Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
China falsely telling Arab world U.S. source for coronavirus: MEMRI
A media research group has released the transcript of a China-produced Arabic-language news report to show how Beijing's propaganda machine is blaming the coronavirus on America. Published April 18, 2020
Belt and road and ‘bribes’: Cotton says China paid off home country of WHO boss
Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid "bribes" to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there. Published April 17, 2020
Vladimir Putin, Christopher Steele networked with oligarchs
A newly declassified section of a Justice Department inspector general's report shows not only that the Kremlin fed disinformation for the anti-Trump dossier but also that Vladimir Putin was in a good position to know about it. Published April 15, 2020
NORAD orders release of photos of U.S. troops in action ‘to reassure the American public’
The command for protecting the U.S. stateside has sent an order telling public affairs units to release photos of troops in action "to reassure the American public they don't have to worry about homeland defense" during the COVID-19 era. Published April 13, 2020
Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.
Europe's five largest nations have suffered more than three times the coronavirus deaths as the United States, though collectively they have about the same population. Published April 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; coronavirus erupted in mid-December
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 diseases erupted in China in mid-December, yet the communist regime told the U.S. and the world that the virus was only transmitted animal-to-human. Published April 12, 2020
FBI sabotaged Trump’s presidency: Barr
Attorney General William Barr says that what the FBI did to President Trump in the Russia probe was one of the "greatest travesties in American history." Published April 10, 2020
Pentagon says COVID report cited by ABC doesn’t exist
The Pentagon says a supposed intelligence report cited by ABC News on an emerging COVID-19 pandemic doesn't exist. Published April 9, 2020
Pentagon eyeing ‘stop loss’ order in coronavirus fight to keep troops from exiting
The Trump administration is looking at issuing a "stop loss" order in the war on coronavirus that would prevent troops from leaving service once their enlistments ended, according to a Pentagon source. Published April 7, 2020
Nation’s hospitals diagnosed as short on coronavirus staff, gear and money: IG
The frontline fighters in the war on coronavirus are lacking diagnostic tests, protective gear, and cash, the Health and Human Services Department inspector general reported on Monday. Published April 6, 2020
Donald Trump, Richard Grenell to help cull intelligence community
The Trump administration is set to pare desk jobs at the top of the intelligence community, invoking the argument that its staffs are too large and duplicative, knowledgeable sources say. Published April 5, 2020
War on COVID-19 slowing coronavirus growth: Researchers
Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates that in New York City, the American pandemic epicenter, the number of new cases daily peaked a week ago and "appears to now to be failing sharply." Published April 4, 2020
Health agencies’ reports didn’t highlight inventory shortfalls
The federal watchdog for the department that includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a total of four press statements on its website in 2019-20, and three of them dealt with the health care of migrant children at the border. Published April 2, 2020
White House’s favorite coronavirus model overshot hospital bed count
An institute's coronavirus projections, which President Trump is greatly relying upon to set COVID-19 policy, said the U.S. would need 135,000 hospital beds by today -- yet only about 31,000 patients are hospitalized. Published April 2, 2020
On-scene British reporters say Chinese markets again selling bats, likely source of deadly pandemic
China is permitting wild animal markets to resume selling bats, believed to be the source for the deadly coronavirus now killing people across the globe, including over 2,500 Americans to date, British reporters say. Published March 30, 2020
Coronavirus testing in U.S. accelerates after slow start
The U.S. has conducted nearly 900,000 coronavirus tests across the country after fumbling at the start because of too few tests and faulty kits, the federal government says. Published March 29, 2020
U.S. COVID-19 deaths double in three days
Late March has seen the uptick in coronavirus deaths the world feared, with the toll doubling twice from about 5,000 to nearing 25,000 today. Published March 27, 2020
White House dismisses doomsday COVID-19 death toll
The White House, under pressure to level the peak of coronavirus infections, is pushing back against "frightening" high-end statistical modeling, one of which has nearly the entire planet catching the virus this year. Published March 26, 2020
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. Published March 25, 2020
Pentagon coronavirus tests are ‘scarce’ despite assurances; sick troops told to self-isolate
Top defense leaders are assuring troops that coronavirus testing is available, but for Pentagon warriors the coveted test is "scarce," according to an internal memo. Published March 25, 2020
