It quickly went viral, touching off a social media maelstrom.
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The two officers were exonerated in March, touching off more protests.
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Ceant warned that the protests risked touching off a humanitarian crisis.
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White supremacist-affiliated protesters gathered in Virginia in 2007, touching off international outrage.
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Umm, none, I said, thereby touching off a monologue on lack of opportunity everywhere.
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But rain was still pounding the island chain, touching off flooding on Oahu and Kauai.
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Later, Grassley pushed back more strongly, touching off a brief brushfire between the two lawmakers.
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Lately, the tactics have become more confrontational, touching off a national debate over civility in politics.
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She immediately said yes, touching off a whirlwind romance more than a decade after breaking up.
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Steel doors lock everyone in, touching off a "Hunger Games"-style kill-or-be-killed scenario.
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The previous year, the Nationalists had tried to take over the country, touching off a civil war.
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The Dow Jones industrial average roared back the next day, touching off what became known as the Trump rally.
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The attacks gave Democrats fresh ammunition in their impeachment inquiry, touching off claims that they amounted to witness intimidation.
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Employees have banded together to demand collective bargaining and more secure contracts, touching off a fresh clash with management.
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Investigators believe Cetin escaped the mall in a car, touching off a massive manhunt that stretched for nearly 24 hours.
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Police allege Lynch went on the run after the killing early Friday morning, touching off a search that is ongoing.
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The disclosure provoked widespread outrage, touching off a scandal that has engulfed the bank in negative publicity and legal fallout.
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Mr. Sessions submitted his resignation, touching off a scramble among White House aides to keep the president from accepting it.
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Ten years ago this week, Lehman Brothers collapsed, touching off a crisis that sunk the economy and the stock market.
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But there is an understandable fear that the yuan may slip anchor, potentially touching off a round of devaluations in Asia.
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On cue, two of Ms. Crystal's associates released white lab rats that had been concealed in their handbags, touching off pandemonium.
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Moscow put nuclear missiles on the island in 1962, touching off a 13-day superpower showdown known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The wind can send embers flying up to a mile away, touching off spot fires that can grow quickly, fire officials said.
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The Washington Post revealed his identity in February, touching off intense examination of the causes of radicalization among Muslim immigrants in Europe.
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During that time, uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt had ousted longtime autocratic rulers, touching off protests in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.
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And the price of riskier assets falls, touching off a cycle of fear in markets and threatening economic recovery around the world.
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These are not my worst-case scenarios: They do not involve Trump making baldly authoritarian moves or accidentally touching off nuclear war.
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In January, the state of Hawaii sent a false alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile, touching off panic across the state.
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Touching off the surge in demand was an announcement by Exxon that it was opening a new corporate campus in nearby Spring.
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In 2011, activists installed a statue honoring the women in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, touching off a diplomatic furor.
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The managers will march the articles over to the Senate chamber, touching off a series of steps that will initiate the trial.
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Malecki said the suspect's driving was unstable and that she made a U-turn after striking a vehicle, touching off a police pursuit.
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Those include the death of Stephon Clark, 22, who was killed by Sacramento police in March 2018, touching off protests across the state.
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Caesar Goodson was the driver of the police van in which Gray was critically injured in April 2015, touching off protests and rioting.
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The images reportedly date back to January 2014, when local authorities searched Syria-bound trucks, touching off a standoff with Turkish intelligence officials.
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These factors weighed on market sentiment, spurring selling on Wall Street and touching off a partial reversal of earlier gains in oil prices.
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Thailand's bubble economy of reckless and unchecked lending grew on his watch and burst one year later, touching off the Asian financial crisis.
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After Spain rejected that petition in 2005, family members sued the museum in U.S. District Court in California, touching off years of litigation.
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Late in the game, Taylor landed a left hook square on Witte's ear, touching off a brutal minute-and-a-half-long melee.
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Asian stock markets have fallen as much as a fifth over the U.S.-Chinese trade row, touching off fears of an economic downturn.
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One police canine trainer suggested that many of the dogs would have to be euthanized, touching off a wave of criticism from astonished experts.
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The matter is politically sensitive as the Kremlin this year cited a lack of pension reserves and raised the retirement age, touching off protests.
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Nicaragua has been on edge since late last month, when President Daniel Ortega announced an overhaul of the nation's welfare system, touching off deadly protests.
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The shooter fled the scene in his vehicle, touching off a manhunt across the region that ultimately led police to an apartment building in Oxford.
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After touching off the latest round of Iowa pearl-clutching with a vigorous denunciation, Mr. Castro has continued to speak out against the primary schedule.
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But abortion-rights advocates will be suing over this policy any minute now, touching off what will surely be a protracted and intense legal battle.
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An anti-Semitism resolution that's up for a vote in the House on Wednesday is touching off a generational fight over one of its members.
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It's a seat that Trump won by 20 points (and Romney by 17), touching off a new round of optimism among Democrats about the coming midterms.
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Officials have previously pointed to comments Trump adviser George Papadopoulos allegedly made about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton as touching off the investigation in July 2016.
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In 2004, he and his wife moved to Atlanta, where they divorced months later, touching off an international custody battle that became tabloid fodder in Jamaica.
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In the early 1990s, the army cancelled an election that Islamists were poised to win, touching off a shattering civil war that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
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In the early 1990s, the army canceled an election that Islamists were poised to win, touching off a shattering civil war that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
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But the Trump administration has already vowed to counter a rush by the Russians to modernize their forces, touching off a new kind of nuclear arms race.
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The ANC leadership then named senior party member and former cabinet minister Thoko Didiza as its candidate for Tshwane, overriding regional branch members and touching off the riots.
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As magma destroyed four more homes, molten rock from two huge cracks merged into a single stream, threatening to block other escape routes and touching off brush fires.
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At that time, Zarate was only convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, touching off a storm of criticism from conservative pundits and President Trump.
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Mr. Gardiner was married but had no heirs, touching off a splenetic three-decade legal imbroglio with his niece over maintenance costs and visitation rights on Gardiners Island.
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As a result, funding for CHIP expired on September 30th, touching off months of panic among state officials, health providers, and — not least of all — children and families.
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Touching off in the heart of Paris, Kim traces the history of a single material, connecting locales such as the Middle East with that of her native South Korea.
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Leslie Jones is in the middle of a social media uproar after Twitter shut down the writer Leslie blames for touching off a storm of racist hate against her.
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Police attacked, touching off a cycle of protest and violence that ended in Mr Yanukovych's flight to Russia, a new government—and the signing of the Ukraine-EU agreement.
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The first trial, against Officer William G. Porter, ended in a hung jury in December, touching off legal maneuvers that brought proceedings against the officers to a temporary halt.
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John R. Kasich for not endorsing Mr. Trump, touching off a remarkably bitter exchange between the campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee and advisers to Ohio's popular Republican governor.
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The date of June 25, 1950 is the anniversary of when North Korea's army attacked South Korea, crossing the so-called 38th parallel and touching off the Korean War.
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Experts have said that climate change has increased the likelihood of more massive, sluggish storms like Florence, capable of dropping record amounts of rain and touching off catastrophic flooding.
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Lochte falsely claimed he and other American swimmers had been held at gunpoint and robbed while at a gas station during the Rio Summer Games, touching off an international incident.
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Over much of the past week, Booker has taken up a more aggressive posture, touching off a clash with Biden over his record on criminal justice reform and mass incarceration.
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Story capped a rainy afternoon when he drove a 20-2 cutter from Nick Vincent (3-2)434 feet into the right-center field seats, touching off the celebratory fireworks.
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A powerful earthquake struck Southern California on Thursday, touching off house fires and damaging buildings in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but authorities had no early reports of injuries.
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North Carolina's governor in March signed into law a measure barring transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, touching off widespread criticism from corporate, entertainment and sports leaders.
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Part of that was his uncanny ability to dominate the 20163-hour news cycle -- touching off explosive news stories with his provocative tweets and then driving the cycle with his interviews.
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In late summer, Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers chose not to stand during the national anthem before his N.F.L. games to protest racial injustice, touching off a national debate.
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The 23 states, and Washington D.C, announced they would sue to halt the proposed rollback, touching off what will likely be a heated legal showdown, possibly making it to the Supreme Court.
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The teen was reported missing by her friends who scattered during the attack and could not find her afterwards, touching off an hours-long search by authorities in Fairfax and Loudoun counties.
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China was also the first to ground the newest version of Boeing's workhorse 737 model earlier this month following a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash, touching off a series of regulatory actions worldwide.
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High wind forecasts prompted utility Pacific Gas & Electric Corp to shut off power to about 403,000 customers in 43 counties on Saturday night to guard against the risk of touching off wildfires.
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Five months later, a state grand jury declined to bring charges against Officer Pantaleo, touching off a wave of protests in New York and a national debate about policing in minority communities.
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It stepped up its stimulus after revelations in 2010 that Greece had systematically understated the true size of its government debt, touching off a crisis that threatened to tear the eurozone apart.
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About 300 United States marshals, F.B.I. agents and other law-enforcement officials cordoned off the area with armored cars and heavy weapons, touching off a 10-week battle of nerves and gunfire.
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Britain won backing from its Western allies for the conclusion that Moscow was behind the attack, touching off the latest in a series of diplomatic breaches between the Kremlin and the West.
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If nothing comes of South Korea's initiative, the United States is likely to resume military exercises and the North is likely to resume nuclear and missile testing, touching off another escalatory spiral.
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Last week, a judge found former police officer Jason Stockley not guilty of murder in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, touching off days of protest in downtown St. Louis.
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It seems that removing single-day bans on alcohol purchasing merely shifts alcohol drinking (and subsequent criminal behaviors) around the days of the week instead of touching off a large overall bump.
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The possibility that households would cut consumption of goods and services as they attempted to meet subprime mortgage payments -- touching off a deep recession -- was never mentioned in the FOMC meetings surrounding Bear.
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After the market closed that day, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said monetary policy was a "long way" from neutral, touching off concerns the central bank would hike rates more aggressively than forecast.
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The Chicago Police Department delayed for more than a year the release of video footage that led to first-degree murder charges against the officer, touching off outrage and calls for Emanuel's resignation.
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The fires, driven by howling seasonal winds, have forced California power utility PG&E Corp to cut electricity here to millions of people to prevent its transmission lines from touching off new blazes.
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She opened her own boutique in St.-Germain-des-Prés in May 22012 but closed it for a time as Sorbonne students rioted, touching off strikes and protests that paralyzed France for weeks.
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Restoring sanctions without showing Iran violated the deal would put the United States in violation of the accord, experts say, potentially alienating some of the nation's closest allies and touching off trade disputes.
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With less rain and snow reaching the desert floor, overpumping has rendered a semi-renewable resource finite, touching off the kind of resource war perhaps more familiar to coal camps and oil boomtowns.
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Around that time, it also emerged that Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's wife was buying a home from a Mexican firm that was part of the Chinese-led consortium, touching off a political firestorm.
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After the market closed that day, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said monetary policy was a "long way" from neutral, touching off concerns the central bank would hike interest rates more aggressively than forecast.
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Ryan says that at some point, Brad Wheat fired a shot inside the store, touching off a struggle between the three of them that ended in the murder-suicide as the store owner escaped.
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Last month, Yellowstone managers warned visitors to leave wildlife alone after two tourists put a newborn bison calf in their car, touching off a string of events that ultimately led to the animal's death.
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With morgues at capacity, a refrigerated semi-trailer truck filled with corpses was found in a warehouse on the outskirts of the state capital and, later, near a residential neighborhood, touching off an uproar.
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Another video that surfaced days later provided additional context for the encounter, but the first video had gone viral, touching off widespread accusations of bigotry as photos of the teenager spread across social media.
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LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP China was also the first to ground the newest version of Boeing's workhorse 737 model earlier this month following a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash, touching off a series of regulatory actions worldwide.
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The combined ECB moves were less aggressive than what some traders had expected, touching off selling in shorter-dated German government debt, which in turn spilled over into shorter Treasury maturities, traders and analysts said.
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And shortly after leaving Washington, former first lady Betty Ford revealed her battle with addiction, touching off a shift in society that allowed others struggling with the same issues to come out of the shadows.
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But Trump's tweets about Mexico had a particularly unsettling impact, touching off enough volatility and doubt about the future that it pushed the Fed towards the very rate cuts Trump has demanded for other reasons.
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The nightmare scenario here is that Trump, as rumored, will slap significant tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods, thus touching off a mutually destructive trade war as Beijing responds with measures of its own.
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In addition to potentially touching off an arms race of planetary proportions, there could be an economic race over space resources, comparable to the emerging fight over the Arctic or over deep-sea fishing rights.
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Coronavirus "may hasten the adoption" of online delivery and pickup, touching off long-term challenges for smaller chains earlier than expected, Kelly Bania, analyst for BMO Capital Markets, said in a research report this week.
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Just last month, she lit into Buttigieg for "a fundraiser that was held in a wine cave full of crystals and served $900 a bottle wine," touching off the "wine cave" cycle of the campaign.
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LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP China was also the first to ground the newest version of Boeing's workhorse 737 model earlier this month following a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash, touching off a series of regulatory actions worldwide.
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Two pitches into the ninth, those missed opportunities were forgotten as Castro drove a 123-212 breaking ball from Jason Motte (23-214) into the left-field seats, touching off a wild celebration at home plate.
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This is no empty threat: In 2010, China cut its exports of rare earth elements by around 40 percent, touching off a trade dispute with the United States, Japan and more than a dozen other countries.
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Looking at a static political lineup and with no obvious way out of the deadlock, Netanyahu has already played down his chances of coalition-building, touching off speculation that he will "return" his presidential mandate soon.
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That was before the Trump administration embarked on its tit-for-tat trade war with Beijing, starting with a 30 percent tariff on solar panels in January, touching off a widening of trade tariffs by both sides.
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Indeed, the ban has raised fundamental questions about the governance of one of the 213st century's few democratic achievements, touching off a familiar tech-world culture war between the platform's libertarian roots and the foundation's egalitarian aspirations.
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The drone, according to easily decipherable text accompanying the design drawing, would be capable of carrying a large nuclear device into coastal waters and detonating it, touching off a radioactive tsunami to flood and contaminate seaside cities.
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Germany, the Netherlands and Belgian are concerned about the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe - as happened in the 1980s, touching off large anti-American demonstrations - while being caught up in nuclear competition between Moscow and Washington.
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New revelations that Uber suffered a major security breach in 2016 — and initially withheld details from drivers, riders and regulators alike — is touching off another round of government probes and customer lawsuits targeting the ride-hailing giant.
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While so-called gray zone operations are meant to stay below the threshold of inciting open conflict, the moves always run the risk of touching off exactly what both sides are trying to avoid: a shooting war.
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Ten years ago this week, Lehman Brothers collapsed touching off a crisis that sunk the economy and the stock market, and led to government bailouts of financial firms and automakers and an extraordinarily easy Fed monetary regime.
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Germany, the Netherlands and Belgian are concerned about the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe - as happened in the 1980s, touching off large anti-American demonstrations - while being caught up in nuclear competition between Moscow and Washington.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake jolted Southern California on Thursday, touching off fires, damaging buildings and forcing the evacuation of a hospital in a desert town northeast of Los Angeles, but there were only minor injuries.
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Just months earlier, Michael Brown, a black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., touching off a renewed debate over the use of lethal force by the police and invigorating the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Ambac's plan announced in its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday comes a week after Puerto Rico said it would restructure its public debt, touching off what may be the biggest bankruptcy ever in the $3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market.
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Barr has not provided any details on Horowitz's conclusions, but he suggested during a congressional hearing last month that "spying did occur" -- touching off a firestorm over his language and criticism for generally declining to further elaborate on such incendiary claims.
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A 17-year-old endangered western lowland silverback gorilla named Harambe was shot by zoo staff in the minutes after the boy fell on May 28, touching off a storm of criticism aimed at both the zoo and the boy's mother.
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While Dirrell was being tended to by ringside doctors, the fighter's uncle and assistant trainer Leon Lawson Jr. walked across the ring and punched Uzcategui in the chin with a left hook, touching off a near-riot in the ring.
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Several other attacks against the ethnic group in recent years have been attributed to the Islamic State, touching off large protests in Kabul by Hazaras, who say too little is done to protect them and destabilizing the government of Mr. Ghani.
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A new nuclear policy issued by the Trump administration on Friday, which vows to counter a rush by the Russians to modernize their forces even while staying within the treaty limits, is touching off a new kind of nuclear arms race.
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It was the first murder of an American president in the television age, touching off a wave of global grief for a charismatic young leader while also spawning a cottage industry of skeptical questioning of the official version of events.
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Shanann Watts, 34, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, were reported missing from their home in Frederick, 25 miles north of Denver, by a family friend on Monday afternoon, touching off an exhaustive search by law enforcement agencies.
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Mr. Trump issued bellicose threats to destroy Iran if it retaliated, including cultural treasures in violation of international law, touching off international outrage and forcing his own defense secretary to publicly disavow the threat, saying it would be a war crime.
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This serves to deflect his own responsibility for touching off the present crisis with Iran by pulling the United States out of the Obama-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran last year and launching a "maximum pressure" campaign of ever-escalating sanctions.
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Of course, the Iranian operation could have incited a furious US response if it had killed American soldiers, but Tehran made it abundantly clear that it wanted to make a show of its retaliation without touching off an outright war.
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President Donald Trump's rescinding of a White House invitation to the Golden State Warriors opened a new fissure in the cultural wars on Saturday, touching off a war of words with between the president and a growing number of professional athletes.
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The incentives for the Queens project totaled $210 billion, touching off a contentious debate about the value of using outsize public subsidies to woo wealthy companies — and about whether such bait was necessary in a talent-rich city like New York.
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On Friday, he told a political rally that any protesting player was a "son of a bitch" who should be fired, and urged a boycott of NFL games, touching off protests by dozens of players, coaches and some owners before games on Sunday.
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Clifton (John Savage), a white, Celtics-jersey-clad possible yuppie, scuffs the new Air Jordans of the aspiring black activist Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), touching off a confrontation in which the smug Clifton reveals he just bought a brownstone on the block.
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"The Russians are too smart to run the same play a second time," said Dmitri Alperovich, one of the founders of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, who was central to identifying the Russian military inside the D.N.C., touching off chaos in the Democratic Party.
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Mr. Trump has imposed heavy tariffs on Chinese goods, touching off a trade war, and in March he signed the Taiwan Travel Act, which encourages the kind of high-level, official visits the United States and Taiwan have not had in many years.
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The school system's handling of the rape charges against Mr. Dowdy jolted Niagara, a rural, working-class town outside Buffalo, touching off a fierce debate over whether high school administrators across the nation are equipped to address sexual misconduct and assaults by teenagers.
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WASHINGTON — Within days, international monitors will send an inspection report on Iran's nuclear facilities to governments around the world, touching off a chain of events that could lead to another clash between President Trump and congressional Republicans, or even his own top advisers.
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Another video that surfaced days later provided additional context for the encounter, but the first video had gone viral, touching off widespread controversy as photos of the teenager and the red Make America Great Again hat he was wearing spread across social media.
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His death in a rocket attack in December in Kirkuk, where he was working as a translator for the American military, was quickly seized upon by President Trump, touching off a chain of events that for several days set the world on edge.
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Overriding many of the more sensible voices in his administration -- like Gary Cohn, his chief economic adviser -- the tariffs will only further poison an already thoroughly-polluted NAFTA well, potentially touching off a trade war if the injured parties decide to retaliate.
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After the longest government shutdown in history, Mr. Trump surrendered with nothing concrete (or steel) to show for the battle, taking essentially the same deal that was on the table in December that he originally rejected, touching off a 35-day impasse.
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Then there was Trump's withdrawal from the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) agreement this August, touching off what will inevitably be a new arms race, and certainly freeing up Russia's ability to test and deploy new generations of advanced missiles threatening America's allies in western Europe.
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To break the logjam, Hong Kong has proposed easing renditions to and from Taiwan — and also to mainland China, touching off concerns that Hong Kong residents would be exposed to China's harsh legal system while losing the singular legal protections they enjoy at home.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, moving to fill a seat held vacant for nearly a year by Senate Republicans and touching off what is expected to be a furious ideological showdown early in his administration.
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It came after weeks of violence between the Palestinian authorities and what they call outlaw groups, touching off a wave of unrest marked by stone throwing, tear gas and a raucous funeral procession for Mr. Halawa of thousands of people marching through the streets this week.
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The play prompted outrage from the Red Sox at the time, and then apparently inspired reliever Matt Barnes to throw a fastball behind the head of Machado on Sunday, touching off angry words between the teams and leading Pedroia to apologize to Machado for Barnes's actions.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday for the 103 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald, touching off celebratory street demonstrations in a case that had laid bare tensions between the black community and police.
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And the same intelligence agencies who tracked down al-Baghdadi are the same ones who produced two whistle-blowers high up in your White House — who complained that you, Mr. Trump, abused the power of your office to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, touching off this impeachment inquiry.
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"A new nuclear policy issued by the Trump administration on Friday, which vows to counter a rush by the Russians to modernize their forces even while staying within the treaty limits, is touching off a new kind of nuclear arms race," The New York Times reported on Monday.
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A month later, the state's Public Authorities Control Board cut the first installment in half, approving only $15 million after a dispute between the Assembly and the Senate over where the money would come from, touching off worry among New York City officials about the vagaries of the process.
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Modern conservatism was forged in the crucible of the 1970s inflation crisis, and in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash many conservatives were convinced that there was nothing the Federal Reserve could do about the vast army of the unemployed without touching off a similar inflationary spiral.
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As it turned out, it was a recruiting decision — the hiring in spring 1979 of a bright, promising female employee named Mary Cunningham — and Mr. Agee's subsequent handling of their relationship that largely defined his business career, touching off a national discussion about workplace behavior that reverberates today.
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Possibly around the time the president accused a female senator of doing "anything" for campaign contributions, touching off tremors in the #MeToo movement he helped inspire, and alleged another wide-scale conspiracy against him in the upper reaches of the F.B.I. Or was that one over the summer?
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Though from a bourgeois family, Maar, who was fluent in Spanish, showed a leftist sociopolitical consciousness with her compassionate photographs of impoverished and marginalized working class youths of Ramblas street in Barcelona, as well as those in neglected areas of Paris, seen in the touching, off-centered composition "Untitled" (240).
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By coupling a substantial corporate tax cut with an assortment of naked appeals to undecided lawmakers, Republican leaders pushed their tax bill through the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday, touching off a self-congratulatory tidal wave by a party that had struggled mightily through nearly all of 2017.
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But his suggestion in private that he would be willing to step down if the president wanted him to reflected the degree to which the scandal surrounding Mr. Porter has engulfed the White House, touching off a bitter round of recriminations that could result in a shake-up at the highest levels.
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The man who the police said sowed terror across two states, setting off bombs in Manhattan and on the Jersey Shore and touching off a furious manhunt, was tracked down on Monday morning sleeping in the dank doorway of a neighborhood bar and taken into custody after being wounded in a gun battle with officers.
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It began in 883, when Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek massaged Rodriguez's face with his glove, touching off a bench-clearing scuffle, and it continued through last season, when Rodriguez won a game at Fenway with a pinch-hit home run that tied Willie Mays for fourth on the major leagues' career home run list.
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Eight days after Cyclone Idai struck southeast Africa's Indian Ocean coast, touching off some of the worst flooding in decades, the homeless, hungry and injured slowly made their way from devastated inland areas to the port city of Beira, which was heavily damaged itself but has emerged as the nerve center for rescue efforts.
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A 22013-page report produced jointly by the organization's mission in South Sudan and its human rights office in Geneva said that most of the violence was committed by the army loyal to President Salva Kiir and opposition forces under Riek Machar, the vice president whom Mr. Kiir dismissed in 2013, touching off the civil war.
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But it came from Fox... → Background: The anti-Cummings attack started with videos from conservative commentator Kimberly Klacik, which were amplified by Fox, which inspired Trump to lash out... Two WaPo stories that understand the Fox feedback loop "The country can thank Fox News for touching off this entire calamity," media critic Erik Wemple wrote Monday afternoon.
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But now, at the very worst possible moment, Trump seems hell-bent on touching off a trade war with one of our most critical allies and the very country we most desperately need to support just as it is facing an existential challenge from its arch enemy to the north, which has also threatened to unleash a nuclear Armageddon on America.
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The decision came two days after the N.C.A.A. announced that it would move championship games for the coming year, including six in the Division I men's basketball tournament, touching off contentious debate between opponents of the law, who praised the N.C.A.A. for taking a stand, and supporters of the law, who said the association was inappropriately inserting itself into politics.
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This was Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy who along with his daughter was nearly poisoned to death with a rare and toxic nerve agent 22014 weeks ago, touching off a furious confrontation between Russia and the West that has played out like a Cold War thriller and led to the expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats from more than two dozen countries.
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Two days before, Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, had released a letter he had sent to the acting director of national intelligence revealing the existence of a whistle-blower case that might involve the president — touching off a series of disclosures in the news media that brought the controversy over the Ukraine aid to a full crisis.
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Brandon Webber, a 20-year-old father of two, was shot and killed on Wednesday by U.S. Marshals seeking to arrest him on a warrant for aggravated assault and other charges, touching off clashes between police and protesters on the streets of Memphis that left 36 officers injured.. As darkness fell on Friday, family members of Webber gathered with supporters and family members clutching candles and green, black and white balloons.
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Black History 2019 contained plot twists that wove together politics, culture, law enforcement and more into a dizzying national reckoning: politicians in blackface, a white actor who confessed to murderous racist impulses, a black actor who seemingly faked his own hate crime, films about race touching off a firestorm at the Oscars and white fragility about confronting racism unfolding in real-time in the House of Representatives during the Michael Cohen hearing.
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