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Washington, June 19 (IANS) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of newly declassified documents that she said show former top US infectious disease official Anthony Fauci influenced intelligence assessments on the origins of Covid-19 and later denied such contacts under oath before Congress.The release by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) marks a major escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to revisit the origins of the pandemic and …

Washington, June 10 (IANS) A group of Democratic senators has warned that the United States is ill-prepared to respond to major public health threats, citing a worsening Ebola epidemic, leadership vacancies across federal health agencies and deep staffing cuts under the Trump administration.In a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., led by Senators Patty Murray and Tim Kaine, lawmakers said the administration’s actions had weakened America’s ability to detect…