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2026-05-27AP Investigation: ICE Detention Suicides Hit Record Fiscal-Year Pace — 10 Since Jan 2025, 7 Since October, 5 in CoreCivic/GEO Facilities
ICE · DHS · CoreCivic · +2
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2026-05-27CBS News Declines to Renew Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract After CECOT Segment Conflict with Bari Weiss
Sharyn Alfonsi · Bari Weiss · CBS News · +7
10
2026-05-27Dell Federal Systems Awarded $9.7B Pentagon CETA Contract — Capstone of Trump Accounts Pledge ($6.25B), PCAST Appointment, Trump Stock Endorsement Sequence
Dell Federal Systems LP · Michael Dell · Department of War (DoD) · +4
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2026-05-2623 Democratic Attorneys General Skip Vance's White House Anti-Fraud Task Force Meeting After One-Business-Day Invite; Fraud-Pretext Funding-Freeze Mechanism
JD Vance · Andrew Ferguson · Stephen Miller · +3
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2026-05-26300 Delaney Hall Detainees Launch Hunger Strike Against GEO Group ICE Facility; Pepper-Ball Clashes Outside, Sen. Andy Kim Caught in Crossfire, Gov. Sherrill Denied Entry
GEO Group · Delaney Hall detention center · Martín Soto (hunger-strike organizer, detainee) · +6
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2026-05-26FPDS Audit Finds SBIR Phase III 'Exclusion of Sources' Sole-Source Fingerprint Systemic Across Defense-AI Startup Cohort — $1.0B+ Non-Competitive, 91% Anduril; Larger Firms Route Around FPDS via OTA
Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Shield AI · +7
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2026-05-26Trump Calls Christie, James, Walz, Pritzker 'SCUM' Defending CFTC Prediction-Market Authority While Don Jr. Advises/Invests in Kalshi and Polymarket
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Selig · +7
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2026-05-26Trump-Endorsed Ken Paxton Defeats Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Texas GOP Senate Primary Runoff; Loyalty-Over-Institutionalism Purge of In-Party Dissenter
Ken Paxton · John Cornyn · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-05-26Trump's Mid-Decade Redistricting Push Stopped at the Source for the First Time — Alabama Federal Panel Enjoins GOP Map as Racially Discriminatory; South Carolina Senate Rejects Redraw on 12-GOP+12-Dem Vote, Preserving Clyburn Seat
Donald Trump · James Clyburn · Steve Marshall · +2
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2026-05-25Anthropic Co-Founder Chris Olah Presents Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical at the Vatican — an AI-Safety Lab Aligns With the Church's Restraint Framing Over the White House's Deregulation Agenda
Chris Olah · Pope Leo XIV · Anthropic · +2
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2026-05-25CENTCOM Conducts 'Self-Defense' Strikes in Iran During Ceasefire, Hitting IRGC Boats and Bandar Abbas SAM Site
U.S. Central Command · Donald Trump · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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2026-05-25Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' Calls to 'Disarm' AI, Condemns Concentration of Technological Power Among a Handful of Corporations
Pope Leo XIV · Catholic Church · USCCB
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2026-05-22Federal Judge in Nashville Dismisses Human-Smuggling Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Finding DOJ Reverse-Engineered Charges to Retroactively Justify Wrongful Deportation
Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Judge Waverly Crenshaw · Todd Blanche · +4
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2026-05-21World Liberty Financial Nears OCC Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter to Custody USD1
World Liberty Financial · Zach Witkoff · WLTC Holdings LLC · +2
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2026-05-20Bessent Invokes Rare Authority to Mint 24-Karat Gold Coin Bearing Living President Trump's Image
Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · U.S. Mint · +2
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2026-05-19Monterey County Supervisors Unanimously Oppose the Gilroy ICE Detention Facility in the Neighboring County — Second County to Line Up Against a Site Local Zoning Doesn't Permit
Monterey County Board of Supervisors · Santa Clara County · California Department of Justice · +2
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2026-05-19WLFI Treasury Company AI Financial Files SEC Going-Concern Warning; Locked Tokens Down to $706M From $1.46B
AI Financial · World Liberty Financial · Zach Witkoff · +1
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2026-05-18Hegseth Campaigns Against Rep. Thomas Massie in KY-04 Primary, Breaking Pentagon Political-Neutrality Norm
Pete Hegseth · Thomas Massie · Ed Gallrein · +2
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2026-05-16Santa Fe New Mexican Court Reporter Phaedra Haywood Surfaces Wormuth-Ellison-Skinner Legal Architecture and Criminal-Information Workaround in NDA Trespass Coverage
Phaedra Haywood · Santa Fe New Mexican · Gregory Wormuth · +3
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2026-05-15California ICE Detention Deaths Hit Record High Amid Crisis-Level Staffing and Reduced Federal Disclosure
ICE · DHS · Adelanto ICE Processing Center · +2
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2026-05-14Warren and Reed Demand DOJ/Treasury Probe of World Liberty Financial Token Sales to Sanctioned Actors
Elizabeth Warren · Jack Reed · Scott Bessent · +3
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2026-05-13ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Memphis Safe Task Force Alleging Pattern of First Amendment Retaliation Against Civilians Recording Federal Immigration Enforcement
Hunter Demster · Jessica Choder · American Civil Liberties Union · +14
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2026-05-13DHS Files Zero Privacy Impact Assessments in 2026 While Operating $1B No-Bid Palantir Surveillance Network
Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · +3
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2026-05-13Former GEO Group SVP David Venturella Named Acting ICE Director, Completing Revolving-Door Loop
David Venturella · GEO Group · Todd Lyons · +2
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2026-05-13Red States Deputize Social-Service Workers as Immigration Screeners Via Benefit-Verification Mandates
Tennessee · Indiana · Utah · +2
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2026-05-13Senate Confirms Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair 54-45; Powell Stays as Board Governor
Kevin Warsh · Jerome Powell · Scott Bessent · +3
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2026-05-13Trump Gulf Tour: $2.2T AI/Tech Pledges; Chip Export Ban Reversed for UAE and Saudi Arabia
Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Mohammed bin Zayed · +9
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2026-05-12ICE Issues Memo Requiring 48-Hour Prior Approval and Named-Detainee ID for All Congressional Oversight Visits
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons · Department of Homeland Security · +2
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2026-05-12Iran War Drives U.S. Inflation to 3.8% — Highest in Nearly Three Years; Gas Above $4/Gallon; Brent at $105
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Federal Reserve · International Energy Agency
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2026-05-12Robert Reich Publishes Substack Piece Describing 25th Amendment 'Plot to Oust Trump'; Names Vance, Rubio, Johnson, Thune, Hegseth, Blanche; 30% Probability Within Four Months
Robert Reich · JD Vance · Marco Rubio · +5
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2026-05-11Trump Calls Iran Ceasefire 'On Life Support' as War Hits Week 10; Pentagon Comptroller Reveals $29 Billion U.S. Cost
Donald Trump · Jules Hurst · Department of Defense · +2
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2026-05-11Trump DOJ Asks Court to Pause Section 122 Tariff Ruling; Signals Emergency Supreme Court Appeal if Denied
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Court of International Trade · +2
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2026-05-11U.S. Spy Agencies Seek Expanded Power Over AI Regulation as Trump Admin Internal Battle Pits Intelligence Community Against Commerce Department
Office of the Director of National Intelligence · U.S. Commerce Department · NIST · +2
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2026-05-10Hegseth Calls for Second Pentagon Investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly Over Public Statements About U.S. Weapons Stockpiles During Iran War
Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · Department of Defense · +1
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2026-05-10Tennessee Governor Lee Signs HB2219 Making All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) — First State Mandate of Its Kind
Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +3
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2026-05-10USCIS Ends Automatic Deportation Protection for Child Immigrants Awaiting Visa Backlog, Policy Takes Effect May 10
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem
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2026-05-096+ EDVA Prosecutors Fired or Forced Out as DOJ Purges Those Who Resisted Comey Political Indictment
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · James Comey · +2
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2026-05-09Tennessee HB2219 Mandating All 95 County Sheriffs Join 287(g) ICE Program Transmitted to Governor Lee
Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2
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2026-05-0811th Circuit Rejects Trump No-Bond Detention Policy, Deepening 4-Way Circuit Split Toward SCOTUS
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1
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2026-05-08CBP Refund Portal Validates 47,000 IEEPA Tariff Claims as Treasury Begins Returning Estimated $166B in Unlawful Duties
U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of the Treasury · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-05-08Hegseth Orders Open-Ended Review of Military Legal System, Wresting JAG Oversight From a Congressional Panel
Pete Hegseth · Earl Matthews · JAG Corps · +1
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2026-05-08Treasury Sanctions China-Based Entities Supplying Satellite Imagery That Enabled Iran's Strikes on U.S. Forces; War Now in Third Month, $25B Cost
U.S. Department of the Treasury · U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · +3
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2026-05-08Trump Announces Three-Day Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire on Truth Social Timed to Putin's Victory Day Parade, Bypassing State Department Process
Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +2
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2026-05-08Washington Post Documents 80,000+ Voluntary Departure Orders Under Trump; March 2026 Alone Hit 9,000 as Detention Coerces Asylum Abandonment
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Executive Office for Immigration Review · +2
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2026-05-07Ashley St. Clair, Former TPUSA Brand Ambassador, Publicly Documents 'Fight Fight Fight' Influencer-Coordination Group Chats and Per-Post Payment Operation Linking Trump Campaign Officials to Right-Wing Social Media Personalities
Ashley St. Clair · James Blair · Donald Trump · +5
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2026-05-07Border Czar Homan Confirms ICE Detains US Citizens Daily, Defends Practice as Acceptable
Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-05-07Border Czar Homan Promises 'Mass Deportations Are Coming' at Phoenix Border Security Expo, Vows to 'Flood the Zone' in Sanctuary Jurisdictions
Tom Homan · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1
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2026-05-07CoreCivic Q1 2026 Earnings Confirm Operational Ramp ($614.7M Revenue, ICE Doubled to $261.3M) but Disclose Temporary ICE Population Decline; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter, Mullin Pause, or In-Custody Death Litigation
CoreCivic · Patrick Swindle · David Garfinkle · +4
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2026-05-07ICE 287(g) Funding Pipeline Reaches $137M Already Disbursed, $2B Projected for 2026 With Performance Bonuses for Immigration Arrests; 760+ Departments, 13,800-15,800 Officers Deputized
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · local police departments · +2
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2026-05-07ICE Custody Deaths Hit 17 in First Four Months of 2026 (One Every Six Days); 152 New Detention Facilities Opened Across 39 States Since January 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Detention Watch Network · +4
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2026-05-07Palantir Awarded USDA No-Bid Contract Up to $75M for 'Bossware' Tracking of Federal Workers' Return-to-Office Compliance
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Brooke Rollins
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2026-05-07Pentagon CDAO Quintuples Scale AI Contract to $500M Using No-Bid OTA — Eight Months After Original Award
Scale AI · Pete Hegseth · Cameron Stanley · +7
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2026-05-07Tennessee Governor Signs GOP Gerrymander Dismantling Sole Majority-Black Congressional District, Dividing Memphis Three Ways
Governor Bill Lee · Tennessee General Assembly · Representative Steve Cohen · +2
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2026-05-06Fourth Documented Iran-Announcement Oil Short: $920M in WTI/Brent Shorts at 3:40 AM ET, 70 Minutes Before Axios 'Memorandum of Understanding' Report; ~$125M Profit by 7:00 AM
Donald Trump · The Kobeissi Letter · Axios · +7
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2026-05-06GEO Group Reports Q1 2026 Revenue $705M, Raises Full-Year Guidance to $2.95-$3.10B on ICE Reactivations; No Mention of Warren-Raskin Letter
GEO Group · George Zoley · Mark Suchinski · +3
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2026-05-06Pre-decision baseline: OCC 120-day decision window for WLTC Holdings national trust bank charter expires May 7, 2026 with no decision announced
WLTC Holdings LLC · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +5
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2026-05-05Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons Admits He 'Didn't Know Some Countries Existed' That ICE Is Deporting Migrants To Under Third-Country Program
Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-05-05ICE Air Hits Record 1,794 Enforcement Flights in March 2026 — 122% Surge, First Removals to Moldova, Myanmar, Thailand
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ICE Air Operations · Human Rights First · +1
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2026-05-04Christopher Armitage Publishes Comprehensive Prosecutorial-Strategy Essay 'This Is Way Bigger Than RICO' on The Existentialist Republic, Articulating State-Prosecution Dual-Sovereignty Strategy Against Federal Officers
Christopher Armitage · The Existentialist Republic
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2026-05-04DHS SAVE Cross-Match Voter Purge Blitz in Ohio, Texas, Idaho Ahead of 2026 Midterms; 95% False-Positive Rate Documented
Department of Justice · Department of Homeland Security · Election boards (Ohio) · +2
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2026-05-04SCOTUS 6-3 Callais Ruling Immediately Effective, Voiding 100K Ballots; Roberts Court Completes VRA Gutting
John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +5
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2026-05-02WLFI Token Hits All-Time Low $0.052 (–85% from Peak) After Bloomberg Exposes 5.9 Billion Secret Token Sale Routing Proceeds to Trump-Affiliated Entities
World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +6
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2026-04-30Virginia Enacts HB 892 Mandating SCC Investigation of Dominion Load Forecasting Methodology, Authorizes PJM Coordination
Del. Irene Shin (D-Fairfax) — bill sponsor · Gov. Abigail Spanberger — signed · Cody Murphey — Data Center Coalition, cited concerns about Dominion forecasting transparency · +4
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2026-04-23ProPublica Disclosure Database Shows 144 Trump Administration Appointees with Palantir Holdings, Compensation, or Employment Ties
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Kash Patel · +12
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2026-04-22Warren Warns at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator of Debt-Driven AI Bubble and Pre-Positioned Bailout Pathway
Elizabeth Warren · Senate Banking Committee · Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator · +1
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2026-04-21ACLU of New Mexico Publishes 'The Invisible Military Bases at the Border' Report Documenting 4,600+ Federal Trespass Cases and 109,651 Acres of National Defense Areas in NM Alone
American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Attorney's Office (District of New Mexico) · +2
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2026-04-21Politico Reveals Keith Sonderling Was Running DOL All Along; Now Positioned as Indefinite Acting Secretary
Keith Sonderling · Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Donald Trump · +7
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2026-04-20DiGenova Sworn In as AG Counselor Leading Brennan "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Career Prosecutor Removed for Questioning Evidence
Joseph DiGenova · Victoria Toensing · Todd Blanche · +8
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2026-04-20Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid DOL Inspector General Misconduct Investigation
Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Shawn DeRemer · Anthony D'Esposito · +4
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2026-04-20WYPR Exposes WEXMAC Contracting Method Used for $102.4M Williamsport MD Warehouse Purchase With $113M Retrofit and Up to $650M in Potential Add-On Work
Todd Lyons · Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · +6
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2026-04-19NYT Investigation Reveals Qatari Billionaires Al-Khayyat Brothers 100% Own 'Sazan Operations' — The Entity Behind Kushner's $1.4B Albania Resort Project
Ramez Al-Khayyat · Mohamad Al-Khayyat · Jared Kushner · +5
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2026-04-19US Navy Destroyer Disables and Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Touska in Strait of Hormuz, Collapsing Islamabad Peace Talks
US Navy · USS Spruance · CENTCOM · +3
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2026-04-18NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket
2026-04-18Palantir Publishes 22-Point Manifesto Calling for Universal Military Service, AI Arms Race, and Attack on 'Regressive' Cultures
Alex Karp · Nicholas Zamiska · Palantir Technologies
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2026-04-17Blue Owl 8-K Confirms Co-CEOs Removed All Firm Shares as Loan Collateral After Reports of Imminent Margin Calls — Three Days Before RAMM Publishes 'Blue Owl System'
Doug Ostrover · Marc Lipschultz · Blue Owl Capital
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2026-04-17San Antonio City Council Passes Ordinance Restricting New Private Detention Facilities, Exempts Planned ICE Warehouse
San Antonio City Council · ICE · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-04-17Stateline Reveals DHS Scales Back Williamsport MD and Surprise AZ Warehouse Detention Plans from 1,500 to 542 Beds Each Amid State-Level Pushback
Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · +5
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2026-04-16Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Charges ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with Two Counts of Second-Degree Assault — First State Criminal Charge Against Federal Immigration Agent During Operation Metro Surge
Mary Moriarty · Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · +2
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2026-04-15Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations
Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · US District Court Maryland · +5
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2026-04-15Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation
Jenn Budd · Frank Figliuzzi · Rodney Scott
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2026-04-15Judge Hurson's Maryland NEPA Preliminary Injunction Halts Williamsport ICE Construction, Cascades Directly to Bexar TX Warehouse Pause and Anchors Arizona and New Jersey Parallel Challenges
Judge Brendan Hurson · Anthony G. Brown · Maryland Attorney General · +7
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2026-04-15Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization
Aron D'Souza · Peter Thiel · Balaji Srinivasan · +2
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2026-04-14VP Vance Rebukes Pope Leo XIV on Theology at Turning Point USA, USCCB Issues Corrective: Captured-Catholic-Tradition Operational Confrontation
JD Vance · Pope Leo XIV · Bishop James Massa · +4
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2026-04-13Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting
Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · +2
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2026-04-12Orbán Concedes Defeat After 16 Years, Ending Authoritarian Rule Despite Last-Minute Vance Campaign Visit
Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · JD Vance · +3
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2026-04-12Trump Orders US Navy to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After 21-Hour Iran Peace Talks Collapse
Donald Trump · JD Vance · Jared Kushner · +2
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2026-04-10Trump Becomes First Sitting President to Endorse a Stock by Ticker on Truth Social, Promoting Palantir (PLTR) Amid 16% Freefall
Donald Trump · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · +2
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2026-04-09Houston ISD Soccer Captain Mauro Henriquez Deported to Honduras After Four Months in ICE Detention
Mauro Henriquez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Houston ISD
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2026-04-09Human Rights Watch Documents Systematic Abuses in ICE's Expanding Warehouse Detention Network, Citing Arizona GardaWorld Contract
Human Rights Watch · ICE · GardaWorld Federal Services · +1
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2026-04-09Melania Trump Issues Rare White House Statement Denying Epstein Ties, Calls for Congressional Survivor Hearings
Melania Trump · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · +3
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2026-04-08ICE Appeals Pennsylvania DEP Administrative Orders Blocking Water-Sewer Hookups at Tremont and Upper Bern Warehouse Detention Sites
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · +3
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2026-04-08ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
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2026-04-07Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization Tonight: 8 PM Ultimatum to Destroy All Power Plants and Bridges
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Iran
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2026-04-07US and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire After Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization
Donald Trump · Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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2026-04-07VP Vance Campaigns for Orbán in Budapest Days Before Hungary Election, Securing $1.2B in Hungarian Arms and Oil Purchases
JD Vance · Viktor Orbán · Péter Magyar · +2
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2026-04-0323 States Sue Trump Over Mail Voting Executive Order as Democratic AGs File 100th Lawsuit Against Administration
Keith Ellison · Letitia James · Dan Rayfield · +3
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2026-04-03French-Owned Container Ship Crosses Strait of Hormuz, Signaling Iran's Strategy to Fracture Western Alliance
CMA CGM · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · France
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2026-04-03McConnell Joins Democrats to Defend US NATO Membership as Trump Considers Withdrawal
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Chris Coons · +4
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2026-04-03Michael Edison Hayden Reveals SPLC Gutted Its Intelligence Project Before Trump's Return, Leaving Far-Right Monitoring Degraded
Michael Edison Hayden · Southern Poverty Law Center · Kash Patel · +1
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2026-04-03Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress
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