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R.V. is among what immigration attorneys describe as an escalating trend: some immigrants who win protection from deportation to their home countries are being detained indefinitely.

The farmers have announced that they will escalate their protests in the coming days in many cities across the country.

Now a chip company has allegedly escalated this corporate warfare by financing third-party lawsuits to heap costs on a competitor.

Much of the price of oil, however, is “out of the president’s hands — outside of enforcement of sanctions and potential kinetic military actions that could escalate supply risks,” he said.

The crisis had escalated beyond recovery and she felt it was the right thing to do, the insider added.