| 2026-08-19 | Oracle Drops Wisconsin PSC Suit, Leaving $100M-Plus Annual Collateral Requirement for Port Washington Campus
4 src Oracle · Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Brazos County Approves 4-0 Transfer of $700M RELLIS Data Center Tax Abatement to ThisWay Global After Abbott Audit Order
4 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Brazos County Transfers RELLIS Data Center Abatement to ThisWay Global, Returning Half the Value to Tax Rolls
2 src Greg Abbott | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | DHS Termination of Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia Takes Effect, Ending Protection for 5,000-Plus Nationals
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Independent Tracker Records the 5,000th ICE Detainee Flown Out of MSP Since November 2025
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Intercept: ICE Coordinated With Iranian Government to Deport 100+ Iranians Across Four Flights, Launched During the Twelve-Day War
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Lake Worth Beach Faces Vote on 10-Year, $16M-Per-Year PBSO Contract Advocates Say Deepens ICE Collaboration
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Memphis Committee Advances 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as Greensboro Hearing Anchors Spreading NC Wave
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M Offering Exemption and a Safe Harbor That Sunsets Securities Status
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | Weber County, UT Approves ICE Reimbursement Deal Letting Sheriff Bill $3,387 and $14,789 for Deputy Hours
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | 200-Plus Pack Mercer County KY Zoning Hearing Against Panattoni's Project Bluegrass; Separate LPM Story Names Anthropic-Tied TeraWulf Project in Hancock County
6 src Anthropic | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Alamance County NC Commissioners Unanimously Enact One-Year Moratorium on Data Centers Requiring 10MW or More
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Bell County, TX Tables Data-Center Abatement Repeal as Judge Blackburn Warns It Would Forfeit All Leverage
3 src Meta | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ's Minnesota Voter-Roll Suit as a 'Fishing Expedition,' Pushing the Department to 0-23 in Court
3 src Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Flock Safety Adds Privacy Controls as Cities and Legislatures Exit ALPR Contracts Across Its 6,000-Community Network
3 src Flock Safety · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Harrington, DE City Council Unanimously Rejects Ordinance 25-08, Which Would Have Added Data Centers as a Conditional Use in the Manufacturing Zone
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Spartanburg County SC Council Unanimously Delays Third Reading of 12-Month Data Center Moratorium to September 21
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | The $150M Award Collapses From the Recipient's Side: Burke Law Group Withdraws From ORR's Single-Source Children's-Counsel Agreement, and ORR Never Says Why
4 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-17 | Treasury Proposes GENIUS Act Section 3 Stablecoin Rules Defining Who May Issue in the U.S.
4 src U.S. Department of the Treasury · Tether | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | 140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO
3 src GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
2 src Adelanto ICE Processing Center · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | DHS Surveilled at Least Five Midwest Churches While Under a Federal Injunction Barring It; Undercover Agent Dropped a Body Recorder on a Minneapolis Church Gym Floor
5 src Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · Interfaith Alliance |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-15 | Six Republican States Schedule August Special Sessions for Mid-Decade Redistricting After Callais Guts VRA Section 2
3 src Texas Legislature · North Carolina General Assembly · Florida Legislature · Tennessee General Assembly · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Cornell Reverses Protective Pledge, Threatens to Cut Funding Unless Targeted Grad Students Return to ICE Risk
1 src Cornell University · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | DHS AI Inventory Passes 200 Use Cases Including Palantir ELITE Deportation 'Confidence Scores' and Bulk 911 Call Ingestion
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · Electronic Frontier Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Nassau County Defies NY Deadline to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements as AG Prepares Legal Action
3 src Bruce Blakeman · Nassau County · New York Attorney General · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | Niagara and Cattaraugus Sheriffs Miss NY Compliance Deadline as Seven Agencies Defy 287(g) Ban Ahead of Aug 25
4 src Letitia James · New York Office of Immigrant Trust · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-14 | OCC Grants World Liberty Trust Company Preliminary Conditional Approval, Resolving Trump-Family and Emirati Ownership Questions Through Signed Passivity Commitments
2 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · WLTC Holdings LLC · Zachary Folkman · Jonathan Gould |
| confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing
3 src Oracle · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Executive Office for Immigration Review | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records
4 src GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Court Filings Expose 'Operation Puppet Master': HSI Infiltrated Minnesota Unions, Churches, and Activist Groups After Alex Pretti Killing
5 src Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Pam Bondi · Alex Pretti · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region
2 src Gregory Bovino · ACLU · Public Counsel · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Fort Worth Advances Data Center Moratorium Unanimously; Louisville Passes Six-Month Freeze 24-1 Two Days Later
5 src ERCOT | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | The Motion Behind the Exhibits: HSI Agent Desmond Garcia Told the Grand Jury No One Is Investigated for First Amendment Activity
1 src Isaac Sant · Kevin Riach · Homeland Security Investigations · Patrick Schiltz | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone
3 src Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Fifth Circuit Panel Restores Nine Texas SB 1 Voting Provisions on Standing Grounds Weeks Before Midterms
3 src Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Abelson Vacates Howard County's Permit Revocations, Clearing Elkridge ICE Warehouse Conversion to Resume
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days
4 src Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus
3 src Meta Platforms · Sierra Club | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap
2 src CoreCivic | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | USCIS Alerts E-Verify Employers El Salvador TPS Is Set to Terminate Sept. 9 While DHS Announces No Decision
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Alachua County FL Passes a Non-Binding Immigration Resolution 4-0 While Staff Say Its Funding Effect Is 'Open to Interpretation'
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · General Services Administration · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Dover, DE City Council Committee of the Whole Votes Unanimously to Advance 18-Month Data Center Moratorium; Full Council Vote Expected October
2 src | | reported |
| 2026-08-11 | ICE Bodycam Rollout On Track for August, But Footage Release Left to Agency Discretion
1 src David Venturella · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Trump Declines to Rule Out National Security Emergency to Set 2026 Midterm Voting Rules
3 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved
2 src Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Agents Box In and Point Gun at US Citizen Carolina Molina in Falls Church; Six House Members Demand FBI Probe
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · James Walkinshaw · Robert Garcia · Bennie Thompson · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death'
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Human Rights Watch | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Indianapolis Council Pauses New Data Centers 23-1 Through 2027, Exempting Three Already-Approved Projects
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Lawfare Documents Three DHS AI Systems in Live Immigration Enforcement Without Independent Testing or Disclosure
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules
1 src Meta Platforms | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Nessel and Earthjustice File Appeal Briefs Against MPSC Approval of DTE's Stargate Data Center Contracts
4 src Dana Nessel · Earthjustice · Michigan Public Service Commission · DTE Energy · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | NYT: Trump's World Liberty Financial Took $100M From UK Money-Laundering Suspect Bobby Zhou; SEC Has Not Acted
3 src World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Steve Witkoff · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-10 | Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-09 | Fulton County Votes 5-0 to Halt Data Center Tax Abatements Citing $1.1B Statewide Revenue Loss as Microsoft Unwinds Atlanta Deals
3 src Microsoft | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Senate Confirms Trump's Former Defense Lawyer Todd Blanche as Attorney General, 50-49
5 src Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Bill Cassidy · Susan Collins · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-08 | Thune Files Cloture Setting Sept 15 CLARITY Act Showdown After Senate Misses Its Own August Deadline
4 src John Thune · United States Senate · Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | GOP Congressional Candidate Calls US Citizens Shot Dead by ICE 'Collateral Damage'
1 src Renee Good · Alex Pretti | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | NJ AG Davenport Issues Civil Rights Subpoenas to GEO Group's Delaney Hall, Escalating From Suit to Investigation
3 src Jennifer Davenport · GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | ORR Awards Our Rescue a $158.1M Non-Competed 'Urgency' Contract to Represent Migrant Children — One Day After a Federal Judge Found No Mechanism Existed for Injunction Compliance
9 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Acacia Center for Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left
3 src Donald Trump · United States Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-07 | Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora'
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ACLU Suit Against DOJ National Voter Database Proceeds as 12 States Comply Voluntarily, Courts Dismiss 5 State Challenges
3 src Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Advocacy Groups Rally Broome County Courthouse as 287(g) Termination Deadline Nears
3 src Broome County · New York Office of Immigrant Trust | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | AG Nessel's Michigan Court of Appeals Brief Names Docket Numbers, Argues DTE's Own Filings Admit a Ratepayer Cost Increase
6 src Dana Nessel · Michigan Public Service Commission · DTE Energy · Oracle · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed
3 src Government Accountability Office · Gary Peters · Richard Blumenthal · Department of Government Efficiency | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ICE Operates 42 Internal AI Tools But Disclosed Only 23; Delaney Hall Logs Third Death ICE Never Announced
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Austin Kocher · American Immigration Council | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Lawfare Documents That Most ICE AI Tools Never Appear in DHS's Public AI Use Case Inventory
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security · Clearview AI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | ORR Announces Intent to Hand a Three-Year-Old Houston Energy-Law Boutique up to $150M, Single-Source, to Represent Unaccompanied Children — Citing the Court Injunction It Was Under
4 src Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | Trump Signs New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Weeks After SCOTUS Ruled the Restriction Unconstitutional
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | ~1,000 Effingham County GA Residents Confront OpenAI Over $20B, 3.2GW Project Camellia Data Center
3 src OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling
3 src John McConnell · Laura Loomer · U.S. Marshals Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt for Failing to Preserve ICE Agents' Personal Phone Records From LA Sweeps
2 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated
3 src Government Accountability Office | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | ICE Weighs Buying Moshannon Valley Detention Facility Outright as Clearfield County PA Contract Nears September Expiration
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-05 | Mother Jones Documents ICE Undercounting In-Custody Deaths, Profiles Trejo Ricano at Stewart Detention
1 src GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Campaign Legal Center Documents EagleAI Rebrands ELLY and Psephos Being Pitched to State Election Officials
4 src Campaign Legal Center · Cleta Mitchell · Georgia State Election Board · American Oversight | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | CoreCivic Signs $536M, 5-Year Contract to Reopen Appleton MN's Prairie Correctional as 1,600-Bed ICE Facility
3 src CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | DOJ Voter-Roll Suits Against Colorado, D.C. Both Dismissed — Colorado Ruling Forecloses Refiling
2 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | El-Sayed Defeats Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary by 1 Point, on Record Turnout, Despite $30M+ AIPAC Onslaught
13 src Mike Rogers | | reported |
| 2026-08-04 | ICE Obtained Court Orders to Force-Feed 18 Hunger-Striking Detainees Across Four Federal Districts
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Jeffersonville IN Council Votes 8-0 for 1-Year Data Center Moratorium; Meta's Near-Complete Facility Exempted
2 src Meta Platforms | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-04 | Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse
3 src Todd Blanche · Senate Judiciary Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit
3 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas · Meta Platforms · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | Kevin Ramirez Mancia, U-Visa Petitioner Held Four Months in Freeborn County Jail, Wins Federal Habeas Release
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | La Crosse WI City Plan Commission Advances 18-Month Data Center Freeze; Council Vote Aug 13
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | NC Data Center 'Moratorium Fever': 11 Counties, 17 Towns Ban Hyperscale Development; Durham Hearing Set Aug 24
2 src Mike Lee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance Tools to Identify Columbia Gaza Paint-Splatter Protester, Documents Show
1 src New York Police Department · The Intercept · Columbia University | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | RNC Demands Michigan Poll Workers' Home Addresses and Medical Records — Benson Partially Denies
3 src Republican National Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-03 | SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near
3 src Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States · United States Postal Service | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-02 | California's AI Transparency Act Becomes Operative, Mandating Provenance Watermarks as Federal Preemption Advances
3 src State of California · Gavin Newsom | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-02 | EU AI Office Gains Full Penalty Powers Over General-Purpose AI; Article 50 Chatbot Disclosure Becomes Enforceable
3 src European Commission · OpenAI · Google · Meta | | confirmed |