| 2026-10-26 | DOJ Announces Charges Involving 48 Aliens Including the 28 California Defendants Charged a Week Earlier
2 src Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-10-26 | DOJ Brings Espionage Act Counts Against Comey by Criminal Information
3 src James Comey · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | DOJ Sends Washington Secretary of State Letter Asking Him to Hold Ballots of Over 400 Listed Voters Untabulated; Oct. 28 Noon Deadline, Else Emergency Relief
11 src U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | FEC Electronic Filing System Goes Offline a Week Before the Midterms
3 src Federal Election Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Hermantown, Minn., Council Postpones Google Data Center Vote After Protest; Meeting Rescheduled for Oct. 30
1 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Judge Furman Rules DOJ Illegally Fired Prosecutor Maurene Comey, Orders Reinstatement and Back Pay
3 src James Comey · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Moraes Orders Flávio Bolsonaro to Surrender His Passports and Bars Him From Leaving Brazil in a Sealed Order Served the Day After the Runoff
3 src Flávio Bolsonaro | | reported |
| 2026-10-26 | New York Focus Reports County Jails Billed ICE About $20 Million Since Early 2025, Per FOIL Invoices
1 src Fred Akshar · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Ninth Circuit Dismisses DOJ Emergency Appeal Over California Ballots 2-1, Calling the Emergency Self-Constructed
1 src U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Ohio Secretary of State LaRose Refers Black Fork Strategies (Field Forward Ohio) to the U.S. Attorney and FBI Cleveland Over Late Voter Registration Forms
1 src Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | States Newsroom: Data Center Backlash Reaches Midterms as Allegheny County Bans Large Facilities on County Land
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Trump Offers $1 Million Reward for Voter-Fraud Reports Leading to Arrest and Conviction; White House Gives No Funding Details
2 src Donald Trump · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-26 | Trump Says Lula's Win "Looked Like Another Rigged Election" as Flávio Bolsonaro Refuses to Concede
1 src Donald Trump · Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · Flávio Bolsonaro | | reported |
| 2026-10-25 | Lula, Reelected, Says He Had to Overcome "Interference From Outside" Through Digital Platforms and Will Regulate Them
1 src Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · Meta | | reported |
| 2026-10-25 | Milwaukee Archbishop Grob Apologizes for Praying With Trump, Says the White House "Manipulated" Bishops Into a "Political Photo Opportunity"
2 src Heritage Foundation · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-25 | Ninth Circuit Hears DOJ's Emergency Appeal in U.S. v. California in a Rare Sunday Argument
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · State of California · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-25 | On Meet the Press, Welker Reads Rogers His 2012 Reuters Quote on Moderate Muslim Brotherhood Individuals; He Calls It Out of Context and Cites Israel-Egypt Intelligence Ties
3 src Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-25 | Sanders Rallies With El-Sayed in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor Ahead of Michigan Senate Election
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-25 | Trump Calls Democratic Senate Candidate El-Sayed a "Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood Member" at Port Huron Rally for Rogers
5 src Donald Trump · Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-24 | Detainee Dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center; Person Unnamed
6 src CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | Bolts: Orange County, NY, Is Ending Its ICE Jail Contract Under the State Ban While Its Sheriff Joins a Suit Against the Law
1 src New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Fifth Circuit En Banc Holds, 10-7, That Immigrants Detained Under the Mandatory-Detention Provision Are Not Entitled to Bond Hearings, Reversing Habeas Grants to Three Texas Men
2 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Government Tells E.D.N.Y. Belgal Was Arrested Under a Warrant, Says He Withdrew His Bond Hearing Request
1 src Oscar Belgal · Kenneth Genalo · Judge Hector Gonzalez | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | High Time Nebraska and Cornhusker Choice, Super PACs Registered After the Pre-General Books Closed, Report Ad Buys for Nebraska Senate Candidates Mike Marvin and Robin Richards | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | Judge AliKhan Consolidates the LULAC, NAACP and DSCC Polling-Place Suits for All Purposes Under LULAC v. DHS
8 src Judge Loren L. AliKhan · League of United Latin American Citizens · NAACP · DSCC · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Judge Barlow Dismisses DOJ's Suit for Utah's Full Voter Roll With Prejudice in U.S. v. Henderson
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Deidre Henderson · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Luis Sandoval Dies in ICE Custody at the GEO-Run Folkston Center in Georgia Weeks After His Arrest; Death Comes Amid a Hunger Strike and a Senators' Letter
3 src | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | Mennonite Plaintiffs Ask D.C. Circuit to Shorten DHS's Rehearing Deadline to Nov. 19 and Issue the Mandate Right After; Government Opposes
1 src Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Newport, Oregon and DHS Settle Airport ICE Detention Suit; DHS Owes 30 Days' Notice, No Permanent Bar
2 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | ProPublica and Texas Tribune: Paxtons' Blind Trust Put $600,000 Into a Convicted Mortgage Fraudster's Company, and Records Show the Trust Was "Far From Blind"
1 src Ken Paxton · James Talarico | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Solicitor General's Merits Brief in DHS v. D.V.D. Adds No Questions, Leads With Jurisdiction, and Asks the Court to Let the Policy Stand
2 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · D. John Sauer | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Spotlight PA/Votebeat, Oct. 23: DHS Still Has Not Shared Its 14,576-Name Pennsylvania List
1 src Al Schmidt · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | State Department Notice Lets Passport Records Be Shared Through Federal Verification Platforms for Voter-Eligibility Checks; New Use Takes Effect Nov. 23
1 src U.S. Department of State | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | Texas AG Paxton Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Under the State's Deceptive Trade Practices Act Over ChatGPT Safety Claims
1 src Ken Paxton · OpenAI · Sam Altman | | reported |
| 2026-10-23 | The Intercept: Fellowship PAC Routed $600,000 Through Bo Hines's Nxum Group to Support Democrats Torres, Goodlander and Warner
1 src Bo Hines · Tether · Cantor Fitzgerald · Ritchie Torres · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-23 | U.S. Attorneys Serve California County Registrars With Lists of "Likely Aliens" and a 48-Hour Demand; Letters Are in the Court Record
5 src U.S. Department of Justice · California Secretary of State | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | AG Blanche, Asked in Norfolk Whether DOJ Could Block a State From Certifying, Says He Won't Say There Are No Circumstances
3 src Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Kash Patel | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | Chief Judge Boasberg Moves the Government's Response to the Omar Search-Warrant Unsealing Applications to Oct. 27 and Lets DOJ Make Its Case for Delay Under Seal
4 src Ilhan Omar · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | CNN and ABC Report DOJ Is Investigating Lewandowski and DHS Contracting After an Inspector General Referral
2 src Corey Lewandowski · Kristi Noem · Jeanine Pirro · Joseph Cuffari · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | DOJ Appeals Nashville v. DHS Vacatur of FEMA Election Conditions and Moves for a Stay, Asking for a Ruling by October 26
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Federal Emergency Management Agency · Markwayne Mullin · Judge Amir H. Ali | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | DOJ Files Notice of Appeal to the Ninth Circuit in United States v. California, Saying the District Court's Silence on Its TRO Application Is a Constructive Denial
2 src U.S. Department of Justice · California Secretary of State · Shirley Weber | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | DOJ Indicts Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas, Who Led the State's Democratic Redistricting Effort, in Alleged Racketeering Conspiracy Over a Marijuana Enterprise
3 src Todd Blanche · Kash Patel | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | DOJ Sues Alaska to Bar Certifying a Senate Result Sen. Sullivan Loses, Citing a Same-Name Candidate
38 src U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Common Cause | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | ICE Boeing 767 N703KW Leaves Alexandria, Louisiana for Africa; ICE Declaration Confirms Malabo Stop After Telling Court Equatorial Guinea Mission Was Cancelled
5 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Eastern Airlines | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | Jayapal, Sanders and 11 House Members Write Zuckerberg Demanding Briefing and Written Answers by Nov. 4 on Meta's Conduct in Brazil's Election
1 src Pramila Jayapal · Bernie Sanders · Mark Zuckerberg · Meta | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | Judge Sooknanan Denies NAACP's TRO for DOJ Election-Monitor Records; DOJ Later Says Civil Rights Division Is Not Using Federal Law Enforcement Officers as Monitors on Election Day
5 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | Meta Updates Its Brazil Election Statement: Not Recommending Candidates' Organic Content to Non-Followers, Court Orders Behind About 70% of Actions on Lula Accounts
1 src Meta · Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva · Tribunal Superior Eleitoral | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | Superseding Indictment in US v. Sant Keeps 15 Defendants and Eight Counts, Cuts Numbered Overt Acts From 269 to 200 and Drops DHS and ICE From the Conspiracy's Object
3 src Daniel Rosen · Direct Action Minnesota · Isaac Auman Sant · Natasha Rakotz | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | Treasury Asks for Comment on Renewing the Fraud.gov Tip Form and Repeats Its AI Sentence, With Comments Due After the Emergency Approval Expires
2 src U.S. Department of the Treasury · Task Force to Eliminate Fraud | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-22 | TSE Electoral Inspector Cueva Gives Meta and X 24 Hours for Technical Reports on AI, Reach and Ads, With R$500,000-a-Day Fine Each; Defers Injunctions
2 src Meta · Coligação Brasil Pronto pra Mais · Flávio Bolsonaro | | reported |
| 2026-10-22 | Washington Gov. Ferguson Offers County Auditors Plainclothes National Guard 'Election Neighborhood Watch' at Drop Boxes; Counties Choose, Thurston Accepts
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | AG Blanche on NY Post Podcast Calls DOJ-White House Independence a "Misperception": "I Work for President Trump"
2 src Todd Blanche · Merrick Garland · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Brennan Center Authors Say DHS's AI Inventory Leaves ELITE Off Its High-Impact List and Shows HSI Using Sentiment Analysis an ICE Policy Bars
2 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Brennan Center for Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Chief Judge Boasberg Takes Trujillo v. DHS, Sets Oct. 30 Hearing on Superseding TRO Motion Over California Voter Lists; Government Opposition Filed Oct. 26
13 src Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche | | reported |
| 2026-10-21 | CISA Alert Urges Organizations to Patch the PHP Remote-Code-Execution Flaws Immediately, or Take Unpatched Systems Offline
4 src Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · PHP Foundation | | reported |
| 2026-10-21 | Election Vendor VR Systems Takes Florida County Elections Sites' Voter Lookup Tools Offline Over the PHP Flaws During Early Voting
1 src PHP Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Elections B.C. Takes Its Website Offline Over the PHP Flaws During Advance Voting and Restores It the Same Day
1 src PHP Foundation | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | FCC Chair Carr Warns Licensed Broadcasters That Airing "Fake Polls" Could Violate News-Distortion and Hoax Rules, Without Naming Any Poll
1 src Brendan Carr · Anna Gomez · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | FT Reports Trump Blocked Netanyahu's Multi-Day Iran Bombing Campaign Planned for Oct. 10 Ahead of the Midterms
1 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | GEO Group's Outside Lobbying Firms Name ICE Alternatives to Detention and H.R. 9310 in Their Third-Quarter 2026 Forms
2 src The GEO Group, Inc. | | reported |
| 2026-10-21 | Gov. Sherrill Answers the House Subpoena With a Statement Calling It "Political Theater" 13 Days Before the Midterms
2 src Mikie Sherrill · Jim Jordan | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Himes and Warner Say Classified Report Shows Russia Opposes Pro-Ukraine Candidates, Prepare for Trump to Claim Foreign Meddling
2 src Mark Warner · Jay Clayton · Office of the Director of National Intelligence · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | House Administration and Judiciary Committee Chairs Subpoena New Jersey's Acting Secretary of State for Documents on the 6,600 MVC Registrations, Return Date Nov. 16
3 src Jim Jordan | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | HSI Arrests Five Lawful Permanent Residents in Florida on Federal Voting Charges; DHS Release Lists Their Criminal Histories
1 src Markwayne Mullin · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | ICE Detains and Injures a U.S. Citizen Special-Education Student Walking to Santa Maria High School, Then Releases Him as Not Its Target
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Judge Martinez-Olguin Enjoins DHS Election Field Operations Against Likely Citizens in Nine States, on One Voting Rights Act Claim, Stayed to Oct. 23
10 src Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · National Nurses United · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Lula Coalition Files AIJE 0603276-73 Against Flávio Bolsonaro and Alfredo Gaspar, Alleging Meta and X Systems Favored Their Ticket
1 src Coligação Brasil Pronto pra Mais · Flávio Bolsonaro · Meta | | reported |
| 2026-10-21 | New Mexico Judge Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy After Cambridge Analytica
3 src Meta Platforms | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | NYT Report: India-Based Accounts Paid to Spread Undisclosed Haley Stevens Videos in Michigan Senate Primary; Hirer Won't Name Client
2 src Haley Stevens · Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | OCC Issues Final GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rule Ahead of January 18, 2027 Effective Date, Drops Proposed Rewards Presumption
2 src Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · Scott Bessent | | reported |
| 2026-10-21 | OFAC Replaces Lukoil Divestment License With a Version Running to November 21, 2026
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Rep. Thompson Letter Demands Mullin Stop DHS Door-Knocking, Calling It Voter Intimidation
2 src Bennie G. Thompson · Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Rogers Posts "Abdul El-Sayed's Radical Ideology Is a Threat to Our National Security" and Repeats the Risk Line in the Final Michigan Senate Debate
2 src Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Senate Banking Committee Democrats' 44-Page Report Says Trump Administration Opened Floodgate for Mega-Mergers
1 src Elizabeth Warren · DOJ Antitrust Division | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | Sheehy Tells The Daily Wire El-Sayed's Ties Raise "Serious National Security Questions"
1 src Abdul El-Sayed | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-21 | UN Experts Say Information, Including From Meta Employees, Suggests Accounts Linked to One Side of Brazil's Race Were Disproportionately Curtailed
1 src Meta | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | Anthropic's Draft Federal Frontier-AI Bill Leaks; Semafor Reports Safety Advocates Say It Pre-Empts State Laws and Accepts Too Much Risk
2 src Anthropic · OpenAI | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Arlington County, Virginia Sues to Bar Armed Federal Agents From Polling Places Under 18 U.S.C. 592
1 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Associate AG Woodward Files Motions to Disqualify Judges Schiltz and Tunheim in Minnesota Cases Over Their New York Times Interviews
3 src Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | California Tells Federal Court Its Secretary of State Has Received Grand Jury Subpoenas for Voter Records of About 300 Individuals Since August
2 src California Secretary of State · Shirley Weber · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Cruz Tells Hannity a Senate Intelligence Seat Would Give El-Sayed Access to Classified Material He Might Share With "Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists"
3 src Ted Cruz · Abdul El-Sayed · Chuck Schumer | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | DC Circuit Reverses Denial of Preliminary Injunction in Mennonite Church USA v. DHS, Holds Faith-Group Plaintiffs Likely Have Standing; Rao Dissents
2 src Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Notifies Jurisdictions of Nov. 3 Monitors: Indiana, Four Pennsylvania Counties, Six Georgia Counties, Three Maine Municipalities; No Public List
23 src U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Harmeet Dhillon | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | DSCC, DCCC and DGA Sue Trump, DOJ and DHS in D.D.C. to Stop Voter-Roll Demands and Threats to Election Officials
14 src DSCC · Democratic Governors Association · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Eyes on ICE Relays Marshall Project, 19th Reporting on Bluebonnet Pregnant Detainees and ICE Miscarriage Data
6 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · DHS Office of Inspector General | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Georgia Voting Rights Act Remand Reaches Judge Jones: Supplemental Briefs on Callais Due November 19
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | ICE Arrests Mount Morris, NY Restaurant Owner Dian Zhao Lin on a 1999 Removal Order; Community and Governor Press for His Release
3 src Kathy Hochul · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Judge Cote Grants Plaintiffs Summary Judgment on APA Claims: OPM's DOGE Access Grants Violated Privacy Act Sections (b) and (e)(10) (AFGE v. OPM, S.D.N.Y.)
2 src Office of Personnel Management · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) · American Federation of Government Employees |
| confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Judge Trenga Quashes the HSI Immigration Subpoena to AAMVA for Commercial Drivers' CDLIS Records
2 src Anthony J. Trenga · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Justice Department and White House Announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP): Cash for Tips Before Conviction, With Trump Naming Himself Arbitrator
5 src Donald Trump · JD Vance · Todd Blanche · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Kagan Tells Catholic University Law Audience the Court Has "Blinded Itself" to the Effects of Its Election Rulings, Citing Campaign-Finance Money as "a Nightmare"
2 src Elena Kagan | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | Little Rock Board of Directors Rejects Six-Month Data Center Moratorium on a Tied Vote, Its Second Failure
2 src Google | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Loudoun Defers Its Data Center Pause Resolution to Nov. 17 so Staff Can Gather More Information; the Only Board Action So Far Is the September Vote to Consider One
2 src Loudoun County Board of Supervisors · Juli Briskman | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Meta's Oversight Board Cites "Recurring Enforcement Failures" in Election Integrity, Linking the No Kings Account Suspension and Brazil
1 src Meta | | reported |
| 2026-10-20 | ProPublica: FBI Purge Ended the Navatek Capitol Hill Bribery Probe
2 src Lindsey Graham · Susan Collins · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | PRRI American Values Survey Released Oct. 20, 2026 Finds 35% Agree the President Should Order Federal Agents to Seize Ballots and Take Over Vote Counting
3 src Brookings Institution · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Russian Operation Storm-1516 Seeds AI Deepfake Videos on X Fabricating Abuse Claim Against Texas Senate Candidate Talarico
9 src James Talarico · Graphika · X | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | The Marshall Project Sues ICE, CBP and DHS in D.D.C. Under FOIA for Names and Detention Locations of Everyone in the Enforcement Integrated Database
2 src The Marshall Project · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Volusia County Council Adopts Ban on 50 MW-Plus Data Centers on Second Reading, 6-0 With Robins Absent
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-20 | Workers Circle Press Conference on Seriously Ill Krome and Broward Detainees and Africa Removals; DHS Denial; ICE Charter From Alexandria, Louisiana
4 src Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |