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By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
– Sep 9, 2020, 8:51 AM
Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and 'more deadly than even your strenuous flus,' and that he repeatedly played…
National Treasury kept its foot firmly on the borrowing gas pedal. Kenya borrowed Sh4.5 billion every 24 hours in the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a debt accumulation spree rarely witnessed in any East African country. Backed by…
The Washington Post
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Robert Costa, Philip Rucker
– Sep 9, 2020, 8:55 AM
Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, agreed. He told the president that after reaching contacts in China, it was evident that the world faced a health emergency on par with the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50…
CNN
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By Zachary Cohen, CNN
– Sep 9, 2020, 10:56 AM
Washington(CNN) A whistleblower is alleging that top political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security repeatedly instructed career officials to modify intelligence assessments to ensure they matched up with misleading public comments…
The Financial Times
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Katrina Manson in Washington
– Sep 9, 2020, 3:10 PM
A US homeland security official has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that he was told to stop filing intelligence assessments on alleged Russian election interference to comply with White House policy. Brian Murphy, who led the department's…