| 2026-08-20 | Church Plaintiffs File Non-Compliance Motion Against DHS, Attaching a Whipple Shield ROI Documenting an Undercover Agent Inside University Baptist Church Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | 2 | |
| 2026-08-18 | Intercept: ICE Coordinated With Iranian Government to Deport 100+ Iranians Across Four Flights, Launched During the Twelve-Day War U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Todd Lyons | 2 | |
| 2026-08-18 | Lake Worth Beach Faces Vote on 10-Year, $16M-Per-Year PBSO Contract Advocates Say Deepens ICE Collaboration | | |
| 2026-08-18 | Memphis Committee Advances 12-Month Data Center Moratorium as Greensboro Hearing Anchors Spreading NC Wave | | |
| 2026-08-18 | SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: $75M Offering Exemption and a Safe Harbor That Sunsets Securities Status Securities and Exchange Commission · Paul Atkins | 2 | |
| 2026-08-17 | Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ's Minnesota Voter-Roll Suit as a 'Fishing Expedition,' Pushing the Department to 0-23 in Court Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | 2 | |
| 2026-08-17 | Flock Safety Adds Privacy Controls as Cities and Legislatures Exit ALPR Contracts Across Its 6,000-Community Network Flock Safety · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 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 Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | 5 | |
| 2026-08-16 | 140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO GEO Group | 1 | |
| 2026-08-16 | Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | 2 | |
| 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 Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach · +1 | 4 |
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| 2026-08-14 | Cornell Reverses Protective Pledge, Threatens to Cut Funding Unless Targeted Grad Students Return to ICE Risk Cornell University · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-08-14 | DHS AI Inventory Passes 200 Use Cases Including Palantir ELITE Deportation 'Confidence Scores' and Bulk 911 Call Ingestion Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Palantir Technologies · +1 | 4 | |
| 2026-08-14 | Nassau County Defies NY Deadline to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements as AG Prepares Legal Action New York Attorney General · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 2 | |
| 2026-08-14 | Niagara and Cattaraugus Sheriffs Miss NY Compliance Deadline as Seven Agencies Defy 287(g) Ban Ahead of Aug 25 Letitia James · New York Office of Immigrant Trust · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 3 | |
| 2026-08-13 | At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-08-13 | Attorney Challenges Oracle/OpenAI $43B Saline Township Tax Break, Arguing Township Skipped Required Public Hearing Oracle · OpenAI | 2 | |
| 2026-08-13 | BIA Overturns 14-Year Precedent: Advance Parole Travel Now Triggers 10-Year Inadmissibility Bar U.S. Department of Justice | 1 | |
| 2026-08-13 | Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-08-13 | Court Filings Expose 'Operation Puppet Master': HSI Infiltrated Minnesota Unions, Churches, and Activist Groups After Alex Pretti Killing Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Pam Bondi · +3 | 6 | |
| 2026-08-13 | Federal Judge Poised to Block Warrantless ICE Arrest Tactics Across 19-Million-Person LA Region Gregory Bovino · ACLU · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | 3 | |
| 2026-08-13 | Fort Worth Advances Data Center Moratorium Unanimously; Louisville Passes Six-Month Freeze 24-1 Two Days Later ERCOT | 1 | |
| 2026-08-13 | The Motion Behind the Exhibits: HSI Agent Desmond Garcia Told the Grand Jury No One Is Investigated for First Amendment Activity Kevin Riach · Homeland Security Investigations · Patrick Schiltz | 3 | |
| 2026-08-12 | Brennan Center Maps DHS's $2.9B Domestic Surveillance Architecture — $805M Obligated in 2026 Alone Department of Homeland Security · Brennan Center for Justice · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 3 | |
| 2026-08-12 | ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Department of Homeland Security | 3 | |
| 2026-08-12 | Judge Talwani Expands Mail-Ballot EO Block Nationwide, Issues Second Injunction; SCOTUS Silent 18 Days Indira Talwani · Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · +1 | 4 | |
| 2026-08-12 | Louisiana PSC Votes 3-1 to Let Meta Hide Electricity Demand Data for $50B Hyperion Campus Meta Platforms · Sierra Club | 2 | |
| 2026-08-12 | Texas Tribune Investigation: 60+ Children Held 100+ Days at Dilley, Five Times the Flores Settlement's 20-Day Cap CoreCivic | 1 | |
| 2026-08-11 | DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · General Services Administration · +1 | 4 | |
| 2026-08-11 | ICE Bodycam Rollout On Track for August, But Footage Release Left to Agency Discretion David Venturella · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-08-11 | Walker County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium 180 Days; Creates Standards Study Committee | | |
| 2026-08-11 | Wisconsin PSC Forces ATC to Restart $1.7B Port Washington Data Center Grid Application; FERC Gap Leaves Ratepayer Cost-Shift Unresolved | | |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Signs $6.7M LexisNexis Contract Piping 82B+ Data Points Into Palantir for Bulk Facial Recognition Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Palantir Technologies | 2 | |
| 2026-08-10 | ICE Solicits Up to $20M in Electric Shock Gloves Whose Manufacturer Warns They Can Cause 'Sudden Death' U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Human Rights Watch | 3 | |
| 2026-08-10 | Meta's 'Forge the Future' PAC Funds Florida Legislative Leaders Who Killed AI Bill of Rights, Weakened Data Center Rules Meta Platforms | 1 | |
| 2026-08-10 | NYT: Trump's World Liberty Financial Took $100M From UK Money-Laundering Suspect Bobby Zhou; SEC Has Not Acted World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3 | 6 | |
| 2026-08-10 | Wired: DHS Pays Contractors to Photograph Deported People's Homes Abroad Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 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 Microsoft | 1 | |
| 2026-08-08 | Thune Files Cloture Setting Sept 15 CLARITY Act Showdown After Senate Misses Its Own August Deadline John Thune · United States Senate · Securities and Exchange Commission | 3 | |
| 2026-08-07 | GOP Congressional Candidate Calls US Citizens Shot Dead by ICE 'Collateral Damage' Renee Good · Alex Pretti | 2 | |
| 2026-08-07 | ICE Arrests 75+ U-Visa Crime Victims During Operation Metro Surge, Reversing Decades of Protection Policy Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 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 Burke Law Group PLLC · Acacia Center for Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2 | 5 | |
| 2026-08-07 | Trump Judicial Pipeline Slows After 53 Confirmations in 18 Months — All Circuit Vacancies Filled, 49 Seats Left Donald Trump · United States Senate | 2 | |
| 2026-08-07 | Warrick County IN: Special Aug 11 Vote on Moratorium + Zoning for Undisclosed 1,200-Acre 'Project Zora' | | |
| 2026-08-06 | ACLU Suit Against DOJ National Voter Database Proceeds as 12 States Comply Voluntarily, Courts Dismiss 5 State Challenges Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union · Protect Democracy · +1 | 4 | |
| 2026-08-06 | Advocacy Groups Rally Broome County Courthouse as 287(g) Termination Deadline Nears New York Office of Immigrant Trust | 1 | |
| 2026-08-06 | Federal Authorities Threaten Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt With Prosecution Over ICE Detainer Refusal | | |
| 2026-08-06 | GAO Audit Finds 96% of DOGE Grant Savings Unverifiable, $27.4B in Claimed Contract Cuts Never Executed Government Accountability Office · Gary Peters · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | 4 | |
| 2026-08-06 | ICE Operates 42 Internal AI Tools But Disclosed Only 23; Delaney Hall Logs Third Death ICE Never Announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Austin Kocher · +1 | 4 | |
| 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 Burke Law Group PLLC · Dawnisha Helland · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | 5 | |
| 2026-08-06 | Trump Signs New Birthright Citizenship Executive Orders Weeks After SCOTUS Ruled the Restriction Unconstitutional Donald Trump | 1 | |
| 2026-08-05 | ~1,000 Effingham County GA Residents Confront OpenAI Over $20B, 3.2GW Project Camellia Data Center OpenAI | 1 | |
| 2026-08-05 | Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling John McConnell · Laura Loomer · U.S. Marshals Service | 3 | |
| 2026-08-05 | Federal Judge Holds DHS in Contempt for Failing to Preserve ICE Agents' Personal Phone Records From LA Sweeps Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 2 | |
| 2026-08-05 | GAO: White House Stonewalled All DOGE Oversight Requests; Fewer Than Half of Agencies Cooperated Government Accountability Office | 1 | |
| 2026-08-05 | ICE Weighs Buying Moshannon Valley Detention Facility Outright as Clearfield County PA Contract Nears September Expiration Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | 2 | |
| 2026-08-05 | Mother Jones Documents ICE Undercounting In-Custody Deaths, Profiles Trejo Ricano at Stewart Detention GEO Group | 1 | |
| 2026-08-04 | CoreCivic Signs $536M, 5-Year Contract to Reopen Appleton MN's Prairie Correctional as 1,600-Bed ICE Facility CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 2 | |
| 2026-08-04 | DOJ Voter-Roll Suits Against Colorado, D.C. Both Dismissed — Colorado Ruling Forecloses Refiling U.S. Department of Justice | 1 | |
| 2026-08-04 | El-Sayed Defeats Stevens in Michigan's Democratic Senate Primary by 1 Point, on Record Turnout, Despite $30M+ AIPAC Onslaught Mike Rogers | 1 | |
| 2026-08-04 | ICE Obtained Court Orders to Force-Feed 18 Hunger-Striking Detainees Across Four Federal Districts Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-08-04 | Jeffersonville IN Council Votes 8-0 for 1-Year Data Center Moratorium; Meta's Near-Complete Facility Exempted Meta Platforms | 1 | |
| 2026-08-04 | Senate Judiciary Advances Blanche AG Nomination 12-10 as Catalog Documents 200+ Instances of DOJ 'Presumption of Regularity' Collapse Todd Blanche · Senate Judiciary Committee | 2 | |
| 2026-08-03 | Gov. Abbott Freezes Texas Data Center Grid Connections, Orders ERCOT/PUCT Audit Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas · +5 | 8 | |
| 2026-08-03 | La Crosse WI City Plan Commission Advances 18-Month Data Center Freeze; Council Vote Aug 13 | | |
| 2026-08-03 | NC Data Center 'Moratorium Fever': 11 Counties, 17 Towns Ban Hyperscale Development; Durham Hearing Set Aug 24 Mike Lee | 1 | |
| 2026-08-03 | NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance Tools to Identify Columbia Gaza Paint-Splatter Protester, Documents Show New York Police Department · The Intercept · Columbia University | 3 | |
| 2026-08-03 | RNC Demands Michigan Poll Workers' Home Addresses and Medical Records — Benson Partially Denies Republican National Committee | 1 | |
| 2026-08-03 | SCOTUS Sets August 3 Response Deadline on Trump's Emergency Mail-Ballot Appeal as Midterms Near Donald Trump · Supreme Court of the United States · United States Postal Service | 3 | |
| 2026-08-02 | ICE Sets Second-Term Monthly Record: 46,000 Detained in July 2026 as In-Custody Deaths Reach 24+ Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-08-01 | California's DROP Platform Goes Live — First US Centralized Data-Broker Deletion Mechanism, 45-Day Check Cycle | | |
| 2026-08-01 | DOJ Directs US Attorneys to Submit Adverse Rulings as Judicial Impeachment Fodder; Blanche Calls It 'War' on the Judiciary Todd Blanche · Department of Justice | 2 | |
| 2026-08-01 | Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Dies at Delaney Hall After Medication Denial, 23rd ICE Custody Death of 2026, Second at GEO's $1.2B NJ Facility GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · House Judiciary Committee | 3 | |
| 2026-08-01 | ICE Electronic Monitoring Triples to 54,000 Immigrants; GEO Group Projects Growth to 450,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | 2 | |
| 2026-07-31 | Clark County, IN Residents Demand Oversight of $3M Jail-ICE Detention Contract | | |
| 2026-07-31 | Kalshi Launches Prediction Market Letting Traders Bet on ICE's Daily Arrest Count | | |
| 2026-07-30 | 9th Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Deepening 4-2 Circuit Split Toward Likely SCOTUS Review Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-07-30 | ICE Widens Airport Arrests to Legally-Present Migrants Using TSA Checkpoint Database Matching, No Warrants Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Transportation Security Administration | 2 | |
| 2026-07-30 | Mother Jones Investigation: Anti-ICE Protesters Prosecuted as Antifa Under Trump's Terrorism Framework Mother Jones · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | 3 | |
| 2026-07-30 | New York AG Orders 12 Jurisdictions to Terminate ICE 287(g) Agreements by August 25; Madison County Sheriff Publicly Defies New York Office of Immigrant Trust | 1 | |
| 2026-07-29 | Data Centers Emerge as Wedge Issue in Michigan's 2026 Democratic Primary, Traverse City Resistance Grows | | |
| 2026-07-29 | DeSoto County, FL Commissioners Approve One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Preserving Carve-Out for 800-Acre Project | | |
| 2026-07-29 | GEO Group Signs 5-Year, $80M/Year ICE Contract for Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC, Over Governor Stein's Objection GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Adds 5,500 Beds Toward 100,000-Person Detention Goal as June 2026 Arrests Hit Record 43,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-07-29 | ICE Posts Emergency SAM.gov Solicitation for 5,500 Detention Beds Across Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Miami — Courts Embedded On-Site Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-07-29 | Trump and DOJ Jointly Petition SCOTUS to Vacate $83M Carroll Verdict, Substitute Government as Defendant E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice | 3 | |
| 2026-07-28 | Augusta Township, MI Voters Overturn Thor Equities $1B Data Center Rezoning 89.5%-10.4% | | |
| 2026-07-28 | Columbia County GA Approves Google Data Centers, Sends Property-Tax-Relief Plan to November Referendum Google | 1 | |
| 2026-07-28 | Montgomery County MD Council Unanimously Passes 18-Month Data Center Moratorium, 25 MW Cap Into Law | | |
| 2026-07-28 | ProPublica: Federal Judges Nationwide Chastise DOJ Lawyers for 'Unlawful,' 'Unethical' Conduct as Presumption of Regularity Erodes U.S. Department of Justice | 1 | |
| 2026-07-28 | Researcher Austin Kocher: Over 600,000 People Booked Into ICE Detention Since Trump II Began Austin Kocher · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 2 | |
| 2026-07-28 | Trump Administration Races to SCOTUS Shadow Docket for Mail-Ballot Restrictions After First Circuit Upholds Block Donald Trump · United States Postal Service | 2 | |
| 2026-07-27 | Congress Quietly Eliminated ICE Biweekly Detention Data Mandate — New Analysis Finds 16% Undercount ICE · Austin Kocher · CoreCivic | 3 | |
| 2026-07-27 | EU AI Act Omnibus Enters Force, Delays High-Risk AI Deadline to December 2027 European Union | 1 | |
| 2026-07-27 | Gordie Howe International Bridge Opens After Toll-Revenue Settlement Resolves Trump Threat Donald Trump | 1 |
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| 2026-07-27 | ICE Extends No-Bid Amentum Contract for Camp East Montana Through 2027 at $776M Additional Cost, Over HRW/ACLU Abuse Findings Immigration and Customs Enforcement | 1 | |
| 2026-07-25 | EU AI Act Full Enforcement Begins August 2 — Facial Recognition Bans, High-Risk AI Rules Binding European Union · Clearview AI | 2 | |
| 2026-07-24 | Escambia County FL Commissioners Vote 5-0 That Data Centers 'Not Permitted' Under Land Code | | |
| 2026-07-24 | ICE Plans 1,400-Bed Detention Center at Shuttered Rivers Correctional in Hertford County, NC ICE · GEO Group | 2 | |
| 2026-07-24 | Nun Detained by ICE While Walking to Daily Mass in Texas — Speaks Out for First Time ICE | 1 | |