An Ignoble Experiment: Fauci: U.S. headed in 'wrong direction'

By Liza Hearon

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Monday, July 26

FAUCI FOREBODES: U.S. 'WRONG WAY' ON COVID The U.S. is in an "unnecessary predicament" of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. He said recommending that the vaccinated wear masks is "under active consideration" by public health officials. [AP]

GOP REP. KINZINGER TO SERVE ON JAN. 6 COMMITTEE Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger has confirmed he will serve on the select panel investigating the Capitol riot shortly after receiving an invite from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Kinzinger will join fellow Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), who is also an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump. [HuffPost]

CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST WILDFIRE TORCHES HOMES The Dixie fire continued to destroy homes over the weekend in Northern California as numerous other blazes battered the U.S. West. Meanwhile, the nation's largest wildfire, southern Oregon's Bootleg fire, was nearly halfway surrounded. [AP]

U.S. MISSES OVER AND OVER IN OLYMPIC BASKETBALL DEFEAT The U.S. men's basketball team on Sunday lost in the Olympics for the first time since 2004, denting their quest for a fourth straight gold medal. France stunned the Americans 83-76, and fans were shocked. [HuffPost]

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WHAT'S BREWING

CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE TEARING COUPLES APART HuffPost talked to five men and women whose marriages are crumbling or have already collapsed under the weight of viral anti-vaccine disinformation. Most said they did their best to tolerate their spouses' embrace of conspiracy theories amid the pandemic — until it came to the vaccines, when those delusions suddenly posed a direct threat to their well-being or that of their children. [HuffPost]

HOW MUCH HEALTH CARE CAN DEMOCRATS CRAM INTO PACKAGE? Democratic leaders have tentatively settled on a package of $3.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years, which is both a lot of money and still not enough to do everything they want. Jonathan Cohn breaks down what could be done with health care. [HuffPost]

CIVIL RIGHTS ICON ROBERT MOSES DIES AT 86 Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86. Moses was central to the 1964 "Freedom Summer" in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters. [AP]

WHITE NATIONALIST KICKED OUT OF MILITARY AFTER HUFFPOST INVESTIGATION Prominent white nationalist Shawn McCaffrey has been kicked out of the U.S. military three months after a HuffPost investigation revealed he had joined the Air Force and graduated from basic training. McCaffrey was a key member of Identity Evropa, a group infamous for its role in the deadly 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. [HuffPost]

NAOMI OSAKA TALKS TO MEDIA AGAIN Naomi Osaka first let her racket do the talking in a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Zheng Saisai at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Then the tennis superstar talked to the media again after shunning press conferences and eventually withdrawing from the French Open in May to preserve her mental health. [HuffPost]