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 ...

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

On his way out, former CIA Director William Burns had called on the agency to take a stance on COVID-19’s origins instead of staying neutral, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Under ...

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more ...

The Central Intelligence Agency switched its view to conclude that COVID-19 most likely originated from a Chinese lab leak. The change comes shortly after CIA Director John Ratcliffe was sworn into ...

The CIA announced on Saturday that it now considers a lab leak a more likely origin for the COVID-19 pandemic than a natural transmission, although the agency maintains "low confidence" in this ...

Panel will push to release records on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took a victory lap for President Trump on the IA's recent assessment that ...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus, a spokesperson of China's foreign ministry said during a regular press conference on Wednesday.

The agency had for years said it could not conclude whether COVID-19 was the result of a lab incident or it originated in nature. The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a ...

The “CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible,” the statement said. A U.S. official granted anonymity to share ...

NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - 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 ...