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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
State troopers stand outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

“Cascading failures”: DOJ blasts law enforcement’s botched response to Uvalde school shooting

Lomi Kriel, Alejandro Serrano
Law enforcement officers stand looking at a memorial following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Records reveal medical response further delayed care for Uvalde shooting victims

Zach Despart, Lomi Kriel, Alejandro Serrano, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Arelis R. Hernandez, Sarah Cahlan, Imogen Piper, Uriel J. García
State troopers stand outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

“I’m so scared”: 911 recordings reveal fear and urgency of those trapped in Uvalde elementary school

Lomi Kriel, Zach Despart, Alejandro Serrano, Roxanna Asgarian
Texas governor Greg Abbott (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas officials who celebrate end of abortion rights also slashed postpartum Medicaid by half

Lomi Kriel
In this aerial view, members of law enforcement investigate a tractor trailer on June 27, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. According to reports, at least 50 people, who are believed migrant workers from Mexico, were found dead in an abandoned tractor trailer. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)

Border crackdown makes death a constant risk for undocumented migrants entering Texas

Lomi Kriel, Uriel J. García
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Texas governors spent billions on doomed border operations suspiciously timed around campaign bids

Lomi Kriel, Perla Trevizo, Andrew Rodriguez Calderón
Immigration Detention Center (J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

ICE guards “systematically” sexually assault detainees, lawyers say

Lomi Kriel
Ivan Castaneda, a former Mexican soldier deported from the United States, embraces his children at the bank of the Rio Grande during the event called "Abrazos No Muros" (Hugs, not walls). (Getty/Herika Martinez)

House Democrats demand Trump administration stop rushing through deportations of migrant children

Lomi Kriel
Ivan Castaneda, a former Mexican soldier deported from the United States, embraces his children at the bank of the Rio Grande during the event called "Abrazos No Muros" (Hugs, not walls). (Getty/Herika Martinez)

Trump administration rushes deportations of migrant children during coronavirus

Lomi Kriel
Migrants held in temporary fencing underneath the Paso Del Norte Bridge await processing on March 28, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (Getty/Christ Chavez)

At the border, there is a high risk for coronavirus, but testing is in short supply

Lomi Kriel, Jeremy Schwartz