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Why did Dr. Anthony Fauci invoke the Fifth Amendment during the Capitol Hill hearing?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the person most identified with the federal public health response to the COVID pandemic, invoked the Fifth Amendment today, repeatedly, when he was on Capitol Hill. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports the veteran infectious disease expert declined to answer any questions, including from the Republican Committee Chair Rand Paul, during a hearing about the origins of the virus.
Dr. Fauci and Senator Paul have long sparred over the coronavirus pandemic. Days before this hearing, Paul released over a thousand pages of Fauci's private writings, accusing him of covering up the origins of COVID-19. Fauci pointed out that he has responded to similar questions in previous testimony. And Fauci accused the senator of being obsessed with trying to get him behind bars.
Although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government, under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.
Senator Paul and other lawmakers continued asking questions, and Fauci continued declining to answer. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News.
If Democrats want to win elections with a broad coalition of voters, a new report suggests they need to focus on the economy. As NPR's Tamara Keith reports, there's a divide between the party's college-educated liberal base and the working class voters it needs to win over.
The report, called the Left's Coalition Crisis, says Democrats are losing support from working class voters because they focus on a whole lot of issues that aren't top priorities for those voters. Joan Williams, a law professor from San Francisco, is co-author of the report.
The first thing that Democrats who care about cultural issues have to do, and I realize this is counterintuitive, is center working class economics and not only prices but also wages and economic opportunities.
The report finds that many issues perform better when framed through the lens of working class values. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
After a five-day pause in attacks between the U.S. and Iran, Iran fired at U.S. targets in Jordan, and the U.S. and Saudi Arabia hit Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. NPR's Jane Araf has the latest.
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What accusations did Senator Rand Paul make after releasing Fauci's private writings?
and Iran paused those attacks to give diplomacy a chance, meaning messages were being exchanged through mediators. But early Wednesday, which is Tuesday evening U.S. time, Iran fired ballistic missiles at U.S. military installations on Jordanian bases. One of them, Iran said, was a military command and control center. So CENTCOM, the U.S. military, said this was a surprise attack. And President Trump told Fox News in words we frankly cannot repeat on air that the U.S. would give Iran a beating.
NPR's Jane O'Raff. reporting. S&P 500 fell more than one and a half percent today. This is NPR. OpenAI's unintended hacking attack of another AI company was more extensive than initially reported. In an update about its investigation, the chat GPT maker says its rogue program also broke into several publicly available services like code-paced websites and screenshot services. The incident took place during a test of OpenAI's models in a supposedly inescapable lab environment. About a decade ago, dozens of people who grew up around Philadelphia learned through DNA tests that they shared the same biological father, an infertility specialist named Dr. Charles Charney. NPR's Frank Lankfitt reports they formed a family.
After the shock of the discovery, the half-siblings began to bond over shared physical traits, including thin lips and big foreheads. A significant percentage shared the same profession as their biological father, medicine. Eighteen showed up for the first reunion in 2017. Half-sibling Dina Harris, an OB-GYN, says they worked through their new biological identities together.
What really helped, honestly, was having other siblings who were going through the same thing.
At a recent reunion in Florida, the half-sibling said one of the lessons they learned from this late-life revelation is this.
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