| 2026-05-27 | AP 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-27 | CBS News Declines to Renew Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract After CECOT Segment Conflict with Bari Weiss Sharyn Alfonsi · Bari Weiss · CBS News · +7 | 10 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-27 | Dell 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 | 7 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | 23 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 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | 300 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 | 9 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | FPDS 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 | 10 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | Trump 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 | 10 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | Trump-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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-26 | Trump'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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-25 | Anthropic 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-25 | CENTCOM 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 | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-25 | Pope 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 | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-22 | Federal 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 | 7 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-21 | World Liberty Financial Nears OCC Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter to Custody USD1 World Liberty Financial · Zach Witkoff · WLTC Holdings LLC · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-20 | Bessent Invokes Rare Authority to Mint 24-Karat Gold Coin Bearing Living President Trump's Image Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · U.S. Mint · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-19 | Monterey 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-19 | WLFI 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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-18 | Hegseth Campaigns Against Rep. Thomas Massie in KY-04 Primary, Breaking Pentagon Political-Neutrality Norm Pete Hegseth · Thomas Massie · Ed Gallrein · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-16 | Santa 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 | 6 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-15 | California ICE Detention Deaths Hit Record High Amid Crisis-Level Staffing and Reduced Federal Disclosure ICE · DHS · Adelanto ICE Processing Center · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-14 | Warren and Reed Demand DOJ/Treasury Probe of World Liberty Financial Token Sales to Sanctioned Actors Elizabeth Warren · Jack Reed · Scott Bessent · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | ACLU 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 | 17 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | DHS Files Zero Privacy Impact Assessments in 2026 While Operating $1B No-Bid Palantir Surveillance Network Department of Homeland Security · Palantir Technologies · CBP · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Former GEO Group SVP David Venturella Named Acting ICE Director, Completing Revolving-Door Loop David Venturella · GEO Group · Todd Lyons · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Red States Deputize Social-Service Workers as Immigration Screeners Via Benefit-Verification Mandates Tennessee · Indiana · Utah · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Senate Confirms Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair 54-45; Powell Stays as Board Governor Kevin Warsh · Jerome Powell · Scott Bessent · +3 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-13 | Trump 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 | 12 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | ICE 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | Iran 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 | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-12 | Robert 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 | 8 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | Trump 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-11 | U.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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Hegseth 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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | Tennessee 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 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-10 | USCIS 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 | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | 6+ EDVA Prosecutors Fired or Forced Out as DOJ Purges Those Who Resisted Comey Political Indictment Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · James Comey · +2 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-09 | Tennessee 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | 11th 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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | CBP 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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Hegseth Orders Open-Ended Review of Military Legal System, Wresting JAG Oversight From a Congressional Panel Pete Hegseth · Earl Matthews · JAG Corps · +1 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Treasury 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 | 6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Trump 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-08 | Washington 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Ashley 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 | 8 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Border Czar Homan Confirms ICE Detains US Citizens Daily, Defends Practice as Acceptable Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security | 3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | Border 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 | 4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | CoreCivic 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 | 7 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 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 | 5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-07 | ICE 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 | 7 | | confirmed |