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Autopen Probes Could Focus on Fauci, Jill Biden: Rand Paul

Former president has said he made the decisions on pardons

(Newser) - Sen. Rand Paul suggested on Sunday that Jill Biden and Anthony Fauci could become focal points in Republican investigations into the use of an autopen for presidential pardons. Speaking on WABC's Cats Roundtable radio show, Paul questioned the legitimacy of pardons issued during the Biden administration, singling out...

Trumps Ends Security Detail for Anthony Fauci
Trump Strips
Anthony Fauci
of Security
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Jan 24, 2025 12:58 PM CST

Trump Strips Anthony Fauci of Security Detail

'You can't have them forever,' says the president

(Newser) - In less than a week, Anthony Fauci has been given protection by the outgoing president and then stripped of protection by the new one. President Trump on Thursday pulled the federal security detail of the retired US health official, reports CNN . The move comes days after former President Biden bestowed...

Biden Pardons Fauci, Milley, Jan. 6 Committee

Last-minute pardons come in an apparent effort to guard against potential 'revenge' by Trump

(Newser) - President Biden has pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol, using the extraordinary powers of his office in his final hours in the White House to guard against potential "revenge" by the incoming Trump...

Biden Considers Some Preemptive Pardons

Media outlets name Liz Cheney, Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, Jack Smith

(Newser) - President Biden and his aides are discussing preemptive pardons for figures ranging from Anthony Fauci to Liz Cheney amid increasing fears that President-elect Trump will go after them, according to reports. Seeing Trump's picks for law enforcement positions , many of whom have called for retribution against Trump's political...

GOP-Run COVID Panel Releases Conclusions

Lockdowns were harmful, report says, attributing virus origin to lab

(Newser) - The House panel looking into the federal response to the pandemic released its final report on Monday, criticizing the lockdowns and other mitigation efforts while deciding the outbreak probably began in a lab in China. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic's chair, Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, said the...

Fauci: West Nile Nearly Wrecked My Life
Fauci:
West Nile
Nearly Wrecked
My Life
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Oct 7, 2024 8:25 AM CDT

Fauci: West Nile Nearly Wrecked My Life

He writes of the physical and cognitive toll, calls for more aggressive research

(Newser) - Anthony Fauci contracted the West Nile virus in August, and he reveals in a New York Times essay that it took a far greater toll on his health than previously disclosed:
  • "I could not swing my legs over the side of the bed to sit up without help from
...

Fauci Contracts West Nile Virus
Fauci Contracts
West Nile Virus
Aug 24, 2024 12:00 PM CDT

Fauci Contracts West Nile Virus

Infectious disease expert recovers at home after hospital stay

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime public health official who became the face of the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was hospitalized this month for six days with a case of West Nile virus. "He is now home and is recovering," a spokesperson said, per the...

Fauci Describes 'Complicated' Relationship With Trump

New memoir looks back at time of 'profound divisiveness'

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci has released a memoir of his decades of public service—including his relationship with then-President Donald Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some highlights from interviews about On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service:
  • A "very complicated figure." Trump is a "very complicated
...

Fauci Denies Cover-Up on Origin of COVID

Greene was reprimanded for refusing to call him 'Dr.' during House panel hearing

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci faced a grilling from Republican lawmakers Monday in his first public testimony since he retired as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in late 2022. At the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing, Fauci denied attempting to cover up the origin...

Fauci to Return to Capitol Hill
Fauci to Return to Capitol Hill
Jun 2, 2024 12:50 PM CDT

Fauci to Return to Capitol Hill

GOP has questions about allegations concerning public records laws at agency

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled on Monday to provide his first congressional testimony since leaving government , with Republicans and Democrats planning different lines of questioning. GOP members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic expect to ask about allegations of misconduct on his watch at the National Institute...

NIH Selects Successor to Fauci
NIH Selects
Successor
to Fauci
Aug 2, 2023 7:25 PM CDT

NIH Selects Successor to Fauci

Jeanne Marrazzo, known for her work on sexually transmitted infections, will start job in the fall

(Newser) - A research scientist in Alabama will become the nation's top infectious disease expert, succeeding Dr. Anthony Fauci. The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo will run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, CNN reports, beginning in the fall. Marrazzo's responsibilities will include...

Anthony Fauci Hits Back at Elon Musk
Anthony Fauci
Responds to Elon Musk
Mar 13, 2023 12:37 AM CDT

Anthony Fauci Responds to Elon Musk

Says calls to prosecute him are 'insanity'

(Newser) - Elon Musk called for prosecuting Anthony Fauci back in December, and Fauci on Saturday addressed that idea, calling it "insanity." "There's no response to that craziness, Jim," Fauci told Jim Acosta on CNN, per Fox News and Newsweek . "Prosecute me for what? What are...

House GOP Puts Fauci on Notice for COVID Probe

Panels send Biden officials letter about testimony, documents

(Newser) - House Republicans kicked off an investigation Monday into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony. The Republican chairmen of the House Oversight Committee and the subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic requested information from several people, including...

Defendant Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill Walensky

Mississippi man also said he planned to kill Fauci

(Newser) - A Mississippi man who threatened to kill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded guilty to making threats in interstate commerce, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Robert Wiser Bates, 39, of Ridgeland, threatened to kill Walensky in voicemails left in July 2021 at the CDC headquarters in...

Fauci: Trump's White House Did Oppo Research on Me

Doctor tells David Axelrod he faced 'outright hostility' from that administration over COVID

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci has become an unwilling headline-maker once again after being targeted earlier this week by Twitter owner Elon Musk, whom Fauci said he generally tries to ignore. "I don't respond to him," Fauci told CNN commentator David Axelrod in a snippet of a podcast aired...

Fauci: Twitter 'Almost a Cesspool of Misinformation'

He addresses Elon Musk's prosecution comment

(Newser) - Anthony Fauci addressed Elon Musk's Sunday tweets about him, telling CNN commentator David Axelrod in a podcast interview, "I don't respond to him." Fauci continued, "I don’t pay any attention to him because that’s merely a distraction. And if you get drawn into...

Fauci Delivers Final Briefing
Fauci Delivers Final Briefing
Nov 22, 2022 8:45 PM CST

Fauci Delivers Final Briefing

'I’ve never left anything on the field,' he says in look back at decades in public service

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered the final White House briefing of his long career on Tuesday, and his message was a familiar one. "Please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you're eligible to protect yourself, your family and...

Health Experts, GOP Have Doubts About Biden's Pandemic Claim

It's not over, officials point out, when 400 people are dying of COVID each day

(Newser) - Update: Add Anthony Fauci to the list of people contradicting President Biden's assertion that the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Fauci, Biden's top COVID adviser, said Monday that the US is "not where we need to be if we’re going to be able to, quote, ‘live...

Anthony Fauci, Still Reviled on Right, Is Stepping Down

Doctor, 81, has led his government agency for nearly 40 years

(Newser) - Anthony Fauci has hinted his retirement was coming soon , and on Monday he gave it a date: The longtime scientific adviser to American presidents will retire from his government post in December. "So long as I'm healthy, which I am, and I'm energetic, which I am, and...

Fauci Says He'll Retire Before Biden's Term Is Up

He says he'd be 105 if he waited until COVID was gone

(Newser) - Dr. Anthony Fauci has served under seven presidents—and he's decided President Biden will be the last. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allegy and Infectious Diseases, tells CNN that he hasn't set a retirement date yet, but he will "very likely" step down before the...

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