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Sen. Rand Paul told DailyMail.com he will continue his probe into the origins of COVID-19 by investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci's secret 'off the books' trips to the CIA. The Republican from Kentucky - who is also a doctor - has been investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic for years. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Paul disclosed that Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was friendly with the CIA - which is notably one of the few federal agencies that still has not clearly established COVID-19 origins.

In the midst of growing evidence that the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan, Republicans and Democrats have launched a 'groundbreaking' investigation into Covid's origins. The 15-member Senate committee will investigate the threat of deadly viruses emerging from high-security research labs in the United States and elsewhere. It will also look at how federal funds have been used to fund research, which includes experimental gain-of-function studies, in which animal viruses are gentially modified to make them more infectious among humans. Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky and Chairman of the commission that prompted the new inquiry, said: "It's well past time for the Senate to conduct a bipartisan inquiry into Covid's origins.'

During his tenure as the Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States, the Republican senator from Kentucky, 61, blasted Fauci for making one of the world's oldest decisions. 'History should judge him as a deficient individual who made one of the worst decisions in public health history,' Paul said in an interview with WABC 770 AM's "The Cats Roundtable." He should go to prison for his dishonesty,' he should say.'

A pole at Orlando Airport was installed in the spirit of Festivus, but visitors were required to warn them not to use it for exotic dancing. By giving passengers a comment box with a pen and paper for use during their travels, Orlando International Airport (MCO) acknowledged those celebrating Festivus. The intention was for people to partake in the 'airing your grievances' celebrations as part of their Festivus celebrations. Festivus was inspired by an episode of the legendary TV show Seinfeld from 1997, which first mentioned the 'holiday'. The secular holiday is celebrated as an alternative to Christmas' pressures and commercialism, and it includes foods such as a Festivus dinner and an aluminum Festivus pole devoid of decorations.

Sen. Rand Paul of libertarian-minded released his ninth annual 'festivus' report, which detailed over $900 billion in government waste this year. Barbie dolls were photographed on treadmills as fraudsters attempted to retrieve cash from the Covid Paycheck Protection Program, which was $33 million for a "monkey colony" in South Carolina, $6 million for Egyptian tourism, and a nearly $1 million grant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a research on Russian cats on treadmills. The report also highlighted $38 million in Covid payments that went out to deceased people. Even more federal payments were made, whether through Medicaid, unemployment, or tax credits, the federal government made a whopping $236 billion in 'improper federal payments.' In black and rural areas, another $4 million was spent on investigating Covid misinformation.

On Tuesday, House Subcommittee for Healthcare and Financial Services became the first legislative body to address transgender athletes in women's sports, as former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines and ex-Oberlin lacrosse coach Kim Russell testified in favour of a ban. Gaines has persistently advocated against the inclusion of trans women in sports since 2022, when she tied for fifth place in the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship with University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who never competed against males. Gaines has met with politicians including Heisman winner and former US Senate candidate Brent Herschel Walker and Senator Rand Paul, who have all endorsed their efforts to prohibit transgender people from participating in female sports. Russell, a third member of the Independent Women's Forum, was suspended as the women's lacrosse team coach at Oberlin College in Ohio after speaking out against transgender athletes in female sports. Russell has claimed that she was moved to a writing position that barred her from directly teaching students as a result of her views on transgender athletes in women's sports.

One of its own departments received a big slap in the Biden administration for failing to implement strong anti-fraud measures in the original plan to give out $430 billion in student loan waivers. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), which has since been sluggish, reveals flaws in Biden's student loan repayment scheme, which has since been superseded by the Supreme Court, revealing that it opened the door to fraud. We discovered that Education accelerated debt repayment without employing common measures to avoid fraud.' For example, it didn't verify certain borrowers' self-reported income before approving them for relief.'

When she arrived at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in October 2017, Dr Ping Chen was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in China. The following month, she wrote a paper in which she voiced her doubts about the lab and the staff that work in it. In a memo seen by The New York Post, Dr Chen wrote, "It's clear to me by reminding the technician that absolutely there is a need for training assistance." Covid-19 is most likely" originated in a 'Chinese government-controlled lab,' according to the FBI, although backers of the theory have criticized the WIV, but there is no evidence to back this up.

Senator Rand Paul's workers were brutally knifed on the street by a man who had just been released from jail, according to a new video. On a Washington, DC sidewalk on March 25, Phillip Todd was randomly pushed to the ground and stabbed multiple times in broad daylight. Todd, the Senate committee's Chief Econom, was left with a fractured skull and multiple life-threatening wounds. In the aftermath of the horrific attack, cops arrested and charged suspect Glynn Neal, 42, with assault with intent to murder. Todd is seen being pulled on to the ground by Neal as he tries to shield himself from the man who is stabbing him.

Senator Rand Paul has made a "official criminal referral" to the Department of Justice concerning Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's former top doctor. Fauci's previous testimony on the coronavirus and its potential origins from a Chinese lab with Paul, implying that Fauci lied under oath. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Paul, a Kentucky Republican, accuses Fauci of perjury during his testimony before a Senate committee in 2021.

Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, demanding an inquiry into whether Dr. Fauci, 82, committed perjury when he testified in front of a Senate committee in 2021, according to this website. Dr Fauci testified in a showdown with Republicans, including Sen Paul in July that year, that his former research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology has not been funded until now.'

After the horrific assault in Northeast, Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon, cops were arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill, 42-year-old Glynn Neal, a first-degree sex charge, and five others with nearly 12 years in jail for compel two North Carolina women to engage in prostitution by the use of threats. Senator Paul released a statement shortly after the Metropolitan Police said in a news release that Neal had been charged. Neal's motives in the stabbing are uncertain. According to police, the adult male victim was taken to a local hospital for medical care.

EXCLUSIVE: After new evidence revealed that he censored the Covid lab leak theory, experts have called for the World Health Organization's new chief scientist to be barred from the position. Sir Jeremy Farrar (left) at the center of the lab leak cover-up, fueling fresh questions about the WHO's appointment. They appear to have made direct edits to a science paper that was published in February 2020 that denied allegations that Covid originated from a lab. In a passage about the lab leak theory, Dr Farrar ordered that the word "unlikely" be changed to "improbable." (Pictured right is the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which includes the 'bat woman' scientist Dr. Shi Zhengli at work)

Rand Paul said that even though Dr. Anthony Fauci is retiring, it does not disqualify him from being investigated or summoned to testify before Congress in any investigation related to COVID-19. In a tweet mocking people who announce their pronouns, Kentucky Republican Senator Ed Owen Musk called for the trial of Fauci. 'My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,' Musk wrote early Sunday morning.

According to a letter sent by Florida Senator Rick Scott on Wednesday, more than 3,000 troops have been rendered inactive as a result of the law's implementation in April. Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham, among other top senators, are calling for a vote on an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would see the vaccine provision removed in exchange for passing the bill. House Republicans are demanding that the new NDAA go one step farther and abandon so-called 'woke' policies in the military in a separate letter delivered by Texas Rep. Chip Roy on Tuesday. 'We must prioritizing the recruitment of a lethal military and alert force to protect our country's interests around the world,' Roy's letter states.

No significant threats were present in California and Vermont, but the vote in battleground Michigan could be historic in years' time. Kentucky, the newest to be called, saw 52.5 percent of people condemning the bill's revision to codify anti-abortion laws. Just over 47% of respondents voted in favor. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky easily won re-election on Tuesday night, despite the fact that voters voted to support his party but not oppose abortion on the same platform.

According to exit polls, inflation topped voters' fears as they went to the polls on Tuesday, closely followed by abortion. According to exit polls of voters conducted by the television networks, nearly 33% of voters rated inflation as the most significant issue when they cast their ballot at 6 p.m., with around 27% citing abortion. Other voters cited crime, gun safety, and immigration as their top concerns.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has stated that President Joe Biden's "rhetoric" against his opponents could result in "violent consequences," after a driver mowed down and killed a teen because he reportedly believed he was a "Republican militant." Cayler Ellingson, 18, was struck and killed in McHenry, North Dakota, early on Sunday. Shannon Brandt, 41, has been charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, and leaving the scene of a deadly accident. According to the arrest affidavit, Brandt told State Radio that he punched the teen during a previous protest against politics and that Ellingson was a member of a 'Republican militant group.'

Anthony Fauci said at a conference on Wednesday that he would not be retiring in the 'classic sense,' but that many Americans are calling for the former Covid boss to step away from professional life for good. Fauci spoke at The Atlantic Festival sponsored by media company The Atlantic, where he discussed the 'draconian' steps he introduced, but defended the decision as necessary due to the country's hospitals' desperate circumstances. Many social media followers have taken to the internet to complain about Fauci's inability to return, and are calling on the 81-year-old to retire in the 'traditional sense.' One Twitter user called on him to 'just retire already,' and contended that he knows 'it's no longer a pandemic!' When asked what is the future for the Covid czar, Fauci said he would not rewrite but rather'rewire' as he continues to inspire the next generation of medical professionals and perhaps write an article or lecture.

On Wednesday, the Fauci-Paul exhibition returned to Congress, when the world-renowned immunologist traded blows with his libertarian tormentor in a contest that did not even mention monkeypox, which had prompted them to the Senate floor. Sen. Rand Paul went back to the archives to look at old remarks made by Dr. Anthony Fauci in the hopes of portraying him as a scientifically inconsistent fraud. Fauci sacked him once more with a factcheck and a quip. 'I have never denied fundamental immunology,' he said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was once one of the most trusted celebrities of the Covid-19 pandemic, appearing alongside President Trump to inform the American public in a period of mass confusion. But the 81-year-old physician, who was the nation's top virus expert, who had been fighting the coronavirus pandemic, has announced his retirement in December, no doubt exhausted by ongoing battles with Republicans who became suspicious of his recommendations as virus messaging evolved from 'two weeks to halt the spread' to on-and-off lockdowns to endemic. Although being marginalized by the Trump administration, the administrator of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) continued to speak out, calling for masking and social shaming, Republicans portrayed him as the symbol of lockdowns and pointing out his own inconsistencies. And since Fauci announced his resignation, they have confirmed that their probe into his conduct will continue.

Dr. Anthony Fauci would leave government service in December to 'pursue the next chapter' of his career,' as President Joe Biden lauded his service during the covid pandemic. As we've tackled this once-in-a-generation pandemic, we've been able to call him at any hour of the day for his assistance.' In a tweet, Biden said that his contribution to the job is unwavering, and he does it with unmatched enthusiasm, vigour, and scientific integrity.' Fauci, 81, has speculated for months that his retirement was on his mind, but he has not put a stop-date on his public service. On Monday, he made the announcement official. 'I'm healthy,' I am, I'm fit, and I'm passionate,' he told The New York Times, "I want to do some things outside of the federal government's scope.'

In a letter sent to the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday, Ron Johnson pleaded guilty that agents and workers had come forward with details relating to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home search. Other members of Congress have requested that you give a complete explanation for the raid at the former president's house.' 'I request the information right away,' Johnson told Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. 'However,' he continued, 'I am not positive that your explanation for the raid will be forthright, honest, or alleviate anyone's concerns.'