Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of declassified records detailing U.S. funding of more than 120 biological laboratories across more than 30 countries, arguing the documents validate concerns that were previously dismissed as misinformation.

The release comes years after Gabbard drew criticism for raising concerns about U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine following Russia’s 2022 invasion. Critics accused her of echoing Russian narratives, while supporters argued legitimate questions about the labs’ activities and oversight were being unfairly dismissed.

The newly released records include ODNI briefing slides detailing the scope of U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s laboratory network.

DNI TULSI GABBARD PROBES U.S. FUNDING TO MORE THAN 120 BIOLABS AROUND THE WORLD

A bio safety lab where SARS-CoV-2 infectious samples are inactivated is shown at the Penn Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa., on Dec. 16, 2021.

One document states that more than 40 laboratories in Ukraine received U.S. funding and housed collections of dangerous bacteria and viruses, some dating back to the Soviet era. The records also show Ukrainian scientists received U.S.-funded training to work with hazardous pathogens and participated in a program focused on handling especially dangerous diseases.

The documents list pathogens studied or stored within the laboratory network, including anthrax, tuberculosis, plague, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, MERS and SARS.

Additional records detail U.S.-funded construction and upgrades at laboratories across Ukraine, including facilities in Kherson, Odesa and western Ukraine. The documents identify engineering firm Black & Veatch as a major contractor and show U.S. taxpayers spent between roughly $1.7 million and $3.5 million on individual laboratory projects.

LAWMAKERS DEMAND ANSWERS AFTER SUSPECTED BIOLAB DISCOVERED IN CHINESE NATIONAL’S LAS VEGAS HOME

Newly declassified records released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard reveal details about U.S.-funded biological laboratories around the world, reigniting debate over overseas bioresearch programs. (iStock)

One declassified assessment focuses on a veterinary research laboratory in Kharkiv that received Pentagon funding through the Defense Department’s Biological Threat Reduction Program.

According to the assessment, the facility housed hundreds of samples of dangerous pathogens, including Brucella bacteria, which can cause a disease known as brucellosis. The document warned the lab could become a target of Russian propaganda efforts or be damaged, captured or otherwise compromised during the war.

Another ODNI slide outlines what it describes as a “web of connections” linking Ukrainian laboratories with U.S. government agencies, universities, research organizations and private contractors. The document says U.S. funding supported research on bird flu and other highly infectious viruses in high-security laboratories.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Gabbard said the documents demonstrate that the public was not given a full picture of U.S.-backed biological research programs overseas. Critics, however, maintain the facilities were part of long-running public health and threat-reduction efforts designed to secure dangerous pathogens and prevent biological proliferation rather than operate as biological weapons programs.

The declassification is likely to reignite debate over government transparency, gain-of-function research and the scope of U.S.-funded biological research overseas.

Nearly four months after Netflix released an explosive documentary chronicling the legacy and controversies of “America’s Next Top Model,” the show’s creator, Tyra Banks, is suing the streaming giant for false light, defamation by implication, breach of contract and false endorsement.

According to the lawsuit filed on June 13 and obtained by Fox News Digital, Banks — who participated in “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” — accused Netflix and the documentary producers of deliberately editing her 3.5-hour interview down to 16 minutes to create the false impression that she knowingly concealed what a former contestant has since characterized as a sexual assault that occurred during the filming of “ANTM.”

“Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series ‘America’s Next Top Model’ because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show’s legacy—its successes and its shortcomings,” the lawsuit states. “There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ‘ANTM’ viewers to hear that from her directly.”

“Going into her interview, Ms. Banks did not limit the ‘ANTM’ topics the interviewer could ask,” the lawsuit continues. “During a three-and-a-half-hour interview, Ms. Banks answered questions about the show’s groundbreaking history, including criticism of decisions she would approach differently today.”

‘AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL’ CONTESTANTS LOBBY CALIFORNIA FOR BETTER REALITY TV PROTECTION AFTER NEW DOCUSERIES

Tyra Banks poses on the red carpet at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2024 Issue Release and 60th Anniversary Celebration at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City on May 16, 2024. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)

Banks says the Netflix series was sold to her as a “documentary series” that would chronicle “ANTM,” but says footage was “stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed.”

“Worse, the false narrative the producers constructed—through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage—included that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant’s trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked,” the suit stated. “That narrative about Ms. Banks is a complete fabrication—one that Netflix streamed to a global audience of millions.”

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER

The suit highlights one “egregious example of the producers’ manipulation to create a false narrative,” involving former contestant Shandi Sullivan.

SUPERMODEL PAULINA PORIZKOVA EXPOSES DARK SIDE OF FASHION INDUSTRY THAT PREYED ON HER AT 15

“One of the areas of interest about ‘ANTM’ over the last twenty years has been about an evening during which Ms. Sullivan was intoxicated, had intercourse with a man in Milan, and quickly confessed her infidelity to her longtime boyfriend,” the suit reads. “On the Netflix Series, Ms. Sullivan is shown describing the event as an assault—something Ms. Banks had never heard before and was not told during her interview. Having withheld that information, Ms. Loushy asks Ms. Banks: ‘You remember the story with Shandi?’ The episode shows Ms. Banks glance upward, say ‘um,’ and then the screen cuts to black. The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show.”

LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Banks’ lawyers claim the “implication is false.”

“Ms. Banks remembers Ms. Sullivan well. She stood out as a remarkable young woman and talented aspiring model. Ms. Banks also remembers the encounter in Milan as a matter of regret over infidelity. As far as she knew at the time, that was how everyone involved understood it—not as a sexual assault. Before it aired, no one involved in making or clearing the episode—not the producers, the network executives that oversaw the show, or the network’s standards-and-practices reviewers—told her that anyone regarded it as a sexual assault.”

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

“Second, Ms. Banks goes on to say: ‘I do remember her story.’ That response was cut off from the end.”

Banks, who is requesting a jury trial, is asking for an “appropriate” amount of punitive damages.

Human remains discovered in a remote section of a Washington state national park more than two decades ago have finally been identified, bringing long-awaited answers about the person’s identity.

National Park Service (NPS) officials announced that the remains found in Olympic National Park belong to Joseph Louis Serrao Jr., a Hawaii native whose family last had contact with him in 1998.

“This case remained unresolved for nearly 30 years, but investigators never lost sight of the goal of identifying this individual and finding answers for his family,” Debra Flowers, deputy chief of the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch, said in a statement.

TOURIST HOT SPOT SHAKEN AFTER HUMAN FOOT WASHES ASHORE; POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION: REPORTS

“I’m proud of the persistence and collaboration that made this identification possible, and I hope it brings some measure of closure to those who have spent so many years wondering what happened to Joseph.”

Human remains found in a secluded area of Olympic National Park over 20 years ago have now been identified. (iStock)

The case dates back to July 2000, when a researcher discovered skeletal remains inside a sleeping bag in a tent in the Sol Duc River drainage area of Olympic National Park, located on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula.

Investigators also recovered several personal belongings from the campsite, including binoculars, a backpack, a shoulder bag, a folding saw, a blanket and winter clothing, according to reports.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER

A medical examiner determined the remains likely belonged to a man between the ages of 30 and 50, but authorities were unable to determine his identity.

Evidence collected from the scene was processed by the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory, but investigators were unable to obtain usable fingerprints, according to the park service.

The case began in July 2000, when a researcher found skeletal remains inside a sleeping bag within a tent in the Sol Duc River drainage region of Olympic National Park. (iStock)

Despite years of investigative work, the case remained unsolved.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIES

The breakthrough came decades later when investigators used advanced DNA testing to search for possible relatives.

That effort eventually led authorities to Serrao’s family, who confirmed they had not heard from him since 1998.

Authorities also recovered a number of personal belongings from the campsite. (iStock)

Investigators later matched DNA samples from family members to the remains, according to NPS.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Family members told investigators that Serrao was originally from Hawaii and had been living in Washington before he disappeared.

Fox News Digital reached out to the National Park Service for further comment.

Nobody had a bigger night on Saturday night than Jalen Brunson. His 45-point performance in Game 5 locked down the NBA Finals MVP and the Knicks championship.

A close second in the running for the biggest night is a Spurs fan in a Dennis Rodman jersey. He went on a one-man mission in New York to find any celebrating Knicks fan who wanted a piece.

New York Knicks fans climb on buses to celebrate their NBA Finals lead in Times Square, New York City, on June 14, 2026. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

Most people moved out of the way as if he had some sort of invisible force field around him, but he did have a few Knicks fans take him up on the offer. Surprisingly, he fared pretty well against the crowd.

ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!

He trades punches, keeps moving forward and nobody seems to have enough to slow him down. There are several altercations that take place before he receives a police escort outside.

Once outside, the Spurs fan went a couple more rounds with willing Knicks fans. His head was on a swivel, and he was pulling off one of those completely fake-looking movie fight scenes where the good guy takes out several bad guys at the same time. It’s unbelievable to watch.

The force field was still in effect for those who wanted nothing to do with fighting him. A police officer outside eventually steps in and the Spurs fan disappears into the night with some celebrating Knicks fans following and taunting him.

VICTOR WEMBANYAMA BOLDY CLAIMS SPURS ‘DOMINATED’ KNICKS AFTER LOSING NBA FINALS IN FIVE GAMES

New York Knicks fans climb on buses as they celebrate after they win the NBA Finals in Times Square on June 14, 2026 in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

If only the Spurs had half of this fan’s fight. It would have been a different NBA Finals entirely. They turned to putty late in games when the Knicks were on the attack and in the process of putting them away.

OUTKICK IS NOW ON THE FOX APP: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Something tells me that wouldn’t be the case for this guy, who went viral in the latest chaotic scene in New York following an NBA Finals game.

An Orthodox Jewish homeowner in Ohio is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his lawsuit after he says city officials targeted him for trying to host a prayer gathering in his home.

Daniel Grand said he invited about a dozen friends to join him for prayer at his home in University Heights in January 2021. After a neighbor learned of the planned gathering and complained to city officials, Grand received a cease-and-desist letter, and then-Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan told him he would need a special-use permit to comply with local zoning rules governing religious assemblies.

Grand initially applied for the permit in an effort to comply before he fully understood what the city was requiring. He later learned that the permit was designed for his property to operate as a house of worship and carried requirements including three acres of land, parking accommodations and other conditions. According to Grand, obtaining the permit would have converted his home into a nonresidential property, meaning he could no longer live there.

He told Fox News Digital that city officials never explained those requirements.

SOUTH CAROLINA MAN TOLD HE NEEDS A PERMIT TO HOLD A SIGN ABOUT HIS FAITH ON PUBLIC SIDEWALK

Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jewish homeowner from University Heights, Ohio, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his lawsuit challenging the city’s handling of a proposed prayer gathering at his home. (Alliance Defending Freedom)

“Basically, the city knew what they were doing,” Grand said. “They tricked me. I felt like they lied to me, actually. And I simply tried to comply. So the next day, trying to be a good Samaritan, if you will, I went ahead, and I followed their advice that they gave me in that cease and desist letter, thinking I would just be able to have this permit. And it opened up into a very large scale negative event.”

After realizing what the permit would require, Grand withdrew his application. He alleges Brennan encouraged neighbors to report activity at his home and that police conducted frequent drive-bys. Grand also alleges city services stopped collecting his trash for several weeks and that officials threatened him with “bogus” property violations in an effort to build a case against him.

Grand argues the city discriminated against him based on religion, saying officials would not have objected to a secular social gathering at his home.

“It’s just absurd,” Grand said. “I live here. It’s my house. It’s still my house… whether they’re reading Oprah Book Club of the month or a Bible, the Oprah Book Club is fine, but the Bible is a problem, according to that mayor of University Heights,” he said.

FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS OAKLAND SCHOOLS TO ALLOW AFTER-SCHOOL CHRISTIAN CLUBS EQUAL ACCESS

Daniel Grand argues city officials violated his constitutional rights by requiring him to obtain a special-use permit to host a small prayer gathering in his home. (Alliance Defending Freedom)

Grand filed a federal lawsuit in 2022. However, a federal district court and a subsequent appeals court dismissed key portions of the case as unripe, ruling that he had not completed the city’s permitting process or obtained a final zoning decision before suing.

Grand’s attorneys, including lawyers with Alliance Defending Freedom, argue he should not have needed a permit to host a small prayer gathering in his home.

The city, now under the leadership of Mayor Michele Weiss, argued that Grand abandoned the local permit process before officials could issue a final decision and that he was later informed he could host the prayer gathering without a permit.

“Mr. Grand presented to the City Planning Commission during the previous administration,” the city said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “After a public hearing and comment, the Commission tabled the matter for further proceedings. During this time, Mr. Grand withdrew his application. Soon thereafter, he then filed a lawsuit.”

“Subsequently, the City sent Mr. Grand legal correspondence which stated that he was able to pray with a small group (a minyan) in his home WITHOUT going through the Planning Commission process,” the statement continued.

SUPREME COURT WEIGHS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DISPUTE OVER PUBLIC FUNDING FOR CATHOLIC CHARTER SCHOOL

U.S. Supreme Court building on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Mayor Weiss’s office also told Fox News Digital that she is Orthodox Jewish, as are many others in University Heights, and that there currently are houses of worship in homes in the city.

Grand’s legal counsel pushed back on the city’s defense, in comments to Fox News Digital, calling the city’s current stance a “significant about-face” that only occurred after litigation was filed.

“We appreciate Mayor Weiss and the current administration’s sensitivity to the Orthodox Jewish community, and we recognize that this matter arose under the prior administration,” Grand’s legal counsel said. “But this case is about the harms already done and there is plenty of evidence to suggest what happened was wrong and unconstitutional.”

“The issue was not merely a misunderstanding,” the attorney continued. “The complaint details a broader course of conduct, including due-process defects in the Planning Commission proceedings, alleged ex parte communications, refusal to allow requested submissions, ongoing harassment and discriminatory enforcement, bogus violations, withholding of a certificate of occupancy, failure to grant a tax abatement like everyone else, attempted criminal prosecution, interference with City services, police surveillance-related conduct, and pressure on the surrounding community to monitor and report on Mr. Grand’s home.”

Grand has now petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to decide by the end of June whether to hear the case. His legal team is asking the court to clarify whether local governments can issue credible threats that chill religious exercise, force homeowners to a public land-use approval process for private prayer and avoid judicial review by later changing their positions.

“The Supreme Court hearing this case would be able to open up the federal judiciary to people like me who have been harmed constitutionally by local governments through the use of permit schemes and variances and all sorts of property zoning-related ideas that have been weaponized against people who want to pray,” Grand told Fox News Digital.

Jonathan Gross, one of Grand’s co-counsels, added that the case presents a vital opportunity to close a legal loophole.

“We expect that the Supreme Court, hopefully, will do the right thing and will resolve this in the right way that doesn’t allow local governments to use a legal loophole to just run roughshod over people’s constitutional rights,” he told Fox News Digital.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Several faith groups, including Jewish, Christian and Muslim organizations, have filed amicus briefs in support of Grand’s petition.

President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday, becoming only the second sitting U.S. president to reach octogenarian status in the Oval Office, leaving even his onetime political opponents marveling at his defying the effects of Father Time – even if his critics continue to share concerns they never had with the older former President Joe Biden, now 83.

“You don’t have to wish me a happy birthday, because I’m not happy about that birthday that I’m having,” Trump joked with Dr. Mehmet Oz, 66, in an Oval Office video shared Thursday on Instagram. “It’s a number I haven’t thought too much about.

“It’s not a number I like, but I’m here nevertheless.”

Trump’s White House is celebrating his keeping up the fight with an Ultimate Fighting Championship on the South Lawn.

TRUMP LOOKING FORWARD TO ATTENDING UFC WHITE HOUSE EVENT FEATURING ‘ALL TOP’ FIGHTERS

President Donald Trump has long hailed his cognitive abilities and is resurfacing the scoring on tests as he approaches his 80th birthday June 14. (Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg)

“At least to date, he has seemed to utterly defy age,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. The 55-year-old Cruz was a target of Trump’s political fire a decade ago on the opposite side of the Republican presidential primary race.

“I don’t know where he gets the energy that he displays, but he is up early in the morning and late at night,” Cruz added.

Trump, born June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York, crossed the threshold previously reached by Biden, who turned 80 in 2022 while serving in the White House. Trump was already the oldest president ever sworn into office when he began his second term in January 2025 at age 78.

RFK JR: DR OZ SAYS TRUMP HAS ‘HIGHEST TESTOSTERONE LEVEL’ HE’S SEEN IN A MAN OLDER THAN 70

Former President Joe Biden remains the oldest to serve as commander in chief, but President Donald Trump will surpass him by the end of his term in January 2028. Both have surpassed former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Dwight D. Eisenhower as the oldest siting presidents. ((Getty Images))

“He has gained in stamina as he has gotten older,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 82, said recently.

Unlike Biden, whose age and mental acuity became a central political liability before he left office, Trump and his allies have repeatedly pointed to the president’s busy public schedule, frequent media appearances and hands-on governing style as evidence that he remains active and engaged.

Trump hailed his latest physical by White House Dr. Sean Barbabella declaring him to be in “exceptional” health and his cardiac age being “approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age.”

TRUMP DECLARED ‘FULLY FIT’ FOR ALL PRESIDENTIAL DUTIES AFTER ANNUAL PHYSICAL SHOWS ‘EXCELLENT HEALTH’

“They said I’m very healthy,” Trump told “Pod Force One with Miranda Devine” earlier this month, saying he has “an obligation” to give periodic cognitive reports on his mental acuity after Biden’s administration.

“I took a test and cognitive test and I got 100% on it. I got as the expression goes: I aced it. And the doctors told me it’s very, very few people can ace. That’s actually a tough test.”

Trump noted Biden was able to skirt potential prosecution for retention of classified documents because special counsel Robert Hur declared Biden to be a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

TRUMP PITCHES COGNITIVE TESTS FOR LEADERS, TAKES AIM AT HARRIS, WALZ, NEWSOM

“I have a great memory,” Trump told Devine. “Look, so far so good. I hope I’m going to keep it that way.

“If I don’t, you’ll be the first to know. You’ll say [after] this interview: ‘This isn’t the same Trump; I think he’s lost it.'”

The White House has also sought to bolster that message with medical updates. Trump’s physician said the president remains in “excellent health” and “fully fit” to carry out the duties of commander-in-chief.

“Unlike other U.S. Presidents, none of whom have ever taken an approved, high difficulty, Cognitive Test, I scored a perfect 30 out of 30, considered ‘extreme intelligence,'” the post began.

“Are the Dumocrats really surprised?”

WHITE HOUSE PROVIDES TRUMP HEALTH UPDATE AFTER MRI SCAN CONCERNS SWIRLED

Trump has long cast his stamina as a political asset, regularly contrasting his pace and public visibility with Biden’s more limited appearances during his presidency. Supporters say the difference is clear: Trump remains outspoken, combative and highly visible as he enters his ninth decade.

Some Democrats have seized on images of Trump’s bruising of his hand and with his eyes closed during meetings and lengthy Cabinet news conferences, which Trump has noted provide unprecedented transparency and access to the administration lasting up to three hours of live back-and-forth.

“That’s false: I’ve never seen him fall asleep,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 25 years Trump’s junior and another one-time target of Trump’s political opposition, told a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing this month.

WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS WENT FROM COVERING AN ‘INVISIBLE PRESIDENT’ BIDEN TO ‘OMNIPRESENT’ TRUMP: POLITICO

“On the contrary, the guy doesn’t sleep, which is a big problem because he calls me at 2 in the morning. He calls me at 5 in the morning. And, you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours, but at least six. So he works. The other day he was at the Oval Office until 12:30 a.m.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., 74, rejected age getting in Trump’s way like it did for Biden, saying that “just because you’re 80 doesn’t mean you’re falling apart.”

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Trump’s birthday also arrives during a historically unusual stretch for America’s aging political class. Three baby boomer presidents — Trump, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — all turn 80 in 2026. The latter two are long removed from active public service.

Trump is not looking to just rest after the UFC fight on the South Lawn on Sunday night. He plans to then travel early Monday to France for the annual G7 summit.