Five stories to know for May 27: San Jose shooting, COVID-19 origins, China, the Tokyo Olympics and Boris Johnson

1. A California transit employee killed nine co-workers before taking his own life in San Jose, the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings.

2. President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying that U.S. intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.

3. Politicizing the origins of COVID-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China’s U.S. embassy said.

4. The head of a Japanese doctors' union warned that holding the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, with tens of thousands of people from around the world, could lead to the emergence of an "Olympic" strain of the coronavirus.

5. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's inept handling of the COVID pandemic led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, his former chief adviser Dominic Cummings said.

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