Fauci to face contempt vote after refusing to answer Covid questions in Congress

Senator Rand Paul says: "I think there is a very real chance that he could be prosecuted for that."

The US Is Making the Most Fuel Since Pre-Covid. It’s Not Enough.

US refiners are turning crude oil into products like gasoline and diesel at a pace not seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but even that is unlikely to rein in soaring prices soon amid a historic fuel crunch.

By Will Kubzansky

The sad takeaway from Fauci's refusal to testify

Pleading the Fifth epitomizes society's failure to get to the bottom of what started the pandemic and learn lessons for the next one.

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Anthony Fauci’s diaries take aim at News Corp journalist Sharri Markson’s ‘nonsense’ Covid-19 investigation

US former top health official, who was subpoenaed to appear at a Senate hearing into Covid-19, says Markson’s reporting about virus’s origin ‘does not make any sense’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Dr Anthony Fauci, the US’s chief medical adviser at the start of the pandemic, has described a book by News Corp investigative journalist Sharri Markson backing the “lab leak” theory of Covid-19’s origins as a “bunch of nonsense” in his newly released diaries. This we...

By Caitlin Cassidy

Animal spillover? Lab leak? What the science says about the origins of COVID-19

The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci's pandemic diaries has rekindled the debate over the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Here's how scientists have weighed in.

By Rachel Carlson

Why did Anthony Fauci invoke the Fifth Amendment? Senate hearing explained

The former top US health official invoked the amendment as Republicans questioned him over COVID-19.

Ted Cruz demands Fauci face jail time, labels him as America's 'most damaging bureaucrat'

Ted Cruz says Anthony Fauci should face contempt charges, perjury prosecution and jail after pleading the Fifth over 100 times at a Senate hearing.

Fauci’s silence puts fresh spotlight on ‘pleading the Fifth’ right in US

It was important enough to the framers of the US Constitution to be included in the first 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights – that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”. Today, that protection – famously known as “pleading the Fifth” – remains one of the most visible and politically charged safeguards in American law. It has seeped into the culture, too. “Pleading the Fifth” has become an idiom in the United States, used jokingly in casual...

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Trump says he was busy Wednesday morning watching entire three-hour-plus Fauci Senate grilling

President tells reporters he watched entire hearing amid ongoing war with Iran and continued economic pain for Americans

By Andrew Feinberg

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment as Republicans go on attack at U.S. Senate COVID hearing

Senator Rand Paul said he would seek to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions despite having been preemptively pardoned by Joe Biden in 2025

By Bloomberg News

Laura Ingraham stands at Fauci hearing alongside others ‘shamed’ during COVID-19

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul-led US Senate COVID hearing

Fauci, who is 85 and retired in 2022, was subpoenaed by Paul of Kentucky, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and a longtime adversary.

Anthony Fauci invokes the fifth amendment 100 times during Covid hearing

Dr Fauci was the US’s most prominent public health figure during the Covid outbreak

By Daniel Bates, Sarah Knapton

Fauci repeatedly invokes Fifth Amendment in contentious Senate committee hearing

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, at least for now, shielded Fauci from answering questions that could expose him to accusations of lying under oath. Though he received a pardon in early 2025 from Democratic former US President Joe Biden, some Republicans pursuing a yearslong campaign for his arrest had sugge

By The Korea Herald

Inequality best predicts how nations handle pandemics, study finds

A high-profile panel found a clear and consistent link between a nation's level of economic inequality and how it performed during the COVID-19 and AID pandemics.

Rep. Lauren Boebert Slams Anthony Fauci for Pleading the Fifth

Rep. Lauren Boebert says Dr. Anthony Fauci's silence speaks volumes ... arguing he had no reason to plead the 5th Amendment unless the truth was "radioactive." The Colorado congresswoman joined "TMZ Live" Wednesday after Fauci refused to answer…

By TMZ Staff

Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions during tense US Senate hearing about Covid origins

Former top US health official Anthony Fauci has refused to answer questions at a tense US Senate hearing on Covid-19, saying he feared Republicans would try to use his testimony to prosecute him for perjury.

By Abubakar Ibrahim