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The voters of New Zealand spurned the liberal Labour Party in Saturday’s national elections, knocking them into the minority and electing a conservative coalition led by the National Party. The center-right National Party earned about 40% of the vote, while Labour managed to win just over 25% of the vote, a sharp decline from the 50% share it earned in the last election prior to former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s abrupt resignation from her post, according to the AP. Labour had been in power for six consecutive years, but voters rejected the party at the polls after it pushed stringent...

Scientists at a Pentagon medical intelligence unit wrote in a research report that evidence indicates that SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, may have been “developed in a laboratory," The Washington Times reports. Scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence determined, in an unclassified research paper published in 2020 and recently uncovered by The Australian, that COVID-19 was engineered. The report also rebuffed a previous research paper written by Kristian G. Andersen and four other scientists which concluded that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” The NCMI report, written by Robert Greg Cutlip and...

Dean Attacks Kerry, Race Moves to Wisconsin Wed Feb 11, 5:57 PM ET By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Howard Dean (news - web sites) launched a fierce attack on presidential front-runner John Kerry (news - web sites) on Wednesday, calling him a product of Washington's corrupt culture as the race shifted to Wisconsin for a crucial test next week. The day after Kerry swept two primaries in the South to knock out rival Wesley Clark (news - web sites), Dean went on the attack in Wisconsin and John Edwards (news - web sites) hammered home his...