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Bakers on Texas-Mexican Border Are Found Guilty of Harboring Illegal Workers

14 August 2025 at 07:38
Leonardo Baez and his wife were among the first employers prosecuted for taking on undocumented immigrants at their bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. They face up to 10 years in prison.

© Gabriel V. Cárdenas for The New York Times

Leonardo Baez, the owner of Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas.

Hispanic Democratic Officials in Texas Plead Not Guilty to Voter Fraud

Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

“Let me be crystal clear: the integrity of our elections is the bedrock of our democratic process, and any elected official trying to cheat the system will have to answer for it,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.

New Video Shows Uvalde School Chief Trying to Negotiate With Gunman

13 August 2025 at 07:43
The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children.

© Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

A makeshift memorial outside Robb Elementary School, the site of the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022.
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