Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: President Trump said that U.S. officials did not believe that a Russian lab worker’s reported death, which has attracted global scrutiny, was linked to a bioweapon. Trump said Russian officials reassured that the situation was being contained.

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