"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.
President Biden on Monday vetoed his first bill — blocking a Republican-led effort to restrict pension funds from making investment decisions based on factors such as climate change.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a traveling Christian evangelist's free-speech challenge to a University of Alabama requirement that he obtain a permit before handing out religious pamphlets and preaching from a sidewalk adjacent to its campus.
