Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, ...

Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position ...

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission. “It ...

Five years after the first COVID-19 deaths were reported in Wuhan, China, a new assessment by the CIA concludes the virus was “more likely” to have leaked from a Chinese laboratory than spread ...

Amid mounting demands last year from both Democratic and Republican politicians that the COVID-19 origins issue should be used as a weapon against China, Burns told CIA analysts that they had to ...

The CIA says it has "low confidence ... formulate the latest assessment. China’s government says it supports and has taken part in research to determine COVID-19’s origin, and has accused ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even ...

The CIA investigated the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, and determined, with low confidence, the origin was likely a lab ...

WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while ...

Since COVID-19 first took ... information that could change CIA’s assessment.” Such hedging notwithstanding, the announcement came as a thunderclap to China, which has long insisted that ...

The CIA believes Covid-19 likely originated from a lab leak in China rather than animal transmission in Wuhan, according to ...