Fauci's Senate hearing on COVID origins

The story so far

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   Update 3Aug 7 02:18 UTC8 days later

   875 to Contempt: Senate Panel Hands Fauci Case to Trump's Justice Department

   An 875 committee vote holds Anthony Fauci in contempt and sends the case straight to a Trump Justice Department that has already said he should be prosecuted.

   Still open after this report

   • Whether Justice Department prosecutors will open a criminal case or bring charges.
   • The complete vote breakdown beyond the reported 8135 advance vote, and the full record of what Democrats said in debate.
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   Update 2Jul 29 22:19 UTC19 hours later

   111 Times Silent: Senate Panel Holds Fauci in Contempt

   After Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times on July 29, a Senate panel voted Aug. 6 to hold him in contempt and sent the case to the Justice Department.

   Still open after this report

   • No transcript-level reconciliation of the invocation count, no full account of the diary entries at issue, and no corroboration of collateral claims about intimidation of scientists.
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   Update 1Jul 29 03:05 UTC

   Fauci Diaries Fuel COVID Origin Firestorm Before Senate Hearing

   More than 1,000 pages of Anthony Fauci's private pandemic notes, released by Sen. Rand Paul a day before a subpoenaed Senate hearing, revived the COVID origins fight — but a fact-check says the key wet-market claim was misconstrued.

   Still open after this report

   • No full diary context, no verbatim quotes from Fauci or Paul, and no hearing outcome beyond the Fifth Amendment standoff are available in these excerpts.