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Debris lays along the Guadalupe River after it was swept up in the flash flooding on July 8, 2025 in Ingram, Texas. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Texas lawmakers ignored recommendations meant to help rural areas prepare for flooding

Lexi Churchill, Lomi Kriel
Donald Trump | Voting Booth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This Trump supporter was labeled a noncitizen and kicked off Texas’ voter rolls

Lexi Churchill, James Barragán, Vianna Davila, Natalia Contreras
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Abbott bragged that Texas purged 6,500 noncitizens from voter rolls. That number was likely inflated

Vianna Davila, Lexi Churchill, James Barragán, Natalia Contreras
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Army quietly allows soldiers charged with violent crimes to leave military rather than face trial

Vianna Davila, Lexi Churchill, Ren Larson, Davis Winkie
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants to block records about Uvalde school shooting response from the public

Lexi Churchill
Carbon monoxide alarm (Getty Images)

Texas enabled the worst carbon monoxide poisoning catastrophe in recent U.S. history

Perla Trevizo, Ren Larson, Lexi Churchill, Mike Hixenbaugh, Suzy Khimm
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. The canceled federal conference on climate change and health problem is back on but apparently minus the federal government. Former Vice President Al Gore, the University of Washington, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the American Public Health Association are resurrecting a climate change and health conference set for next month that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had planned then canceled in December. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

Internal emails reveal how chaos at the CDC hindered the response to coronavirus

Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill
A healthcare worker prepares to transport a patient on a stretcher into an ambulance at Life Care Center of Kirkland on February 29, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. Dozens of staff and residents at Life Care Center of Kirkland are reportedly exhibiting coronavirus-like symptoms, with two confirmed cases of (COVID-19) associated with the nursing facility reported so far. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

U.S. hospitals say they’re ready for coronavirus. Their infection control violations say otherwise

Marshall Allen, Caroline Chen, J. David McSwane, Lexi Churchill