NADIA LATHAN

Statehouse reporter

Lathan is a statehouse reporter based in Austin, Texas. She is a Report for America corps member.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
Texas medical assistant arrested in connection to clinics accused of providing illegal abortions
 
Andrine Shufran, right, looks through the ashes that are left of her home in the Hidden Oaks neighborhood in Stillwater, Okla., Monday, March 17, 2025, after wildfires burned through the area Friday. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
As Oklahoma reels from deadly wildfires, authorities warn of fresh fire threat
 
An aerial view of Andrine Shufran's burned home in the Hidden Oaks neighborhood in Stillwater, Okla., Monday, March 17, 2025, after wildfires burned through the area Friday. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
High winds threatening Oklahoma again, days after wildfires destroyed and damaged hundreds of homes
 
Texas State Sen. Bryan Hughes , R - Mineola, speaks in favor of his anti-abortion Senate Bill 8 in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP,File)
Texas lawmaker introduces bill to clarify medical exceptions in state’s abortion ban
 
A 42-mile conveyor belt by Atlas Energy carries sand needed for hydraulic fracturing Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Kermit, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
This ‘Dune’ isn’t fiction. It’s the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
 
People pay their respects as the remains of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas lie in state at Houston City Hall on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
The late US Rep. Sylvester Turner is honored by mourners as he lies in state
 
Jonah Paul, Digital Marketing Analyst at Employment Development Department, stands for photographs at the Jack London Square Amtrak Train station in Oakland, Calif., Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
California and Texas join push to end remote work among state employees
 
People hold up signs to protest the Trump administration Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Demonstrators across 50 states look to unify a disparate opposition to Trump and his sweeping agenda
 
Edith Patlan uses a Texas Lottery terminal to complete at purchase of lottery tickets at Fuel City in Dallas, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Texas lottery drawings that paid out big jackpots are the focus of widening investigations
 
A member of the National Guard patrols along a stretch of border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Texas National Guard can now arrest and detain people who illegally enter the US
 
The Icon for the smartphone apps DeepSeek is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Texas governor orders ban on DeepSeek, RedNote for government devices
 
In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Texas man pardoned over Jan. 6 attack is wanted by prosecutors over 2016 charge
 
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton arrives with former President Donald Trump at Manhattan criminal court before Trump's trial in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Texas bar association drops lawsuit against AG Ken Paxton over 2020 election challenge
 
A small flag promoting LGBTQ+ rights sits on the desk of state Rep. Jo Ella Hoye, D-Lenexa, in the House chamber as Republicans prepare to push for a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
GOP-led states are emboldened to keep rolling back trans rights. Democrats struggle with a response
 
Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Why some of the US’s largest solar farms are replacing lawn mowers with sheep
 
Flames and smoke from a fire fill the sky at the Moss Landing Power Plant Thursday Jan. 16, 2025 in Moss Landing, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler /The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
A battery plant fire in California started during a boom for energy storage
 
Texas state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, addresses the members after being named speaker of the house during opening day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)
Texas has a powerful new House speaker in a blow to the GOP’s hard right
 
Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP, File)
Texas man whose execution was halted in shaken baby case is again stopped from testifying
 
Former Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo leaves the Uvalde County Justice Center, Thursday morning, Dec. 19, 2024, in Uvalde, Texas. (Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)
Former Uvalde schools police chief loses bid to toss criminal charges related to 2022 shooting
 
FILE - Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, right, talks with a fellow lawmaker in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Friday, May 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Texas House speaker who faced blowback over Paxton impeachment drops bid to keep post
 
FILE - Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Fred Harris poses for a photo at a restaurant on May 3, 2016, in Corrales, N.M., the town where he lives. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
Oklahoma Democrats mourn Fred Harris, former US senator and presidential candidate
 
Patricia Johnican greets Lady Belinda Taylor as she passes through a common kitchen area after Wednesday bingo at Commons of Grace Senior on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo / Annie Mulligan)
People on breathing machines struggle without power after weather disasters
 
FILE - A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Texas education board approves Bible-infused curriculum
 
FILE - A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Texas is one step closer to allowing Bible content in elementary school lessons
 
FILE - A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Texas proposal would give schools the option to use Bible teachings in lessons
 
FILE - Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP, File)
The key moments as a Texas man faces execution in a shaken baby syndrome case
 
Dr. Phil McGraws, in blue suit gesturing with hand, makes comments during a committee hearing in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas Supreme Court rules against lawmakers who stopped execution
 
FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas says he was detained in airport over being ‘disoriented’
 
Michael Mireles, Votes Director of Civic Engagement for La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), listens as the group holds a news conference to talk about yesterday's election in San Juan, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A Texas border county backed Democrats for generations. Trump won it decisively
 
FILE - Rep. Monica De La Cruz, D-Texas, speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Republicans again make gains on Texas-Mexico border and hang onto a US House seat
 
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