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Your Thursday Briefing: Covid Origins Hearing Opens in the U.S.

US lawmakers opened hearings into Covid-19 origins with Republicans making an aggressive case for lab-leak hypothesis. Biden to unveil budget proposals today, expected to feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.

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  • US lawmakers opened hearings into Covid-19 origins, with Republicans making an aggressive case for lab-leak hypothesis.
  • Two theories: lab-leak hypothesis around Wuhan Institute of Virology, or virus jumped from animals to humans at a market in Wuhan.
  • Stakes: lab-leak consensus could further roil US-China relations.
  • Indian government reviving local militias in Muslim-majority region after a series of deadly attacks on Hindus.
  • Biden to unveil budget proposals today, expected to feature tax increases on corporations and high earners.
Your Thursday Briefing: Covid Origins Hearing Opens in the U.S.
Also, protests in Georgia and armed villagers in Kashmir.
The New York TimesBy Amelia Nierenberg

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