Dr. Matthew Memoli, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases researcher focused on flu and other respiratory viruses, has been named acting director of the nearly $50 billion agency.

T he Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) recently assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, though it maintains l

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.

CIA continues to assess that both research-related and natural origin scenarios of the COVID-19 pandemic remain plausible.”

The past three administrations have tried to limit gain-of-function research. The second Trump administration might be the first one to be successful at doing so.

President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) issued 14 bipartisan subpoenas for Biden-era federal departments to continue COVID-19 origins investigations.

Rand Paul condemned Biden for issuing a pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci for all crimes he may have committed as one of his last acts in the White House.

"Dr. Fauci saw that and he said, 'Oh my God, I could get blamed for all this. So I'm going to have to establish complete control so nobody has questions'"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will undergo intense scrutiny over his history of controversial and inflammatory comments at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday to become President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary.

In addition to Fauci, Biden also granted pardons to General Mark Milley, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the US Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.

Previously, the CIA did not take a position on where the virus - which is responsible for more than seven million deaths worldwide - came from.