Year of record

2026

559 verified events recorded in 2026.

559 events From Jan 1, 2026 To May 6, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
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 · Shayn March · +2
confirmed
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 · Jonathan Gould · +4
confirmed
2026-04-23ProPublica Disclosure Database Shows 144 Trump Administration Appointees with Palantir Holdings, Compensation, or Employment Ties
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Kash Patel · Jeanine Pirro · +11
confirmed
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 · Asad Ramzanali
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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 · Courtney Walter · +6
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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 · Kash Patel · +7
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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 · Keith Sonderling · +3
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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 · Anthony Brown · +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 · US Marines · +2
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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
confirmed
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 · ICE · +4
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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 · ICE · +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 · Department of Defense · +1
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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 · Donald Trump · +2
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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 · Steve Witkoff · +1
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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 · Mark Warner · +1
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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 · Department of Homeland Security
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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 · Ghislaine Maxwell · +2
confirmed
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 · Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board · +2
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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 · Donald Trump · +1
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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 · Democratic Attorneys General Association · +2
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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 · Susan Collins · +3
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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 · FBI
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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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2026-04-03US F-15E Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Iran, One Crew Member Rescued, Second Missing
U.S. Air Force · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
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2026-04-03Washington Post Data Analysis: ICE Still Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Records at 70%+ Rate Despite Administration Pledge to Target Criminals
ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Washington Post · TRAC Immigration
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2026-04-02Blue Owl Caps Private Credit Fund Redemptions at 5% After Investors Demand $5.4 Billion Back From OCIC and OTIC in a Single Quarter
Blue Owl Capital · Blue Owl Credit Income Corp · Blue Owl Technology Income Corp · Doug Ostrover · +1
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2026-04-02Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George During Iran War, Installs Former Personal Aide
Pete Hegseth · Randy George · Christopher LaNeve · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-02Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, Installs Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Acting AG
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lee Zeldin
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2026-04-02Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Branded Pharmaceutical Imports via Section 232 Executive Order
Donald Trump · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Commerce
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2026-04-02US Bombs Bridge Near Tehran Killing Eight Civilians, Trump Posts Collapse Video on Truth Social
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Iran
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2026-04-02US Intelligence Assesses Iran Retains Roughly Half Its Missile Launchers After Five Weeks of Strikes
U.S. Intelligence Community · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
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2026-04-01OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury
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2026-04-01Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-31Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance
BlackSky Technology · Air Force Research Laboratory · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
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2026-03-31Trump Issues Executive Order Directing USPS to Refuse Delivery of Mail Ballots to Non-Approved Voters
Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service
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2026-03-31Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control
Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1
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2026-03-29Netanyahu Orders Expansion of Lebanon Invasion Toward Litani River, Largest Israeli Ground Operation Since 2006
Benjamin Netanyahu · Israel Defense Forces · Israel Katz · Hezbollah · +1
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2026-03-29Warren, Raskin Lead 52 Lawmakers in Formal Inquiry to Six Detention Contractors and Real Estate Firms Over Trump Warehouse Detention Buildout
Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Raskin · Andrey Sharkov · PNK Group · +10
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2026-03-28No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization
No Kings Movement · Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union · American Association of University Professors
reported
2026-03-28Yemen's Houthis Launch Missiles at Israel, Raising Fears of Renewed Red Sea Shipping Attacks
Ansar Allah (Houthis) · Yahya Saree · Israel Defense Forces · Islamic Republic of Iran
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2026-03-26Ohio House Passes "Indecent Exposure Modernization Act" That Critics Say Could Criminalize Sports Bras and Cheerleading Uniforms
Ohio House of Representatives · Equality Ohio
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2026-03-25Choctaw Nation Purchases Former Big Lots Warehouse in Durant, Permanently Removing 8,500 Potential ICE Detention Beds From Federal Market
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma · Gary Batton · Blue Owl Capital · ICE · +2
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2026-03-25Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Surfaces — NSA Intercept Naming Kushner Buried for Eight Months
Tulsi Gabbard · Jared Kushner · Susie Wiles · Christopher Fox
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2026-03-25Iran Rejects Trump's 15-Point Peace Plan as 'Excessive and Unrealistic,' Demands Lebanon Ceasefire as Precondition
Donald Trump · Esmail Baghaei · Abbas Araghchi · Masoud Pezeshkian
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2026-03-24Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout
Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +6
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2026-03-24Michigan AG Nessel and City of Romulus Sue DHS/ICE Over $34.7M Romulus Warehouse Detention Conversion; DHS Under New Secretary Mullin Opens Review April 2
Dana Nessel · Robert McCraight · City of Romulus · State of Michigan · +3
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2026-03-24Palantir and Anduril Developing Core Software for $185 Billion Golden Dome Missile Shield
Palantir · Anduril Industries · SpaceX · Elon Musk · +5
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2026-03-2321 State AGs Sue to Block USDA "2026 Conditions" Tying Food Assistance to Ideological Compliance
AG Letitia James · 20 other AGs
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2026-03-23Chief Judge Bumb Appoints Career Prosecutor Robert Frazer as NJ US Attorney, Resolving Constitutional Crisis
Chief Judge Renee Marie Bumb · Robert Frazer · Alina Habba · Pam Bondi
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2026-03-23Federal Judge Reverses Takedown Order, Rules DOGE Deposition Videos Can Stay Online
federal court · Department of Government Efficiency · Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox
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2026-03-23Oil Prices Drop Sharply on Ceasefire Hopes — Brent Falls 11% to $99.94 After Touching $126 Peak
global oil markets
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2026-03-23Sen. Warren Calls Anthropic Blacklist "Retaliation" for AI Safety Positions — Says DOD Trying to Strong-Arm Companies Into Bulk Surveillance
Sen. Elizabeth Warren · Pete Hegseth · Anthropic
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2026-03-23Supreme Court Declines Citizen Journalist Case, Sotomayor Dissents on First Amendment Arrest
Supreme Court · Justice Sonia Sotomayor · Priscilla Villarreal · City of Laredo
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2026-03-23Trump Backs Off Ultimatum, Claims 'Productive Conversations' with Iran — Tehran Flatly Denies Any Talks
Donald Trump · Iran Foreign Ministry
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2026-03-22CNN Airs Full-Hour Documentary Examining Christian Nationalism's Rise to Political Power
Pamela Brown · Anderson Cooper · CNN
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2026-03-22EPA Weakens National Park Haze Rule, Shields Coal Plants from Pollution Control Evaluations
EPA · National Parks Conservation Association · Sierra Club · Earthjustice
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2026-03-22ICE Agents Deployed to 13 Major Airports as DHS Shutdown Enters Sixth Week and 400+ TSA Officers Quit
Donald Trump · Tom Homan · AFGE · TSA · +1
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2026-03-22Iran War Civilian Toll Mounts — 3,114+ Dead Including 1,354 Civilians, 210+ Children, 3.2M Displaced
Human Rights Activists News Agency · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · Refugees International
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2026-03-22Pentagon-Anthropic Dispute Rekindles Silicon Valley Anti-War Movement — Worker Coalitions Demand Companies Refuse Unrestricted Military AI
tech worker coalitions · Palmer Luckey · Pete Hegseth
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2026-03-22Sanders Confirmed as Headliner for Flagship No Kings Rally at Minnesota State Capitol
Sen. Bernie Sanders · Peggy Flanagan · Keith Ellison · Jane Fonda · +4
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2026-03-22Trump Admin Altered SSA Inspector General Report to Hide DOGE Impact on Services
SSA · SSA Inspector General · Department of Government Efficiency
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2026-03-22Trump Gives Iran 48-Hour Ultimatum to Reopen Hormuz — Threatens to 'Obliterate' Power Plants
Donald Trump · Islamic Republic of Iran
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2026-03-22Warren and Shaheen Demand Hegseth End DoD WEXMAC-TITUS Agreement With DHS, Citing $65 Billion Ceiling Growth and Diversion of Navy Resources to Domestic ICE Detention
Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Navy · +6
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2026-03-21DHS Shutdown Hurts Families Visiting Detained Relatives as Oversight Gutted Amid 26 ICE Deaths
DHS · Democratic lawmakers
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2026-03-21Feinberg Signs Memo Designating Palantir Maven as Official DOD "Program of Record" — Locking in Long-Term Funding Despite Claude Dependency
Steve Feinberg · Palantir · U.S. Army · Pentagon CDAO
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2026-03-21Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles at Dimona Nuclear Site — Two Penetrate Israeli Defenses, 180+ Injured
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Israel · International Atomic Energy Agency
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2026-03-21Iran Launches IRBMs at Diego Garcia — Missiles Fall Short but Reveal Range Far Exceeding Declared 2,000km Limit
Islamic Republic of Iran · United Kingdom · United States · NATO
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2026-03-21Israeli Military Officials Say Iran Campaign at "Halfway" Point — Weeks More of Operations Ahead
Israeli Defense Forces
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2026-03-21US Military Strikes Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility in Major Nuclear Escalation
U.S. Department of Defense · Iran Atomic Energy Organization · International Atomic Energy Agency
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2026-03-20Anthropic Filing Reveals Pentagon Emailed Day After Blacklist Saying Sides Were "Very Close" — Calls DOD Claim of Approval Demand "A Central Falsehood"
Anthropic · Sarah Heck · Thiyagu Ramasamy · Emil Michael · +1
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2026-03-20Army 1st Special Forces Command Renews Clearview AI Facial Recognition Contract Through 2030
Clearview AI · U.S. Army 1st Special Forces Command · Hoan Ton-That · Mission and Installation Contracting Command
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2026-03-20CounterPunch Analysis Examines Crusade Imagery, Hegseth's Jerusalem Cross, and Militarized Christian Nationalism
Henry Giroux · Pete Hegseth · Vote Common Good
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2026-03-20Dallas Fed Analysis — Hormuz Closure Could Cut Global GDP Growth by 2.9 Points, Push Oil to $132
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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2026-03-20DOJ Sues Harvard Alleging Antisemitism, Seeks to Recover Billions in Federal Subsidies
DOJ Civil Rights Division · Harvard University
confirmed
2026-03-20Half of National Weather Service Offices Critically Understaffed, Eight Cease Overnight Operations
NOAA · National Weather Service · five former NWS directors
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2026-03-20Hegseth Quotes Psalm 144 at Pentagon Briefing, Calls Iranian Leaders "Religious Fanatics"
Pete Hegseth · MRFF · PRRI · Mikey Weinstein
confirmed
2026-03-20Iranian Drones Strike Kuwait's Largest Oil Refinery During Eid al-Fitr for Second Consecutive Day
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Kuwait
confirmed
2026-03-20Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Press Policy Requiring Pledge Not to Gather Unauthorized Information
Judge Paul L. Friedman · New York Times · Julian E. Barnes · Pentagon
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2026-03-20New Jersey Governor Sherrill and Attorney General Davenport Sue DHS Over $129M Roxbury Warehouse Detention Conversion, April 8 Emergency Injunction Motion Cites State-Easement Violation
Mikie Sherrill · Matthew Platkin · Roxbury Township · New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · +3
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2026-03-20Sen. Whitehouse Demands Bondi Preserve All Records Related to DOJ Ethics Shield Rule
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche
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2026-03-20Trump Claims War 'Winding Down' While Deploying 2,500 Additional Marines to Middle East
Donald Trump · Pentagon · U.S. Central Command · U.S. Marine Corps
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2026-03-20Trump Issues 30-Day Waiver Allowing Purchase of 140M Barrels of Iranian Oil to Ease Price Surge
Treasury Department · Donald Trump · Sen. Richard Blumenthal
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2026-03-1924 States and 15 Local Governments Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
AG Letitia James · EPA · Trump administration
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2026-03-19Booker War Powers Resolution Fails 47-53 — Only Paul Crosses Party Lines for Yes, Fetterman for No
Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Rand Paul · Sen. John Fetterman
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2026-03-19CNN Reports 2.5 Million Epstein Documents Remain Unreleased Despite Transparency Act
Rep. Thomas Massie · Rep. Ro Khanna · Judge Paul Engelmayer
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2026-03-19Comey Subpoenaed in DOJ 'Grand Conspiracy' Probe Targeting Obama-Era Intelligence Officials
James Comey · Jason A. Reding Quinones · Judge Aileen Cannon · John Brennan · +1
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2026-03-19Court Documents Show DOGE ChatGPT Flagged Museum HVAC Grant as DEI, Canceling $349K
Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · NEH · High Point Museum
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2026-03-19D.C. Circuit Allows DOJ to Proceed With Appeals Challenging Law Firm Executive Order Rulings
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · Jenner & Block · +1
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2026-03-19Education Dept Announces Transfer of $1.6 Trillion Student Loan Portfolio to Treasury
Linda McMahon · Scott Bessent · Department of Education · Treasury Department
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2026-03-19Fortune Analysis Finds $TRUMP Memecoin's Only Utility Is Selling Access to the President
Donald Trump · Bill Zanker
confirmed
2026-03-19Freedom House Reports U.S. at Lowest Score Ever, Net Decline of 12 Points Since 2005
Freedom House
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2026-03-19Inspector General Offices Lose 16.6% of Workforce as Trump Installs Partisan Nominees
Anthony D'Esposito · Thomas March Bell · Cheryl Mason
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