Ian Ward is a reporter at POLITICO. Francis Chung is a POLITICO staff photographer.

The White House on Friday morning launched a new website championing the theory that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 was ...

Meanwhile, another study published by more than 20 scientists in Cell, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, said no epidemic ...

The White House rolled out a new COVID.gov website showing the “true origins" of the coronavirus after Democrats and the ...

Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's White House launched a COVID-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of ...

The national security adviser seemed at a loss. It fell to Michael Waltz to explain to handpicked members of his staff this ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answers questions from the press on April 22, 2025.

President Donald Trump defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after news of a second Signal chat Hegseth used to share ...

The CIA had previously said it did not have enough ... now redirects to the White House’s lab leak website. While US intelligence agencies have remained open to the possibility the virus was ...

The renewed focus follows the release of a CIA report assessing that a “research-related origin” is more likely, though it ...

In Spokane to accept an award for distinguished public service, former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on the next generation to take up the mantle . The former Secretary of Defense and CIA ...

The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication ...