Bloomberg A 65-year-old malaria drug that hasn’t been proven to work against the new coronavirus appears to have captured the imagination of another president. France’s Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly flew to Marseille and spent more than three hours meeting with Didier Raoult, the researcher whose work has propelled a medicine called hydroxychloroquine from fringe to famous in just three weeks. Raoult’s ...

President Trump’s vengeful dismissal of the intelligence community’s inspector general was part of a relentless campaign — waged even in the midst of the pandemic — against people and institutions that can hold him accountable. Critics often describe Trump as disruptive, erratic and poorly focussed. But in concentrating on these weaknesses, opponents understate Trump’s success in using power aggressively to ...

Few airlines can be entirely confident of their survival right now. Travel restrictions prompted by the new coronavirus have forced carriers to burn rapidly through their cash, with no guarantee of when any semblance of normality will return. The ones in most danger are those that overextended themselves financially before the pandemic. Among the big European carriers, nobody pushed boundaries ...