2016 campaign.
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Maybe this is what really stuck in certain people's craw: He was airing our dirty laundry in front of foreign hosts, talking about ugly flash points in the creation of the United States that we haven't settled.
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We see these political scandals as flash points, and in terms of national attention, they come and go, but for the people on the ground who are depending on these agencies that are so broken, it never stops.
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There have been no nationalizing flash points, no equivalent of Bush's marriage amendment push or Obama's mandates on religious institutions; whenever transgender rights come up, Trump's press secretary, Jeffrey Lord, murmurs "it's a state issue" and moves on.
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Federal prosecutors accused the Russians of stealing the identities of American citizens, posing as political activists and using the flash points of immigration, religion and race to manipulate a campaign in which those issues were already particularly divisive.
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The spire and the wood have become intertwined flash points that seem to divide French opinion not into clearly opposed ideological camps, but into myriad fragmentary alignments of opinion, as complex as one of the cathedral's rose windows.
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Instead, the Kavanaugh nomination will now join the Supreme Court fights over the nominations of Robert H. Bork, Clarence Thomas and Merrick B. Garland as flash points in Senate history, ones that left deep wounds and bitterness that persist.
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And in many ways it feels like that these days, as the growing divide between California and the Trump administration erupted this past week over a dizzying range of flash points, from immigration to taxes to recreational marijuana use.
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Other events that appear to be organized by the group tended to focus on rallies around race flash points, including the deaths of black men killed by law enforcement, The Hill found after reviewing 15 events by the organization.
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Once Vienna's least-favorite son, Schiele has become the embodiment of the cultural, political, and sexual convulsions that ripped Europe apart in the opening decades of the 21th century — flash points that continue to ignite through the present day.
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"The broad perspective of these survey results shows that while economic indicators continue to appear strong, pockets of weakness are starting to appear across numerous components of the financial system as geographic flash points continue to materialize and intensify," Leibrock said.
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"It is important to note that these are not the only flash points in the region, and while an off-ramp may yet emerge, the hawks appear in ascendancy, which leaves oil's risk premium set to take center stage," she noted.
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The bank, which faces potential U.S. fines after one if its executives was convicted of taking part in a scheme to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions, has been one of the flash points in the tensions between Ankara and Washington.
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The showdown, ahead of Tuesday's key nominating contests in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio, had moments of unity, with Biden and Sanders going after Trump, but they also clashed on the typical array of party flash points such as health care.
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Pools are supposed to be places to relax, but ever since they exploded in popularity about a century ago, they have served as flash points for racial conflict — vulnerable spaces where prejudices have intensified and violence has often broken out.
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Wealth and power are flash points for French populism, and Ms. Pénicaud, who declared personal holdings of over 7 million euros, or $8.2 million, when she took office, became fodder for critics who accuse Mr. Macron of favoring the rich.
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An advertisement for the National Rifle Association that features a spokeswoman calling on the group's supporters to strike back against protests by the left "with the clenched fist of truth" has become one of the latest flash points for partisan anger.
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There is no unified nationwide protest movement that might threaten Mr. Putin's two-decade rule, but in a growing number of flash points, years of pent-up grievances are being unleashed by previously unknown figures, or by one indignity too many.
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LONDON — The militarized checkpoints that once stood along the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland became flash points for sectarian violence during the Troubles, and no one wants to see their return after Britain quits the European Union in 2019.
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Blasphemy cases in Pakistan begin as local disputes even when they morph into national flash points, and in many instances a bit of digging reveals motivations other than religious offense: a bruised ego, a land dispute, a quarrel in a fruit orchard.
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Some news outlets also reported this story in the context of a "series of provocations" by Iran, referencing previous flash points between Iran and the US. Despite the frenzied reactions, it became clear that the American vessels were not intercepted or forcefully taken.
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But as Republicans left Washington on Wednesday for a party retreat to plan strategy for what is looming as a combative midterm election year, the disputes over the Russia sanctions and the House intelligence report are emerging as new partisan flash points.
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Now, as world leaders gather there for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting this week, polio has returned — on top of raging drug-resistant epidemics of tuberculosis, malaria and H.I.V., and deadly flash points of preventable diseases like whooping cough and measles.
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"We are in a very different place, where the kind of fund-raisers that every politician is used to doing are now flash points for criticism," said Heather McGhee, a distinguished senior fellow at the liberal group Demos Action, who advised Mrs.
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The inability or unwillingness of Washington to help defuse the flash points is one of the clearest signs yet of the erosion of American power and global influence under Mr. Trump, who has stuck to his "America First" idea of disengagement, analysts say.
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Were America's Iran policy fully Jacksonian we might still be at loggerheads with Tehran, but we wouldn't be nearly so invested in projecting power in the Persian Gulf, and there would be fewer natural flash points and fewer targets for Iranian attacks.
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The inability or unwillingness of Washington to help defuse the flash points is one of the clearest signs yet of the erosion of American power and global influence under Mr. Trump, who has stuck to his "America First" idea of disengagement, analysts say.
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That work has put her near the center of some of the weirder flash points igniting American culture in recent years: Binkowski spends her days wading through the fever swamps in search of the misinformation and propaganda that have infected digital media.
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"There is now so much friction between the sides that it is very natural that a single miscalculation across the board on one of these flash points could spiral out of control," said Ali Vaez, director of the Iran Project at the International Crisis Group.
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In the wide-ranging interview, the ambassador addressed a number of flash points between the countries, including the recent near collision of a U.S. naval destroyer with a Chinese ship in the South China Sea, where Beijing has militarized two contested man-made islands.
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Over the course of the early 20th century, it was a safe haven for New York's LGBTQ community and home to events—including the Stonewall Inn protests—that would become flash points for the mainstreaming of the gay rights movement all across the country.
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Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the stone-faced former oil executive Donald Trump tapped to serve as his global envoy, is increasingly seen by administration officials and diplomats as on his way out -- just as flash-points from Iran to North Korea flare.
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If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening Beijing with tariffs potentially covering the entire amount of Chinese exports to the U.S. as he seeks to reduce his country's deficit in goods and extract concessions on other bilateral flash points such as technology and intellectual property.
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Ms. Harris, who also wrote "It's So Amazing," for younger children, and "It's Not the Stork," for those even younger, says most of the challenges to her books have revolved around issues of gay sexuality, though masturbation and contraception can also be flash points.
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Mass-casualty events in particular are flash points of informational chaos, with reporters both professional and amateur sorting through rumors and snippets of dialogue from traumatized people and shaky video clips and alarmed tweets and claims of a second gunman, trying to figure out what to believe.
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General Trainor and Mr. Gordon concluded that while "potential flash points" in sectarian strife remained in the aftermath of America's military presence in Iraq, "the greater threat to the country's American-initiated experiment in democracy" was "the authoritarianism" of the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
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Voting rights and partisan gerrymandering, traditionally the preoccupation of wonky party strategists and good-government groups, have become major flash points in the debate about the integrity of American elections, signaling high stakes battles over voter suppression and politically engineered districts ahead of the 22010 presidential race.
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For the anchors chosen to preside over this fall's presidential debates, the excoriation of Mr. Lauer was a wake-up call signaling what modern viewers now expect from a moderator — and a stark example of how media figures can become partisan flash points in a hyper-polarized election.
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From the Middle East, Barak Ravid — senior diplomatic correspondent for Israel's Channel 10 news, and an Axios expert contributor — tells me there are three main flash points: Iran: It's still unclear whether Iran continues to abide by the nuclear deal (together with Russia, China, France, Germany and the U.K.).
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But they divide over contemporary flash points like technology (the Liberals embrace its growing role in society; the Greens are skeptical), immigration (the Liberals support a Canadian-style, rules-based system; the Greens are for much more open borders) and economics (in this regard, they mimic their predecessors).
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The group's early endorsement of Warren was one of the first flash points and signs of some splintering on the left as some Sanders supporters were upset that the organization hadn't chosen to initially endorse their candidate and demanded to see the organization's mathematical process for calculating their endorsement.
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MOSCOW — The World Cup was thrust into the combustible mix of politics and soccer — dangerous ground that world soccer takes great pains to avoid — as a growing number of disciplinary proceedings and a star player's threatened retirement brought several sensitive international flash points to the tournament's doorstep this weekend.
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Financial crises tend to arrive every decade or so, and Italy is near the top of a list of flash points that could touch off the next one, alongside Turkey's economic and political turmoil, President Trump's trade war, Britain's exit from the European Union and a broad slowdown in global growth.
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But in recent weeks, as public scrutiny of Mr. Trump's global business operations has intensified, Mr. Trump, his family, their executives in New York and a team of outside lawyers have been working to eliminate many of these potential flash points — a task so complicated that Mr. Trump has delayed announcing the details.
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Mexico's fight against " huachicol," another term for fuel theft — practitioners of which are called "huachicoleros" — is not new, but Lopez Obrador, who won a landslide presidential election with a campaign focused on combating graft, has taken it on with new vigor, sending out thousands of troops in deployments that have created new flash points between Mexicans and their country's security forces.
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WASHINGTON — With congressional leaders once again at a stalemate over how to respond to a mass shooting, the Senate's most moderate Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, is developing a compromise measure that would prevent some terrorism suspects from purchasing weapons, while sidestepping partisan flash points that have doomed similar legislation in the past and threaten to do so again next week.
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To that end, the White House had invited DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett, and Aislinn Pulley, all of whom are prominent figures in Black Lives Matter, which had come into existence—amid the flash points of the George Zimmerman trial; Michael Brown's death, in Ferguson, Missouri; and the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in Charleston, South Carolina—during Obama's second term.
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Mr. Jaffe incontrovertibly establishes New York as "the capital city of social activism" by recounting a litany of provocative flash points, including the Flushing Remonstrance, the Zenger trial, the Stamp Act, slavery, immigration, slums, pay and safety standards for factory workers, women's suffrage, the Red Scare, Prohibition, the Cold War, school integration, civil rights, nuclear disarmament, feminism, gay rights, Occupy Wall Street and racial profiling by law enforcement.
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Her essay "A Short History of Silence" is her broadest contribution to feminist theory yet, sketching out a condensed history of the mainstream movement for women's rights from the first wave onward, alternately calling upon familiar flash points (the assault of Kitty Genovese) and largely forgotten ones (a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Louisiana law allowing a husband to dispose of jointly owned property without informing or obtaining consent from his wife).
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Outrage over Trump's immigrant ban helps ACLU raise more money online in one weekend than in all of 2016 Once again, images show colossal crowds taking to the streets against Trump About 150 flights canceled after Delta grounds U.S. flights Likely flash points with the GOP include $1203 trillion infrastructure plan Trump pushed during the campaign and a possible plan to impose a 20% border tax on imports from Mexico that the network's leaders say will drive up costs for consumers.
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Reading Paul Freedman about America, stalking myself through the taste of meals at eight of his ten restaurants, each sampled for different reasons at different moments in my life, I began to draw the outlines of a world I shared with other people, people more or less like me, and to wonder what "like me" meant when it came to expectations of inclusion, of common flash points of reference, of understanding and participating in the coded language of what we eat and how it is prepared and who is sitting at all those tables around us.
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