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Conservatives and liberals alike embraced border closures. U.S. President Donald Trump bragged in his first term that partially closing the U.S. border to China in February 2020 had saved “potentially ...

Germany's foreign intelligence service believes that there is a 80%-90% likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan Institute ...