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May 16, 2021

Pompeo says evidence suggests coronavirus originated from Wuhan lab, risk of bioterror ‘very real’

Current evidence still suggests that the coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday, warning that the risk of bioweapons and bioterror arising from the region is “very real.”

May 16, 2021

GOP members press Biden, DNI Haines for more information on COVID lab leak theory

Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee wrote letters to President Biden and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines demanding information on the origins of COVID-19, saying that they had found evidence to support the theory that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab.

May 16, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Biden flirting with disaster – here's where division at home, weakness abroad will lead

Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic and social behavior that all countries understood.

May 16, 2021

Ex-Ohio State professor gets 37 months in prison for sharing work with China

A medical researcher and professor who pleaded guilty to what prosecutors called a sophisticated scheme to transfer U.S.-backed research to China was sentenced Friday to 37 months in federal prison.

May 15, 2021

Back-to-back tornadoes kill 12 in China; over 300 injured

Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said Saturday.

May 14, 2021

China says it has landed its first probe on Mars

China has landed its first spacecraft on Mars, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.

May 14, 2021

China vows 'countermeasures' against US journalists as diplomatic dispute escalates

China is threatening to further retaliate against American journalists overseas following claims that the U.S. has expelled dozens of Chinese media personnel and denied visas to others.

May 13, 2021

Rep. Gallagher bill would force Biden to declassify Wuhan coronavirus lab leak theory intel

A group of House Republicans is introducing a bill on Thursday that would force the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to the possibility that the coronavirus could have leaked from a Chinese lab.

May 13, 2021

America under siege on Biden's watch as cyberattackers cripple the country

They cut off a pipeline to the Eastern Seaboard for days, tried to poison a Florida water-treatment plant, held hospital IT systems hostage and stole an undetermined trove of information in the SolarWinds hack – all as the Biden administration searches for a way to respond.

May 13, 2021

Sen. Roger Marshall: The COVID-19 mystery – we've lost 3 millions lives and critical questions need answers

On January 28, 2020, I was the first member of Congress to stand on the House floor and discuss my concerns about a novel virus in China – soon to be known as COVID-19.