Lawmakers Optimistic on Border, Ukraine Deal After ‘Productive’ White House Meeting

Republicans and Democrats express hopes for a deal, House Speaker Mike Johnson says everyone understands the urgency at the border. Congressional leaders appeared optimistic on Jan. 17 that a deal could be reached on supplemental funding for Ukraine and border security after meeting with President Joe Biden. “It was a very good meeting and a

Chinese Lab Sequenced COVID-19 Weeks Before Beijing Disclosed Data

At the time, Chinese authorities were still calling the disease an unknown pneumonia and threatened most health workers into silence. A China-based researcher had already mapped the COVID-19 sequence two weeks before China’s ruling communist regime revealed such details to the world, raising questions about what other crucial pandemic information Beijing may have buried from