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The Department of Energy now believes it’s likely the COVID-19 pandemic emerged from a bio lab leak in Wuhan, China, vindicating three years of dissenting conservatives who were smeared as not only wrong but racist for advocating a theory about the origins of COVID that is now the official hypothesis of yet another government agency (the FBI agrees with DOE; other scientific agencies lean the other way).

The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America’s intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus.

Moderna also received nearly $10 billion in taxpayer funding to develop and test the vaccine. Read more at Boston.com.

Drugmakers now have wonkier than usual technical draft recommendations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the agency’s process to calculate and pay mandatory rebates if the companies raise the price of certain drugs more rapidly than the annual inflation rate.

The Biden administration, fearful that a surge of coronavirus infections in Beijing could spawn a new and more dangerous variant, announced on Wednesday that it will require travelers from China, including Hong Kong and Macao, to present negative COVID-19 tests before entering the United States.

And a new report finds hate speech surging on Twitter.

And the AP has called a California House race for Republican Kevin Kiley.

And Jim Clyburn said that he would seek the role of assistant leader.

The Swedish geneticist used 40,000-year-old bones to sequence the early humans' genome

For the first time, the United States is rolling out COVID-19 vaccines updated to match variants that are currently dominant, as well as the original strain. This bivalent character will