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The pulmonary doctor warned of serious risks from not wearing protective face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, calling for lawmakers to require Americans to wear them by passing laws like those that banned smoking in public spaces. . . . The lung specialist accused people of “flouting” the rules by not wearing masks where coronavirus guidelines direct them to do so, citing an unrelated story of a security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan who was shot to death after he argued with a customer about wearing a face mask.

As a pulmonologist in Seattle, near where the first case of the new coronavirus was confirmed in the United States last week, I relied heavily on the city’s hospitals, clinics and departments of health to protect our community. And they did so admirably, immediately acting decisively and shrewdly despite the fear and uncertainty that always arises with an invisible biological threat. My colleagues and I working on the front lines of our health care system have come to expect this emergency response to be activated rapidly and effectively whenever a new health threat arises. Yet our Homeland Security agenda doesn’t...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into spending by database marketer InfoUSA Inc. The Omaha-based company said in a filing Tuesday that it would cooperate with the SEC's request for documents related to expense reimbursement, transactions with related parties, some corporate expenditures and certain trades of company stock. The company did not specify what spending the SEC is looking for, but a lawsuit two hedge funds filed earlier this year may offer some clues. InfoUSA did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Wednesday. The hedge funds — Cardinal Value Equity Partners and Dolphin Limited Partnership...

VIN GUPTA Firm's records sought. Feds are probing a company run by a wheeler-dealer Clinton pal accused by stockholders of wasting millions on the former first couple. InfoUSA, a database marketing company founded by Clinton megadonor said the company would comply with SEC efforts to obtain records re corporate spending, stock trades, awarding 100,000 share options to Bill Clinton without board approval.......and a $3.3M consulting contract for Bill Clinton.

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VINOD Gupta, a high- living CEO pal and fundraiser to the Clintons, is being accused of looting his company's coffers and using shareholder money to fund his lavish lifestyle. Gupta, the CEO of InfoUSA, an Omaha, Neb.-based database company, is coming under fire from investors, including Cardinal Capital, the Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund whose last target was newspaper baron Conrad Black, for a variety of alleged offenses, including funneling InfoUSA funds through private companies he controls to pay for things such as jet travel, a fancy yacht and a skybox at University of Nebraska football games. Gupta did not...