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Energy Department officials on Sunday announced that the agency concluded that COVID-19 likely originated from an accidental lab leak from Wuhan, China. The conclusion, made with “low confidence,” stems primarily from the Energy Department’s national laboratories which conduct biological research. Intelligence agencies, which utilize more traditional forms of information gathering, such as communication interceptions, remain divided over the pandemic’s origins. Most officials agree that learning where COVID-19 came from is vital to preventing future pandemics of this sort. COVID-19 has killed ...
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On Thursday, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted over Montana, breaching U.S. airspace. The most likely scenario, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) model, is that the balloon originated from mainland China and flew over the North Pole through Canada to its destination in the United States. The balloon is expected to be over the Midwest throughout Friday, flying above states such as Nebraska and Kansas. The balloon reportedly had hovered over highly sensitive military sites such as Montana’s domestic nuclear missile silo field. Chinese offici...
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This week, the U.S. obtained information signaling that China may be open to providing aid to Russia in the form of military and financial assistance. China denied claims that Russia requested assistance and Russia has said it did not ask Bejing for military aid, but a U.S. official warned that if China was helping Russia they would not admit it. It remains unclear if China plans to help Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, but during a seven-hour meeting in Rome between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leaders, Biden warned that there would be “potential implications and consequences” if ...
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Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared in a House panel on Wednesday to answer questions from the Congress members about the Afghanistan withdrawal and the recent bombshell revelation about his phone call with a top Chinese military official. Along with other top military officials in Biden administration, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, Milley had some heated exchanges with the House Armed Services Committee. The questions the officials received were mostly about the U.S. military’s evacuation in August, including the suicide bombing th...
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President Joe Biden has revoked the Trump-era executive order to ban TikTok and WeChat downloads in U.S. app stores. Beyond rescinding the ban, the Biden Administration says it plans on creating a “clear intelligible criteria” to establish the amount of danger certain software downloads may pose to U.S. citizens. While the Trump Administration took a combative approach to TikTok, Biden is seeking to create a more useful outline of procedures in light of the rising wave of cyberattacks and overall fear for national security in cyberspace. TikTok’s lawyers claim that Trump used shutting down the...
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The U.S. Senate approved legislation to help the United States compete with China in the technology race by providing funds for one of the largest investments in American industry ever by a vote of 68-32. The bipartisan legislation costs $250 billion and specifically targets Big Tech. It is one of the largest investments in research and development in U.S. history. The money will go to national research grants and the U.S. semiconductor industry. This bill was championed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and is viewed as a key part of President Joe Biden‘s infrastructure plan. Cracking d...
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New and unexamined U.S. intelligence prompted President Joe Biden to order a full review of the origins of COVID-19 last week and to report back of their findings in 90 days. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including specific questions for China. I have also asked that this effort include work by our National Labs and other agencies of our government to augment the Intelligence Community’s efforts. And I have asked the Intelligence Community to keep Congress fully apprised of its work,” Biden said in a statement Wednesday. “The failure t...
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President Joe Biden visited Michigan on Tuesday to show support for reorienting the American economy toward a greener future – and to laud Ford as it prepared to unveil an electric version of its signature pickup truck, the F-150, slated for release next year. “We’re at a great inflection point in American history,” Biden said in Dearborn after touring Ford’s electric vehicle production facility. “How we handle the next four to 10 years is going to determine where we are going to be 30, 40, 50 years from now. It’s one of those moments in American history.” Boosting the usage of electric vehicl...
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A huge Chinese Rocket, Long March 5B, is falling back to Earth, as space experts say its debris could land around 11:30 p.m. Saturday if the rocket doesn’t burn up on its way. The Long March 5B rocket, 100-feet tall and weighs 22 tons, is reportedly out of control and falling at 18,000 miles an hour. According to the European Space Agency, the risk zone, which the debris might fall, is between “41.5N and 41.5S,” which s New York, Africa and Australia, parts of Asia and Europe. “The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small – not negligible, it could happe...
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Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under former President Donald Trump, Robert Redfield said in an interview on Sunday that he believes COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. Redfield’s comments have been denounced by the larger medical community as baseless, dangerous speculation. “I am of the point of view that I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory. Escaped,” said Redfield. “Other people don’t believe that. That’s fine. Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that ar...
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