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A hazardous materials worker sprays his colleagues on October 23, 2001, after they came out from an anthrax search at the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Did this virus come from a lab? Maybe not — but it exposes the threat of a biowarfare arms race

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Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Joe Biden won’t tell the truth about his Iraq war record — and he hasn’t for years

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Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers a 20-minute campaign speech at the Des Moines Register Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair August 08, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

With this week’s debate, Joe Biden is now pushing his Iraq war falsehoods to the max

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Elliott Abrams; George H. W. Bush; Caspar Weinberger; William Barr (AP/Getty/Salon)

AP wipes Iran-Contra pardons from Bill Barr’s record: Another win for conventional wisdom

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Anthony Bourdain (Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

Anthony Bourdain: The last gasp of CNN’s original vision

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