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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

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Coronavirus appears to have peaked in U.S. in April

The rate of increase for new confirmed cases has stayed below 2 percent for the past nine days, according to a Washington Times analysis of numbers tabulated by John Hopkins University. New case growth has stayed below three percent for 22 of the past 23 days after averaging over 5 percent in early to mid-April.

May 19, 2020

Michael Flynn adversary’s law firm backs Democrats: FEC records

The law firm of the retired Clinton-appointed judge who will argue against dismissing the case of Michael Flynn is a hotbed of Democratic Party financial supporters, Federal Election Commission disclosures show, although the retired jurist himself has no record of such donations.

May 16, 2020

House documents: John Podesta met with former Senate aide connected to Fusion GPS

Newly declassified House transcripts show that Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta met with a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide who joined forces with dossier impresario Fusion GPS for the post-election phase of trying to dig up dirt on President Trump.

May 13, 2020

Liz Cheney says Communist China spread virus on purpose

China has issued no apologies and gone on the attack via its global propaganda machine. Chinese social media blames the U.S. for planting the virus and mocks President Trump's response.

May 12, 2020

Adam Schiff transcripts show Loretta Lynch uninformed as FBI probed Trump campaign

Newly released documents show FBI agents operated on autopilot in 2016 and 2017 while targeting President Trump and his campaign with little or no Justice Department guidance for such a momentous investigation.

May 10, 2020

Democratic lawyer Michael Sussman took debunked Russia Alfa Bank conspiracy to CIA

A Democratic Party law firm pitched to the U.S. intelligence community a now-debunked theory that the Trump Organization maintained a secret computer link to a major Moscow bank run by Vladimir Putin allies, according to a newly declassified transcript.

May 8, 2020

Obama discussed Flynn probe with Comey at White House meeting

President Obama talked with then-FBI Director James B. Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates about former Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's infamous telephone calls with the Russian ambassador, according to a court filing Thursday.

May 7, 2020

Rod Rosenstein targeted Carter Page after dossier fell apart

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein put Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page under special counsel investigation after a year in which allegations against him in a Democratic Party-financed dossier had fallen apart.

May 7, 2020

Richard Grenell calls on Adam Schiff to honor his promise to release transcripts of investigations

Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is calling on Rep. Adam B. Schiff to honor his pledge upon taking control of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to release transcripts of investigations.

May 6, 2020

U.S. allies report China deliberately destroyed laboratory evidence, made whistleblowers disappear

Communist China deliberately covered up the outbreak of COVID-19 in December-January by destroying laboratory evidence, and then silencing and "disappearing" whistleblowing physicians, according to an Australian newspaper based on a Western intelligence report.

May 5, 2020

Pentagon official spoke regularly with Washington Post columnist, records show

Newly released records show that a senior Pentagon official engaged in regular conversations with The Washington Post's David Ignatius, the columnist who put his mark on the Trump-Russia affair by disclosing top secret intercepted telephone calls by retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

May 3, 2020

COVID-19 no match for youth, CDC numbers show

At the coronavirus pandemic's three-month mark in America, statistics show COVID-19's death stare spares the young.

May 1, 2020

Department of Justice investigations: Flynn didn’t conspire with Russian election interference

Two lengthy Department of Justice investigations show there never was evidence that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn conspired in any way in Russian election interference, a fact now coming into play in his bid to have a federal judge throw out his false statements case.

April 30, 2020

Michael Flynn’s ex-defense counsel failed to turn over thousands of files

A federal judge has ordered the former attorneys for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to search anew for case documents after their firm acknowledged failing to turn over thousands of emails and other materials to his new defense counsel.

April 29, 2020

U.S. military’s Northern Command moves to new ‘stabilize’ phase in COVID-19 fight

U.S. Northern Command, which is overseeing the military role for fighting COVID-19, has shifted to a stabilizing effort with an eye to scaling down anti-virus support activities, a Pentagon source said on Monday.

April 27, 2020

Pharmaceutical firm Aytu BioScience testing UV light treatment

President Trump has been mocked relentlessly for suggesting that ultraviolet light could be brought "inside the body" to kill the coronavirus, but there is ongoing research to do just that.

April 26, 2020

Michael Flynn attorney claims ‘stunning’ new evidence

The attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn says the Justice Department has provided "stunning" new evidence that proves the former Trump national security officer was "framed" by FBI agents.

April 25, 2020

Christopher Steele: My anti-Trump dossier records destroyed

Christopher Steele says his computer records for research to write a Democratic Party-financed anti-Donald Trump dossier no longer exist.

April 24, 2020

FBI forced Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier into intelligence community’s election assessment

Officials included a reference to the anti-Trump dossier in the intelligence community's 2017 Russia election assessment only as a "compromise" with the FBI, which "would have had a major problem" if the document was ignored, according to a Senate report.

April 23, 2020

Pompeo threatens WHO with permanent cash cutoff

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. may "never return" to funding the World Health Organization because of the way it operates, including the COVID-19 crisis.