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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters after House Republicans voted to oust her from her leadership post as chair of the House Republican Conference because of her repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud and his role in instigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Rep. Liz Cheney: Trump guilty of ‘most egregious’ violation of oath

Rep. Liz Cheney says former President Donald Trump's incitement of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was a historically egregious violation of a president's oath and she was shocked to see House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pay the ex-president a visit at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, weeks later.

June 7, 2021
First lady Jill Biden, center left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speak to a person as they visit a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York Sunday, June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Fauci poses for selfies, shakes hands in NYC after rough-and-tumble week

Dr. Anthony Fauci toured a New York vaccine site with first lady Jill Biden on Sunday, offering a positive photo-op as he battles critics who say his 2020 emphasis on a natural source of the coronavirus damaged his credibility and that he must clarify how U.S. grant funding was used at a virology center in Wuhan, China.

June 6, 2021
This Aug. 3, 2017, file photo shows Corey Lewandowski, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, speaking at the City Club of Cleveland, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

Corey Lewandowski calls for COVID-19 commission

Corey Lewandowski said the U.S. should establish a commission to explore the origins of the coronavirus led by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and "maybe" Hillary Clinton.

June 6, 2021
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. Democratic Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware, left, speaks near Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois during a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, second right, in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, June 6,2021. The U.S. will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden's move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure vaccines as it battles an outbreak. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. to donate 750,000 COVID-19 shots to Taiwan

The U.S. is donating 750,000 COVID-19 shots to Taiwan, a trio of senators said Sunday, filling in the lines of President Biden's export plans and sending a clear message to China.

June 6, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health (NIH) and the state of medical research, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Dr. Fauci to China: Release records of ill workers

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday called on China to release the medical records of three workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who became sick right before the coronavirus swept through the central Chinese metropolis.

June 4, 2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Dr. Fauci defends COVID-19 record in wake of email dump

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday distanced himself from a 2020 email thanking him for emphasizing the likely natural origins for the COVID-19 virus over the theory that it escaped from a Chinese lab, as Republicans pressed the National Institutes of Health over what they said were the many unanswered questions about the pathogen that devastated the globe.

June 3, 2021