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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough

rscarborough@washingtontimes.com

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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This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). (CDC via AP, File)

Scores of data released on coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted colleges, think tanks, medical journals and governments to release scores of stats and studies -- some good, while others fail peer review.

March 25, 2020
A man walks through a disinfectant spray in order to return home at a residential complex in northern China's Tianjin Municipality Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. China's daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday after leader Xi Jinping visited a health center to rally public morale amid little sign the contagion is abating. (Chinatopix Via AP) CHINA OUT

China hid coronavirus, admonished whistleblowers

Communist China told the world in early January there was no evidence that its Wuhan coronavirus spread human-to-human even as medical whistleblowers were warning of an epidemic and authorities shut down a wild animal market.

March 20, 2020
James B. Comey, then-FBI director, is shown in this July 2016 photo testifying before Congress. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

FBI Trump targeting details revealed by Horowitz report

Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz's history of how the FBI targeted Donald Trump associates has become a constant presence on social media as journalists and Russia aficionados make more discoveries and connect the dots.

March 17, 2020
"Tip of the iceberg is a good way to describe it," Carter Page said. The informal Trump campaign adviser said there are more FBI abuses that will be uncovered. (Associated Press)

FBI ignored Christopher Steele court declarations in wiretap warrants

Dossier creator Christopher Steele is scheduled to stand trial in mid-May in a defamation case whose 2017 court records were ignored by FBI agents as they wrote the last of four dossier-based wiretap warrants on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page in June of that year.

March 1, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, and his husband Chasten Buttigieg, right, wave to the crowd following a campaign event in Arlington, Va., Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pete Buttigieg, Chasten Buttigieg benefited from Trump tax cut

President Trump's signature tax overhaul delivered savings to Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg and his new husband compared with what they would have paid under previous rates, a review of the couple's 2018 return shows.

February 23, 2020