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Senator Sold Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Stocks After Suggesting U.S. Was Prepared for Coronavirus

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 8, 2020. Burr sold hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stock in major companies last month, as President Trump and others in his party were still playing down the threat presented by the coronavirus outbreak and before the stock market's precipitous plunge. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)