The Republican senator has spent years battling Anthony S. Fauci and public-health experts over the pandemic’s origins.

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, announced he will serve as chairman for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

In a letter to his colleagues, Paul says the committee's "mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself."

Rand Paul will take over the chairmanship of the upper chamber’s Homeland Security Committee starting in January after two years as the panel’s top Republican — and hes