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In states with abortion bans, such patients are sometimes bounced between hospitals like “hot potatoes,” with health care providers reluctant to participate in treatment that could attract a prosecutor, doctors told ProPublica.

Gaza has been a hot potato on the campaign trail, and this is a conflict that the winning party will inherit.

Climate change has been viewed almost universally as a burden, a hot potato to be passed from country to country at annual climate change conferences.

Studios, streamers and indie distributors were understandably wary of picking up such a political hot potato.

Lobbying is heavy over the final rule, giving Biden a political hot potato in a premier battleground state with fewer than six months until November’s election.