Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former NIAID director and face of America’s disastrous COVID response, will finally appear under subpoena Wednesday morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The hearing, titled “Testimony of Anthony Fauci,” is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. ET on July 29 in Room SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, according to the official committee notice.

Committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had to force him there. After months of negotiations, Fauci agreed to testify, then backed out. Paul issued the subpoena. “He will testify in July,” Paul announced. Accountability is coming.

Paul issued a blunt warning ahead of Fauci’s testimony:

“If Anthony Fauci comes before my committee tomorrow and perjures himself, his preemptive pardon from Joe Biden will not protect him.”

If Anthony Fauci comes before my committee tomorrow and perjures himself, his preemptive pardon from Joe Biden will not protect him. https://t.co/RxR3SrDNsQ

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 28, 2026

This is the same Fauci who told Congress under oath that the NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, while the evidence shows U.S. taxpayer dollars did exactly that.

The same Fauci who dismissed the lab-leak theory as a “conspiracy” even as private notes and emails showed early concerns about engineered features in the virus. The same Fauci who received a preemptive, blanket pardon from Joe Biden on the way out the door.

Paul is expected to grill Fauci over the origins of COVID-19, US funding of gain-of-function research, his handling of federal records, and alleged discrepancies between his previous testimony and recently released private writings.

On Tuesday, Paul warned that the American people are long overdue for answers.

“Legacy media let Fauci control how Americans lived during COVID and never held him accountable. That will not be forgotten. Tomorrow I will demand real answers from Fauci,” Paul wrote.

The showdown comes after Paul released a massive 1,141-page collection of Fauci’s private writings, dubbed “Tony’s Diary.”

The documents reportedly reveal that Fauci was warned by leading virologists in early 2020 that COVID-19 contained features that raised serious questions about whether it developed naturally. According to Paul’s committee, roughly half of the scientists involved in an initial conference call believed the virus appeared potentially “constructed.”

Fauci subsequently promoted the natural-origin theory publicly and repeatedly dismissed suspicions of a laboratory accident. Fauci has denied orchestrating a cover-up of the virus’s origins.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, CNBC host Joe Kernen confronted former FDA Commissioner and Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb over Fauci’s conduct ahead of Wednesday’s hearing.

Gottlieb acknowledged that evidence supporting a possible laboratory origin has grown while evidence supporting natural spillover has not.

“I think the side of the ledger that speaks to this potentially coming out of a lab has grown over time,” Gottlieb said.

The Gateway Pundit also reported that Fauci’s private diary entries appear to contradict his repeated claims that he had “nothing to do with” closing schools.

In one March 2020 entry, Fauci wrote that he had convinced then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the city’s schools, bars and restaurants.

Other entries indicate that Fauci privately believed early in the pandemic that COVID’s case-fatality rate could be approximately 0.2% to 0.3%—far below the figures discussed publicly at the time, according to another Gateway Pundit report.

The records also show Fauci obsessively tracking his growing celebrity status, media appearances, fan merchandise and public praise as Americans endured lockdowns and mounting deaths.

Emails released by Paul reportedly show Fauci telling colleagues to “delete this after you read it.” The committee says those communications conflict with Fauci’s earlier testimony regarding the preservation of federal records.

Although Joe Biden issued Fauci a sweeping preemptive pardon before leaving office, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo explained that it would not protect Fauci from any new false statements made during Wednesday’s testimony.

“He can’t claim that the pardon would cover any of his answers now,” Yoo said. “If he commits a lie before Congress now, he’ll be committing a federal crime and could be prosecuted.”

The Gateway Pundit reported on Yoo’s warning here.

Fauci will now be placed under oath before the very senator who has spent years accusing him of misleading Congress and the American people.

Watch the hearing live beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET below:

Via RSBN.

WATCH LIVE — Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

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On Monday’s edition of Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined host Laura Ingraham to unpack newly released diary entries from so-called Dr. Anthony Fauci. Kennedy said the diaries, which Sen. Rand Paul published after locating them on 11 government servers, reveal a stark gap between Fauci’s private musings and his public reassurances during the Covid‑19 pandemic.

Citing an entry describing a June 2021 pulmonary infarction, Kennedy told Ingraham that five months after Fauci’s widely televised Moderna vaccination at the NIH, the doctor suffered a serious pulmonary event that clearly indicates a vaccine injury, yet never disclosed it to the public. Kennedy characterized that episode as evidence Fauci was “vaccine injured” while continuing to insist such side effects were not occurring at scale.

The HHS secretary also argued that diary passages about an early February 2020 call, in which multiple scientists discussed the plausibility of a lab‑engineered furin cleavage site, show Fauci privately entertained lab‑leak concerns even as he publicly pushed a natural‑origin narrative, which Kennedy now describes as a lie about where Covid came from.

Kennedy tied those origin disputes to his longstanding claim that Fauci‑backed gain‑of‑function research in Wuhan made the U.S. government partly liable for the emergence of SARS‑CoV‑2, and he renewed his call for a national “truth commission” to examine that funding and the pandemic response.

On Ingraham’s program, Kennedy further accused Fauci of lying about masks, social distancing, transmission dynamics, natural immunity and vaccine efficacy, saying the diaries prove the former NIAID director’s internal doubts differed sharply from his confident television messaging.

Diary excerpts highlighted on Fox News and in conservative media show Fauci describing the pandemic as a time when it was “not hyperbole” to say he was the most famous person in the country, remarks Kennedy and Ingraham framed as “giddy narcissism” and an obsession with personal celebrity.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a milestone the Pentagon didn’t exactly blast across headlines, the U.S. Marine Corps has officially completed its MV‑22B Osprey Program of Record, delivering the 359th and final aircraft on July 28, 2026.

With that delivery, one of the most transformative aviation programs in modern U.S. military history enters a new era: sustainment, modernization, and keeping the fleet flying well into the 2050s.

The Osprey isn’t just another aircraft. It’s a platform that rewrote Marine Corps aviation doctrine, combining helicopter‑style vertical lift with the speed and range of a fixed‑wing aircraft. That hybrid capability allows Marines to move people and equipment farther, faster, and from places traditional aircraft simply can’t operate.

Marine Expeditionary Units equipped with MV‑22Bs can reach almost any point on the globe, a fact that has reshaped how commanders plan operations.

“The MV‑22B didn’t just join our fleet; it fundamentally changed the way the Marine Air‑Ground Task Force generates combat power,” said Lt. Gen. William Swan, Deputy Commandant for Aviation.
“Today, Marine commanders build operations around the assumption that the MV‑22B will be there.”

Since hitting initial operational capability in 2007, the MV‑22B has logged:

• 686,500+ flight hours
• 114 operational deployments
• 75% of all Marine Corps rotary‑wing assault support

From combat missions to contested logistics, medical evacuations, humanitarian operations, and crisis response, the Osprey has become the backbone of Marine aviation, a capability no other military on Earth possesses at scale.

Col. Robert Hurst, Program Manager for the V‑22 Joint Program Office, emphasized the global significance:

“The V‑22 Osprey sets the United States apart from every other military on the planet with the operational employment of tilt‑rotor technology.”

With the final aircraft delivered, the Marine Corps is now shifting to a long‑term modernization plan designed to keep the Osprey flying through 2055. That effort includes:

• Upgraded nacelle wiring to reduce maintenance hours
• Improved prop‑rotor gearboxes using refined steel components
• Standardized configurations across the fleet
• Redesigned components to enhance safety and sustainability

In other words: the Osprey may be done rolling off the production line, but its evolution is far from over.

Lt. Gen. Swan underscored that point:

“We cannot assume that because the MV‑22B transformed Marine aviation once, its evolution is complete.”

The completion of the MV‑22B Program of Record marks the end of one of the most ambitious aviation programs in U.S. history, one that survived early controversy, overcame technical challenges, and ultimately delivered a platform that changed how the Marine Corps fights.

Now the question becomes whether the Pentagon will fully support the modernization required to keep the Osprey dominant for the next three decades or whether bureaucratic inertia will slow the momentum of one of America’s most unique military capabilities.

For now, the Marine Corps is signaling it’s ready for the next chapter.

The Osprey’s mission isn’t ending.
It’s expanding.

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The Democratic National Committee is a mess. They’re so broke that they recently put their headquarters building up as collateral in order to get access to cash. States are openly threatening to defy their new primary schedule.

The organization desperately needs new leadership.

Enter longtime Democrat strategist James Carville. He recently named the person he wants to take over the DNC and his choice will blow your mind.

It’s David Hogg. Yes, really.

The Hill reports:

Carville: Hogg should take over ‘dysfunctional’ DNC

Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said David Hogg, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair, should succeed current chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”

Carville, who explained he was recovering from hernia surgery, said in a video posted to YouTube that he wanted to weigh in on The New York Times’s reporting on Martin and the DNC.

The report alleges that Martin has been under pressure amid financial woes within the party and — as the Times writes — is “gripped by fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts.”

“It was a story on a DNC that basically said it’s dysfunctional,” Carville said. “It’s just difficult to do anything with it, and it’s all true. And at the end of the day, who cares?”

Carville said that some of the DNC’s leaders could “get themselves together” and “figure out a way maybe they could be somewhat relevant, I have no idea.”

“If David Hogg wants to take it over, I ain’t stopping you,” he continued. “Go ahead, man, I don’t really care. And I don’t think, at the end of the day, well, they might be fine people. I know some of them are not particularly determined.”

Hogg has already responded and says that he doesn’t want the job.

My response to James Carville https://t.co/TluGh2GKD9 pic.twitter.com/Gmm7sS4Ijf

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 28, 2026

Hogg knows what a mess his party has become.

LOL! David Hogg just admitted the DNC is a complete disaster!

No real autopsy of the 2024 loss.

Zero mention of inflation.

Zero mention of Biden’s age.

Zero mention of Gaza.

No conclusions. Nothing.

18 months later they’re $20 million? in debt, had to put the building up… pic.twitter.com/zv9VFkB9w1

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) July 28, 2026

All of the problems the Democrats are having now are self-caused.

Since the 2024 election, they have not paused for one moment to reflect on why they lost so badly. They have offered the American people nothing but more hatred of Trump.

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A man who was allegedly drunk driving a pontoon boat at excessive speeds on the Fox River in Illinois, caused an accident that decapitated a woman on another boat.

People who live in the area caught video of the suspect, Richard Stevenson, speeding up and down the river throughout the day, even though he was in a no-wake zone.

After his arrest, it was discovered that he was over the legal limit for alcohol.

Such a needless tragedy.

CBS News reports:

Lisle man charged in fatal 2-boat collision on Fox River near McHenry County

A man has been charged in the deadly boat crash on Fox River near McHenry County on Saturday afternoon.

Officials say 45-year-old Richard Stevenson of Lisle was taken into custody around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday and was charged with reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence.

Video shared by neighbors caught how fast the pontoon Stevenson was allegedly operating was traveling before it hit another boat, killing a person on board. Neighbors say the boat was going about 70 miles per hour.

They said when they heard about the deadly accident, they weren’t surprised to see the involved pontoon was at the center of the investigation.

Trevor Morris says he was outside swinging his daughter when he heard the boat speed past where they were along the Fox River. Another neighbor shared video showing the same pontoon also zooming by. That video was shot a minute before they say it collided with another boat downriver around 3 p.m. on Saturday…

Two people were on the boat that was hit. The boat was left with extensive damage. One person died while the other was taken in critical condition. CBS News Chicago learned that the person killed was a woman. Her identity was not released as of Sunday night.

WIFR News has more on the driver’s alcohol use:

Stevenson was found in the trees near the shoreline where his pontoon had came to rest, according to authorities. Two other occupants on the pontoon reportedly left the scene before law enforcement arrived.

Authorities say Stevenson was taken to the Northwestern Hospital in McHenry where tests revealed a blood alcohol concentration of .200. The legal limit in Illinois is .08.

Witnesses told officers Stevenson had been drinking alcohol throughout the day while driving on both the Chain O’ Lakes and the Fox River at high rates of speed.

See a video report below:

ALERT: Prolific DUI driver decapitates a woman when he was allegedly drunk driving a pontoon boat 80 MPH in a no-wake zone.

Richard Stevenson, 45, was seen flying across the Fox River in Illinois in his 30-foot pontoon boat, expected to be traveling 80 MPH.

Stevenson was seen… pic.twitter.com/jUpeazIdMO

— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) July 28, 2026

Your heart breaks for the family of the victim.

The only good news is that this man will probably never have the chance to drive a boat again.

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