 Based on my initial analysis, I believed then, and I still believe today, that the COVID infections were the direct result of a biomedical research experiment and subsequent lab leak. The hearing comes after a recent Inspector General report revealed the Pentagon does not know how much gain-of-function research is taking place around the world. Still a hot mess in Texas, power restoration efforts continue in Houston days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, initially leaving around 2.7 million people in the dark amid a dangerous heat wave.