The organization said many of those targeted by the raids, conducted by a unit created by the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, were Democratic leaders and election volunteers. Read full article

State Republicans accused Dave Williams, who was ousted in a landslide vote, of dividing the party with “hateful narratives,” most recently against the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Read full article

About 15,000 customers were without power on early Sunday, but neither the winds nor the flooding from the storm were dramatic. Read full article

The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had been hospitalized and was expected to make a full recovery, a spokeswoman said. Read full article

More than 100 people were evacuated after flash flooding in the Havasupai Indian Reservation near Grand Canyon National Park. Read full article

The four-day total includes one of the best fund-raising hours of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid, according to the campaign, which has now raised $540 million in the last month. Read full article

The message Democrats put forward at their convention last week, a tougher line than in decades, reflects how deeply immigration remains a political vulnerability for the party. Read full article

This month, significant breakthroughs were announced in several murder cases that had been dormant for decades. Investigators explained what cracking these can look like. Read full article