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What Happened Today – July 29, 2026

Anthony Fauci seated at a Senate hearing witness table, reading from a printed statement into a microphone.

Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth at Rand Paul's Senate COVID hearing, saying the chairman called it solely to trap him into a false statement. (Photo via gop.gov)

The morning after a federal judge ruled that a contract cannot erase state law, ICE wrote the same words into four more contracts. Washington spent three years in court getting health inspectors inside ICE’s largest Northwest detention center, where detainees filed 3,500 complaints and inspectors with every legal right to enter were turned away at … Read more

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