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Today, the Biden administration suspended federal funding to the scientific nonprofit whose research is at the center of credible theories that the COVID-19 pandemic was started via a lab leak at the ...
Officials say Chengxuan Han from China was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to three smuggling charges and to making false statements to U.S. Custom and Border Protection Officers. She was ...
Donald Trump has made a bold move by issuing an executive order to terminate all federal funding for risky virus research in countries deemed hostile or lacking proper regulation, five years ...
When the federal government shut down taxpayer money for EcoHealth Alliance, the company linked to the Wuhan virus lab, it may have doomed plans to start a bat research laboratory in the U.S.
The federal government has been quietly sitting on a heap of documents about dangerous gain-of-function biological research — and Sen. Rand Paul says it’s failing to cough them up, despite that being ...
Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was ...
A 2023 declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said there was no sign that the Wuhan lab ever had the virus or one closely related to it before the outbreak.
Nothing has damaged to the public’s trust in the public health bureaucracy more than the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Agencies tasked with creating and articulating plans to respond ...
Jeff M. Smith is a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, focusing on South Asia. Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, what ...
The New York Times published an opinion column claiming the scientific community "badly misled" the public in an effort to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, even ...