Billionaire Bill Gates has urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a Global Health Emergency Corps to tackle transnational health threats, in order to prevent another pandemic like COVID-19.
"We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19's origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics," Biden said in the statement. "I directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that work is ongoing."
A White House press briefing Monday erupted when a reporter confronted press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for "making a mockery of the First Amendment" by not taking his questions for several months.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations panel of scientists, released its report that claims humanity has a chance to prevent the worst of climate change's impacts.
Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, is holding five separate graduation celebrations for students identifying as Asian, Black, Latino/a/x, Native American, or LGBT.
