Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 ...

The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than ...

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 finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin, but ...

The CIA has assessed COVID-19 likely emerged from a lab. With low confidence, it states both lab and natural origins are plausible. China's response criticizes the politicization of the issue. Newly ...

The agency made its new assessment public two days after former Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe was sworn ... natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible," the statement ...

Newly enshrined CIA director John Ratcliffe declassified and released ... research-related and natural origin scenarios of the Covid-19 pandemic remain plausible,” a CIA spokesperson said ...

The finding, released Saturday on the orders of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the agency, is not the result of new ...

The CIA's decision to release a Biden-era assessment favoring the once widely-dismissed COVID-19 lab-leak origin story ... newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News on Sunday.

John Ratcliffe, who was sworn in Thursday as director. "CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the ...

The origin of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic has been debated since ... solidarity and origins cooperation." In 2023, John Ratcliffe said: "The lab leak is the only theory supported ...

NEW YORK – The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is "more likely ... CIA Director John Ratcliffe said one of his first priorities was getting his agency ...