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

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

"CIA assesses with low confidence ... Proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis highlight that the earliest known Covid-19 cases emerged in Wuhan, China - a major coronavirus research hub - roughly ...

The CIA admits it has "low confidence" in its conclusion and says both a natural origin and a research-related incident are still possible. HealthDay News — After years of speculation, the CIA has ...

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 ...

The CIA says it has "low confidence" in its assessment that a "research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is ... Beijing has said claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely ... "The conclusion that a laboratory leak is extremely unlikely was reached by the China-WHO joint expert team ...

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 ...

“I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins,” Cotton wrote on X. Over 1.2 ...

The CIA has changed its assessment on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, now favoring the lab leak theory. Under its new director, John Ratcliffe, the agency released an assessment on the ...