WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he doesn't think calling COVID-19 the "Chinese virus" - or the "kung-flu," as one administration official reportedly called it - puts Asian ...

It’s been four years since the COVID-19 virus first began to spread. The U.S. National Intelligence Council assessed that two theories on the virus’s origins are plausible: natural exposure to an ...

A distinct coronavirus lineage was found in bats in Hong Kong. HKU5-CoV-2 carries a risk of animal-to-human transmission and binds to humans like the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers published ...

Research was led by Shi Zhengli, a virologist known as the 'batwoman', who is best known for her work on coronaviruses at a ...

In a chilling study from Beijing, Chinese scientists created a mutant COVID-19 strain, GX_P2V, with a 100% lethality rate in "humanized" mice. Similar to GX/2017 found in Malaysian pangolins, the ...

In November 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services sparked renewed scrutiny of controversial statements he ...

The Department of Justice announced Tuesday the arrest of a Chinese national accused of hacking and stealing COVID-19 information from U.S. universities for the Beijing government. File Photo by ...

Democrat Rep. Grace Meng said, “I’m so embarrassed to be his colleague.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday drew heavy criticism after he referred to COVID-19 in a tweet as the "Chinese ...

During Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearings to become America's top health official in January 2025, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado questioned Kennedy about a comment he supposedly made ...