The incident also touched off debate about freedom of speech.
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The accident touched off a scramble to inspect similar equipment.
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The fate of the flight touched off fears about terrorism.
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The push touched off intense debate inside the Trump administration.
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The death of Stephon Clark touched off waves of protests.
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The move quickly touched off a protest by Fieldston graduates.
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Her remarks touched off a heated debate on social media.
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" His comment touched off, in his own words, a "shitstorm.
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The effective bankruptcy touched off lawsuits from Saudi Arabia to Switzerland.
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His absence from Congo touched off bitter infighting within the UDPS.
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But around the same time, another tweet touched off further controversy.
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He replaces Lewis D'Vorkin, who touched off unrest in the newsroom.
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That touched off a decade-long civil war that killed 200,000 people.
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His death from cancer in 1976 touched off protests and widespread mourning.
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The action touched off criticism from even some Republican lawmakers, including Sen.
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His death touched off a wave of tributes from politicians and artists.
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The segments touched off a craze that some referred to as Assmania.
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This has touched off a tech race between the U.S. and China.
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The mistake, which touched off panic and confusion across Hawaii on Jan.
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Its efforts to increase diversity have touched off an internal culture war.
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The problem touched off the largest automotive recall in United States history.
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The latest controversy was touched off by a video on the internet.
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The hearing went viral and touched off a groundswell of Democratic opposition.
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The disappearance of the beloved cleric touched off a search spanning multiple jurisdictions.
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This touched off a string of state and federal investigations into the company.
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It also touched off an ongoing debate on the proper resourcing for defense.
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Mr. Scott's death touched off violence in Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
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The tax, which took effect in early August, touched off expensive media campaigns.
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That touched off several nights of riots and the birth of a movement.
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Their relationship touched off a national discussion about workplace behavior that still reverberates.
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The president's scolding of prominent black athletes touched off a furious national debate.
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With its request for advice, the administration has touched off a lobbying frenzy.
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A brief closure of shore beaches touched off an outcry when Republican Gov.
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The poor auction touched off a sell-off in the Treasuries market that day.
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The security move touched off the bloodiest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians for years.
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The newspaper&aposs story about the case touched off a yearslong tirade from Ramos.
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Those riots were largely touched off by violent encounters between blacks and the police.
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The president touched off the feud on Friday during a rally in Huntsville, Ala.
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Dimon's comments about bitcoin touched off an explosive global debate among backers and haters.
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The first days of Trump's administration have touched off a wave of anxiety in Europe.
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The decision immediately touched off a controversy in the closing days of the Obama administration.
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For startups peddling bikes and scooters, the crisis touched off a flurry of new business.
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The death of Gray in police custody touched off protests and riots in April 2015.
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That almost matched August's one-off devaluation, which touched off a global stock market selloff.
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As the debate raged on, the candidates touched off a sort-of circular firing squad.
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His 11th-hour withdrawal from the governor's race touched off a hectic scene in Indianapolis.
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Delta said the problem was touched off by a power failure about 231:21 a.m.
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The acknowledgment by Mr. Kirby on Thursday touched off a torrent of criticism from Republicans.
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The dispute was touched off by Air India's inaugural flight last week from New Delhi.
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It had touched off a geopolitical confrontation and brought talk of a new Cold War.
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Google's work for the Defense Department has touched off an existential crisis at the company.
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That touched off a lengthy debate over whether the United States should destroy the facility.
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His death last August touched off two days of protests on the city's north side.
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Bloomberg's morning blitz touched off a day-long back-and-forth between the two camps.
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The story, and Korey's subsequent resignation, touched off debates in the tech industry and beyond.
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That scandal, and another involving corruption, touched off the protests that led to the governor's resignation.
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The company's refusal touched off a searing debate over privacy and security in the digital age.
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The California law touched off a wave of similar pushes around the country — with Illinois Gov.
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The proposal to expand the program touched off a fierce debate in Florida's Legislature and beyond.
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One blast was touched off on a barge moored illegally to avoid a $25 docking fee.
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The punishment, captured in a mobile telephone video circulated on Chinese social media, touched off criticism.
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Meanwhile, WikiLeaks was plagued with infighting, often touched off by Mr. Assange's astringent style and ego.
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The first day the ad ran, in late January 123, it touched off a near stampede.
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During the 2010 Super Bowl, an anti-abortion ad featuring Tebow and his mother touched off controversy.
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The young man's death touched off riots and fueled on ongoing debate over racial bias in policing.
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The death of Mr. Gray touched off this city's worst riots since the death of the Rev.
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It also touched off the viral explosion of the "Me Too" movement denouncing sexual harassment and misconduct.
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After the Delta-Northwest tie-up, it touched off a frenetic game of musical chairs among airlines.
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The shooting in August touched off two days of protests and violence on this city's north side.
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The scandal touched off a discussion of digital privacy and pushed Apple to adopt new security measures.
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The Skripal poisoning touched off a geopolitical showdown between Russia and the West that continues to reverberate.
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The essay has enraged Trump and touched off a furious search inside the administration for its author.
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Despite the filmmakers repeatedly denying the existence of such a scene, the claims touched off angry protests.
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Instead, the discovery touched off a major campaign to contain the invasion at a handful of sites.
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" The presentation touched off a complaint from a parent that Ms. Bailey was "promoting the homosexual agenda.
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Her departure touched off a race to secure support she had won from elected officials and donors.
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Comcast's filing touched off a kerfuffle among consumer advocates, who call such plans "pay-for-privacy" schemes.
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It was, however, as much the tone as the message that touched off a firestrom on social media.
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Powell's remarks touched off a market rout on concerns that central bankers will increase rates aggressively next year.
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Taft's Opening Day toss touched off an early season tradition that has stretched for more than a century.
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The tussle touched off Wednesday when McCarthy and several other Republicans formally introduced four bills addressing climate change.
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Gray&aposs death a week later at a hospital touched off protests and rioting in Baltimore that year.
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But in the Spanish-speaking world he was even bigger, and his death touched off similar mass mourning.
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The shooting touched off protests across the country and reignited public anger over law enforcement's treatment of minorities.
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The investigations have touched off speculation that Netanyahu could call a snap election to renew his public mandate.
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That touched off a backlash from other lawmakers, who denounced Mr. Ghattas as a self-promoter preaching hate.
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The announcement touched off small protests in a few opposition strongholds but also celebrations in pro-Kenyatta areas.
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Wigmore's comments, delivered with a smile, touched off a distressed email exchange, according to emails viewed by CNN.
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His move to ditch the country's largest infrastructure project touched off a major sell-off in Mexican assets.
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Here in Hotchkiss, the push to allow marijuana has touched off conversations about the soul of the town.
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The attack immediately touched off social media posts suggesting a political motivation, though other possibilities were also discussed.
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ToTok may have touched off the next iteration of this debate for Apple and Google's official app stores.
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Mr. Trump's appearance at the C.I.A. touched off a fierce reaction from some current and former intelligence officials.
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That touched off a 227-214 spurt that gave Portland a 216-23 lead with 241:227 left.
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The surprise announcement touched off threats of countermeasures from the European Union, Canada and other U.S. trade partners.
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Lopez Obrador's move to ditch the country's largest infrastructure project touched off a major sell-off in Mexican assets.
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Mark Dayton's decision not to seek re-election touched off this year's battle for the state&aposs highest office.
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Such a slim margin touched off the prospect of a race so tight that it forces an automatic recount.
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But their mistreatment of the patrons, part of a pattern of abuse against LGBTQ people, touched off the uprising.
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But just before 282 AM on February 543, a mass shooting touched off in the outwardly family-friendly area.
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The announcement last week of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's death touched-off a wave of emotions in South Florida.
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The shooting has touched off days of growing unrest and violence in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego.
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The high-profile shooting touched off a nationwide debate on whether children should be allowed to handle such firearms.
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The cause of the advisories being published and then pulled touched off a fair amount of speculation on Twitter.
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But it also touched off a roiling controversy, pitting reformists against conservatives who resented Gogol's mockery of Russian officialdom.
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Lindsey Graham touched off a furious debate on Capitol Hill, appearing almost to encourage Trump to send Sessions packing.
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That assault touched off a spree of similar attacks in the region on hotels and cafes frequented by Westerners.
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The claims touched off one of the most public feuds between the two candidates ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
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The dormitory attack, which had followed a student protest against press censorship, touched off several more days of demonstrations.
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Mr. Odinga's unsubstantiated claims have already touched off rioting in parts of the country, and the violence could spread.
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It touched off a fight involving dozens of officers in a residential area just west of New York City.
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A complaint, filed by the anonymous whistleblower in August, touched off the investigation and eventual impeachment process against Trump.
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The shooting touched off a renewed debate about gun control, with particular focus on whether to ban bump stocks.
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The lower court's approval of Time Warner's merger with AT&T touched off an intense round of deal making.
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The Instagram posting touched off a wave of reactions from more than 200 Instagram followers, ranging from admiration to outrage.
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As falling mortgage rates touched off a refinancing surge, they have yet to elicit a similar response among potential homebuyers.
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The U.S. outbreaks have been touched off by travelers coming into the U.S. from regions where measles outbreaks are ongoing.
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But his comments have touched off a series of protests by NFL players, coaches and some owners at football games.
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Mr. Gliniewicz's death touched off a manhunt involving hundreds of officers and raised fears of police killers on the loose.
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A magnitude 9 quake in March 2011 north of Tokyo touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima.
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The increasing population of Iranian political prisoners, together with their worsening treatment, has touched off a wave of hunger strikes.
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Ralph Northam, also a Democrat, touched off a nationwide controversy with confusing comments on an abortion bill in his state.
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Wells Fargo has been embroiled in a wider sales practices scandal that was touched off more than a year ago.
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The contents of the call touched off a controversy and sparked a feud between Trump and Wilson, a Florida Democrat.
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That, too, was touched off by Trump's defensiveness over the solemn presidential task of consoling the families of fallen soldiers.
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The case was touched off by an anonymous letter received by Hong Kong's anticorruption agency at the end of 2008.
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The post touched off outrage about the apparent differences in the way the company was treating Chinese people and foreigners.
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The advent of shopping malls in Paramus touched off a long decline that the city is now addressing in earnest.
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The kickback scandals in which Mr. García had been implicated have touched off a surge of arrests throughout the region.
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On Thursday, a still-unexplained gas leak touched off scores of explosions and fires that ripped through three Boston suburbs.
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After informing the public that a press officer had shown coronavirus symptoms, which touched off an internal quarantine, Cuomo stopped.
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Trump — who has fixated on the stock market turmoil the disease has touched off — nevertheless continues presenting a cheery perspective.
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Who was behind the video remains unclear but the episode touched off concerns about widespread corruption and remains politically toxic.
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The pardon has touched off a wave of resignations, including those of several members of Congress and senior civil servants.
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The shooting touched off angry protests across the city, and catalyzed growing nationwide outrage over racial injustice and police brutality.
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The move touched off a legal battle with lawmakers, who claimed the elimination of nearly $130 million in funding was unconstitutional.
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The problem touched off the biggest recall in U.S. automotive history, involving 42 million vehicles and up to 69 million inflators.
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The surprising decision by Australia's central bank to cut interest rates there to an all-time low touched off the selloff.
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The backdrop: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touched off a firestorm last year when he announced the addition of the citizenship question.
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Soon after, additional footage provided more context of the incident, but the first video had already touched off accusations of bigotry.
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But there is undeniably a deep anger spreading, mainly among older white voters, and being harnessed -- even touched off -- by Trump.
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His death touched off riots in poorer sections of the capital, as well as in cities including Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool.
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The firestorm against Ms. Jones was touched off by a nasty review of "Ghostbusters" published by Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative provocateur.
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For some, the arrival of the virus in the United States has touched off a scramble to adopt virtual medical services.
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He declared that "many sides" shared blame as the violence touched off a firestorm over race relations in the United States.
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Amy's downward spiral is also touched off by her realizing that the people she works with don't like her very much.
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The future whistle-blower went to Mr. Schiff's committee after he grew concerned about the first investigation he had touched off.
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Clark's death touched off protests, calling for policing reform and decrying the use of deadly force by law enforcement against minorities.
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Equifax disclosed the breach at the beginning of September 22017, and in doing so touched off another series of unfortunate events.
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The president's decision reportedly touched off an internecine battle among his aides, with Cohn's camp ending up on the losing end.
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Rinaldo's actions touched off a skirmish that the Colorado players said provided a spark in the 6-2 drubbing at Arizona.
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Edward Snowden touched off an enormous public relations campaign on Tuesday calling for Barack Obama to grant him a presidential pardon.
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It was touched off by a Spanish bomb, a Cuban mine or a boiler blast in the hull of the vessel.
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But the videos touched off a wave of calls, at the state and federal level, to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.
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But Rivera's Instagram post predictably touched off outrage of a different sort, igniting furor over the risk to which he put Carmen.
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This market phenomenon touched off a fresh wave of buying in U.S. Treasuries, sending 30-year yields US30YT=RR to record lows.
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Last month, Trump touched off a storm in India after he said Modi had asked him if he would mediate on Kashmir.
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The big picture: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touched off a firestorm last year when he announced the addition of the citizenship question.
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The comments touched off a firestorm, though House Republicans have largely defended Trump and overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night to oppose the resolution.
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That revelation of the CIA experiment touched off his family's quest for answers, which has dominated the life of Olson's son Eric.
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The breakout touched off a three-week manhunt that drew nationwide attention to the dense woods around Dannemora, home to the prison.
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By pulling Sale from his Saturday start on short notice, the White Sox immediately touched off speculation that a deal was imminent.
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Utah-based artist Jon McNaughton touched off a social media frenzy as he shared his painting, "Crossing the Swamp," Tuesday on Twitter.
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The shooting touched off waves of protests in Sacramento that shut down busy streets, disrupted sporting events and overtook City Council meetings.
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In Flint, 54 percent black, a state-appointed emergency manager changed the drinking water source and touched off the city's water crisis.
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But behind the scenes, the work has touched off a bitter dispute among researchers that could stunt the enterprise in its infancy.
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Within months of his confirmation, he was confronted by the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which touched off an environmental crisis in Alaska.
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The violence has touched off an exodus of desperate people, carrying children and scant possessions as they cross the border on foot.
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Their deaths touched off waves of dread nationwide, with Americans wondering if they could trust familiar products on grocery and pharmacy shelves.
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In 2007, elections that were viewed as widely flawed touched off bloodshed that left at least 1,300 people dead and 600,000 displaced.
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But it's touched off a political and economic firestorm between the NBA and its partners in China, the world's second-largest economy.
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It also touched off the party leadership battle that Mr. Johnson eventually won, allowing him to accede to the prime minister job.
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Within two decades, struggles over foreign ownership of Chinese rail had touched off a revolution that brought down the dynasty in 1912.
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The move touched off an outcry in the country and was internationally condemned as leaving Venezuela a dictatorship in all but name.
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Mr. Puigdemont and other separatists are waging a high-stakes battle with the Spanish government over independence, touched off by an Oct.
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It touched off the same racial divisions among black, Hispanic and Asian lawmakers as it had among parents in New York City.
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Those comments from Powell touched off rate worries on Wall Street, which led to several days of heavy selling in the stock market.
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The release of the footage touched off protests and drew attention to long-frayed relations between the Chicago force and African-American residents.
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And then there are those who end up walking, like the people in the migrant caravan that touched off Trump's anger this spring.
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The Vatican declined to comment on the report which touched off fierce media speculation that Francis was softening the Church stance on homosexuality.
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Wall Street plunged in the final three months of 2018 after Powell in October touched off concerns about an aggressive rate-hike policy.
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Hopefully, the nationwide furor touched off by the Trump administration's attack on libraries will cause a re-evaluation of federal support for libraries.
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Those allegations touched off a months-long investigation that has left voters in the 22019th District without representation in the House since January.
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Macron's remark touched off a social media frenzy, splitting those who defended it as lighthearted banter and others who complained of paternalistic overtones.
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Macron's push for sweeping economic reforms, which would slash the French social safety net, has touched off protests and strikes across the country.
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On Tuesday, two developments showed that the debate touched off by the case — weighing digital privacy against national security — is still going on.
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In 1964, exactly 50 years ago, [unrest in] Philadelphia, Rochester, and Harlem were all touched off by the killing of young African Americans.
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The problem touched off the biggest recall in U.S. automotive history, involving 19 automakers, 42 million vehicles and up to 69 million inflators.
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A recession touched off by the coronavirus would look very different from the one launched by the 2008 financial crisis, Shearing points out.
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Starting in 2007, those networks turned against the Pakistani state and touched off the worst years of domestic terrorism Pakistan has ever known.
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The hit led to Mr. Gotti's ascent to the head of the Gambino organization and touched off years of instability and internecine conflict.
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The fight was touched off when Michael, at the plate, missed a squeeze bunt as Thurman Munson was barreling home from third base.
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Just as Mr. Weinstein's fall touched off a global movement, his legal fate absorbed even women who were not part of his orbit.
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The Weinstein allegations touched off a movement that has added impetus to investigations of sexual assault and raised the discussion about sexual harassment.
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The former Russian spy whose poisoning in England touched off a diplomatic storm between Russia and the West was released from the hospital.
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Kenyan elections in 22013, widely believed to have been flawed, touched off bloodshed that left at least 1,300 people dead and 600,000 displaced.
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An election in 2000, widely believed to have been flawed, touched off bloodshed that left at least 210,2000 people dead and 600,000 displaced.
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Amazon's initial request for proposals last year touched off a huge bidding war, with some 11.53 locations from Canada to Mexico submitting bids.
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And in 1987, the chairman of the parish council touched off a revolt when he tried to turn the village into a town.
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Last year, P-22 touched off a media frenzy after he was discovered hiding in the crawl space under a Los Angeles house.
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The shooting death of Olango, 38, in the parking lot of a taco stand touched off nearly a week of protests in El Cajon.
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The deaths of Sterling and Philando Castile -- both of whom were shot and killed by police -- touched off massive protests in the United States.
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Mr. Gray's death touched off rioting, looting and arson in this city, which has a long history of tension between residents and the police.
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The killing of a 22-year-old separatist militant named Burhan Muzaffar Wani by Indian security officers in July touched off the latest protests.
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Once Gardner connected, the ball turned landed in the second deck at in right field and touched off a wild celebration at the plate.
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Iran had enjoyed relative stability compared to Arab neighbors who have grappled with political and economic upheaval touched off by popular uprisings in 2011.
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Later, a video of Mr. Putin shaking hands with an extraordinarily glum-looking Theresa May, the British prime minister, touched off another media storm.
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But an infusion of cash, first through the Marshall Plan and later through the European Economic Community, touched off a period of rapid reconstruction.
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The outbreak has triggered measures that have reduced staffing levels at oil refineries and touched off a massive decline in demand for motor fuels.
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Jurors cleared a police officer of wrongdoing in the death of Sylville Smith, which touched off two days of protests and violence in August.
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Colombia is a vibrant democracy, and the terms of the peace touched off a spirited debate within my country, which continues to this day.
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Publication of those leaked messages last weekend touched off protests that have unified people of various political parties and those who normally ignore politics.
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Next week in Milwaukee, an officer is scheduled to go on trial for reckless homicide for a shooting that touched off riots last summer.
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The British pound recovered most of its losses touched off by a poll showing the ruling Conservative Party's lead narrowing in Thursday's general election.
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When he went to Lehigh University, he got special access to a room of music records, which touched off a lifelong obsession for recording things.
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The shooting touched off rioting and arson and fueled a U.S. debate on police treatment of minorities, giving rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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But, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touched off a firestorm last year by announcing the addition of a new question — asking people whether they're U.S. citizens.
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He finished runner-up to Kabila in a 2006 election that touched off street battles in Kinshasa between militiamen loyal to him and state forces.
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While Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller said Dalton is cooperating with investigators, there are no clear answers as to what touched off the shooting spree.
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Philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel touched off a firestorm of controversy this week with her paper "In Defense of Transracialism," published in the feminist journal Hypatia.
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The revelation of its existence a decade ago touched off a crisis with the West that led to threats from Israel to destroy the facility.
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The confrontation touched off angry protests in Vietnam that led to the deaths of two Chinese and the destruction of Taiwanese and South Korean factories.
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The Cambridge Analytica revelations touched off the most serious crisis in Facebook's history, and, with it, a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.
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Goldman Sachs says there are some huge opportunities in the stock market after fears about President Donald Trump's trade war touched off waves of selling.
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It was this victory that touched off the gigantic alcohol- and pride-fueled street party throughout central Moscow, including, improbably on the doorstep of Lubyanka.
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The new rule touched off the so-called one-and-done era, in which the top prospects attended college for one season before turning pro.
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The decision by broadcast networks to pre-empt programming for Mr. Trump, who requested time to discuss the government shutdown, touched off a vigorous debate.
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That case touched off greater news media attention to other situations in which white people called the authorities over seemingly minor disputes across the country.
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In 2007, a vote that was widely believed to have been flawed touched off bloodshed that left at least 1,300 people dead and 600,000 displaced.
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But earlier in the year, jurors acquitted police officers in Minnesota and Milwaukee for shooting deaths that had touched off days of street demonstrations. 52.
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President Donald Trump's decision to impose strict travel restrictions on foreign citizens from seven countries linked to terror touched off a turbulent weekend of spontaneous protests.
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More locally, though, the allegations have touched off a contentious and often public debates on social media between Democrats in the district over Parnell's political future.
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The Vivint deal touched off litigation involving its yieldcos, the listed subsidiaries that own and operate renewable energy assets, some of which were acquired from SunEdison.
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The invitation to Sanders to address the Vatican session raised eyebrows when it was announced and touched off allegations that the senator lobbied for the invitation.
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The latter part of her comment touched off a furor on social media, with the hashtag "What Makes Hillary Short Circuit" trending for hours on Twitter.
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Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state, touched off a firestorm as she mocked Sanders' call for a "revolution" at Clinton's rally in Concord Saturday.
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Republicans intend to request their own witnesses, possibly including the whistleblower, the U.S. official whose complaint about Trump's dealings with Ukraine touched off the impeachment inquiry.
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Wilson was never charged in connection with the case, which eventually touched off a Justice Department probe that accused the police department of systematic racial bias.
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Trump's announcement on Wednesday drew swift criticism from political leaders across the world and touched off a wave of protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds.
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The Vivint deal touched off litigation involving SunEdison's yieldcos, the listed subsidiaries that own and operate renewable energy assets, many of which were acquired from SunEdison.
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That touched off a months-long investigation into the alleged ballot-fraud scheme and has left residents of the 9th District without representation in the House.
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A wildfire north of San Francisco ballooned to tens of thousands of acres within hours of being touched off last September, sweeping through two small towns.
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The accusations touched off the #MeToo movement, in which hundreds of women have publicly accused powerful men in entertainment, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct.
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Morey's post touched off a flurry of backlash on two continents, inviting criticism and sharp scrutiny of the N.B.A.'s business dealings and relationships in China.
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The developments, which unfolded rapidly and continued steadily into the afternoon, touched off fear and confusion and immediately invited questions about the motives of those responsible.
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On Sunday, lawyers said a second whistleblower had come forward to substantiate an August complaint from an unidentified U.S. intelligence official that touched off the investigation.
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US officials again decline to provide intelligence behind Soleimani attack The decision to kill Soleimani has touched off a fresh crisis between the US and Iran.
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It's touched off a wholesale rethinking of behavior in the workplace and a reckoning that continues to leave a trail of alleged miscreants in its wake.
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The report touched off criticism from Democrats, who are vehemently opposed to the deal but are wary of any White House interference in Justice Department proceedings.
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APA's stance has touched off anger online in China and condemnation from official media outlets, along with calls for Chinese travelers to take their business elsewhere.
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That campaign touched off a nasty confrontation with the Kremlin, and the two sides have been trying ever since to undermine the credibility of the other.
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Behind it is a sculpture commemorating James Meredith, whose enrollment as the school's first African-American student in 1962 touched off riots that left two dead.
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Fears that rates could spike sharply higher - and the international trade tensions - touched off a searing sell-off in global stock markets over the past week.
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NEW DELHI — An Indian infantryman whose unlikely survival in an avalanche touched off celebrations across the country died Thursday morning at a military hospital in New Delhi.
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The Polk citation said Mr. McCoy stumbled on the practice while reporting a story on Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody touched off riots in Baltimore.
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The rain appeared to have been touched off by warm, humid air flowing up from the Pacific Ocean and intensifying the activity of a seasonal rain front.
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The ruling touched off a standoff among Mr. Atkinson, Mr. Maguire and Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the head of the House Intelligence Community.
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Novartis touched off a debate over what gene therapy is worth last year, estimating its treatment would be cost-effective at up to $22022 million per patient.
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Custer's 533-foot shot bounced off the rim, touched off the backboard and dropped through the net as the Ramblers (30-5) won their 12th consecutive game.
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Novartis touched off a debate over what gene therapy is worth last year, estimating its treatment would be cost effective at up to $5 million per patient.
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Novartis touched off a debate over what gene therapy is worth last year, estimating its treatment would be cost effective at up to $22022 million per patient.
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The comments from Trump touched off a firestorm in Washington, causing the House to pass a resolution condemning the racist language the President used in his attacks.
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His administration also touched off a legal battle with six coal-producing states when it denied permits for a large coal export terminal on the Columbia River.
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Stefanidi's 2017 victory touched off a streak of eight consecutive triumphs over her American rival, but Morris is hoping the results will be more balanced this season.
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Comey's three-paragraph letter revealing the emails touched off a firestorm of speculation, though more information has since emerged providing a few more details about the emails.
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Dayton's veto in May touched off a legal battle with the legislature, which claimed the removal of nearly $130 million in funding from the budget was unconstitutional.
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Wilson was never charged in connection with the case, which eventually touched off a Justice Department probe that accused the Ferguson police department of systematic racial bias.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc reshuffled the leadership of its investment banking arm, a shake-up touched off by the departure to Washington last year of Gary Cohn.
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Stronger demand for data has helped America Movil's average revenue per user in Mexico recover from the price war touched off by the telecom reform, Hajj said.
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The report of her actions has touched off an extended debate on the responsibilities of the most prominent woman in American politics when confronted with sexual harassment.
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According to Amnesty International, the disappearance of an ethnic Rakhine man weeks before the violence that August seems to have touched off a wave of arbitrary arrests.
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Greece: The situation at a notorious migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has stabilized after a fire left a woman dead and touched off rioting.
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Not 10 minutes later, a wild pitch touched off a bizarre series of events, with the Cleveland Indians scoring twice and reducing the Cubs' lead to two.
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Now, a proposal to move the statue from the plaza has touched off a fight, but this one has gone well beyond another brawl involving City Hall.
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News of the letter, and the novel legal arguments it advanced, touched off a debate among legal specialists, with some supporting the idea and others expressing skepticism.
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The policy touched off a furious debate and became a touchstone for conservatives who saw the Obama administration as out of touch and making its own laws.
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Suits filed in Superior Court in San Francisco allege PG&E did not properly maintain power lines or adequately contain vegetation which somehow touched off the fires.
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For the White House, the attacks on the attorney general have touched off a serious problem on Capitol Hill when it did not need any other headaches.
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Yet Mr. Penny also had to grapple with budget cuts, which led to a restructuring program and the changes to gallery assistants' contracts that touched off the strikes.
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"Surviving R. Kelly" touched off a new controversy when it debuted in January, prompting his record label, Sony Music-owned RCA, to end its relationship with the performer.
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That's why Ford's testimony has touched off something bigger than Kavanaugh — women are revisiting these experiences, sharing them on Facebook and group texts, even calling into C-SPAN.
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Police Chief Edward Flynn said the man whose death touched off Saturday night's rioting was shot after he turned toward an officer with a gun in his hand.
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The crossing had been closed on Monday after a rocket that wounded seven Israelis north of Tel Aviv touched off a two-day surge in cross-border violence.
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The shooting touched off a 24-hour standoff in which Lindsey barricaded himself in the apartment with the four child hostages and police tried to negotiate with him.
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Bennett touched off the controversy following the Patriots 34-28 overtime Super Bowl win over the Atlanta Falcons saying he would not be attending the White House reception.
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In his prepared remarks, Williams made no direct mention of recent global market turmoil touched off by weak economic data out of China, the world's No. 2 economy.
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The shooting of Clark touched off protests in Minneapolis at a time of fierce national debate over the use of excessive force by police, especially against black people.
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A magnitude 9 quake in March 2011 north of Tokyo touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, contaminating water, food and air for miles around.
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The carnage in Kalamazoo, a city of about 75,000 people, was another in a series of mass shootings that has touched off a national debate over gun control.
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Those worried about migration should recall that Balkan collapse touched off Europe's previous refugee crisis—and Balkan co-operation was needed to bring order to the current one.
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Thursday's reports also touched off speculation that the Justice Department's insistence on a divestiture could have political overtones, after Trump's outspoken criticism of CNN's coverage of his administration.
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The Stonewall Inn's reputation as a historic battleground for gay rights traces to 1969, when a police raid at the bar touched off days of riots and marches.
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On Tuesday, a broken fan blade touched off an engine explosion on Southwest Airlines flight 20173, shattering a window of the Boeing 22017 jet and killing a passenger.
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The decision touched off an angry response among some in law enforcement, who said ICE arrests at courthouses could lead some immigrants to avoid the entire justice system.
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Recent months have touched off a renewed debate about what exactly is owed to the descendants of enslaved men and women after centuries of bondage and legalized discrimination.
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The previous suit touched off a power struggle that pitted Oliver L. North, an employee of Ackerman who also served as the N.R.A.'s president, against Mr. LaPierre.
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After fears about the Wuhan coronavirus touched off the biggest drop in months for US stocks, it might look as if investing opportunities are popping up all over.
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Rangers reliever Tom Wilhelmsen, acquired for Martin, was hammered for five runs on four hits and nearly touched off a brawl by hitting Chris Iannetta with a pitch.
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The killing of Jessica White, 211, touched off a sense among her family and neighbors that poor, black victims of crime receive unequal treatment in New York City.
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The focus on getting an early organization built out in the first-in-the-South primary state has touched off a fierce competition for talent, influencers and endorsers.
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Ostensibly, a police raid on an unauthorized drinking establishment touched off a citywide violent uprising, which culminated in the dispatching of federal troops by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Rate cuts in New Zealand, India and Thailand touched off a flood of buying of longer-dated bonds in Asia, which persisted into European and U.S. trading, analysts said.
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These developments touched off a dramatic sell-off in stocks and risky assets around the world and a safe-haven stampede into cash, yen, gold and some government bonds.
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Powell's remarks in early October about rates being a long way from neutral touched off a market rout on concerns that central bankers would increase rates aggressively next year.
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Democratic Governor Mark Dayton touched off the legal battle with his line-item veto of funding for the Republican-controlled state legislature in the fiscal 2018-2019 biennial budget.
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Ben Casselman The unusual combination of tax cuts, government spending increases and low unemployment has touched off fears in recent months that the American economy may begin to overheat.
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News of the San Bernardino order touched off a heated debate about the precedent it may set and whether the issue should be decided in courts or through legislation.
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The outrage over police violence has given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and touched off a national debate over the race and policing in the United States.
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The latest ceasefire has offered some respite from violence in the civil war, which has killed an estimated 430,000 people since 2011 and touched off an international refugee crisis.
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The latest ceasefire has offered some respite from violence in the civil war, which has killed an estimated 430,000 people since 2011 and touched off an international refugee crisis.
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The United States limited military support for the Saudi-led coalition due to Washington's concerns about high civilian casualties and humanitarian crises touched off by the conflict, Reuters reported.
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Tiger Woods was booked for driving under the influence early Monday morning in Jupiter, Florida, and the resulting mugshot touched off speculation that more was at play than alcohol.
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In the midst of that, he waved over teammate Toni Kukoc to set a screen, but Kukoc never did, which may have touched off a deeper wave of resentment.
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He touched off an unprecedented wave of consolidation in the defense industry; since Clinton took office, the number of "prime" defense contractors has plummeted from 300 to only five.
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They were touched off by a fan's viral video chronicling what were described as flagrant fouls committed against a Charlotte Hornets player, Jeremy Lin, who is Asian-American. 8.
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Luther was one of those figures who touched off something much larger than himself; namely, the Reformation—the sundering of the Church and a fundamental revision of its theology.
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An argument between the conductor and an off-duty police officer had touched off a commotion and then a panic, ending with the officer's being taken into police custody.
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But, in a decision that has touched off debates over the role of public art and the meaning of Mr. Walton's legacy, the airport said, in effect, no thanks.
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The latest controversy touched off when The New York Times reported earlier this month that Facebook had been sharing more data with phone companies than it had previously disclosed.
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Mr. Trump also touched off an uproar during the Democratic National Convention last week when he said in a news conference that he hoped Russian hackers would infiltrate Mrs.
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The grim crime touched off a media frenzy, fueled by controversy over her participation in child beauty pageants, video clips of which were shown exhaustively on cable TV networks.
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The forest fires, touched off by timber smugglers, poachers and farmers, have been a particular problem this year as a result of high temperatures and low rainfall, experts say.
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A series of videos showing officers using deadly force against unarmed African-Americans in recent years has touched off protests and raised questions of racial bias in U.S. policing.
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By trying to keep his Detroit-area seat in the family, Mr. Conyers, 88, the longest-serving African-American representative in history, may have touched off a family feud.
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Trump's ire was evidently touched off by a Sunday night special on MSNBC: a town hall about criminal justice, with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and featuring Legend.
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Laquan was killed about two months after the police shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., touched off tense protests and started a national conversation about police tactics.
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In November 1979, someone touched off fears of a Soviet missile attack by mistakenly inserting a "war games" tape into a computer of the North American Air Defense Command.
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Every time the president let loose with one of his 140-character blasts, it distracted from his agenda and touched off a media frenzy that could last for days.
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The full toll of the charges of fraud and bribery and the further events and revelations they have touched off won't be known for a long time to come.
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At the same time, the chorus of lawmakers demanding impeachment grew louder, underscoring how the latest revelations about the president have touched off a seismic shift under Democrats' feet.
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The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 touched off the Gold Rush — an estimated 300,000 people descending on California to try and get in on the action.
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Revelations that the president's office had bought hundreds of doses of Viagra and equivalent drugs have touched off a frenzy of wisecracks, speculation and lurid rumors in South Korea.
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The incident, the latest in a string of shootings of mostly unarmed black men by police, touched off days of protests and calls by activists for a federal investigation.
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In an incident that touched off a national debate over civility in politics, current Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family last month were kicked out of a Virginia restaurant.
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The inflators touched off the largest series of automotive recalls in U.S. history involving with as many as 70 million inflators to be recalled by the end of next year.
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The two countries have technically been at war since the Korean War touched off in 1950 — an armistice signed by the parties was never replaced with a full peace agreement.
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The specter of so-called killer robots has touched off an international protest movement and a debate within the United Nations about limiting the development and deployment of such systems.
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The incident touched off protests in several US cities, and, along with the shootings of other unarmed black men by white police officers, sparked a nationwide discussion about police brutality.
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Facebook touched off a firestorm earlier this month when it deleted an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, saying it violated restrictions on nudity.
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In Baltimore, the justice system has an ugly history of failing to take on police misconduct, but several recent incidents in particular have touched off an uproar in the community.
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The deterioration in trade talks has touched off a dramatic sell-off in stocks and other risky assets, and stoked a safe-haven stampede toward U.S. Treasuries, yen and gold.
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In Parque Central in Havana, Mr. Obama's visit touched off talk of politics, freedom, race and the scene of an American president at Revolution Plaza near an image of Guevara.
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"The president and some of his supporters have attacked the credibility of the whistle-blower, who has presented information that has touched off a landmark impeachment proceeding," Mr. Baquet said.
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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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The killing of Mr. Wani touched off four months of violence, including bombings, shootouts and attacks by stone-pelting youths, as well as protests by tens of thousands of people.
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It was the first recorded use of a chemical weapon in Europe since World War II, and it touched off a frantic investigation to determine the extent of the threat.
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Ukraine's military said a drone may have touched off the blast, near the city of Kharkiv, sending tank shells firing in all directions and forcing the evacuation of 20,000 people.
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The statue's toppling touched off political tensions between North Carolina's Republican-dominated legislature, which elects the board of governors, and the university community, a liberal enclave in a red state.
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The July 25 phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has touched off a political firestorm, pushing Democrats to announce on Tuesday a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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After charges that touched off a debate in the early days of the war on terror, Lindh, who was dubbed the "American Taliban," pleaded guilty in 2002 to aiding the Taliban.
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The public reports about Weinstein and other powerful men, however, have touched off a new wave of anti-harassment work, formal and informal, of which Time's Up is only a part.
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Many analysts suggested that the abortion issue could be the death knell for Trump, who with one ill-considered line touched off a firestorm on both sides of the explosive debate.
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Mr. Logan said 1,400 of the union's members currently had an open investigation, and that he and his members felt many of them were dubious, touched off by disgruntled staff members.
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Anti-Trump TV personality Keith Olbermann touched off a wave of media speculation this summer, when he Tweeted that he sold his apartment in a Manhattan Trump building for a loss.
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The debate was touched off almost immediately after Romney shared a brief video early Tuesday of staffers bringing him a cake made from Twinkies (his "favorite snack") and singing to him.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece – Three men have been convicted over the videotaped assault of the mayor of Greece&aposs second-largest city, which had touched off a heated political debate over public order.
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This has touched off political debate, particularly among Republican candidates, about how to safeguard Americans, including spurious solutions such as shutting off Muslim immigration (Donald Trump) and carpet-bombing ISIS (Sen.
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Trump's order last Friday, barring travel into the United States by people from seven Muslim-majority countries, touched off public protests and stirred unease among employees at many big U.S. companies.
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The criminal case follows a number of police shootings of black men that have touched off protests and intensified a debate over racial bias and excessive force in U.S. law enforcement.
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In the July 25 phone call that provoked a whistle-blower complaint and touched off the impeachment inquiry, Mr. Zelensky offered private assurances that his government would look into those matters.
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The home run came in Colon's 43th career at-bat and touched off a raucous celebration in the Mets' dugout, where his teammates waited 24 seconds as Colon rounded the bases.
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Apple's defiance of an FBI court order last month touched off a heated debate over government access to encrypted data that has enveloped Capitol Hill and spread to the campaign trail.
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The violence in the small town, Loshchynivka, was touched off after a local man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the rape and killing of a 9-year-old girl.
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Mr. Azaria's Rick is a convincing portrait of a cold-eyed, moneyed titan who's dismayed to discover that the opprobrium his fateful party touched off may be disastrous for his company.
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The altercation quickly touched off protests by students outside the shop, Gibson's Bakery, which has been a fixture in Oberlin, about 40 miles west of Cleveland, for more than 100 years.
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It is also a reminder of the dashed hopes in the region, seven years after a fruit vendor's self-immolation in Tunisia touched off what became known as the Arab Spring.
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Mr. Maguire's intervention touched off the latest in a series of clashes between congressional Democrats seeking to conduct oversight and administration officials who they say are stonewalling their requests for information.
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Over the past four years, six companies in particular — Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and the Chinese firm Baidu — have touched off an arms race for A.I. talent, particularly within universities.
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Mr. McConnell, traveling in his home state, Kentucky, during the August recess, touched off the feud on Monday when he seemed to question the president's grasp of the complexities of government.
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That touched off a behind-the-scenes round of haggling in which lawmakers had to reconcile the House bill with a far less confrontational version passed in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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The case touched off days of protests in California's capital and captured the attention of the nation, becoming another touchpoint in the country's emotional reckoning with issues of police of race.
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The regional destabilization the invasion touched off led directly to the rise of ISIS and a whole new round of fighting in Iraq in which many thousands of people have died.
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In December 2017, news accounts of Mr. Batali's history of sexual aggression touched off police investigations, torpedoed his career and cast a shadow over all the restaurants he was involved in.
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But "Surviving R. Kelly" touched off a new furor on social media when it debuted in January, prompting his record label, Sony Music-owned RCA, to end its relationship with the hitmaker.
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WASHINGTON — As a legal matter, the showdown between the Obama administration and Apple touched off Tuesday by the ruling of a federal magistrate judge in California turns on an 18th century law.
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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco jurors are hearing the muddled confession of the Mexican national on trial for the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle, whose death touched off a fierce debate over immigration.
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The remark was initially dismissed as part of a conspiracy, and touched off a round of heated post-debate jockeying between his camp and that of his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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Currently, the tech giant is pushing back hard against a court order to unlock the shooter's iPhone, in a case that has touched off a furious debate about privacy and data security.
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Salah Abdeslam, a participant in the Paris attacks whose arrest seems to have touched off the March 22nd bombings in Brussels, reportedly met with collaborators in Ulm, a German city, in October.
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His death touched off outrage from Attorney General William Barr, politicians and many of Epstein's alleged victims, who fear that they may lose their day in court now that Epstein is dead.
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Mattis touched off unease in South Korea last month when he told reporters at the Pentagon that the United States has military options for North Korea that doesn't put Seoul at risk.
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But while the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 was touched off by a few lucky prospectors and the glint of creek-bed precious metal, this one began on election night, 8503.
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The arguments were touched off two and a half years ago, with the revelations by Edward J. Snowden, the N.S.A. contractor, that the agency had gone to some lengths to undercut encryption.
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Whether to allow transgender people access to bathrooms based on gender identity has touched off a national debate, and actions in recent weeks had appeared to turn in favor of that access.
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The decision not to charge the two officers in the death of Stephon Clark, 22, angered community activists and quickly touched off protests outside police headquarters in Sacramento, the California state capital.
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Mr. Trump's comments touched off a round of trans-Atlantic sniping with Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, that was sure to start the NATO meeting on a tense note.
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More than 75,19923 Salvadorans, most of them civilians, died in fighting that was touched off in 1979 by a right-wing backlash against the overthrow of a military dictator by reformist officers.
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The pope has said he won't dignify it with a response, yet the allegations have touched off an ideological civil war, with the usually shadowy Vatican backstabbing giving way to open combat.
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If "Machines Like Me" sounds like the stuff of science fiction, well, it is, and McEwan recently touched off a firestorm when he dismissed the genre in an interview with The Guardian.
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The uproar was touched off by a CNN report from Tripoli, Libya, last week, including what was described as surreptitiously recorded video of 12 African migrants auctioned at an undisclosed location there.
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It immediately touched off a debate over whether the move would fatally destabilize the Affordable Care Act marketplaces or add welcome options to consumers complaining of high premiums and not enough choice.
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When the decree announcing the closing of northern Italy became public, it touched off a massive exodus to southern Italy, undoubtedly spreading the virus to regions where it had not been present.
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He hoped to challenge Yameen in presidential elections later this year, and was in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, when the Supreme Court delivered the ruling that touched off the latest crisis.
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But in Japan, where American football barely registers, the illegal move during a college game has touched off a national debate about "power hara," or obedience to authority and unwavering team loyalty.
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In remains unclear who selected Crossfire Hurricane, but there is no doubt that it touched off a ferocious storm, and the winds continue to thrash the White House and the F.B.I. itself.
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Dean Markham said the decision to create the fund had touched off "a lively debate" within the seminary's community where it has been discussed by members of the board, faculty and alumni.
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Just one day after Trump's interactions with the president of Ukraine touched off a formal impeachment inquiry, Trump will meet with the Ukrainian president for a bilateral meeting as UN week continues.
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A brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman three years ago, as well as the #MeToo movement, touched off a national dialogue aimed at breaking down a traditionally male-dominated society.
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The verdict in October marked the first time an on-duty Chicago police officer was criminally convicted for the killing of a black person and touched off celebratory street demonstrations in Chicago.
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Snowden's PR campaign for an Obama pardon is in full swing Edward Snowden touched off an enormous public relations campaign on Tuesday calling for Barack Obama to grant him a presidential pardon.
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The decision -- which a senior defense official told CNN was made over the objections of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter -- immediately touched off a controversy in the closing days of the Obama administration.
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King, a staunch opponent of pro-immigration politics who has a history of incendiary and racist comments, touched off perhaps his fiercest controversy following an interview he gave to the Times on Thursday.
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For Joe and Pat, the racial slurs and symbols smeared throughout the home touched off raw memories of their son Jay, who they said was taunted in school because of his mixed race.
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A fast-moving brush fire that was touched off early Wednesday burned its way to about a hundred yards from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, forcing thousands to flee the area.
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On Monday, the Treasury market recorded its worst day in nearly three months as encouraging data on factory activity in China and the United States touched off a dramatic sell-off in bonds.
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Mattis touched off unease in South Korea last month when he told reporters at the Pentagon that the United States has military options for North Korea that doesn&apost put Seoul at risk.
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Maintaining the status quo The shooting of two Israeli border guards on the Temple Mount/ Haram al-Sharif by three Israeli Arabs last week has touched off yet another escalation of the tension.
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That touched off a bipartisan rebellion from members of the Senate HELP Committee, who feared the provision would undermine the FDA's authority and the rigorously controlled process it uses to evaluate new treatments.
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Sitting in his cafe near the spot where the protests against Muammar Gaddafi touched off the Libyan revolution eight years ago, Miftah Atluba is not sorry the dictator has gone.
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Media reports detailing the allegations against Weinstein touched off a series of public allegations against and revelations about sexual misconduct by a number of powerful men in politics, business, media and other industries.
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An unattended rental truck with wires protruding from its dashboard and gas canisters behind its seats touched off a brief evacuation in a part of Times Square on Saturday night, the police said.
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BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Three police officers and two gunmen were killed in Congo Republic's capital in heavy fighting touched off by President Denis Sassou Nguesso's disputed re-election, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The rare district shuffle has also touched off a flood of campaign donations from out-of-state donors from both parties who are placing bets from around the country on vulnerable House seats.
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Viral videos of Dao being dragged down the aisle of the United jet and Munoz's handling of the incident touched off a public outcry, and prompted calls from congressmen for new industry regulation.
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PARIS — Lebanon's absent prime minister arrived in France on Saturday morning after two weeks in Saudi Arabia, a mysterious stay that touched off intense speculation that he was being held against his will.
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Rather, something akin to an arms race has been touched off; Schwartz's willingness to personally target journalists is a reflection of a conservative movement that has grown much more hostile toward journalism itself.
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The image touched off an uproar on social media this week, and on Saturday demonstrators representing South Africa's second-largest opposition party, Economic Freedom Fighters, gathered at H&M locations across the country.
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Still, when Mr. Trump gave his toast on Tuesday night at a dinner with Mr. Moon at the Blue House, the presidential residence, he touched off another round of speculation about his plans.
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The result kept alive the threat of a messy intraparty feud and touched off what promises to be an intense period of internal arm-twisting and cajoling by a leader renowned for both.
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Mr. Cummings's warning suggested that lawmakers and their staffs were working sequentially to collect the evidence they believe they need to corroborate the anonymous C.I.A. whistle-blower complaint that touched off the inquiry.
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The accidents spurred several investigations, including the criminal inquiry led by the Justice Department, and touched off a crisis that has cost the company billions of dollars and upended the global aviation industry.
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Still, there's no doubt it has touched off a new, unexpected conflict between Sanders and Warren, just a couple days before a presidential debate and three weeks before the all-important Iowa caucuses.
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Pereira was Vaz's first prime minister before being sacked in 2015, which touched off the current dispute between the president and Pereira's African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).
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This narrative proved so appealing that under the Reagan administration the top federal income tax bracket went from 70% to 28% and "touched off an intense public mandate for tax cutting," Shiller writes.
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The story touched off a flurry of condemnations from Democrats who recalled how Mr. Trump had called for Hillary Clinton to be imprisoned for mishandling classified information by using a private email server.
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His death, along with that of Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7, a migrant girl who died three weeks earlier, touched off an angry backlash from the public and lawmakers, who held hearings demanding answers.
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In his commencement speech, he announced he would pay off all the student loan debt of more than 300 students – a gesture that touched off a national debate about student debt and inequality.
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That touched off flashbacks for a generation of Brooklyn Dodgers fans, including our sportswriter George Vecsey, who "suffered terribly from 1947 through 1956," when the Dodgers were drubbed by the Yankees five times.
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A dishy book that touched off the final breakup between the president and his onetime strategist Steve Bannon dominated the headlines for much of the week, but a lot of actual policymaking happened too.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates in January after she refused to defend his immigration order and touched off a major drama in the opening days of his presidency.
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The DFA support for ousting a sitting Democratic National Committee chair is just the latest in the internal battle inside the Democratic Party, touched off by the split between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
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Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime attorney, is facing renewed scrutiny over his business dealings -- as the individual who touched off the controversy by leaking his financial records speaks out on why he did it.
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Mr. Jones winced as defense lawyers played a video clip of the shooting recorded by Mr. Perez's helmet camera, which, when released in 2014, touched off the largest street protests here in a generation.
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By changing the source of the city's water, Walling and other local and state officials touched off a chain of events that led to one of the biggest public-health disasters of our time.
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Dr. Baselga's lapses may not have touched off a drug epidemic, but they have damaged the reputation of a leading cancer hospital in which tens of thousands of patients place their trust every year.
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That touched off speculation in the news media about when she would return and whether her relationship with Mr. Strahan was actually as carefree as it appeared to be every weekday morning on television.
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Prosecutors had successfully argued that he touched off the killings with a precision shot through the head of a driver of a stopped white Kia as the Blackwater convoy moved through the traffic circle.
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The plan touched off a fiery dispute within the city, known as the "green dot" debate, and led to widespread community distrust in the post-disaster planning – a sentiment that still lingers, Thomas said.
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A New York Times report in May touched off a major scandal by describing the ways location data, which all four major carriers in the U.S. share with data brokers like LocationSmart, can be abused.
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Longer-dated yields declined more than shorter-dated ones as worries about trade tensions between China and the United States and a global economic slowdown touched off another safe-haven stampede into U.S. government debt.
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The 37-year-old actor, whose June disappearance touched off wild speculation about her whereabouts, has appeared in the "X-Men" and "Iron Man" film franchises, attracting more than 62 million online followers in China.
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The bullet that killed Steinle, whose death touched off a national debate about illegal immigration, ricocheted off the ground about 100 feet away before hitting her in the back, a retired police investigator testified Monday.
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Ricardo Rossello said he will resign August 2 after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between Rossello and his top advisors.
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The death of Garner, 43, who was initially approached by police because they suspected him of illegally selling untaxed cigarettes, touched off a nationwide furor and helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
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This odd series of events eventually touched off an extraordinary feat of forensic detective work by a group of athletes who were convinced that Miller had committed what they consider the triathlon's worst possible transgression.
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He noted that a lot of people had been in the pools in the past week at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center, and that their presence had touched off changes in the water's chemical balance.
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When Mr. Snowden's disclosures about the scope of the N.S.A. spying were brought to light, it touched off a feverish debate over government invading people's privacy, and many Republicans denounced Mr. Snowden as a traitor.
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The firestorm touched off by Mr. Moran's remarks was all the more notable because, while serving as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, he oversaw the 2014 campaign effort that gave Republicans a majority.
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WASHINGTON — Legislation to rescue the Children's Health Insurance Program sailed through a Senate committee on Wednesday, but touched off a partisan conflict in the House, diminishing hopes that the popular program would be quickly refinanced.
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America's continued abdication of any serious leadership role in the climate crisis touched off a series of other high-profile defections from regional and international climate accords that were already insufficient in their target goals.
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Mr. Kirk, who joined Tronc, the parent company of The Times, in August, will replace Lewis D'Vorkin, whose brief stint atop one of the country's most prominent newspapers touched off widespread tension in the newsroom.
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Gus Kavouras, 70, used to live in Asbury Park but he, like many others, left the city after riots in 1970 that were touched off by years of racial grievances over jobs and living conditions.
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The shooting, initially defended by police leaders, touched off two nights of looting, arson and rioting on the city's north side and drew attention to long-simmering tensions between law enforcement and Milwaukee's black residents.
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The images of her frail, stunted body touched off a torrent of criticism that officials had failed to help the disadvantaged at a time when China's leader, Xi Jinping, has vowed to eliminate extreme poverty.
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The hot, dry, gusty conditions there prompted Pacific Gas and Electric to cut power to millions of people, in the hope of avoiding catastrophic wildfires touched off by downed power lines, like those in 2018.
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He touched off a firestorm in May when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, who was then in charge of the probe — a decision that ultimately led to the appointment of the special counsel.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is defending President Donald Trump's move to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, a decision that has touched off uneasiness among Arab nations on his first tour of the region.
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Mr. Trump's election touched off bitter arguments among Democrats over just how politically combative the party should be, and how much it should seek to compete with Mr. Trump's hard-edged version of economic populism.
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Last month, Trump held a lengthy phone call with LaPierre, one of several the men had since massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, touched off the latest national debate about tougher gun legislation.
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At the same time, the French government remains acutely aware that the Yellow Vest uprising last winter was touched off by a rise in the gasoline tax, part of an effort to fight climate change.
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And who could be more devoted than the man who last month touched off a philosophical discussion of the meaning of "is" as he attempted to explain away yet another one of someone else's screw-ups.
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Putin's fall trip to the US would have likely touched off a bipartisan firestorm with Trump in the middle of it and his GOP comrades running in tightly contested races around the country taking the heat.
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Racial discontent is at its highest point in the Obama presidency and at the same level as after the riots touched off by the 2207 acquittal of Los Angeles police officers charged in Mr. King's beating.
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Following up: California's mandate that new single-family homes and small multi-family dwellings must come with solar panels starting in 2020 has touched off a dispute among climate advocates about whether it's a good idea.
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When Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers chose not to stand during the national anthem before his N.F.L. games last month, he touched off a national debate by protesting what he described as racial injustice.
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The Communications Decency Act of 1996 — many sections of which were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the following year — had its origins in a moral panic about internet pornography touched off by questionable research.
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The company's shares have soared 58 percent since August, when the Belmond board's announcement of a strategic review touched off speculation about a potential bidding war between LVMH and private equity firms like Blackstone and KKR.
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He also echoed the president's increasingly hard-line stance on immigration, which has touched off a purge of Department of Homeland Security officials who Mr. Trump believes impeded his goal of shutting the southwestern border entirely.
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In many ways, the airport gathering was reminiscent of the protests touched off last year by Mr. Trump's initial executive order banning travel to the United States by residents of a group of mostly Muslim countries.
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LONDON — Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy whose poisoning in a sleepy English city touched off a diplomatic storm between Russia and the West, has been released from a hospital, British officials said on Friday.
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That touched off a flurry of calls between some of the country's top finance executives about how to handle a conference being hosted by Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince had been implicated in Mr. Khashoggi's disappearance.
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The official has more direct information about the events than the first whistle-blower, whose complaint that Mr. Trump was using his power to get Ukraine to investigate his political rivals touched off an impeachment inquiry.
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A polarizing figure, often described as both a patriot and a bandit, he touched off an international diplomatic dispute in 1904 by kidnapping a Greek-American playboy, Ion Perdicaris, and his son, demanding a $70,000 ransom.
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Greta Thunberg: While returning to Sweden for a holiday break, the 16-year-old climate activist touched off a Twitter exchange with Germany's national railway company by posting about "traveling on overcrowded trains" through the country.
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But the chart itself has touched off a weeks-long furor on economics Twitter plus an in-person debate including Saez, Zucman, and Larry Summers, a top economic adviser in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.
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His evident nostalgia for forging compromises, even with racist figures like them, touched off a disruptive new controversy for his campaign, as liberal leaders and Democratic rivals accused him of being insensitive and out of touch.
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The dispute over security at the mosque compound - where Israel installed metal detectors at entry points after two police guards were shot dead this month - has touched off the bloodiest clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in years.
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The D.A.'s decision on Saturday not to prosecute the officers, who police said mistook Clark's cell phone for a gun, has angered community activists and touched off three nights of protests in Sacramento, the state capital.
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The latest fatalities bring to 650 the number of people killed during the weekend in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, that have touched off a new furor over gun violence in the United States.
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The equivocal results touched off a fierce debate in other countries with struggling centre-left parties, such as the Netherlands, where the Labour party's share fell from 25% in the 2012 election to just 6% in 2017.
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A retired police officer says the bullet that killed a San Francisco woman whose death touched off a national debate about illegal immigration ricocheted off the ground about 100 feet away before hitting her in the back.
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However, growing debt and concerns about property bubbles have touched off an internal debate about whether China should tolerate slower growth in 2017 to allow more room for painful reforms aimed at reducing industrial overcapacity and indebtedness.
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However, growing debt and concern about property bubbles have touched off an internal debate about whether China should tolerate slower growth in 2017 to allow more room for painful reforms aimed at reducing industrial overcapacity and indebtedness.
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However, after the rout in the final three months of 2018, the Dow was still 7 percent below its all-time intraday highs in early October before Powell touched off concerns about an aggressive rate-hike policy.
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"Almost single-handedly, Marsha P. Johnson and her best friend, Sylvia Rivera, touched off a revolution in the way we talk about gender today," France said after Netflix acquired the film earlier this year, according to Variety.
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In his seven-song set, Rhett was joined by Maren Morris for a molten "Craving You," but he saved the best for last with an extended version of "Vacation" that touched off a Soul Train-worthy strut.
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The case has touched off a debate in Israel over whether democratic values were compromised by the 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support boycotts of Israel over its policies toward the Palestinians.
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The latest fatalities bring to 31 the number of victims killed during the weekend in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, that have touched off a new furor over gun violence in the United States.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration touched off a tempest on Wednesday with its plan to test new ways of paying for prescription drugs under Medicare, widely seen as the administration's first serious attempt to rein in drug spending.
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The steeper-than-expected decline in the factory activity index of the Institute for Supply Management touched off a rally in the U.S. bond market, sending benchmark 10-year yields to their lowest levels since July 2016.
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The former C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame, whose cover was blown in a leak that touched off a political scandal during the George W. Bush administration, said Thursday that she plans to run for Congress as a Democrat.
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Ms. Zakharova's comments touched off worries in Ukraine that Russia might justify an attack by pointing at Ukraine's mobilization under martial law — no matter that Ukraine justified martial law by first pointing at a risk from Russia.
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The National Security Agency has quietly ended a system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts to hunt for terrorism suspects, a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and security since the Sept.
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Her sons died as the nation was on the verge of a reckoning over police killings of black men, touched off by a shooting in Ferguson, a chokehold in Staten Island, and all that had come before.
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The new details about the extraordinary meeting between the king and MbN that touched off the de facto palace coup help to explain the events that are reshaping the leadership of the world's biggest oil exporting nation.
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The Los Angeles Times, one of the nation's most storied newspapers, recently won acclaim for a wide-ranging investigation of OxyContin and alleged deceptive marketing of the safety of the painkiller that touched off the opioid crisis.
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The firestorm touched off by the Comey firing has only reinforced the lesson Mr. Trump has usually taken away from past crises, that only one person was truly capable of defending him: the man in the mirror.
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"The Harvey Weinstein saga in Hollywood started a witch hunt," Mr. Burke said, vehemently denying the allegations and citing the cascade of sexual harassment revelations touched off by inquiries into the American film mogul's treatment of women.
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The lockdown and ensuing search were part of the continuing fallout stemming from the suicide of Mr. Epstein in August, which touched off several inquiries and raised questions about why he had not been monitored more closely.
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LONDON — British women forced into marriages abroad will no longer be required to repay the government for the cost of helping them escape, according to the foreign secretary, reversing a policy that touched off intense public outrage.
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But just as Trump was moving to quell the controversy over his statements, he touched off a new one on Wednesday when he appeared to deny Russia is still targeting the U.S., prompting yet another White House clarification.
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This touched off Leon's passionate interest in heritage textile traditions of African American artists, leading him to spend the next 30 years earnestly learning and amassing a wealth of fiber art, including some 500 works by Tompkins herself.
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Estonia 2007: When the Estonian government decided in April 2007 to move a statue of a Russian soldier from the center of its capital in Tallinn, the move touched off massive protests by the country's Russian-speaking minority.
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Critics said the police department should have been subjected to a full Justice Department investigation like the one done in Ferguson, Missouri, after the killing of black 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014 touched off violence there.
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His death, followed by another police-involved shooting the same week in Minnesota, touched off demonstrations nationwide that have led to arrests, roadway closures, and renewed conversation over the relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
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Damon Wyatt of the Anaheim Police Department told CBS 8 that the confrontation was touched off when the unidentified officer told teens that they couldn't walk across his lawn, which the officer alleged happened frequently despite his objections.
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To say the Fed touched off this re-pricing in December when it raised interest rates for the first time in a decade is not to say that it is for them to restore the old status quo.
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For Republicans on the ballot this fall, the uproar over Mr. Trump's past statements about women touched off an agonizing political cycle, marked by partial denunciations of Mr. Trump — and demands from Democrats that their denunciations go further.
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Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who touched off a national debate when he chose not to stand during the playing of the national anthem before games, has emboldened a handful of other players to follow suit.
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Not only was it the biggest emerging market sovereign bond issue ever; it was, due to very heavy demand, priced at interest rates well below initial indications and its reception touched off a resounding rally in Saudi assets.
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Last month's steeper-than-expected decline in the factory activity index from Institute for Supply Management also touched off a rally in the U.S. bond market, sending benchmark 10-year yields to their lowest levels since July 2016.
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PARIS — A night of rioting touched off by a police killing set off a familiar replay of grim media images on Wednesday morning in France, where law enforcement tactics in immigrant neighborhoods are a regular source of friction.
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The Facebook live video of Mr. Castile's last, bloody moments after being shot had set off two weeks of protests here over the police's use of force, and touched off a chorus of demands to prosecute Officer Yanez.
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Fueling an abrupt cultural shift in France, the book touched off the sudden downfall of Mr. Matzneff, who was dropped by his three publishers, stripped of a rare benefit from the French government and abandoned by longtime supporters.
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Created by David Chase, who grew up in Essex County, and starring James Gandolfini, from Park Ridge, the show "touched off the kind of enthusiasm among hip audiences that 'Twin Peaks' did nine years ago," Mr. DeCaro wrote.
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A city plan to rezone the heart of Manhattan has touched off a new campaign to protect the afternoon light falling on a beloved park that offers honey locust trees, azaleas, pansies and a 543-foot-high waterfall.
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Mr. Trump's advisers have become more involved in his free-form Twitter feed in the last few weeks, ever since his impetuous, conspiratorial posts about President Barack Obama's supposedly wiretapping his phones touched off a still-running controversy.
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The uncertainty, in some ways, had echoes of the recent cash crisis in India touched off after the government said it would scrap two of its most widely circulated bills to crack down on undeclared hoards of cash.
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Details such as which shows to keep exclusive to the service and whether some original series produced for WarnerMedia's cable channels, such as "Snowpiercer," should be streamed before appearing on television has touched off debates, the people added.
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The narrowing of the California polls has touched off a glut of coverage about the state's primary, with ABC News wondering "What happens if Clinton loses California?" and Fox News speculating that Clinton is "nervous" about the primary.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The Ethiopian government has canceled a widely promoted plan to integrate the capital, Addis Ababa, with the surrounding region after it touched off protests and violence that has killed scores of people since late last year.
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President Donald Trump touched off a political firestorm last week by firing FBI Director James Comey, who was leading a probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and possible ties between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
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Walter Palmer, a lifelong big-game hunter from Minnesota, touched off a global controversy when he killed Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, with a bow and arrow outside Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe in July last year.
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Bourdin did rock the center of the world, just not the way he may have intended: Anarchism in the 1890s touched off the first age of global terrorism, and then as now, migrants and civil liberties paid the price.
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The Stonewall Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village was the site of a 1969 police raid that touched off riots and ignited a long struggle to bring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into the mainstream and guarantee their rights.
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The latest frenzy was touched off by President Trump's announcement on Wednesday that, beginning Friday night, most travelers from 26 European countries would be barred from visiting the United States for 30 days, news that sent airline stocks tumbling.
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The latest frenzy was touched off by President Trump's announcement on Wednesday that, beginning Friday night, most travelers from 93 European countries would be barred from visiting the United States for 29 days, news that sent airline stocks tumbling.
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Now, Covid-19 not only put Chinese luxury consumers on the sidelines but has further disrupted supply chains and touched off a stock market collapse that will also give high-net-worth consumers across the globe reason for pause.
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Argentina's central bank has sold more than $54.43 billion in its own reserves to support the currency against political uncertainty touched off by the left-wing opposition's resounding victory in a primary vote this month for October's presidency election.
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Argentina's central bank has sold more than $1 billion in its own reserves to support the currency against political uncertainty touched off by the left-wing opposition's resounding victory in a primary vote this month for October's presidency election.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump threw Middle East policy into turmoil on Monday with a series of conflicting signals after his vow to withdraw American forces from the region touched off an uprising among congressional Republicans and protests by America's allies.
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It's possible that a big-business progressive and a democratic socialist competing seriously for the Democratic nomination reflects that kind of shift, and we're headed into a new progressive era of expansive, European-style government touched off by Obama.
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Quarterback Jameis Winston has settled a dispute involving two federal lawsuits with a woman who accused him of rape, an allegation that ultimately touched off a national debate over a matter in which Winston was never prosecuted or disciplined.
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The city has ultimate authority over parking, but the move touched off an angry debate and is a provocative example of how curb space is becoming a fierce battleground in a fight for room on New York's crowded streets.
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NEW YORK, Aug 193 (Reuters) - Bond investors dialed back their bullish bets on U.S. longer-dated government debt as escalating tensions between China and the United States touched off a massive bond market rally, a J.P. Morgan survey showed on Tuesday.
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Castro's death, taking place against the backdrop of President Obama's efforts at the end of his tenure to normalize relations with Cuba, has touched off a fierce international debate over the meaning of human rights, social justice and political revolution.
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Increased government borrowing, together with inflation concerns due to rising commodity prices and bets on further rate increases from the Federal Reserve, have touched off the current bond market sell-off, with the 10-year yield currently trading around 3.03 percent.
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President Trump, just as he was moving to quell the raging controversy over his press conference with Vladimir Putin, touched off a new one Wednesday when he appeared to deny Russia is still targeting the U.S. – prompting another White House clarification.
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Washington (CNN)Ninety former US national security officials wrote a letter Sunday praising the anonymous whistleblower whose recent complaint about President Donald Trump's communications with Ukraine touched off a firestorm, leading House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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Washington (CNN)Ninety former US national security officials wrote a letter Sunday praising an anonymous whistleblower whose recent complaint about President Donald Trump's communications with Ukraine touched off a firestorm, leading House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry into Trump.
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Fed interest rate hikes through last year touched off stress in a number of countries whose currencies slid in value, for example by making it more expensive for companies to keep up with loans that had to be repaid in dollars.
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An Amber Alert issued Monday by the Barron County Sheriff in Wisconsin touched off a nationwide search for the 22010-year-old, after deputies discovered the bodies of her parents inside their home in a rural neighborhood in the Badger State.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's growing debt and property risks have touched off an internal debate over whether China should tolerate growth as low as 22017 percent in 26.2 to allow more room for painful reforms aimed at reducing industrial overcapacity and indebtedness.
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BRATISLAVA, March 22 (Reuters) - Slovakia President Andrej Kiska appointed Peter Pellegrini as prime minister on Thursday to end a political crisis touched off by the murder of an investigative journalist that led to mass protests and veteran leader Robert Fico's resignation.
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" House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff told Axios' Alayna Treene that he wants to ask Mueller about the counterintelligence investigation that touched off the Russia/election scandal: "We want to find out the scope of what was investigated, what he didn't investigate.
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New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, for example, touched off a minor firestorm among urbanists on Thursday when he effectively told an audience at the Transportation Alternatives conference in Manhattan that he was willing to tolerate a few dead pedestrians.
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GOP delegates at the convention, not primary voters or caucusgoers, choose the presidential nominee, another member of the Republican National Committee told CNBC, after a similar proclamation last week by an unbound delegate from North Dakota touched off a firestorm.
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The death of Carnell Snell Jr. on Saturday was one of two fatal police shootings of black men in California in the past week that touched off protests and intensified a debate over racial bias and excessive force in U.S. policing.
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WASHINGTON — The whistle-blower who touched off an impeachment inquiry with his explosive complaint about President Trump's effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals is willing to answer House Republicans' written questions, his legal team said on Sunday.
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BERLIN — The satirist whose crude lampoon of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey touched off a furor over free speech in Germany announced Saturday that he and his team would take a break from their satirical TV show until May 12.
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The Times writes: Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who touched off a national debate when he chose not to stand during the playing of the national anthem before games, has emboldened a handful of other players to follow suit.
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That recount touched off a round of litigation from both campaigns and ignited a bitter fight in the court of public opinion, in which Republicans raised the prospect of rampant election fraud and Democrats accused the GOP of voter suppression.
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In part because of the complexity of Harris' record, Bazelon touched off a vigorous debate about Harris' criminal justice stances, both on Twitter and in early voting states like Iowa and South Carolina, where Harris is scheduled to visit next week.
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It is now safe for thousands of Massachusetts residents to return to their homes, the authorities said, three days after gas leaks touched off a series of surprise explosions and fires that killed one and injured more than 20 others.
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In June, there were several nights of anti-Moscow protests in Tbilisi, touched off by a diplomatic incident and sustained by rage over Russia's continuing occupation of 20 percent of Georgian land that was lost in a brief war in 2008.
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It also immediately touched off the latest policy debate of the Democratic primary: Among the candidates asked about the issue recently were Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Senator Kamala Harris of California and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.
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The losses have touched off a debate within the intelligence community over whether the United States should continue to develop some of the world's most high-tech, stealthy cyberweapons if it is unable to keep them under lock and key.
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Trump held a lengthy phone call with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre on Tuesday, one of several the two men have had since massacres in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, touched off the latest national debate about tougher gun legislation.
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Yet the plans have touched off a controversy with a proposal to make way for the renovation by moving the towering Katyn Memorial, a tribute to Polish soldiers massacred during World War II, that had been in the plaza since 1991.
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MANILA — Thirty-six bodies were found at the biggest hotel-casino in the Philippines after a gunman carrying a container of gasoline set fires and touched off a mass panic — hours after the authorities said that only the assailant had died.
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Top of the list, of course, is the still-anonymous whistle-blower who touched off the impeachment drama by registering his concerns about Mr. Trump's clandestine effort to pressure Ukraine into conducting investigations that would benefit his re-election campaign.
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The subway seat debate started the same day that Mr. Byford, the subway leader, touched off another viral post on Twitter when the official subway account referred to him as "Train Daddy," a new nickname that has made New Yorkers chuckle.
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Mr. Marks's death, announced by Ms. Kouyoumdjian on Facebook on Friday, touched off a flurry of social-media posts that continued throughout the weekend, attesting to the art he made, the organizations he helped to establish and the values he championed.
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WASHINGTON — House Democrats rushed on Wednesday to plot the course of their formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, getting their first glimpses of the secret intelligence whistle-blower complaint that touched off the investigation that could lead to his removal.
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Kiev, Ukraine (CNN)Two Ukrainians named in the whistleblower report that touched off an impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump have told CNN that his personal lawyer actively pushed for an investigation into his political rivals' dealings in the country.
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The student loan market is nowhere near the size of the $8.6 trillion mortgage market, making student borrowing less of a threat to the global financial system than the bad housing loans that touched off the financial crisis in 2008.
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Rapid Chinese progress has touched off a debate in the United States between military strategists and technologists over whether the Chinese are merely imitating advances or are engaged in independent innovation that will soon overtake the United States in the field.
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Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel this week touched off days of protests in Arab and Muslim-majority countries and drew intense criticism from world leaders, who warned that the move could threaten stability in the region.
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While the magnitude was much lower than that of the March 11, 2011 quake that touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the intensity was similar because the quake struck on land and at a much shallower depth.
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Thousands of people took to the streets in India again on Wednesday against a new citizenship law based on religion that has touched off violent unrest, and a southern state imposed curbs on public gatherings to pre-empt further demonstrations.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has touched off rare criticism from AIPAC, the largest U.S. pro-Israel lobby, over an election alliance with a far-right party loyal to the policies of the late anti-Arab rabbi, Meir Kahane.
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Comey's second round of testimony touched off a partisan fight among House investigators into Russia's meddling in the US election, with Democrats saying they were angry Nunes canceled a public hearing with former intelligence officials, including former acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Rep.
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By contrast, the 2004 team lost three separate games during the Olympic tournament, including one to Puerto Rico—no, really, Puerto Rico—and touched off a flurry of media handwringing over the state of American basketball en route to a disappointing bronze medal.
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A fraud trial against the brother and son of Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales began on Wednesday amid a scandal touched off by the president's attempt to expel the leader of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption unit investigating the case.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday it would order inspection of some 220 jet engines after investigators said a broken fan blade touched off the explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight, shattering a window and killing a passenger.
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LOSING BATTLE Fed interest rate hikes through last year touched off stress in a number of countries whose currencies slid in value, for example by making it more expensive for companies to keep up with loans that had to be repaid in dollars.
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The report also touched off a scramble to determine who had leaked some of the information that was so closely held that many of the campaign's top aides felt blindsided that it had appeared online first before it was communicated by top aides.
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The animal's death touched off a storm of criticism aimed at both the zoo and the boy's mother, 32-year-old preschool administrator Michelle Gregg, who local prosecutors on Monday declined to criminally charge, saying she did not place her son in danger.
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The federal government took over the mortgage-financing company more than a decade ago in the wake of the housing crisis that touched off the Great Recession, and its stock is worth about 5% of what it was before the housing bubble burst.
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The trip by House Republican staff investigating Russian interference in the US election touched off a spat behind the scenes at the Capitol because Democrats on the investigation were kept in the dark, according to a separate source familiar with the trip.
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Trump wished away the self-induced crises that have dominated his administration, by neither naming the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program nor the Russian nesting doll of constitutional conflicts touched off by his decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey.
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The reports that had CNN at the center of the merger negotiations touched off criticism from some Democrats who suggested that President Trump was interfering in a Justice Department matter in order to retaliate against an outlet with which he's been at odds.
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" The "Full Frontal" segment about Mr. Fallon and NBC had been touched off when Ms. Miller received a text early Friday morning from Travon Free, a former writer for "The Daily Show" who now works on HBO's "Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons.
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ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - St. Louis officials decided on Wednesday to supply police officers with body cameras for a year following nearly a week of protests touched off by the acquittal of a former police officer for the shooting death of a black man.
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In 2006, the bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra, where Imam Ali al-Hadi and Imam Hassan al-Askari, the father and brother of Sayyid Muhammad bin Ali al-Hadi, are said to be buried, touched off years of sectarian bloodshed.
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SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - When RYB Education Inc became enmeshed in allegations of child abuse at one of its Beijing kindergartens, it touched off an angry online furor in China, a police inquiry and a precipitous fall in the company's New York-listed shares.
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Meanwhile, in the quiet, affluent suburb of Eastern Long Island, Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Wednesday for a series of crimes touched off by the break-in of his take-home police car.
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The surprise victory of the movie "Green Book" at the Academy Awards on Sunday — and the emotional debate it touched off about race, history and how we tell the story of America — had an urgency that rivaled anything happening in the news.
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The overhaul, which the government says is necessary to cope with a shrinking work force and a growing retiree population, has touched off street protests in more than 150 cities and divided the party, United Russia, usually known for its lock step unity.
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But while it yielded to Mr. Acosta — whose testy questions had touched off Mr. Trump's ire — the administration used the occasion to lay down a set of formal rules governing reporters' behavior at future White House news conferences, a highly unusual step.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — A judge in Brazil ruled on Sunday that former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva be released from prison while he continues to appeal a corruption conviction, an unexpected decision that touched off an immediate legal and political uproar.
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Andrew Cuomo, has touched off the kind of pitched political battle that many in the state, as recently as a couple of weeks ago, seemed confident belonged exclusively to Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the perpetually warring liberal leaders.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Disgraced former president Moshe Katsav was released on parole on Wednesday after serving five years of a seven-year jail sentence for rape, in a case that stirred deep emotions in Israel and touched off a national debate on sexual harassment.
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The video touched off a storm of protests from people on all sides of the political spectrum, which forced Ms. Griffin to apologize, and CNN announced that it would fire her from the annual New Year's Eve program she has co-hosted.
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Pompeo's appearance before the committee Wednesday afternoon will mark the first time lawmakers have had a chance to grill him since President Donald Trump touched off bipartisan alarm and outrage at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki nine days ago.
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Earlier this year, Mr. Boehner, who favored Jeb Bush in the presidential race and later endorsed his home-state governor, John Kasich, essentially single-handedly touched off the Paul Ryan-for-Republican-nominee boomlet while speaking to a trade association in March.
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Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, wants to ask the leading House manager about the whistle-blower whose confidential complaint about Mr. Trump's dealings with Ukraine touched off the impeachment inquiry, and about Hunter Biden, whom the president asked Ukraine's president to investigate.
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Market optimism was also stoked by a further recovery in the Turkish lira, whose four-day plunge spurred a flight out of other emerging market currencies and touched off a selloff in the euro due to fears about European banks' exposure to Turkey.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of people took to the streets in India again on Wednesday against a new citizenship law based on religion that has touched off violent unrest, and a southern state imposed curbs on public gatherings to pre-empt further demonstrations.
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The litigation was touched off by a determination made nearly two years ago by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, citing research linking it to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it would order the inspection of some CFM jet engines after investigators said a broken fan blade touched off an engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight, shattering a window and killing a passenger.
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When law enforcement officials obtained journalists' records during the Obama administration, members of Congress in both parties sounded alarms, and the moves touched off a firestorm among advocates for press freedom that helped prompt the Justice Department to rewrite its relevant guidelines.
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BUENOS AIRES, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Argentina's peso opened 0.11% weaker at 56.1 per U.S. dollar on Friday, traders said, as markets stabilize after weeks of tumult touched off by the landslide win of populist-leaning presidential candidate Alberto Fernandez in the Aug.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia – The father of a Mongolian model whose murder touched off a scandal in the highest levels of Malaysia&aposs recently ousted ruling party said Tuesday he will ask new Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to reopen the investigation into his daughter&aposs death.
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The headlines about the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired, but the most consequential war being waged today is a quieter sort of conflict: It's the new Cold War over data protection.
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Defense spending in Taiwan has not kept pace with the threat posed by China and should be increased, a senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday, days after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump touched off a storm by questioning American policy over the island.
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In a debate that illustrated the cacophony that results from a field of presidential aspirants that includes more than 20 people, Elizabeth Warren touched off the debate with a succinct critique of the nation's economic system as rigged to help the rich and powerful.
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DALLAS (Reuters) - A video showing a white Fort Worth police officer in an escalating argument with a black woman he took into custody along with the woman's daughters touched off a social media storm on Thursday, stoking a debate on race and U.S. policing.
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The wishful thinking that the HQ2 search touched off followed by its predictable endgame shows this isn't a problem that's going to fix itself — federal policymakers need to take a stronger hand in steering these kind of decisions if we want things to ever change.
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New York (CNN Business)Mark Zaid, the lawyer representing the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint has touched off an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, was sitting in the office of his Maryland home earlier this month when a Google alert popped up on his phone.
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The surprise deterioration in trade talks between Beijing and Washington this month touched off a round of bets that the Fed may be forced to reduce rates more than once, starting as early as September to stabilize the economy and financial markets, analysts said.
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The incident came just days after U.S. President Donald Trump touched off a furor by tweeting that Ocasio-Cortez and three of her colleagues in Congress, all women of color, should "go back" where they came from if they were unhappy in the United States.
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" The former "Baywatch" star touched off a firestorm when she told Kelly, "It was common knowledge that certain producers or certain people in Hollywood or people to avoid, privately," adding, "You know what you're getting into if you're going into a hotel room alone.
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News of the payouts to Mr. Rubin and other executives accused of wrongdoing, along with the continued employment of male executives who had acted inappropriately with women at Google, touched off outrage across the company and prompted a 20,000-person employee walkout a year ago.
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TEHRAN — A house visit by a daughter of a prominent ayatollah to a female leader of the persecuted Bahai religious minority touched off a debate this week in Iran about the harsh treatment of a group deemed pagans and impure by the country's dominant clerics.
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While the magnitude of Thursday's quake was much lower than that of the 2200 March 212, 20500 quake that touched off a massive tsunami and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the intensity was similar because it struck on land and at a much shallower depth.
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A jury earlier Thursday had found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate two years ago, rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder.
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Her case has touched off debate in Israel over whether democratic values have been compromised by a 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support anti-Israel boycotts, and if a hard line against the student would ultimately harm the country's image.
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But by trying to keep his Detroit-area seat in the family, he touched off a family feud between his 27-year-old son and his great-nephew Ian Conyers, a state senator from Michigan who also plans to run in a special House election.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump touched off another racially charged furor on Wednesday by sharing videos from a fringe British ultranationalist group purportedly showing Muslims committing acts of violence, a move that was swiftly condemned by Britain's prime minister as well as politicians across the spectrum.
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WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halting a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept.
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The protests took place amid high tensions and widespread uncertainty after the highly disputed referendum, which was carried out in defiance of the central government in Madrid and which touched off clashes between the Spanish police and citizens who were trying to cast ballots.
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Mr. Brunson, who had asked a court to free him on health grounds, was moved to house arrest last month after his initial detention 22 months ago on charges of aiding terrorist groups touched off a diplomatic dispute between the United States and Turkey.
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Anthony Bourdain, whose darkly funny memoir about life in New York City restaurant kitchens made him a celebrity chef and touched off his second career as a journalist, food expert and social activist, was found dead on Friday in his hotel room in France.
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For a while this past week, for an aging generation, it looked like we would have a 12th Dodger-Yankee World Series, which touched off flashbacks of how we Brooklyn fans suffered terribly from 1947 through 1956, our team drubbed by the Yankees five times.
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That was an extraordinary step for us, but the piece touched off what we believe to be an important national debate about whether the writer, and similarly situated Trump administration officials, are making the right choice (many of our readers clearly think they are not).
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But it happened in Japan, where the play — and what led to it — has touched off nationwide examination of deep-rooted cultural dynamics, including what the Japanese call "power hara," or harassment by those in power who force underlings to do things against their will.
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The news media scrum was touched off by a report in The Daily Mail, a British tabloid, that all members of the queen's staff had been ordered to a meeting in London, and that employees from royal residences across the country would be in attendance.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday played down the crisis in Syria touched off by Turkey's incursion against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, saying the conflict was between Turkey and Syria and that it was up to the countries there to work it out.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Violent protests by hundreds of people on Monday touched off by rumors that a teacher insulted an indigenous student in the restive Indonesian province of Papua have left at least 20 civilians dead, including three who were shot by the police, officials said.
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The strike touched off an immediate debate in Washington, with Republicans hailing the action as a decisive blow against a longtime enemy with American blood on his hands and Democrats expressing concern that the president was risking a new war in the Middle East.
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The folderol that ensued was among the proximate causes of News Corp's decision to fire her from HarperCollins, a decision that touched off a twisted "did she fall or was she pushed" legal battle that eventually ended with Regan securing a $10 million settlement.
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Netflix has a little over 250 horror movies, many of them classics — "The Legend of Hell House," from 403, loomed large in my early-teen years, because it's really scary, and also because it touched off my lifelong crush on the actress Pamela Franklin.
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Just before the Oscars, Karl Lagerfeld, the designer of Chanel, touched off an international incident by claiming, in Women's Wear Daily, that Meryl Streep commissioned, and then declined to wear, one of his gowns, saying she had been paid to wear one by another designer.
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"Donald Trump's unprecedentedly corrupt administration is melting down because of the scandal he touched-off by trying to get Ukraine to lie about Joe Biden -- and as the vice president said yesterday, he should release his tax returns or shut up," Bates said in a statement.
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While better-than-expected March data from China have helped eased fears of a sharp global slowdown, it has also touched off an intense debate over how much more stimulus Beijing can roll out without risking a rapid build-up in debt and potential asset bubbles.
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"HIGH-PRESSURE" RESPONSE Trump's announcement on Thursday of 103-percent and 10-percent levies on foreign steel and aluminum touched off outcries of unfair protectionism from trading partners, while it drew cheers from domestic producers as a move to combat questionable export practices by other countries.
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The case has touched off a debate in Israel over whether democratic values have been compromised by a 2017 law that bars the entry of foreigners who publicly support anti-Israel boycotts, and if a hard line against the student would ultimately harm the country's image.
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This is evidence that China may be in for a long period of Japan-like stagnation rather than a single event triggering a crisis - what some economists call a "Lehman moment" after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, which touched off the global financial crisis.
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Nina Ponomareva, a champion discus thrower who earned the Soviet Union its first Olympic gold medal when she competed in the 1952 Helsinki Games and touched off a diplomatic crisis four years later when she shoplifted five hats in a London store, died on Friday in Moscow.
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Netflix thinks 'Fortnite' is a bigger threat than HBO An exception is the immensely popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, one of the hits that touched off the "battle royale" craze, which took in a billion on its own — though how much of that is sales versus microtransactions isn't clear.
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His use of the term "spying" to describe court-authorized surveillance aimed at understanding Russian outreach to the Trump campaign touched off criticism that he was echoing insinuations by Mr. Trump and his allies that the F.B.I. was unfairly spying on his campaign for political purposes.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump touched off a sharply partisan debate over some of the most divisive issues in American life on Wednesday as he cited this week's terrorist attack in New York to advance his agenda on immigration and national security while assailing Democrats for endangering the country.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin got a searing reminder of that this week when an apparently offhand comment, that a weak dollar benefits American trade, helped plunge the currency to a three-year low and touched off a flurry of speculation about the Trump administration's economic plans.
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That same week, _________, whose darkly funny memoir about life in New York City restaurant kitchens made him a celebrity chef and touched off his second career as a journalist, food expert and social activist, was found dead on June 8 in his hotel room in France.
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John F. Kelly's suggestion that "compromise" could have stopped the Civil War touched off an angry debate on Tuesday about the meaning of the conflict that served as the latest reminder that the 1860s was not the only time of political polarization in the country's history.
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The two leaders' last meeting, held in Helsinki, Finland, in July with only interpreters present, touched off bipartisan criticism in Washington after Mr. Trump suggested at a news conference that he had accepted Mr. Putin's denials of election interference despite the findings of American intelligence agencies.
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The crown jewel was a 150-room castle in Austria once owned by Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 0003 touched off World War I. The archduke used the castle, known as Blühnbach, as a hunting lodge; Mr. Koch used it for decades as his summer retreat.
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A complex series of human and mechanical errors signaled by a raucous blast of steam early on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, resulted in a partial reactor core meltdown and touched off a crisis that threatened not only thousands of lives but also the future of nuclear power.
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In a gut-wrenching episode halfway through the season, Elliot's therapist Krista (Gloria Reuben) even guided Elliot down to the core of his trauma to help him realize that the events that precipitated his split into multiple personalities were touched off by his own father molesting him.
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Certainly, Trump touched off the process by announcing last month he'd be pulling back $230 million in relief funds and persuaded other countries in the region to pony up $300 million instead, according to the State Department -- abrogating America's hard-won leadership position in the Middle East.
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The N.F.L. entered a partnership with Jay-Z as a way to smooth over the rough edges left by the league's battle with Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback whose kneeling during the national anthem touched off a nationwide debate over free speech, patriotism and the treatment of black Americans.
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" Anne Scott, a 1980 graduate of the school whose reports of her rape by the school's now deceased athletic trainer touched off the investigations, said in the statement: "Today's decision is a very important first step in what we hope will be a process of reconciliation and healing.
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The gesture, posted on Facebook and Twitter last week, touched off a barrage of criticism in and out of the armed forces as some commenters accused the women of allying themselves with the Black Lives Matter movement and sowing racial divisions in a military that relies on assimilation.
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The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 failed to deliver democracy except perhaps in Tunisia; instead they upended the traditional structures and touched off a civil war in Syria that has killed or wounded hundreds of thousands of people, displaced millions and continues to consume much of the region.
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But "the starting point for the economy...raises the costs of underestimating" full employment, as happened in the 1960s when efforts to drive down the unemployment rate touched off high inflation, Goldman Sachs analyst Daan Struyven wrote in an analysis of Powell's remarks and the new staff research.
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The shooting of the two officers, who were sitting in a patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, touched off a period of pronounced tension for the Police Department, the mayor and a public embroiled, then as now, in a debate about race, policing and the use of force.
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For some, the development touched off more worry than anger: former President Bill Clinton, who learned of the news en route to his last event of the day, in Pennsylvania, fretted that it would draw hostile attention to Ms. Abedin, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
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But in a country where 97 percent of adults said they believed in God, it touched off a ferocious backlash against the magazine and led to the vilification particularly of Dr. Altizer, who was more visible than the others, spoke to the press and had a certain theatrical flair.
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Not far from a now-infamous Zurich hotel where seven FIFA officials were arrested last May in a police raid that touched off the biggest crisis in the history of football's global governing body, the new $140 million FIFA World Football Museum is scheduled to open in late February.
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We took their concerns to Dean Baquet, The Times's executive editor, who responded to them in a discussion with the Reader Center: The president and some of his supporters have attacked the credibility of the whistle-blower, who has presented information that has touched off a landmark impeachment proceeding.
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Now, an article in a leading feminist philosophy journal has touched off a firestorm of criticism and countercriticism, illuminating a divide within feminist philosophy itself and raising a thorny question: Just what counts as good philosophy where sensitive issues of identity are concerned, and who gets to decide?
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One such amendment, which would have placed the FBI headquarters and the Old Post Office building, a federally owned property on Pennsylvania Avenue that currently holds the Trump International Hotel, in the potential federal enclave and not the new state touched off a tense exchange between the lawmakers.
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Germany's aggressive steps to expand its borders touched off both an international political crisis, as world leaders scrambled to avoid war, and a humanitarian refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people, mostly Jews, sought safety from the Nazis in countries outside the grip of the Third Reich.
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He stayed for about two hours for what White House officials said were routine tests, but since the visit had not been revealed in advance and came only nine months after his last annual physical, it touched off much discussion about whether the president had an undisclosed health issue.
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DENVER (Reuters) - An 18-year-old Florida woman infatuated with the Columbine massacre was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Colorado on Wednesday after she touched off an extensive manhunt by making a "pilgrimage" to the state days before the 20th anniversary of the 1999 school shooting.
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Image 19843 of 2 TANGIERS, Morocco – Hundreds of protesters marched in Morocco&aposs capital Wednesday to denounce the convictions of a charismatic protest movement leader and three other activists, all given the maximum prison sentence of 20 years over mass demonstrations touched off by the death of a fish seller.
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Johnson, defying the expectations of the white press, beat him in a well-publicized match in Australia and touched off what can only be termed an outbreak of mass racial hysteria, in which a succession of "Great White Hope" figures were sought to dethrone Johnson, all of whom fell short.
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Viral videos of Dr. David Dao being dragged down the aisle of a United jet and Munoz's handling of the incident touched off a public outcry, prompted calls from congressmen for new industry regulation, and led United's board of directors to reverse an agreement to make Munoz chairman in 2018.
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He was elected in 2011 on the platform that he would run government more like a business, and it was the decision, aimed at cutting costs, made by his appointee to switch Flint off the Detroit Water Authority to corrosive water from the Flint River that touched off the lead contamination.
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The ongoing implosion of the Donald Trump campaign, after release of a tape capturing the Republican presidential nominee's demeaning remarks about women along with claims by women that they had been groped by the candidate, has touched off widespread concern about the fallout on the rest of the GOP ticket.
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Those allegations touched off a months-long investigation that culminated last week in a North Carolina State Board of Elections hearing, during which state officials and witnesses painted a picture of a sweeping ballot-tampering operation led by Leslie McCrae Dowless, a long-time political operative working for Harris's campaign.
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That touched off a cascade of revelations that, for the first time, has allowed the Bangladeshi authorities to penetrate the murky world of the attackers and answer questions about the planning, execution and purpose of the attacks that have baffled the country — and, indeed, the world — since the violence began.
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Washington (CNN)A Missouri Democrat poised to be the next prosecutor for St. Louis County says he's seen progress on racial and cultural issues in Ferguson since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager there four years ago touched off unrest and allegations of bias in the city's law enforcement community.
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It's largely forgotten now, but back during the mid-aughts (a time of more rapid wage growth than what we saw in 2017, incidentally), it was commonplace in conservative circles to proclaim that we were living through a "Bush Boom" touched off by his game-changing tax cuts and deregulation.
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" The BBC's publication last year of the salaries of on-air broadcasters earning more than £27,212, or about $250,000, touched off public outrage after the list revealed a huge disparity in pay between men and women as well as ethnic inequality that many employees said had been "known for years.
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WASHINGTON — A formal condemnation of anti-Semitism that is up for a vote in the House this week has touched off a furious debate between older House Democrats and their young liberal colleagues over whether Representative Ilhan Omar is being singled out for unfair treatment over her statements on Israel.
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The victory of a man captured on tape boasting about groping women, over a candidate who would have been the first female president, touched off an anguished backlash among women that has fueled mass marches and huge turnout among female voters as well as the record number of female candidates.
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As Peter Baker and Eileen Sullivan write: President Trump touched off another racially charged furor on Wednesday by sharing videos from a fringe British ultranationalist party purportedly showing Muslims committing acts of violence, a move that was swiftly condemned by Britain's prime minister as well as politicians across the spectrum.
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Mr. Abbott announced the discussions immediately after the shooting at Santa Fe High School, south of Houston, touched off another wave of grief and fear — just six months after another mass shooting at a Baptist church in the Texas town of Sutherland Springs left 26 people dead and 20 others injured.
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So Mr. Trump did something that might not have been a surprise for a president facing impeachment but that was unusual for him: He reversed himself Saturday night, abruptly ending the uproar touched off two days earlier by the announcement of his decision by Mick Mulvaney, his acting chief of staff.
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But the high expense and low utility of the call records collected sheds new light on the National Security Agency's decision in 2434 to shutter the program amid recurring technical headaches, halting a counterterrorism effort that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the Sept.
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Friday's news of the resignation of Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve official who served as quarterback of the effort to tame systemic risk in the banking system, touched off another leg in a sustained and powerful rally of U.S. bank shares, which are up nearly 30 percent since shortly before the election.
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A number of student-athletes have received intense scrutiny after a series of high-profile accusations — among them the former Stanford swimmer, Brock Turner, whose sentence of six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was denounced by critics as too lenient and touched off protests across the country.
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Once known mainly to local fishermen only, the Blackfoot gained widespread attention in 1992, when Robert Redford's film adaptation of Maclean's book, starring a young Brad Pitt, touched off a craze for the sport and made a trip to the river an essential pilgrimage for veteran and neophyte anglers from around the world.
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White House Memo WASHINGTON — Last fall, Donald J. Trump inadvertently touched off a national conversation about sexual harassment when a recording of him boasting about groping women was made public at the same time a succession of women came forward to assert that groping was something he did more than talk about.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's threat to rip up the Iran nuclear deal has touched off an urgent scramble in European capitals to preserve the agreement — not by rewriting it, but by creating a successor deal intended to halt Iran's ballistic missile program and make permanent the restrictions on its ability to produce nuclear fuel.
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How much Mr. Trump knew about the payment to Stephanie Clifford, the actress, and who else was aware of it have been at the center of a swirling controversy for the past 1300 hours touched off by a television interview with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new addition to the president's legal team.
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Not only was Mr. Buckel's death one of the few cases of political self-immolation in the United States since the 1960s — when the image of a monk in flames in Saigon touched off a spate of self-immolations — it was perhaps the first of its kind in the name of climate change.
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A senior Apple executive, who spoke on condition he not be named, said during a call with reporters that Orenstein's decision would bode well for the company in the San Bernardino case, which has touched off a fierce national debate about the balance between fighting crime and preserving privacy in the digital age.
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It offered decisive judgment in the midst of national political and civic struggles and touched off a debate over race and democracy that continues to this day, absent the lucidly analytical and profoundly American sentiments conveyed by a report that asked the nation to proclaim once and for all that black lives matter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For a solid decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers touched off a global financial crisis, there was good reason to think the U.S. economy remained broken, from skepticism about the health of the labor market to tepid economic growth and the moribund rate of interest paid on U.S. Treasury bonds.
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The news of that actual abuse of power touched off five months of impeachment hearings, two articles of impeachment charging presidential high crimes and misdemeanors, and a joke of a trial where the Republican-controlled Senate did everything possible to avoid coming face to face with the evidence and venality of the president's crimes.
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ATHENS — The situation at a notorious reception center for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has stabilized after a fire left a woman dead and touched off rioting, the authorities said on Monday, with local politicians and the United Nations saying the developments were further evidence that conditions had long passed the breaking point.
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Viral videos of Dr. David Dao being dragged down the aisle of a United jet and Chief Executive Oscar Munoz's handling of the incident touched off a public outcry, prompted calls from congressmen for new industry regulation, and led United's board of directors to reverse an agreement to make Munoz company chairman in 2018.
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Mr. Trump's decision to pluck Mr. Sessions from the Senate in early 2017 touched off a grim comedy of errors for the party, involving two Alabama governors, a Senate appointment widely seen as tainted by corruption, a rescheduled special election and a botched attempt by national Republican donors to crush dissent in the Republican primary.
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Read more: Trump doesn't have enough diplomats to deal with North Korea A self-described traditional healer touched off a firestorm of controversy over cannibalism and witchcraft in a small northeastern town in South Africa after marching into local police headquarters a week ago and announcing he was "tired of eating human flesh," according to a local official.
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Osnos was interviewing white rights groups when Trump's candidacy emerged, and Osnos's story shows that he was uniquely suited to capture how and why those groups thrilled to Trump's candidacy: When the Trump storm broke this summer, it touched off smaller tempests that that stirred up American politics in ways that were easy to miss from afar.
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With Judge Williams expected to announce a decision Monday morning — delaying a ruling until the crowds coming to the city for the Preakness Stakes horse race on Saturday leave — Baltimore is set to get its first verdict in the case of an officer charged in the encounter with Mr. Gray, whose death touched off riots and days of unrest.
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In the past, the word "nuclear" has touched off many reactions from Mr. Trump, from descriptions of the decrepit state of some of the United States' nuclear forces, to denunciations of the Iranian nuclear deal, to descriptions of a long-dead uncle who taught at M.I.T. and warned Mr. Trump decades ago about the power of nuclear weapons.
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Mr. Lochte's account touched off a dispute that quickly transcended sports, emerging as a point of tension between the United States and Brazil as the authorities in Rio de Janeiro faced scrutiny over their security preparations for the Olympics in a city on edge over a crime wave and gun battles between drug gangs and the police.
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FBI Director James Comey, a Republican appointed by President Obama, touched off an outcry from Democrats last week when he alerted Congress that agents had found other emails that could be linked to an inquiry into Clinton's use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State, effectively re-opening an investigation he had closed in July.
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The discovery of a second case of the new coronavirus in New York on Tuesday — a man of about 50 who lives in Westchester County, just north of New York City — quickly touched off an intense search by health investigators across the region to determine whether he had infected others, and who might have infected him.
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And doctors said the test would not likely resolve the kind of high-profile cases that have taken on religious and political dimensions, like that of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose condition touched off an ethical debate in the mid-2000s, or Karen Ann Quinlan, a New Jersey woman whose case stirred similar sentiments in the 1970s.
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This announcement of reality touched off a cultural hysteria (we see clips of a public-service film called "Boys Beware") that probably helped Eisenhower to become the first Republican president in 20 years; it's surely no coincidence that signing Executive Order 10450 — the ban on homosexual federal employees — was one of his first acts in office.
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Barry F. Kowalski, a Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted high-profile civil rights cases, most notably winning the convictions of two white Los Angeles police officers in 22019 for the beating of Rodney G. King — an episode that touched off one of the nation's worst urban riots — died on Sunday at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 19663.
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What follows is a reconstruction of how so many more experienced it -- from the jarring, happy hour-timed announcement, which touched off a flurry of increasingly frantic calls for a independent investigation into Russian election meddling (mixed in with some cheering from the Trump-friendly right) and, eventually, a defensive President's evening and early morning Twitter attacks on the Democrats and Comey.
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And if all this hadn't sealed his fate, especially with Republican women, he disclosed in the final days of the campaign that he had not paid income taxes in 1986, thanks to an oil bust that had touched off a recession — even though just four years later he was pouring $8 million of his own money into the race for governor.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpDem lawmaker says Nunes threatened to sue him over criticism Parnas: U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed to clear path for investigations into Bidens Five takeaways from Parnas's Maddow interview MORE's authorization last week of a drone strike that killed an elite Iranian general in Iraq touched off a heated debate among the Democratic presidential candidates over foreign policy, Julia reports.
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From Britain's railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, innovative new technologies have routinely touched off periods of near hysteria as marketers and commentators promise world-changing disruption; excitement builds to a fever pitch and the marketplace wildly over-allocates resources to the latest shiny new thing until people regain their senses and calmly integrate it into their daily lives.
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Hunter Biden — son of former Vice President Joe Biden and the man who set off President Donald Trump's desire for a Ukrainian investigation into the Biden family — expressed regret that his business dealings have touched off a scandal on Tuesday, but maintained that while he may have made poor choices in the past, he did nothing wrong in accepting work from a Ukrainian energy company.
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Yet for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the idea of crying children torn from their parents' arms was simply too inhumane — and too politically perilous — to embrace as policy, and Mr. Trump, though he had made an immigration crackdown one of the central issues of his campaign, succumbed to the same reality, publicly dropping the idea after Mr. Kelly's comments touched off a swift backlash.
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The nurses survived but the incident touched off an instant public health scare across the U.S. With proven direct interests, America must be prepared to do what is needed to help contain the current outbreak at its source, while the U.S. medical community sustains its call for the kind of swift and strong response needed to keep the Democratic Republic of the Congo and all nations—including America—safe.
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This bit of tit-for-tattery follows tariffs imposed this year on various types of Chinese steel by the EU and the U.S. China reserved the highest new tariff for a specialized kind of steel made in Britain by Tata Steel, which itself touched off something approaching a panic when it said it will effectively abandon its operations there, threatening a chain of production sustaining tens of thousands of jobs.
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"President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's plan to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. has touched off a firestorm," a broadcaster says at the beginning of the ad, set in a fictitious November 85033.
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The 90-day battle to install Judge Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court that ended on Saturday with a razor-thin 50-to-48 vote proved to be the most dramatic confirmation fight in a quarter-century, a showdown of epic proportions that tested a president, drove a wedge through the Senate, gripped the nation, touched off emotional protests and exposed the dark corners of America's struggle with sex and power.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE touched off a heated battle Tuesday over the limits of the First Amendment when he tweeted that flag burners should be stripped of their citizenship or jailed.
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The news touched off a torrent of speculation aimed at filling in the missing pieces of the story: commentary from doctors (who are not Melania's) across the country offering thoughts on what the "condition" could be, HIPAA laws be damned, (the likely culprit, it seems: a non-cancerous growth called an angiomyolipoma), as well as in-depth reports on what an embolization entails, how kidney abnormalities are found, and who's at risk.
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There is no doubt that the ground has shifted since complaints about Mr. Weinstein touched off the global #MeToo movement, but Mr. Vance's office will face a long legal battle against a wealthy defendant and one of the city's best defense lawyers, who will spare no effort to portray Mr. Weinstein as someone who behaved badly but did not break the law by having consensual sex with women seeking to further their careers.
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Just as the assassination of an Austrian noble in Sarajevo touched off World War I in the early twentieth century, it's likely that future historians will look back at the bleak landscape of resource rivalry and mass climate migration in the twenty-second century, and marvel at how long, and how extensively, world leaders were briefed on the specter of climate chaos, only to shirk their basic responsibilities to provide and govern for posterity over an entire political generation.
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Ilhan OmarIlhan OmarScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation MORE (D-Minn.) and Rashida TlaibRashida Harbi TlaibScaramucci calls on GOP to save country from Trump 'depredations' The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Mueller report fades from political conversation MORE (D-Mich.) because of a law that prohibits entry of individuals who support boycotts on Israel — a move that touched off a wave of criticism from Democrats, some Republicans and pro-Israel groups.
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Secretary of Defense: Dr. Doom Secretary of Energy: Dr. Octopus Secretary of Education: Dr. Seuss Secretary of State: Dr. Evil Secretary of Agriculture: Dr. Mareou Secretary of the Interior: Dr. Robotnick Women's issues tsar: Dr. Feelgood Gang Violence tsar: Dr. Dre (actually, that's not a half-bad idea…) Scientific and Medical Ethics tsar: Dr. Frankenstein Drug tsar: Dr. Mario Nuclear weapon tsar: Dr. Strangelove And of course just as the world is ending in thermonuclear fire touched off because some Iranian sailor in the gulf flipped off Air Force One, Dr. Who appears, looks around, and says, "Fixed point in time, I am so sorry…" Can it please be November already?
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