The Energy Department has concluded COVID-19 most likely came from a Chinese lab, according to a classified intelligence report cited by the Wall Street Journal. The lab leak theory, or the theory ...

The press had long dismissed the lab leak theory, so reporters, pundits and media outlets alike were scolded and lampooned after the U.S. Energy Department reportedly assessed that the COVID-19 ...

The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion with "low confidence." The news that the U.S. Department of Energy now believes with "low confidence" that the COVID-19 pandemic "most likely" was ...

• On Feb. 26, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Energy Department backed the lab leak theory as the coronavirus pandemic’s cause. The FBI publicly said it agrees with that premise. • The ...

A new federal assessment saying a lab leak was the likely origin of COVID-19 is feeding new oxygen into Republican calls for further investigations, even as scientists and the intelligence community ...

WASHINGTON — COVID-19's origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from ...

The website once had resources for vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19. The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called "Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19," which makes ...

A Feb. 26 report by The Wall Street Journal sent major ripples through the policy world and social media. The article said the Energy Department had concluded in a five-page report that the COVID-19 ...