Rolling Stone has since reported that some of the January 6th organizers, who are now cooperating with investigators, are admitting to multiple meetings with members of Congress and their staffs. They say they met with …Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back…”

Though this doesn’t make it clear whether the contact was directly with Boebert or with people representing her, Rolling Stone says there is also documentary evidence of the organizers being in direct communication with Boebert, as well as Paul Gosar, on the day of the attack. She was also listed as a speaker for one of the events that day, though ultimately she did not appear.

Now, though, subpoenas are being issued to people connected to the planning of that day, and one of the recipients, Steve Bannon, has already been referred to the Justice Department for legal action for defying that subpoena.

As the investigation heats up, Boebert is denying everything. In a statement tweeted Monday night, she attacks the Rolling Stone article, calling it “false,” and saying that she had nothing to do with the planning or organization of the attack.

Now, nearly 18 months later, the Houston team’s vaccine, called Corbevax by its maker in India, is cheap, has no patent, can be made by many vaccine producers globally — including those in low- and middle-income countries — and is poised to receive approval for widespread global use.

The Indian government has promised the biopharmaceutical company Biological E Limited, which is making the vaccine in that country, that it will buy 300 million doses with the potential for more.

A halal version of the vaccine, for use in Islamic countries because it doesn’t contain animal-based ingredients, is also about to start clinical trials in Indonesia.

And later this year, the company hopes the vaccine will be endorsed by the World Health Organization for use globally, which could open the doors to quicker authorization in several countries that need it.....

“Much of sub-Saharan Africa, large swaths of Latin America and other places like that — they really don’t have access to the [mRNA] vaccines,” said Cutrell, an associate professor in the department of internal medicine. “That makes it really important and attractive to have some of these cheaper, easier-to-distribute — but hopefully similarly effective — vaccines with more traditional technology, which I think this vaccine and other vaccines like it can contribute.”

Texas’ transgender student athletes will be restricted from playing on K-12 school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Monday.

House Bill 25, authored by state Rep. Valoree Swanson, R-Spring, will require student athletes who compete in interscholastic competition to play on sports teams that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificate at or near their time of birth. It is set to go into effect Jan. 18.

The legislation goes further than current rules from the University Interscholastic League, which governs school sports in Texas. Under current UIL rules, a student’s gender is determined by their birth certificate. But UIL also accepts legally modified birth certificates in which someone may have had their sex changed to align with their gender identity.....

Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, opposed the bill and said the organization’s most immediate focus is providing healing to transgender children and advocates who have returned session after session to speak out against anti-transgender legislation