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San Francisco Chronicle: ICE's Own Mortality Reviews, Obtained Under FOIA, Found Deficient Medical Care Preceded 23 of 29 Detainee Deaths From January 2025 to January 2026

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that it obtained 29 mortality reviews of immigration detainees who died from January 2025 through January 2026, through a Freedom of Information Act request. Twenty-three of those immigrants died after receiving medical care that the agency it

The Cascade Ledger — Recent additions

San Francisco Chronicle: ICE's Own Mortality Reviews, Obtained Under FOIA, Found Deficient Medical Care Preceded 23 of 29 Detainee Deaths From January 2025 to January 2026

Sun-Times: Flock Safety Gave Campaign Money to Illinois Officials Whose Agencies Use Its Plate Readers, About $485,000 to Candidates Since Early 2024

Trump Names Stephen Miller, Architect of His Immigration Crackdown, White House Chief of Staff, Replacing Susie Wiles After Midterm Losses

U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones, Whose Office Ran the "Grand Conspiracy" Probe of Trump Foes, and National Security Division Chief John Eisenberg Resign

DOJ Counselor Henry Whitaker Moves to Withdraw in the Letitia James Appeal, Saying He Is Leaving the Government

DOJ Launches Super Intelligence Task Force, Merges Its AI Task Force Into It and Asks Prosecutors to Notify It Before Charging SI Matters

DOJ Sues Penn State Over In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students, Its 27th Suit Against In-State Tuition Policies

Florida's 27th Congressional District: Democrat Eliott Rodriguez Demands Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia Recuse From Recount After She Called Salazar the Winner

GM Agrees to $220 Million Settlement With 35 States and D.C. Over Smart Driver Data Sold to Brokers for Insurance Products

Harmeet Dhillon Resigns as DOJ Civil Rights Head; Blanche Says He Accepted the Resignation

Michigan: Oakland County Sheriff Sends Case of Former Deputy Accused of Accessing Flock Database After Joining ICE to Prosecutor; Ends Flock Drone Pilot

Wisconsin: Paid Social Media Posters Recruited Under Nondisclosure Agreement to Promote OpenAI/Oracle/Vantage Port Washington Data Center, Wisconsin Watch Reports

Abdul El-Sayed Defeats Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate Race, Becoming the First Muslim Elected to the U.S. Senate

Arizona: SpaceX Hosts Cochise County Meeting on Proposed Six-Gigawatt Data Center Filed Under Tombstone Resources LLC

Casey County, Kentucky, Fiscal Court Approves 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Pending Water and Infrastructure Review

Mississippi Secretary of State Says About 3,600 Absentee-by-Mail Ballots Remain Outstanding as Counties Have Until Nov. 13 to Certify

Oregon City Commissioners Adopt 120-Day Moratorium on Data Center and Battery Storage Development, After Clackamas County's Own Moratorium

AP Calls the Texas Senate Race for James Talarico Over Ken Paxton; Texas Democrats' Senate Drought Had Run Back to 1988

CBS News Projects Democrats Will Retake the House Majority

Chicago Polling Places Run Out of Paper Ballots Across the City; Board of Elections Investigates Split Precincts

Democrats Win Control of the Senate, CBS News Reports

Florida PSC Rejects Duke Energy Florida's Data Center Tariff 5-0 as Not Complying With the State's Large-Load Cost Law

Fulton County Asks Georgia to Let It Rescan Just Over 1,000 Early Voting Ballots After Two Scanner Problems

ICE Posts an Election Day Warning to Voters: "If You Vote Illegally, We Will Find You"

Michigan Officials Contact DOJ After Reports Its Election Monitors Questioned Poll Workers in Dearborn and Flint

New Haven Ward Officials Say a DOJ Monitor, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Approached Voters Outside a Polling Place

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver Says DOJ Election Monitors Were Questioning Voters in Bernalillo County; DOJ Says Issue Resolved

North Carolina Extends Voting Hours at Precincts in Several Counties After Stoppages

Toledo Judge Lets Voters at a Polling Place Closed by a Bomb Threat Vote Provisionally Until 9:15 p.m.

Trump Says He Will Accept the Midterm Results as Democrats Win Both Chambers; Mullin Says He Sent No ICE Agents to the Polls

Voters in Eight States Approve Noncitizen-Voting Bans and Voter ID Amendments; Arizona, California and Colorado Measures Fail

DOJ Announces Charges Involving 63 Individuals for Election-Related Crimes the Day Before Election Day

DOJ Asks the Supreme Court to Make California Set Aside About 20,000 Flagged Mail Ballots the Day Before the Election

Florida Flooding Prompts Governor's Executive Order 26-227 and Election Day Polling-Place Moves in Seven Counties

Former FBI Chicago Chief DePodesta Sues Boutros, Alleging Forced Resignation After the Broadview Six Collapse

GEO Announces ICE Deal Through the City of Big Spring, Texas, Activating a 2,329-Bed Complex

Intercept Reviews More Than Two Dozen Incidents of ICE Using Vehicles Against Immigrants and Activists; 2025 CBP Directive Widens Discretion

Judge Kasubhai Finds ICE Kept Making Warrantless Arrests in Oregon in Violation of His Order and an ICE Officer Lied in an Arrest Report

NewsGuard Sting: 21 of 60 Political Influencers Showed Interest in an Undisclosed Paid TikTok Campaign Ad

NYC Mayor Mamdani Warns DHS and ICE to Stop Using City Parking Lots or Face a Lawsuit

Sen. Padilla and Rep. Costa Are Denied Entry to ICE's Golden State Annex on an Unannounced Oversight Visit

US Officials Say Military Carried Out Limited Strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island the Day Before the Midterms

Utah Lt. Governor Issues Emergency Election Declaration Letting Flood-Hit San Juan County Voters Return Ballots Electronically

X Suspends About Two Dozen Russia-Tied Storm-1516 Accounts Before Election Day; Paid Amplifiers With 2.4 Million Followers Remain

At Dubuque Rally, Trump Says Somali Immigrants "Vote Exactly the Way They're Told" and Calls Alaska Race "Voter Fraud"; CNN Says No Evidence

Colorado: Archuleta County Moves Voting Locations in Pagosa Springs Because of Flooding

Gladden Pappin Files a Second FARA Short Form Under Ballard Partners' Registration, Listing the Embassy of Japan

Rep. Haley Stevens Endorses Republican Mike Rogers Over Democratic Nominee El-Sayed Before the Michigan Senate Vote

Seminole County Reissues Over 500 Mail Ballots; Supervisor Says Voters Waited, USPS Reports No Delays

Mississippi Free Press: Polling-Locator Errors Remain Before Election Day; Neshoba Clerk Says Address Can't Change

Newsom Writes California's Chief Federal Judges About Search Warrants for Ballots

Walz's Minnesota Truth Council preliminary report: Metro Surge and PARRIS violated constitutional rights, 70+ children detained, an estimated $244 million in lost wages

AP: Trump Ties Camp Lejeune Claims, Storm Aid and Ethanol Rules to Republican Wins at Midterm Rallies

Building the Future Super PAC Has $2,510,605.56 in Independent Expenditures Supporting Graham and $0 Received in Its Only Periodic Filing

Chutkan Sets a Saturday TRO Hearing on DHS's Voter-Data Policy as the Government Tries to Tie the Case to Boasberg's

Civil rights groups sue Gwinnett County over more than 1,800 undelivered mail ballots

DHS Secretary orders Acronis products excluded from federal civilian procurement and removed from civilian IT systems under the supply-chain security act

DOJ's Alaska Injunction Memo Relies on the Division's June 15 Finding Against the Second Sullivan; the Alaska Courts Had Reversed It and Said It Lacked Evidence

DOJ's Minnesota enforcement release: 13 defendants, nearly $83 million in intended losses, Medicaid and SNAP

Judge Brown Denies X.AI Corp. and MZX Tech Motion to Dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act Suit Over Southaven Gas Plant

Judge Orders ICE to Return Kenis Lopez Gonzalez From the Central African Republic

Judge Thompson Issues TRO Barring DOJ and DHS From Ballot Demands and Prosecution Threats Against Election Officials

Just Security Updates Its "Presumption of Regularity" Tracker: 60, 112 and 145 Cases

Lawsuits in Anchorage Allege At Least 18 Rural Alaska Polling Locations Failed to Open; Hearing Set Nov. 2

Maine State Senator's Adopted Son Held by ICE After New Hampshire 287(g) Stop, Then Released Into Canada

Ninth Circuit Denies DOJ's Emergency Bid to Make California Sequester Flagged Mail Ballots, Over a Dissent

Pope Leo XIV to AI Scientists: Target Lists and Border Databases Must Not Reduce People to Data Points; Urges Geneva Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Stevens Conditions a Unity Event on El-Sayed Condemning the Rebellion PAC Ad; His Statement Answers with the Primary; the Campaign Then Asks Her to Stay Away

Substance on a Mail Ballot Envelope Prompts Hazmat Response at Chester County, Pa., Voter Services; FBI Has the Unopened Envelope

U.S. Prepares First Deportation Flight of Afghans to Pakistan, 'With Further Transport Onward to Afghanistan'

Acting Deputy AG McCotter's Letters Warn State Election Officials of Prison Over Record Preservation, Votebeat Reports

Bloomberg Law: DOJ Leadership Ordered California U.S. Attorneys to Seek Criminal Subpoenas of State and Local Election Officials, Per Anonymous Sources

CBS: DOJ Issued Grand Jury Subpoenas to California State and Local Election Officials; Orange County Says One Seeks 77 Registrants' Records

Clark County Judge Grants ACLU of Nevada a Restraining Order Over Alleged Intimidation at Desert Breeze Vote Center

DHS Announces 'Lone Star Mission': 4,170 ICE Arrests Across Texas, Oct. 19-29

DOJ Announces 18 More North Carolina Indictments for Illegal Voting in 2024, 30 Statewide This Year, Days Before the Election

Huang Calls Nvidia Ties to Megaspeed "Normal" After Report of an Executive Under U.S. Scrutiny

Intercept Analysis: AI Super PACs Put Only 5 Percent of Direct Spending Into Contested General-Election Races

New Section 611 Filings in Nevada, Texas and Pennsylvania