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About 6 million households in California face water restrictions this summer. But after years of drought conditions, some residents are adapting by planting yards that use less water.

A team of British climbers used xenon gas to decrease the 6 to 8 weeks usually needed to acclimate to the thin air on the world's highest mountain.

Health officials in Houston, Texas, have discovered mosquitoes carrying the virus that causes St. Louis encephalitis in seven areas of the city. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels with one of the health department's "mosquito men" as he makes his way through Houston's extensive sewer system, trapping mosquitoes and sending them back to the lab for testing. (6:15) CORRECTION, aired on All Things Considered Sept. 6, 2001: Wade Goodwyn's report about a mosquito surveillance officer in Houston brought out the science police in the audience. Dr. Victor Sloan of Scotch Plains, N.J., writes this: "In Wade Goodwyn's excellent story on Houston's mosquito hunters, he said 'when the dry ice melts.' Melting is the act of a solid becoming liquid. Dry ice does not melt, it sublimes. That is, it goes directly from a solid to a gas, without ever becoming liquid. When I was about 10, my father tried to explain this to me. It took me years to believe him."

FDA advisers meet Wednesday on the future of COVID vaccines. A fall booster push may be in works. And data is expected this month on vaccine efficacy in kids younger than five.

Several of the key facts of the Jan. 6 insurrection are indisputable. And yet millions on the right do dispute them. Here's a look at how that happened.

The panel has issued a subpoena for the former Trump aide to appear but Bannon says he will not cooperate.

After the U.S. Capitol riot, there was a sense that the Jan. 6 cases would be straightforward. But defense attorneys describe prosecutors as overwhelmed by evidence and struggling to build cases.

Jury selection is underway in the first prosecution related to Jan. 6 to go to trial. Defendant Guy Reffitt has pleaded not guilty. The trial could help set the course for hundreds of other cases.

Seditious conspiracy. The Justice Department has levied the charge on 11 people associated with the January 6 Capitol attack.