For conspiracy theorists, no defeat is final. There’s always more to the story, and no investigation will ever be sufficient.

At issue now is a newly declassified CIA report, ordered by Ratcliffe, that faults Brennan’s oversight of a 2017 intelligence ...

The Justice Department appeared to acknowledge in an unusual statement this week the existence of investigations into former ...

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, Donald Trump’s new CIA director has weighed into the contentious debate saying a lab leak was “most likely”.

The political backdrop Only one day before the CIA’s statement, the agency’s just-sworn-in director, John Ratcliffe, signalled that a new position on the origins of COVID-19 was coming.

China denies lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins amid CIA's low-confidence assessment. Scientists and the public debate continues over the virus's origins and China's transparency.

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 CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

China News: The CIA has concluded that the Covid-19 virus most likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, though the agency assigns “low confidence” to .