From distraction to disaster: How coronavirus crept up on Washington

It was just hours before the start of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial when Sen. Tom Cotton started to worry. The Arkansas Republican had spent Martin Luther King Day weekend poring over news reports from Asia describing a new, highly infectious disease traced to a provincial city of 11 million inside China, hardening his already […]

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