Quick Glance: Why is the FBI now endorsing the Covid lab leak theory?
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- Fundamentally, the debate revolves around what occurred unnoticedly in a previously unremarkable city in central China, involving a couple of particles so small that a million would fill this full stop.
- The World Health Organization dispatched a team in early 2021 to investigate and collect data on early cases.
Quick Glance: US Government Bans Funding for Wuhan Lab
- The Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the center of the debate over the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
- The Biden administration is imposing a 10-year funding ban on the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
- The institute has repeatedly refused requests for documents regarding safety practices.
- The funding ban is aimed at mitigating potential public health risks.
Quick Glance: Live Updates: Supreme Court to Decide on Student Loan Forgiveness
- Millions of students may have up to $20,000 of their debt forgiven depending on the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision.
- States argue that the Biden program for student debt relief should be blocked under the doctrine.
- On October 17, 2022, President Joe Biden speaks about the beta test of the student debt relief portal in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington.
- The Supreme Court has finished hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.
Quick Glance: Items with classified markings discovered in Trump storage unit: reports
- The newest find of missing secret documents comes nearly a year after the National Archives and data Administration discovered classified items among several boxes of data recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
- In response to the former president's request, Trump's lawyers returned numerous more sensitive documents in June.
- The additional classified records would be another example of authorities being turned down following both the initial request and the June subpoena.
- Documents with categorised tags Mr. Donald Trump
Director of the FBI Christopher Wray told Fox News: "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a ... Show more https://bit.ly/3Y4KcNu
Quick Glance: F.B.I. Arrests National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in Leaked Documents Case
- Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira was arrested and charged with leaking classified material after federal authorities claimed he posted quantities of sensitive intelligence to the online gaming chat group Thug Shaker Central.
- Federal agents apprehended Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, who they suspect is connected to a trove of leaked sensitive US intelligence materials.
- Dawn Teixeira, standing outside her home in North Dighton on Thursday, verified that her son was in the Air National Guard and that he had recently worked midnight shifts at a Cape Cod base.
The #Covid virus most likely leaked from a lab in #Wuhan in #China , FBI director Christopher Wray said in an interview. Read here - https://bit.ly/3Z8MKLV
New US Energy Department report suggests #Covid19 virus originated from lab.
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Responding to comments by #FBI Director Christopher Wray, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said the involvement of the #US intelligence community ... Show more https://www.livemint.com/news/china-dismisses-fbi-statement-on-covid-19-lab-leak-theory-11677668012452.html
Quick Glance: Jury finds two men not guilty in the Whitmer kidnapping case; cannot reach verdicts on two others
- Grand Rapids — Jurors acquitted two men accused of planning to abduct Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday.
- In the Whitmer kidnapping case, four individuals were charged with kidnapping conspiracy, a crime punishable by up to life in prison.
- Three people were charged with various counts, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass devastation.
- Defense attorneys questioned two other FBI case agents, including one accused of attempting to benefit from the case by forming a cybersecurity firm, while maintaining that government informants, particularly Chappel, concocted the conspiracy and entrapped the defendants.