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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for records on funding proposals submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office prior to the Covid-19 outbreak (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:26-cv-00433)). Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit …
Thank you @POTUS for signing this historic Executive Order today. There's no laboratory that's immune from leaks — and this is going to prevent inadvertent leaks from happening in the future and endangering humanity. https://t.co/yVzDFczIq9 — Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 5, 2025 FOX — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday banning all federal funding …
The White House budget calls for slashing $17 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing the agency’s failure to properly monitor risky gain-of-function research it funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—where the COVID-19 pandemic plausibly originated. “While evidence of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic leaking from a laboratory …
Britain has been warned it could face another Covid-style lockdown when a new killer virus sweeping Europe reaches the UK. Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) – which kills between 10–40% of people infected – has been identified as a major threat to public health. The World Health Organisation says the virus – which kills 500 people …