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Sen. Rand Paul revealed Wednesday in a disclosure that was more than a year overdue that his wife in February 2020 bought up to $15,000 worth of shares in Gilead, a biotech company that brought to market the first drug designed to treat COVID-19. Paul’s mandatory filing with the Senate shows that his wife purchased between $1,000 and $15,000 worth of Gilead stock on Feb. 26, 2020. Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir became the first COVID-19 specific treatment to win an emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration less that three months after the purchase in May 2020.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is still recovering from an attack by neighbor Rene Boucher earlier this month that left him with six broken ribs. Paul’s wife spoke out Wednseday, writing on CNN about some of the unkind press coverage of the incident, saying it has been “hurtful” and “victimized Rand a second time as he struggles to recover.”She says that since the November 3rd attack her husband “has not had a single night's sleep uninterrupted by long periods of difficult breathing or excruciating coughing.”“It is incredibly hurtful that some news outlets have victimized Rand a second time as he struggles...

Rand Paul’s wife, Dr. Kelley Paul, eviscerated the media and the neighbor who attacked her husband in an opinion piece for CNN. Senator Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, was the victim of a vicious attack on November 3rd. His neighbor reportedly tackled him from behind and left him with six broken ribs, three displaced ribs, a pleural effusion, and pneumonia. Kelley writes in CNN that since the attack, her husband has not taken a single breath without pain. “As his wife, I have been distraught over seeing him suffer like this,” she says. “There have been several nights where I...