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Health experts won’t ask Americans to take off their masks any time soon. That’s the take of Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. He has been preparing for an outbreak like the novel coronavirus as part of his work for years. [cut] “I think that mask wearing and some degree of social distancing, we will be living with — hopefully living with happily — for several years,” he said. “It's actually pretty straightforward. If we cover our faces, and both you and anyone you're interacting with are wearing a mask, the risk of...

In its pages, Omar (and his mother) reveal that the Clinton administration failed in a major assassination attempt of Osama bin Laden, just days after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings. This is something that has often been speculated but never confirmed. Former insiders like Richard Clarke say Omar bin Laden’s account of the assassination failure appears to be credible. And if this is the case, it might explain a little more about what documents Sandy Berger really had stashed away.

The account of the Iraqi physicist who ran Saddam Hussein's nuclear bombmaking program from 1972 to 1994 supports President George W. Bush's State of the Union address claim that Iraq sought uranium from Africa - and starkly contradicts Bush administration critics who insist that the Iraqi nuclear weapons program ended after the first Gulf War. Dr. Khidir Hamza, known as "Saddam's Bombmaker" to U.S. and British intelligence officials, said last fall that an Iraqi intelligence team "recently took delivery in Africa" of what he said were spent fuel rods from a Russian nuclear reactor. The Dallas Morning News covered...