Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

2567 events From Jan 1, 2020 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-19Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released from ICE Custody After More Than Two Weeks
Estefany Rodriguez · ICE · CPJ · RSF
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2026-03-19Judge Extends Restraining Order Against ICE Detention Facility in Williamsport, Maryland
Judge Brendan Hurson · Maryland AG Anthony Brown · ICE
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2026-03-19Lawfare Analysis Argues Judge Should Block Government-Wide Ban and "Secondary Boycott" but Allow Pentagon to Stop Buying From Anthropic
Alan Rozenshtein · Judge Rita Lin
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2026-03-19Nearly 100 Solidarity Schools Organizing Nationwide for May Day General Strike
May Day Strong Coalition · Chicago Teachers Union · NEA · NNU · +1
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2026-03-19Pentagon Requests $200 Billion War Supplemental — Hegseth Says 'It Takes Money to Kill Bad Guys'
Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · Congress
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2026-03-19Senate Committee Advances Mullin 8-7 with Fetterman's Decisive Vote; Floor Confirmation Expected March 24
Markwayne Mullin · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman · Sen. Martin Heinrich
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2026-03-19Vermont Judge Orders Immediate Release of Man Detained by ICE in Case of Mistaken Identity
Judge William K. Sessions III · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Castro Guaman
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2026-03-1818 State AGs Demand Congress Pass Legislation Requiring Refunds of $166B in Unlawful IEEPA Tariffs
AG Letitia James · AG Rob Bonta · AG Keith Ellison · 15 other AGs
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2026-03-18AI Super PAC "Think Big" Spends $2.5M+ in Illinois Primaries With Mixed Results — Fortune Reports AI/Crypto "Mostly Lost"
Think Big PAC · Jobs and Democracy PAC · Greg Brockman · Marc Andreessen
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2026-03-18Democracy Now Airs Segment on Pentagon's AI Kill Chain — Palantir Maven Reduced Targeting From "Tens of Thousands of Hours" to "Seconds"
Palantir · Pentagon · Craig Jones
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2026-03-18Democrats Walk Out of Bondi-Blanche Epstein Briefing After Comer Vulgar Remark
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Rep. James Comer · Rep. Robert Garcia · +1
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2026-03-18DNI Gabbard Admits Iran Was 'Not Rebuilding Enrichment' Before War — Omits Finding from Oral Testimony
Tulsi Gabbard · John Ratcliffe · Kash Patel · Sen. Mark Warner · +1
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2026-03-18DOD Files 40-Page Rebuttal Claiming Anthropic Might "Disable Its Technology" During Warfighting Operations Over Corporate Red Lines
Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic · Chris Mattei
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2026-03-18Internal DHS Document Reveals 'Project Homecoming' Self-Deportation Numbers Far Below Administration Claims
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
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2026-03-18Iran Missiles Strike Ras Laffan LNG — World's Largest Export Facility Knocked Offline for Years
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Qatar · QatarEnergy
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2026-03-18Iran's New Supreme Leader Still Not Seen in Public — Health Questions Intensify After Father's Death in Strikes
Mojtaba Khamenei · Iranian state media
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2026-03-18Israel Bombs South Pars Gas Field — World's Largest Natural Gas Reserve Hit, Triggering Gulf Retaliation Spiral
Israeli Air Force · Islamic Republic of Iran
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2026-03-18Military Users Warn Claude Replacement Could Take 12-18 Months — Pentagon IT Staff "Slow-Rolling" Transition
Pentagon IT staff · defense contractors · Palantir
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2026-03-18Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing Marked by Confrontation with Rand Paul and Shift on ICE Warrant Policy
Markwayne Mullin · Sen. Rand Paul · Senate Homeland Security Committee
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2026-03-18No Kings Coalition Confirms 3,000+ Events for March 28, Targeting 9 Million Participants
No Kings Movement · Indivisible · MoveOn · ACLU · +3
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2026-03-18Strait of Hormuz Shipping Reduced to Trickle — 21 Tankers Transit vs. 100+/Day Pre-War
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · global shipping industry
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2026-03-18V-Dem Downgrades U.S. from Liberal Democracy to Electoral Democracy in Historic Report
V-Dem Institute · University of Gothenburg
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2026-03-18Win Without War Places 168 Children's Backpacks on Capitol Lawn Memorializing Minab School Victims
Win Without War · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · Rep. Pramila Jayapal · Rep. Sara Jacobs
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2026-03-18Wyden Accuses DAG Blanche of Blocking Unredacted DEA Memo on Epstein Drug Trafficking Investigation
Sen. Ron Wyden · Todd Blanche · DEA
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2026-03-17'De-ICE These Flights' Campaign Targets NCAA Charter Airlines Also Used for ICE Deportations
NCAA · GlobalX · Key Lime Air · immigration activists
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2026-03-17~150 Retired Federal and State Judges File Bipartisan Amicus Brief Supporting Anthropic Against Pentagon Blacklist
former federal judges · Anthropic
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2026-03-17CREW Testifies Trump Corruption Weakens Government and Threatens National Security
CREW · Donald Sherman · House Foreign Affairs Committee
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2026-03-17GAO Report Warns IRS Workforce Cut 27% Under DOGE, Tax Processing Severely Degraded
GAO · IRS · TIGTA
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2026-03-17Government Executive Investigation Reveals DOGE Staffers Fabricated White House Pressure
Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Michael McDonald · Department of Government Efficiency
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2026-03-17House Oversight Chairman Comer Subpoenas AG Bondi for Sworn Deposition on Epstein Files
Rep. James Comer · Pam Bondi
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2026-03-17ICE Charter Flights Deport Approximately 15 Ukrainians to Poland-Ukraine Border via Shannon, Ireland
Journey Aviation · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Human Rights First
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2026-03-17ICE Detention Population Hits 73,000 as Deaths Mount and Bipartisan Community Opposition Intensifies
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · local communities
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2026-03-17Iran Strikes UAE Energy Targets — Shah Gas Field and Fujairah Hit, Oil Output Drops 500K-800K bpd
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · United Arab Emirates
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2026-03-17Joe Kent Resigns as NCTC Director — 'Iran Posed No Imminent Threat, War Driven by Israel Lobby'
Joe Kent · Donald Trump · National Counterterrorism Center
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2026-03-17Judge Quraishi Ejects DOJ Prosecutor From Courtroom, Orders NJ US Attorney Leadership to Testify
Judge Zahid Quraishi · Mark Coyne · Philip Lamparello · Jordan Fox · +2
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2026-03-17Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations
Maryland General Assembly
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2026-03-17Pentagon Confirms Working to Replace Anthropic's Claude — OpenAI Already Deployed, Google Gemini Next in Line
Cameron Stanley · Emil Michael · OpenAI · Google
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2026-03-17Pentagon Plans to Let AI Companies Train Military Models on Classified Intelligence Data — OpenAI and xAI Already Have Agreements
Pentagon CDAO · OpenAI · xAI
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2026-03-17Postmaster General Warns Congress USPS Could Run Out of Cash by October 2026
Postmaster General David Steiner · House Oversight Committee · U.S. Postal Service
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2026-03-17Rep. Summer Lee Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Attorney General Pam Bondi
Rep. Summer Lee · Pam Bondi · Rep. Rashida Tlaib
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2026-03-17Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight
Sen. Adam Schiff · Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Tim Kaine · Sen. Chris Murphy · +2
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2026-03-17Social Circle, Georgia Shuts Off Water to Planned 10,000-Bed ICE Mega-Center
Social Circle City Council · DHS · ICE
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2026-03-16Amnesty International Declares Minab Girls' School Strike a Potential War Crime — 168+ Killed Including 100+ Children
Amnesty International · U.S. Central Command · Pentagon
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2026-03-16Bank of America Settles Epstein Survivor Lawsuit Over $170M in Suspicious Transactions
Bank of America · Leon Black · Judge Jed S. Rakoff · Sen. Ron Wyden
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2026-03-16Broad Tech Coalition Files Amicus Briefs Supporting Anthropic — TechNet Warns Procurement Now "Contingent on Political Favor"
TechNet · Sam Altman · OpenAI · Google · +2
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2026-03-16DOGE Staffer Admits Under Oath Agency Did Not Reduce Federal Deficit
Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Department of Government Efficiency
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2026-03-16ICE-Detained Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Granted $10K Bond After 12 Days in Custody
Estefany Rodriguez · ICE · Nashville Noticias
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2026-03-16Iran FM Araghchi Rejects Ceasefire — "War Must End So Enemies Never Again Think of Repeating"
Abbas Araghchi · Islamic Republic of Iran
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2026-03-16Last Person Detained in Trump Campus Protest Crackdown Released from ICE Custody on $100K Bond
Leqaa Kordia · ICE · Judge Tara Naslow
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2026-03-16Republican Leadership Actively Avoids Public Hearings on Iran War
Sen. John Thune · Senate Republicans
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2026-03-16Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI
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2026-03-16Supreme Court Grants Cert Before Judgment in Haiti and Syria TPS Cases, Keeping Injunctions in Place
Supreme Court · Donald Trump · Judge Ana Reyes
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2026-03-16Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans
Center for Democracy and Technology · Pentagon · Anthropic
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2026-03-16WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump · +2
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2026-03-15AP and Washington Post Investigation Exposes Wildly Inconsistent DHS Deportation Numbers
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Associated Press
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2026-03-15House Democrats Launch Investigation Into DOJ Retaliatory Prosecution of NY AG Letitia James
Rep. Jamie Raskin · Rep. Ted Lieu · Rep. Jerrold Nadler · Rep. Dan Goldman · +3
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2026-03-15Illinois and New York State Bar Associations File Formal Opposition to DOJ Ethics Shield Rule
Illinois State Bar Association · New York State Bar Association · Pam Bondi
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2026-03-14287(g) Agreements Expand to 1,547 Departments Across 39 States, Covering 77 Million Americans
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · local police departments · ACLU
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2026-03-14Canadian Mother and Autistic Daughter Detained by ICE at Texas Checkpoint Despite Valid Work Visa
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Tania Warner
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2026-03-14U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform
Anduril Industries · U.S. Army · Donald Trump Jr. · Peter Thiel · +4
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2026-03-13120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+
Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats
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2026-03-13Al-Quds Day Demonstrations in New York, Houston, and Chicago Denounce US-Israeli Strikes
ANSWER Coalition · AMP · CodePink · Black Alliance for Peace · +1
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2026-03-13CNN Analysis Connects Hegseth's "American Crusade" Book to His Leadership of Iran War
Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-13DOGE Cuts Hobble Pentagon IT, FBI Counterintel, and VOA as War Costs Dwarf All Savings
Department of Government Efficiency · Pentagon · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel
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2026-03-13House Oversight Requests Epstein Prison Guard Tova Noel for Transcribed Interview
Rep. James Comer · Tova Noel · Michael Thomas
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2026-03-13Iran War Two-Week Assessment — 5,300+ Killed, $11B+ Spent, 3.2M Displaced
U.S. Central Command · Hengaw Organization for Human Rights · Refugees International
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2026-03-13Judge Orders Plaintiffs to Remove Viral DOGE Deposition Videos from YouTube
Judge Colleen McMahon · Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Department of Government Efficiency
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2026-03-13Judge Orders VA to Reinstate Union Collective Bargaining Agreement for 300,000 Employees
Judge Melissa DuBose · VA Secretary Doug Collins · AFGE
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2026-03-13Jury Convicts 8 of 9 Prairieland Defendants on Terrorism Charges; Acquits All But Song on Attempted Murder
Pam Bondi · Judge Mark Pittman · Department of Justice · Benjamin Song · +8
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2026-03-13Pentagon CTO Emil Michael Says "No Chance" of Renewed Anthropic Negotiations, Accuses Company of "Leaking and Bad Faith"
Emil Michael · Anthropic · Pentagon
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2026-03-13US Air Force Bombs Kharg Island Oil Hub, Strikes 90+ Military Targets Across Iran
Donald Trump · U.S. Central Command · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Air Force
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2026-03-12$TRUMP Memecoin Team Announces Second Mar-a-Lago Gala Selling Presidential Access to Top Holders
Donald Trump · Bill Zanker
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2026-03-12AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign
OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7
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2026-03-12DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response
Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · U.S. National Weather Service · Elon Musk · +1
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2026-03-12DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin · +1
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2026-03-12ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump
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2026-03-12Iran Launches New Wave of Gulf Attacks as Oil Prices Spike, Bahrain Reports Fuel Tank Strikes
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · Bahrain Defense Force · Bapco Energies · +3
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2026-03-12New Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Issues First Statement Vowing Revenge and Permanent Hormuz Closure
Mojtaba Khamenei · Islamic Republic of Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-12UNHCR Reports 3.2 Million Iranians Displaced as UN Warns of "Humanitarian Explosion"
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · United Nations · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · +3
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2026-03-12USPS Postmaster DeJoy Signs DOGE Deal to Cut 10,000 Postal Workers
Louis DeJoy · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · U.S. Postal Service · +1
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2026-03-1117 State AGs Challenge Education Dept Demand for Seven Years of College Admissions Data
AG Letitia James · AG Andrea Campbell · AG Bob Ferguson · 14 other AGs
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2026-03-11Anduril Acquires ExoAnalytic Solutions, Doubling Space Surveillance Unit for Golden Dome
Anduril Industries · ExoAnalytic Solutions · Palmer Luckey
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2026-03-11Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files
U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4
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2026-03-11Evidence Points to US Tomahawk Strike on Minab Girls School Killing 170+, War Crime Investigation Demanded
U.S. Central Command · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense Intelligence Agency · Pete Hegseth · +7
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2026-03-11Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention
Masoud Pezeshkian · Kazem Gharibabadi · Wang Yi · Zhai Jun · +7
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2026-03-11Iran Strikes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC Vows "Not One Litre of Oil" to Pass
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Navy · +2
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2026-03-11Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced
U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-11Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing Formally Scheduled for March 18 Amid Rand Paul Friction
Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul · Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-03-11No Kings Coalition Announces Nationwide March 28 Protests, Aims to Be Largest in U.S. History
Indivisible · ACLU of Massachusetts · AFL-CIO · No Kings Coalition
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2026-03-11Report Finds Trump Crypto Ventures Propelled by UAE Investment, Preferential Treatment, and Regulatory Shielding
Democracy Defenders Fund · Lee Reiners · World Liberty Financial · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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2026-03-11Social Security Administration Inspector General Opens Formal Probe into DOGE Data Misuse
U.S. Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Robert Garcia · +1
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2026-03-11Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court
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2026-03-11Trump Administration Launches Section 301 Trade Probes to Rebuild Tariff Regime After Supreme Court Defeat
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Office of the U.S. Trade Representative · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1
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2026-03-11UN Security Council Adopts Resolution 2817 Condemning Iran's Attacks on Neighbors; China and Russia Abstain
United Nations Security Council · China · Russia · Bahrain · +3
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2026-03-11Warren Warns Institutional Investors of 'Tsunami of Corruption' Threatening Financial Markets
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · SEC
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2026-03-10DOGE Spending Cuts Leave U.S. Government Hollowed Out as Iran War Escalates
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · +2
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2026-03-10Hegseth Announces "Most Intense Day of Strikes" on Iran as US Targets Drone Manufacturing
Pete Hegseth · Dan Caine · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · +2
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2026-03-10Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined
Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen
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2026-03-10Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms
Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Jacky Rosen · Pete Hegseth · +3
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2026-03-10Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest
Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Elizabeth Warren · Jeff Merkley · +2
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