Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 3456 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

3456 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Sep 14, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-03-16PUCT issues draft report in Project 58484 recommending Texas shift from 4CP to multi-peak transmission cost methodology — final rules required by December 31, 2026 4 src
Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT · Greg Abbott
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2026-03-16Republican Leadership Actively Avoids Public Hearings on Iran War 3 src
John Thune · Senate Republicans
confirmed
2026-03-16Sen. Warren Questions Pentagon Granting Musk's xAI Access to Classified Military Networks Despite Grok's Harmful Outputs 2 src
Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Elon Musk · xAI
confirmed
2026-03-16Supreme Court Grants Cert Before Judgment in Haiti and Syria TPS Cases, Keeping Injunctions in Place 4 src
Supreme Court · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-03-16Time/CDT Op-Ed Reveals Pentagon Wanted Anthropic to Help Collect and Analyze Bulk Commercial Data on Americans 2 src
Pentagon · Anthropic
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2026-03-16Trump Signs EO 14395 Establishing Task Force to Eliminate Fraud — Vance as Chair, Ferguson as Vice Chair, 11-Agency Cross-Government Body With Authority to Pause Federal Funding 9 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Andrew Ferguson · Stephen Miller · +6
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2026-03-16WLFI Governance Vote Passes 99% — $5M Super Node Tier Buys "Direct Access" to Trump-Family Crypto Team 8 src
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Barron Trump
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2026-03-15AP and Washington Post Investigation Exposes Wildly Inconsistent DHS Deportation Numbers 3 src
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 3 src
Jamie Raskin · Pam Bondi · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan
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2026-03-15Illinois and New York State Bar Associations File Formal Opposition to DOJ Ethics Shield Rule 4 src
Pam Bondi
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2026-03-14287(g) Agreements Expand to 1,547 Departments Across 39 States, Covering 77 Million Americans 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ACLU
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2026-03-14Canadian Mother and Autistic Daughter Detained by ICE at Texas Checkpoint Despite Valid Work Visa 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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2026-03-14U.S. Army Awards Anduril $20 Billion Enterprise Contract for AI-Enabled Lattice Platform 4 src
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+ 3 src
Pete Hegseth · House Democrats
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2026-03-13Al-Quds Day Demonstrations in New York, Houston, and Chicago Denounce US-Israeli Strikes 3 srcconfirmed
2026-03-13CNN Analysis Connects Hegseth's "American Crusade" Book to His Leadership of Iran War 3 src
Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-13Democracy Unmuted — Two-Week-Old Dark-Money Group With No FEC or Illinois Business Filings — Offers Influencers $1,500 Per Post for Coordinated Attack on Kat Abughazaleh in IL-09 Primary; Matt Anthes / Advocators / Upstart Factory Chain Documented With Brief, Talking Points, and Two Named Creator Recipients 1 src
Kat Abughazaleh
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2026-03-13DOGE Cuts Hobble Pentagon IT, FBI Counterintel, and VOA as War Costs Dwarf All Savings 3 src
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 4 src
James Comer
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2026-03-13Iran War Two-Week Assessment — 5,300+ Killed, $11B+ Spent, 3.2M Displaced 3 src
U.S. Central Command · Refugees International
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2026-03-13Judge Orders Plaintiffs to Remove Viral DOGE Deposition Videos from YouTube 3 src
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 4 src
AFGE
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2026-03-13Jury Convicts 8 of 9 Prairieland Defendants on Terrorism Charges; Acquits All But Song on Attempted Murder 7 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Benjamin Song · Cameron Arnold (Autumn Hill) · +7
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2026-03-13Pentagon CTO Emil Michael Says "No Chance" of Renewed Anthropic Negotiations, Accuses Company of "Leaking and Bad Faith" 4 src
Emil Michael · Anthropic · Pentagon
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2026-03-13PPL Electric PA PUC Settlement: $275M Ratepayer Rate Hike Plus Large-Load Data-Center Tariff as 20 GW Pipeline Looms 3 srcconfirmed
2026-03-13US Air Force Bombs Kharg Island Oil Hub, Strikes 90+ Military Targets Across Iran 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Central Command · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Air Force
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2026-03-12$TRUMP Memecoin Team Announces Second Mar-a-Lago Gala Selling Presidential Access to Top Holders 4 src
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 7 src
OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +4
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2026-03-12DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2026-03-12DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin
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2026-03-12Doug Wilson States Catholic Parades Would Be Banned as "Public Idolatry" in His Ideal Protestant Republic, Exposing Catholic-Reformed Fault Line in MAGA Coalition 4 src
Doug Wilson · J.D. Vance · Thomas Massie · Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-12ICE Reveals $38.3 Billion Detention Expansion Plan for 92,600-Bed Mega-Center Network 5 src
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 5 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Central Command · International Energy Agency
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2026-03-12New Iran Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Issues First Statement Vowing Revenge and Permanent Hormuz Closure 6 src
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" 6 src
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 3 src
Louis DeJoy · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · U.S. Postal Service
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2026-03-12Wyden and Lee Introduce the Government Surveillance Reform Act, Requiring a Warrant Before Agencies Buy Americans' Data From Brokers 3 src
Ron Wyden · Mike Lee · Warren Davidson · Zoe Lofgren · +1
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2026-03-1117 State AGs Challenge Education Dept Demand for Seven Years of College Admissions Data 3 src
AG Letitia James
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2026-03-11Anduril Acquires ExoAnalytic Solutions, Doubling Space Surveillance Unit for Golden Dome 3 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey
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2026-03-11Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files 4 src
U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Jeff Merkley · Lisa Murkowski · +3
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2026-03-11DHS Awards No-Bid Sole-Source Contract to Amentum Services for Camp East Montana After Acquisition Logistics Termination 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security · Acquisition Logistics LLC
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2026-03-11DHS Pays Deutsche Bank / DWS / RREEF $145.4M for Salt Lake City, UT Warehouse — 49% Markup; Two Cabinet Officials Hold Deutsche Bank Exposure Through Legacy Pensions and Assets 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · ICE · Edward Forst · Paul Atkins · +1
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2026-03-11Evidence Points to US Tomahawk Strike on Minab Girls School Killing 170+, War Crime Investigation Demanded 7 src
U.S. Central Command · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense Intelligence Agency · Pete Hegseth · +4
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2026-03-11Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention 5 src
Masoud Pezeshkian · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Islamic Republic of Iran · +1
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2026-03-11Iran Strikes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz, IRGC Vows "Not One Litre of Oil" to Pass 6 src
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 4 src
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 4 src
Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul · 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 4 src
Indivisible · 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 1 src
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 3 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Robert Garcia · Ron Wyden
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2026-03-11Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians 5 src
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 4 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Court of International Trade
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2026-03-11UN Security Council Adopts Resolution 2817 Condemning Iran's Attacks on Neighbors; China and Russia Abstain 7 src
United Nations Security Council · China · Russia · United States
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2026-03-11Warren Warns Institutional Investors of 'Tsunami of Corruption' Threatening Financial Markets 2 src
Elizabeth Warren
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2026-03-10DOGE Spending Cuts Leave U.S. Government Hollowed Out as Iran War Escalates 2 src
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 6 src
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-10New Castle County, DE Council Passes Data Center Siting Ordinance 12-0, Exempts Starwood's 'Project Washington' Near Delaware City 2 srcreported
2026-03-10Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined 4 src
Donald Trump · Public Citizen
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2026-03-10Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms 3 src
Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · +1
confirmed
2026-03-10Senate Stablecoin Bill Stalls as Democrats Cite Trump Crypto Conflicts of Interest 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Senate · Elizabeth Warren · Jeff Merkley · +2
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2026-03-10U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place 3 src
Donald Trump · Voice of America
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2026-03-10Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1
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2026-03-10Whistleblower Alleges Ex-DOGE Staffer Stole Social Security Database on Thumb Drive 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk
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2026-03-09Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation 8 src
Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +1
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2026-03-09DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3
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2026-03-09DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2026-03-09DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4
confirmed
2026-03-09DOJ Releases Additional Epstein Files After NPR Investigation Exposes Withheld Trump-Related Documents 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-03-09Iran Launches Missiles and Drones at Gulf Nations and US Bases in Escalating Retaliation 4 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Islamic Republic of Iran · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Central Command
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2026-03-09Prosecution's Antifa Expert Witness Kyle Shideler Helped Shape Indictment He Later Testified For, Lacks Academic/Government Credentials 5 src
Department of Justice
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2026-03-09Rand Paul Schedules Mullin DHS Confirmation Hearing for March 18, Signals Tough Questioning 3 src
Markwayne Mullin · Rand Paul · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-03-09Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes 5 src
Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8
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2026-03-09Trump Sons' Drone Company Powerus Announces Nasdaq Listing via Reverse Merger with Golf Course Operator 3 src
Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines
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2026-03-08Colorado Attorney General and Environmental Groups Sue EPA Over Illegal Rejection of State Clean Air Plan Protecting Coal 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Earthjustice · Sierra Club · Lee Zeldin
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2026-03-08EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk 5 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1
confirmed
2026-03-08Iran Names Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader After Father Killed in US-Israeli Strike 4 src
Mojtaba Khamenei · Islamic Republic of Iran · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-03-08Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 5 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1
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2026-03-08ProPublica Reveals Top DOJ, DOD Officials Hold Financial Interests in Sectors They Regulate 1 src
Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Steve Feinberg · ProPublica
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2026-03-08Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats
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2026-03-07DOJ Appeals Four Court Rulings Blocking Trump Executive Orders Targeting Political Opponent Law Firms 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · Susman Godfrey · +2
confirmed
2026-03-07ICE Awards $113M Williamsport MD Detention Contract to KVG LLC — Company With $5M Bonding Capacity and No Detention Experience; Ceiling Extends to $641.8M Through 2029 2 src
KVG LLC · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · State of Maryland · +1
confirmed
2026-03-07ICE Tells Court Its Minnesota Deployment Has Been Reduced to 47 Deportation Officers 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Jeffrey Bryan · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-03-07Iran's President Apologizes for Strikes on Neighbors While IRGC Continues Independent Military Operations, Revealing Leadership Split 8 src
Masoud Pezeshkian · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +3
confirmed
2026-03-07OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns 6 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-03-07Stand Up for Science Holds Nationwide 'Rally to Take Back Science' at 46+ Locations 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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2026-03-07Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders 4 src
Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives
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2026-03-07Trump Hosts Shield of the Americas Summit at His Own Doral Resort, Launches Military Cartel Coalition 7 src
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1
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2026-03-07War Enters Second Week as Trump Warns Iran "Will Be Hit Very Hard" and U.S. Evacuates Citizens from Middle East 6 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth · +2
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2026-03-0629 Congress Members Demand DOD Inspector General Investigate Commanders Framing Iran War as Biblical Armageddon 4 src
Jamie Raskin · Chrissy Houlahan · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-06Anthropic Files Lawsuit Against Pentagon Over Unprecedented National Security Designation 6 src
Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-06DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi
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2026-03-06DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2026-03-06ICE Awards GardaWorld $313M Contract to Convert Surprise Arizona Warehouse Into 1,500-Bed Detention Center via DOD Procurement 4 src
GardaWorld Federal Services · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Defense
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2026-03-06Post-Firing Analysis Details Five Major Controversies That Ended Noem's DHS Tenure 3 src
Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2026-03-06Trump Demands Iran's "Unconditional Surrender," Refuses Any Negotiated End to War 7 src
Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · Masoud Pezeshkian · Pete Hegseth · +2
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2026-03-0524 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones 3 src
New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
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2026-03-05Anthropic Reopens Pentagon Talks as Defense Experts Warn Blacklist Sets Dangerous Precedent for AI Safety 6 src
Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +2
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2026-03-05DOJ Releases Previously Withheld Epstein Files Containing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +1
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2026-03-05House Judiciary Committee Passes Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, Threatening Federal Funding Cuts 4 src
House Judiciary Committee · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-03-05Iran Secretly Contacts CIA to Discuss End of War; Trump Says It Is "Too Late" for Talks 7 src
Donald Trump · Central Intelligence Agency · Iran · Abbas Araghchi · +3
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