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Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul recently revealed the details of a private conversation he had with the president of Moderna.

On Wednesday, the CEO of Moderna Stphane Bancel testified before a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and was questioned by several of the committee's members including Senator Paul.

A portion of Paul's questions were focused on myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, after individuals receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Paul asked Bancel if there's a higher incidence of myocarditis "among boys 16 to 24 after they take" the Moderna vaccine. Bancel said that the rate of myocarditis for the specific age and gender group is less than those who contract COVID-19.

Paul then went on to dispute Bancel's remark and said, "I also spoke with your president just last week and he readily acknowledged, in private, that yes there is an increased risk of myocarditis. The fact that you can't say it in public is quite disturbing."

The comments by Paul come amid ongoing speculation about the origins of the COVID-19 virus, which were prompted by a report from the Wall Street Journal detailing a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report that said the novel virus likely originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Following the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, officials across the globe worked quickly to develop a vaccine to curb the spread of the virus. Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson became the three companies that were able to develop a vaccine that has been administered to millions of Americans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In the months following the rollout of the vaccines, some cases of myocarditis and pericarditis appeared in adolescent males.

"Myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been reported. When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna)," the CDC states.

According to the CDC, cases of myocarditis and pericarditis are most common after the second dose of an mRNA vaccine, such as the one developed by Moderna and usually occur within a week of receiving the second dose.

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Despite the remarks by Paul on Wednesday, the CDC states, "The known risks of COVID-19 illness and its related, possibly severe complications, such as long-term health problems, hospitalization, and even death, far outweigh the potential risks of having a rare adverse reaction to vaccination, including the possible risk of myocarditis or pericarditis."

Newsweek reached out to Paul's press office and Moderna for comment via email.

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., waded into a right-wing culture war over the weekend and was forced into an embarrassing retreat.

Paul posted and then deleted a tweet with a photo of the senator standing next to a child. In the tweet, Paul asked if people could believe the child was disciplined for wearing this shirt in Utah.The shirt shows guns that have been arranged to look like an American flag.

Lets start with a fundamental truth about the Republican Party: We cant assume anything its members say is true. The party of election denialism has lost any benefit of the doubt. So Im really doing Paul a service in even treating this as a real story.

But thats only because the way it played out was so hilarious.

Of course, I can see why such a shirt would spur concern. And, whats more, when people began to search for images of the shirt, they found that it was advertised for sale on multiple websites with a name that referred to a sex position.

So, to rehash Pauls question: Is it conceivable to me that a student was disciplined for wearing a shirt that depicts deadly weapons often used to murder schoolchildren seemingly engaged in sex?

Yes, I can believe that.

Rand Paul belongs to a Republican Party that claims to abhor groomers, yet here he is getting worked up over someones aversion to a child wearing sexually suggestive gun paraphernalia.

As can the throngs of people on social media who mocked Paul over his tweet. The senator, after all, does belong to a Republican Party that claims to abhor groomers, yet here he is getting worked up over someones aversion to a child wearing sexually suggestive gun paraphernalia.

The liberals want your kids to trifle with nonsense in school, like treating one another kindly and making everyone feel safe and welcomed.

Meanwhile, conservatives like Rand Paul are focused on the important stuff like how X-rated your childs T-shirt can be.

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When J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, he had been director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 37 years. When he started in that post, the Air Force was not yet a separate branch of the armed forces. By the time his tenure ended, Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon.

The governments civil rights abuses over that long period are well known. Hoovers FBI spied on groups like the NAACP and the ACLU and conducted domestic surveillance on almost any prominent figure who seemed politically threatening.

Albert Einstein, an early opponent of nuclear weapons, had an FBI file over 1,400 pages long by the time he died in 1955. John Lennon was put under surveillance after he met with anti-war activists in New York in 1971. The INS tried to deport him a year later. Perhaps most infamously, in 1964 Hoovers FBI sent an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King, Jr., attempting to blackmail him into committing suicide.

J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sits at his desk in the Justice Department, in 1928. (Getty Images)

Many of the FBIs activities in those years were blatantly unconstitutional, but few were brave enough to speak out against them. It was too dangerous to cross Director Hoover. His influence was so strong that when he turned 70, President Lyndon Johnson issued an executive order granting him a special exemption from mandatory retirement under the Civil Service Retirement Act.

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A decade later, public opinion began to shift. Six presidents had come and gone while Hoover remained at the top of the most formidable law enforcement agency the world had ever known. But when his abuses of office came to light, they sparked an outcry against one man holding the reins of power for so long. So, in 1976, Congress enacted a 10-year term limit for the FBI director.

In more recent times, another power-hungry figure outlasted seven presidents and oversaw his agencys transformation from a medical research institute into the foremost biodefense research agency on Earth. Yet in nearly four decades, the Senate never once voted to confirm him. The law never required it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci attends an event to urge Americans to get vaccinated ahead of the holiday season in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

As an old saying goes, those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for over 38 years, and by the time he retired he was drawing the largest salary in the entire federal government.

His salary skyrocketed after 9/11, when the George W. Bush administration, at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney, brought all biodefense research under the control of the NIAID director. This included projects that were previously overseen by military or intelligence agencies. As one article put it,"[w]ith the stroke of Cheneys pen, all United States biodefence [sic] efforts, classified or unclassified, were placed under the aegis of Anthony Fauci [who]... went from being the director of one of the NIHs constituent 27 institutes to being the only one who really mattered."

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We now know Dr. Fauci used his perch atop the nations biodefense research apparatus to finance gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses in China. In doing so, he bypassed a security protocol to screen out projects that posed too much risk.

Though the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are still unknown, some scientists believe it may have begun in a lab. If so, the virus may have developed from a research method like the ones Dr. Fauci was bankrolling.

The American people deserve better. Thats why I recently introduced the NIH Reform Act to divide the NIAID into three parts that align with its stated mission"to better understand, treat, and ultimately prevent infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases."

Dr. Anthony Fauci adjusts his face mask during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2021. (Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)

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As its currently configured, the NIAIDs jurisdiction covers everything from asthma to Ebola, from peanut allergies to the plague. My bill would replace it with three independent institutes:one for infectious diseases, one for immunologic diseases, and one for allergic diseases. The director of each new institute would be appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and (in keeping with the 10-year precedent at the post-Hoover FBI) permitted to serve no more than two five-year terms.

J. Edgar Hoover and Anthony Fauci are two real-life examples of how too much power in too few hands creates an echo chamber where decisions cannot be questioned. But a free and open society depends upon questioning those in power. A peoples trust in science depends upon it, too.

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Sen. Rand Paul (RKy.) responded to the recent criticism he received from former White House coronavirus czar Anthony Fauci. In a new documentary, Fauci accused Paul of misrepresenting the science on U.S.-funded gain-of-function research, which Fauci says could not have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paul disagreed.

"He's arguing a straw man argument," said Paul in an interview onRising, the show I host for The Hill. "We have never argued that anything that's been published by the Wuhan lab became COVID-19. What we are arguing is that the lab in Wuhan has over 100 coronaviruses that they have manipulated in a lab and have not published."

Federal health advisers have not been sufficiently forthcoming about the extent of the grants authorized by the National Institute of Health (NIH) for research in Wuhan, China, according to Paul.

"Dr. Fauci is disingenuous. He is conflicted," said Paul. "The reason he is conflicted is that if this came from a lab that he funded, he shares culpability. He's been trying to cover this up from the beginning. There's a great deal of information that from January of 2020, in the early days, a cover-up began, and it continued for Fauci's entire term in office."

Paul also expressed frustration that the Senate did not act on his amendment to repeal the 2001 authorization of military force that undergirds the war on terror. The vote failed Wednesday night.

"The bill before us will repeal the Iraqi resolution, the one that says we are authorized to fight against Saddam Hussein's Iraq," said Paul. "The absurdity is that war's been over for 20 years, that resolution is very specific to Hussein, and we still can't get some of these neocons to vote for it."

To stop the United States' forever wars, Congress must repeal the "forever authorizations," added Paul.

Watch the full interview below.

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As Trump indictment lingers, New York City officials prep for protests

GOP leaders have urged against protests outside of the Manhattan district attorney's office ahead of a possible indictment of Donald Trump.

Scott L. Hall, Patrick Colson-Price and Cody Godwin, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the Manhattan district attorney leading theinvestigation into former President Donald Trump's alleged hush-money payments should "be put in jail."

Paul's comments came in a tweet Tuesday and follows the former president's prediction that he would be indictedfor his alleged rolein making a $130,000payment to adult film actressStormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election to silence her about an affair with him.

"A Trump indictment would be a disgusting abuse of power," Paul said in the tweet.

The Kentucky senator did not provide any further details or context on the tweet, and Trump had not been formally indicted by the district attorney's office as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Three Republican House committee chairs have called on the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, to testify about the probe into Trump's payments and the possible charges.The district attorneys office in Manhattan started investigating Trump in 2018, four years before Bragg took office.

Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, head of the Judiciary Committee;James Comer of Kentucky, head of the Oversight and Accountability Committee;andBryan Steil of Wisconsin, head of the Administration Committee,sent a letter to Bragg saying his actions could "erode confidence in the evenhanded application of justice."

You are reportedly about to engage in an unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office, the lawmakers wrote in the letter."In light of the serious consequences of your actions, we expect that you will testify about what plainly appears to be a politically motivated prosecutorial decision."

They set a March 23 deadline for Bragg to testify.

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Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, thetop Democrat on the oversight committee, said the Republicanchairs acted outside their powers to influence a pending criminal investigation at the state level.

The Republicans' letter to the Manhattan District Attorney represents an astonishing and unprecedented abuse of power as they attempt to use Congressional resources to interfere in an ongoing criminal investigation at another level of government and obstruct a possible criminal indictment," he said in a statement.

New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, saidRepublicans "tie themselves in knots" protectingthe former president.

"Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy: hands off NYC & quit meddling in ongoing investigations," he tweeted.

Contributing: Bart Jansen

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