U.S. Justice Department orders national-security lawyers to review JFK documents
The U.S. Justice Department is ordering some of its lawyers who handle sensitive national-security matters to urgently review records from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy that ...
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A New Era of Pandemic Anniversaries
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Trump says his administration is set to release JFK files with no redactions
President Donald Trump says files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released Tuesday without any redactions, making good on a promise he made ...
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Trump to release 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday
President Donald Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files Tuesday about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after promising on the campaign trail to declassify ...
Covid-19 five years on: Where did the pandemic start?
On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic after more than 118,000 cases in 114 countries were reported - as well as more than 4,200 deaths. By the time the ...
Covid-19 five years on: What caused the coronavirus pandemic?
Five years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic, questions remain about the origins of the virus. The pandemic shut borders, forced millions into their homes and ...
Zeynep Tufekci: We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives
Only an honest conversation will lead us forward. Like any field with the potential to inflict harm on a global scale, research with dangerous, potentially supertransmissible pathogens cannot be ...
New York Times columnist admits scientists ‘badly misled’ public on COVID-19: ‘Five years too late’
Zeynep Tufecki, a Times columnist and sociology professor at Princeton University, wrote in a recent opinion piece that the ...
Public was misled by the scientific community about COVID origins, NY Times columnist argues
A column published in The New York Times claimed the public was "badly misled" about the origins of COVID, even after its own ...
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COVID pandemic likely unleashed by lab mishap: Germany’s BND
Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, concluded that the outbreak of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic in 2020 could well have been triggered by an accident at a Chinese laboratory that ...
On This Day: Congress establishes West Point
On March 16, 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
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Still searching for COVID-19 origins five years after ‘Proximal Origin’ paper tried to end debate
More and more evidence points to the Wuhan lab as the origin of COVID-19, but answers are elusive, and a look at the issue without the filter of politics is rarer yet. The new Trump Administration has ...