The CIA ran a series of web sites in the 2000s. Most of them were about news, finance, and other relatively boring topics, ...

Over five years since COVID-19 emerged, debate over its origins continues—lab leak or wildlife trade? A new study points to a ...

If COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab as a result of U.S.-funded gain-of-function research, is Donald Trump to blame? The New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells seems to imply the ...

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins has become a principle of MAGA governance.

“LAB LEAK,” it shouted in large font at the top, movie-poster style, with Donald Trump’s image positioned between the enormous capital letters as an A-list star investigator. The ...

He cited EcoHealth Alliance's pass-through of taxpayer funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a prominent COVID-19 lab-leak candidate, as a strong influence on the to-be-announced policy. That ...

One theory about how the recent pandemic started was that COVID-19 was accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, after gain-of-function manipulations of a SARS-like virus. "I commend you for ...

Reports like these influence public opinion on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 even without solid new data and reinforce long-standing proponents of the lab leak hypothesis. This hypothesis can be ...

The john had unwittingly become a subject in a CIA experiment focused on how drugs and sex might be used to obtain secrets from foreign adversaries. Part of MKUltra, the agency’s broader and ...