The release of formerly classified documents this week shows how Trump appointees are using their power to try to prop up his ...

The GOP House Intelligence Committee Chairman is critiquing the Trump CIA director's review of the Intelligence Community's assessment on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. And the CIA is pushing ...

The World Health Organization’s expert group says the origin of COVID-19 remains inconclusive, though most evidence still ...

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 ...

The political backdrop Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming.

China denies lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins amid CIA's low-confidence assessment. Scientists and the public debate continues over the virus's origins and China's transparency.

After a two-year investigation, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a 520-page report in December 2024, concluding that COVID-19 was likely leaked from the Wuhan lab.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed , though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.