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Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a Coolidge and the American Project luncheon in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

White House calls Pence ‘homophobic’ over joke about Buttigieg

The White House on Monday accused former Vice President Mike Pence of being "homophobic" because he joked about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg taking paternity leave, prompting the ex-vice president's team to say the Biden administration should "spare the faux outrage" and focus on America's problems.

March 13, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a working lunch during the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, Dec. 15, 2022. Harris will be the latest and most high-profile administration official to visit Africa this year as the U.S. deepens its outreach to the continent. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

VP Kamala Harris to travel to African nations in late March

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to three African nations from March 25 to April 2 to strengthen U.S. partnerships and "advance our shared efforts on security and economic prosperity," the White House said Monday.

March 13, 2023
A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The House voted unanimously Friday, March 10, 2023, to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Congress shows seismic shift on Wuhan lab likely causing the pandemic

A GOP bill to declassify all evidence that links a Chinese lab to the origins of the novel coronavirus breezed through Congress without a peep of dissent from Democrats, a stunning show of bipartisanship and a major step forward in the long-delayed quest to understand how the pandemic started.

March 12, 2023
Dr. Robert Redfield, left, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confers with Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., before the start of a hearing by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former CDC director says COVID-19 ‘more likely’ came from Chinese lab leak

The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and experts told Congress on Wednesday the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic had unusual features that lend credence to the Chinese lab-leak theory -- a position that was downplayed by government scientists early in the crisis in favor of a natural-origin theory.

March 8, 2023