Live updates: Fauci invokes Fifth at Senate COVID hearing; Paul says panel will consider contempt
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, a face of the government’s pandemic response, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to decline to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security panel and a critical Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on COVID-19’s origins. Ahead of questioning, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) blasted Paul for “relitigating the past” by holding the hearing. Fauci repeatedly…