The Energy Department said it reached the conclusion ... the report, it's unclear what evidence caused the DOE to change its mind, where that evidence came from and what the term "lab leak ...

The conclusion ... The lab theory did not gain much traction. “Introduction through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway,” the report concluded.

What it finds is that the virus most likely originated from a lab leak – but with the report itself stating the agency has ...

Here, the report authors' desire to reach specific conclusions runs into a minefield of a complicated evidentiary record. For example ... While a lab leak cannot be ruled out given what we ...

The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the report ... lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency's assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this ...

None of the other agencies it reportedly shared its information with were swayed enough to reach the same conclusion. The FBI, which is the only other agency supporting the lab leak theory ...

In the wake of a Wall Street Journal report published over the weekend on an Energy Department conclusion that COVID-19 most likely came from a lab leak in China, Republicans claimed vindication.

The conclusion ... The March 2021 report by the W.H.O. said it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus emerged accidentally from a lab. But China appointed half the scientists who wrote ...

China accused the U.S. of attempting to smear the country after a Sunday report ... conclusion reached by the experts of the WHO-China joint mission after field trips to the lab in Wuhan and ...

The report says an ... led to a second accidental lab leak -- one which, in turn, would lead to the global pandemic, the investigators believe. No definitive conclusion has yet been reached ...

The conclusion ... The lab theory did not gain much traction. “Introduction through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway,” the report concluded.