The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

The CIA says both a natural origin and a lab leak "remain plausible" as potential sources of covid-19, following a review of the pandemic's origins.

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.

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature, an agency spokesperson said on Saturday. The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or originated in nature.

As U.S. police departments release preliminary or finalized 2024 crime numbers, many are reporting historic declines in homicides and drops in other violent crimes compared to 2023

Experts say most cities are seeing a drop in crime levels that spiked during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic ... the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab. Violence interruption and intervention ...

This shift follows John Ratcliffe's confirmation as CIA director, with the agency now prioritising investigations into the virus's origins.

President Biden's pardon protects Anthony Fauci, a longtime target of MAGA critics, from charges related to the contentious debate over origins of Covid or other issues.

CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that COVID-19's origin is more likely lab-related, with both lab and natural origin still plausible.

The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin.

The five-bedroom, 3,283-square-foot bungalow in Oak Park that onetime Chicago Outfit chief Sam Giancana owned — and the home in whose basement Giancana was slain in a 1975 crime that never has been solved — sold on Jan. 22 for $900,000.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, best known simply as Dr. Oz, has made recent headlines for his political aspirations — first for running in the 2022 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, and then when President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.