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Rand Paul's Annual Festivus Report Highlights $1.6 Trillion in Wasteful Spending

These wasteful boondoggles add up. So do the programs that many Americans insist are important but refuse to reform.

Reason

Trump's Budget Calls for $17 Billion Cut to NIH, Citing Lax Oversight of Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."

Reason

The ‘lab-leak origin’ of Covid-19. Fact or fiction?

In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on a potential Wuhan lab leak was a top priority. The following day, The New York Times reported that the agency had shifted from an undecided stance to favoring a…

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Will Trump and the New GOP Congress Get to the Bottom of COVID-19's Origin?

It's a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government's lack of transparency to staff his administration.

Reason

USAID-Funded Pandemic Research Failed To Spot COVID or Ensure Chinese Transparency

There remains many open questions about whether the agency's funding played a role in the creation of COVID-19 in a Wuhan laboratory.

Reason

Should We Blame Fauci for the COVID Pandemic?

America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.

Reason

Michael Hiltzik: US government debunks COVID lab-leak conspiracy theory, enraging conspiracy theorists

That sound you may have detected rising from the ether of social media this weekend was the gnashing of teeth by COVID conspiracy-mongers, outraged by a U.S. government report debunking their most cherished claims.

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Declassified US intelligence report finds no evidence of coronavirus 'lab leak' from Wuhan institute

A declassified U.S. intelligence report further refutes the idea that SARS-CoV-2 "leaked" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

LiveScience

China 'tried to keep Covid outbreak a secret' and first death earlier than believed

A Senate investigation into the origins of Covid-19 has presented further circumstantial evidence linking the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the leak - though admits there's no "smoking gun"

Daily Mirror

A Muffin Break Franchise In A ‘Yuge Melb Shopping Centre Has Been Hit W/ 360 Child Labour Charges

"Some [kids] don’t feel able to speak up when they feel unsafe."

Pedestrian.tv

Republican report on COVID origins pushes lab leak hypothesis

As U.S. lawmakers continue to seek answers about how the COVID-19 pandemic first began, former Republican staffers are releasing details from their own independent investigations, putting pressure on the Biden administration to declassify sensitive intelligence.

Tribune News Service

Do IBCs benefit biomedical research?

Experts say IBCs are a crucial tool for ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque

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