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A few weeks ago, raw data gathered in Janaury 2020 from Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China — the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic — was uploaded to an online virology database. It caught the attention of researchers. A new genetic analysis from an international team provides the strongest evidence yet for natural origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of one animal in particular: raccoon dogs. Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong talks with Katherine Wu, a staff writer at The Atlantic, who broke the story and explains the genetic evidence. To dive into emerging genetic evidence of this pandemic's origins, read:- Crits-Christoph et. al (2023), Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control- Katherine Wu's Atlantic article, The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic- Michaeleen Doucleff's NPR reporting, What does science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

Almost 300 drugs had an active shortage in 2022, a Congressional report finds. The issue poses a national security risk.

Defense Intelligence Agency officials spoke to Fox News anchor Bret Baier about the threats in the space race from China and Russia, on 'Special Report'.

China's capital Beijing is experiencing its first population decline since 2003. China's population declined translated into weak economic growth.

Fox News senior strategic analyst Lt. Gen. Jack Keane says China and Russia are adversaries and enemies of the United States on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum.'

But after talks with President Xi in Moscow, Mr Putin claims the West and Ukraine are not ready for peace.

'Fox Across America' host Jimmy Failla and Fox News contributor Joe Concha roasted the Biden administration's lack of transparency on Fox News Tuesday.

The Chinese and Russian leaders meet again on Tuesday during Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow.

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China's leader, whose Ukraine plan has been criticised in the West, gets a warm welcome in Moscow.

DeSantis called on the Legislature to pass a law forbidding the use of Centralized Banking Digital Currency, or CBDC, in Florida, which he called a backdoor attempt at pushing “woke ideology.”

President Joe Biden met with Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar on Friday at the White House where dye turned the north lawn fountain green for the occasion.

China's Zhurong Mars rover may be stuck, but scientists using data from the mission are still hopeful that the vehicle can reactivate and explore once more.

The US president's embattled son is under renewed scrutiny from Republicans in Congress.

The United States and its allies staged anti-submarine warfare drills with India, Canada, South Korea, and Japan to strengthen their defenses against threats from North Korea and China.

The government says the voluntary testing of people flying into England will no longer be required.

Laura Ingraham spells out what the 2024 GOP blueprint for the presidency should be and why the party should focus on "America First–style populism" on "The Ingraham Angle."

Canada is removing its mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements for air travelers from China. Changes are due to improvement in case numbers.

U.S. health regulators voted in favor of a full approval for Pfizer's COVID pill Paxlovid. This pill will will help adults who are at high risk of progression to severe virus.

It was the longest diplomatic gap in the history of U.S.- Indian relations, at a time when the two countries say they're closer than ever before

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating has launched a blistering attack on his nation’s plan to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the United States to modernize its fleet, saying “it must be the worst deal in all history.”.

Beijing has reacted with anger to the details of a UK, US and Australia defence pact known as Aukus.

Secretary Granholm is being pressured to explain her controversial comment that the U.S. can "learn" from what China is doing on climate change.

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Data collected by China's Zhurong rover shows seasonal changes in the strength and direction of winds on Mars.

The move marks a major easing of travel curbs in place since the start of the Covid pandemic.

Australia’s defense minister says a deal to buy nuclear-powered attack submarines from the United States was necessary to counter the biggest conventional military buildup in the region since World War II.

President Biden and the prime ministers of Australia and the United Kingdom met at a U.S. naval base in San Diego to mp out their strategy for the Pacific.

The Pentagon intends to load up on advanced missiles, space defense and modern jets in its largest defense request in decades in order to meet the threat it perceives from China.

China launched a pair of Tianhui cartography satellites on March 9 to boost the country's Earth observation and mapping capabilities.

The PM says the UK will increase defence spending because "the world has become more volatile".

The U.S. government may have made duplicate payments for projects at labs in Wuhan, China, through the NIH and USAID, according to records reviewed by CBS News.

Kunwoo Park and Ha-Seong Kim hit grand slams in consecutive innings, and South Korea set a World Baseball Classic scoring record with a 22-2 rout over China in a game between already eliminated teams.

South Korea scored 22 runs in its rout of China, setting a record for the most runs in a World Baseball Classic game. However, they are unable to make the next round.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase U.K. military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the challenge posed by China

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase U.K. military funding by 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) over the next two years in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the challenge posed by China.

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to travel to Africa at the end of March as the United States seeks to pitch itself as a better partner for the continent than China is.

But Mark Thompson says the star's role as a sport's presenter meant the row was in a grey area.

Republican lawmakers tore into Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm after she said that China has set an example on climate change that the U.S. should follow

Kyle Schwarber launched a three-run homer, Nolan Arenado had three hits and two RBIs, and the United States overcame a slow start to beat Britain 6-2 in the World Baseball Classic opener for both teams.

Li Qiang received almost every vote from more than 2,900 delegates at the rubber-stamp parliament.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm claimed that the world's top contributor to climate change can teach the U.S. about how to deal with climate crisis.

Drivers in China's Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture witnessed a huge group of primates crossing a road and forcing the cars to halt.

A group of GOP House committee chairmen issued a joint statement in response to the intelligence community's annual threat assessment, warning that the nation was at a "tipping point."

The Beijing talks capped off a series of talks over the past two years between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with previous talks in Iraq and Oman in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

The air quality in Beijing is plummeting due to dust storms and heavy pollution. The capital city's air quality index is 1,093, which is a "hazardous" level.

Skyscrapers in Beijing have disappeared into the haze and air quality plummeted as China’s capital is enveloped in a dust storm and heavy pollution

Skyscrapers in Beijing have disappeared into the haze and air quality plummeted as China’s capital is enveloped in a dust storm and heavy pollution.

It caps a consolidation of power that has made Xi Jinping China's most dominant leader in generations.

Alarmed by China's success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spend billions to keep three of those countries in the U.S. orbit.

Hong Kong authorities arrested a veteran labor activist Thursday. While the reason behind the arrest is unclear, Beijing is suspected of cracking down on the city’s pro-democracy camp.

Experts told Fox News Digital about the decades-long mission China has pursued to obtain comparable air force capabilities to the U.S. by using espionage to copy what they can.

Experts told Fox News Digital about the decades-long mission China has pursued to obtain comparable air force capabilities to the U.S. by using espionage to copy what they can.

The measures will affect Dutch firm ASML, which is a key part of the global microchip supply chain.

Tawang is home to India's largest Buddhist monastery - China claims it as part of Tibet.

A GOP member of the House Agriculture Committee introduced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit Chinese investors from making rural land purchases in the U.S.

China has produced a 33-foot-wide (10 meters) class propellant tank as it works toward building a super heavy-lift launch vehicle.

Laura Ingraham details how many government officials, including Dr. Fauci, participated in the cover-up of COVID potentially escaping from the Wuhan lab on "The Ingraham Angle."

The president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, will meet with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California instead of in Taipei in hopes of preventing tensions from rising with China, a report says.

You may have noticed Florida lawmakers increasing attention to China and the Chinese Communist Party.

The top diplomats of Australia, India, Japan and the United States say their Indo-Pacific-focused bloc is not aimed at China, but their latest words reflect growing unease over China's influence in the region.

Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher after a Federal Reserve official raised hopes the U.S. central bank might not step up its anti-inflation fight as much as feared.

TikTok says every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.

Asian shares are higher after key measures of China manufacturing showed a strong recovery after anti-virus controls were lifted late last year.

Two surveys show China’s factory activity accelerated in February as the economy revived following the end of anti-virus controls that kept millions of people at home and disrupted travel and trade.

Shares have climbed in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks clawed back some losses from their worst week since early December.

Georgia lost, and then celebrated.

A meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies has ended without a consensus, with Russia and China objecting to the description of the war in Ukraine in a final document.

President Biden will prepare to mark Friday’s one-year anniversary with a new round of sanctions targeting the Kremlin’s defense and energy sectors, Russian banks and several individuals in an effort to stop the Russian invasion.

China has sharply criticized a visit to Taiwan by a senior Pentagon official and reaffirmed sanctions against Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying military equipment to the self-governing island.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet with the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief in the Russian capital.

Traffic has more than doubled last year at Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international flights, but has yet to fully recover after the coronavirus pandemic.

The International Energy Agency on Tuesday accused fossil fuel industries of doing too little to curb methane emissions and undermining global climate goals to limit warming.

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security.

The U.S. military says it has ended its search for airborne objects that were shot down near Deadhorse, Alaska, and over Lake Huron on Feb. 10 and 12.

Hugo Calderano is a Brazilian who has beaten many of China's top table tennis players.

As the war rages on in Ukraine, the United States is doing more than supporting an ally.

China has come in for a grilling over its human rights record as a two-day hearing opened at the United Nations human rights office.

The head of China's national soccer federation has been arrested on corruption charges in the latest blow to the country's effort to grow its standing in the international game.

Asian shares have fallen after Wall Street retreated for a second day as market watchers considered earnings reports and various indicators about whether inflation is waning in the U.S. and elsewhere.

China's orbiting space station crew has completed their first spacewalk of their six-month mission.

South Korea says it will remove the entry restrictions it placed on short-term travelers from China since the start of the year as officials see the COVID-19 situation in that country as stabilizing.

The International Energy Agency says Asia will for the first time use half of the world’s electricity by 2025.

Eyes were locked on the Carolina skies Saturday as the suspected Chinese spy balloon drifted over the Atlantic Ocean and was shot down by U.S. military fighters.

Starbucks reported lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter, hurt by COVID restrictions in China and lower consumer demand in other markets.

Europe’s economy has scraped out meager gains at the end of last year as galloping inflation fed by high energy prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine deterred people from spending in shops and restaurants.

Florida gas prices dropped about 2 cents through the weekend after rising about 17 cents per gallon last week, AAA reported Monday.

Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to a deal with the U.S. to restrict China's access to materials used to make advanced semiconductors.

The beaches and temples of Asian travel hotspots like Bali and Chiang Mai are the busiest they've been since the pandemic struck three years ago, but they're still relatively quiet.

A popular online chatbot powered by artificial intelligence is proving to be adept at creating disinformation and propaganda.

Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka has made it back to the quarterfinals at Melbourne Park for the first time since 2016 by coming back to beat Zhu Lin 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Unlike Thanksgiving, when pie is a given in many households, desserts and confections celebrating the Lunar New Year are as varied as the Asian diasporas around the world that celebrate it.

The European Union is pushing forward with a major clean tech industrial plan that not only should keep the continent in the vanguard of plotting a greener future but also guarantee its economic survival as it faces challenges from China and the United States.

The World Health Organization has appealed to China to keep releasing information about its wave of COVID-19 infections.

Shares have advanced in Asia after news that U.S. consumer inflation slowed last month pushed Wall Street benchmarks higher.

The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile from going to China.

A leading rights group says widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses.

The leaders of Britain and Japan have signed defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries.

Authorities in southern China say 19 people have died and 20 are injured in a traffic accident at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday travel rush.