The Energy Department has concluded COVID-19 most likely came from a Chinese lab, according to a classified intelligence report cited by the Wall Street Journal. The lab leak theory, or the theory ...

The press had long dismissed the lab leak theory, so reporters, pundits and media outlets alike were scolded and lampooned after the U.S. Energy Department reportedly assessed that the COVID-19 ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

A new federal assessment saying a lab leak was the likely origin of COVID-19 is feeding new oxygen into Republican calls for further investigations, even as scientists and the intelligence community ...

• On Feb. 26, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Energy Department backed the lab leak theory as the coronavirus pandemic’s cause. The FBI publicly said it agrees with that premise. • The ...

WASHINGTON — COVID-19's origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from ...

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on the origins of COVID-19 – particularly a ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) now backs the theory that the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released on ...

The report says an initial leak may have occurred "before September 2019." A new report from Senate Republicans doubles down on the theory that COVID-19 emerged from an accidental lab leak in Wuhan -- ...

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. By Julian E. Barnes ...