Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Ratcliffe, the newly confirmed director of the CIA, has long been a proponent of the lab-leak theory of COVID's origins ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment that points the finger at China even while ...

Benjamin Franklin was wrong, or at least premature, when he wrote in 1789 that nothing is certain in this world "except death and taxes." Were he writing today, he would have to add to this sacred duo ...

FILE - A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. ...