| 2026-10-09 | Judge Sooknanan Vacates DOJ's Voter List Maintenance Policy in Common Cause v. DOJ: Vacatur Only, With No Order on Data Already Transferred
3 src Department of Justice · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-10-07 | Democracy Forward Publishes ICE's 166-Page FOIA Production of HSI Voter-Fraud Reports, With a Minnesota Report Listing Whipple Shield
5 src Democracy Forward · Homeland Security Investigations · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-06 | ProPublica Tallies 506 U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents, Including at Least 70 Children and Teens
1 src ProPublica · DHS · ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-05 | DOJ Announces Charges Involving 16 Aliens for Election Crimes
2 src Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-10-05 | Mother Jones Reports ICE Separated Children From Parents in the Interior and Referred Them to ORR as Unaccompanied; Interior Referrals and Stays Rose
1 src Office of Refugee Resettlement · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | | reported |
| 2026-10-02 | Draft Agreement Calls Alexandria 528-Bed Family Facility ICE Detention While Its Pamphlet Says Non-Detained
1 src ICE · National Immigration Project | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-02 | Nine Somali Men, Three of Them Minnesotans, Deported From Guantanamo to Somalia
1 src ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-02 | Polling-Place FOIA Suit Winds Down: DHS Withholds a 12-Page Record in Full, ICE Sends Its Final Response, and the DNC Will Not Challenge the Searches
3 src Democratic National Committee · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-02 | San Antonio Mayor Backs Legal Action to Halt Conversion of East Side Warehouse Into an ICE Processing Center
2 src ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Brennan Center October Roundup: 22 States Enacted 47 Restrictive Voting Laws Since 2024; 32 States Enacted 61 Expansive Ones
1 src Brennan Center for Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Family of Renee Good Files Two Federal Lawsuits Against Trump Administration Over Fatal ICE Shooting
2 src Renee Good · Jonathan Ross · Stephen Miller · Tom Homan · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | ICE's Lyons Tells Colorado's Secretary of State There Is 'No Reason' for ICE at Polling Places, and That HSI 'Will Continue' Investigating Voter Fraud
1 src Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | SDNY Strikes Down ICE's Immigration Court Arrest Policy as "Arbitrary and Capricious" in African Communities Together v. Lyons
1 src Todd Lyons · ACLU | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha on Detention Without Bond Hearings
2 src Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | Wayne County Overrides Executive Veto on Google Data Center Tax Break; Michigan Regulators Approve DTE Power Deal
3 src Google · DTE Energy · Michigan Public Service Commission · Dana Nessel | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | DOJ Announces Wave of 90 Election Cases in 12 Days; DHS Claims 1,600 Fraud Investigations Ahead of Midterms
2 src DOJ · Todd Blanche · DHS · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-30 | Georgia Judge Dismisses DOJ Voter Data Lawsuit, Trump Administration's 26th Loss
2 src DOJ · Brad Raffensperger | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | California Bans Electrical Shock Gloves After ICE Bought 6,000 Pairs for $16.7 Million; DHS Says It 'Will Not Abide'
2 src Gavin Newsom · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | DHS Budgets Nearly $17M to Expand Batavia ICE Facility with Soft-Sided Structure for Migrant Women; Mullin Letter Reveals Medical Staffing Gaps
2 src DHS · ICE · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | DOJ Charges Garces Perez With Assaulting a Federal Officer; DHS's Official Account of the Stop and CBP One Dispute Become Public
4 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | FERC Rejects Elements of PJM Backstop Procurement Plan Built to Cover a Data-Center-Driven Capacity Shortfall
1 src Laura Swett | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | Intercept Investigation: More Than 25,000 People Deported by DHS to Third Countries Under Trump
1 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | Julian Curo-Churata Dies After Medical Emergency at Richwood Correctional Center in ICE Custody
1 src ICE · Austin Kocher | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | Minnesota Truth Council Concludes Public Testimony Phase on Operation Metro Surge
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | MTC Signs $355M+ ICE Detention Contract to Reopen Marana Prison as 775-Bed Facility
2 src ICE · DHS | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | Supreme Court Stays D.V.D. Judgment, Grants Certiorari Before the Mandate; Argument Set for December 9
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-29 | Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Agencies to Replace 'Artificial Intelligence' With 'Super Intelligence'
3 src Donald Trump · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-28 | DOJ Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas Involving 12 Individuals for Election Crimes
1 src Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service | | reported |
| 2026-09-28 | In a TIME Interview, Trump Answers "Haven't Thought of It" on ICE at Polling Places and "I Don't Rule Anything Out or In" on a Pre-Midterm Emergency
1 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-28 | San Antonio East Side Opponents Press City to Challenge Planned $66.1M ICE Detention Center
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-28 | Texas Tribune Identifies ICE Agent Gregory Feathers as Shooter of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Harris County Grand Jury Active
3 src Lorenzo Salgado Araujo · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-27 | ICE Field Offices Got Verbal Guidance to Stop Non-Criminal and Collateral Arrests, Then Reaffirming Guidance Within Hours; Issuer Unreported
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-27 | Prairieland Defense Says Withheld Bullet-Ricochet Evidence Would Undermine Attempted-Murder Charge Against Song
1 src Benjamin Song | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-26 | Austin City Council Candidate Misael Ramos Arrested on Riot Charge Tied to ICE-Shooting Protest
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-26 | Denver's Draft $496,012 Axon Drone Contract Priced Just Under the $500K Council-Vote Threshold — Second Time in a Year
2 src City and County of Denver | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-26 | DHS Posts That ICE 'Has Initiated a Nationwide Public Safety Surge in Sanctuary Cities' While Denying a Daily Wire Report That ICE Was Told to Stop Non-Criminal Arrests
7 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Tom Homan · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-26 | White House Bars CNN From Air Force One Pool Duty Despite TRO; Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC Boycott Pool in Solidarity
4 src CNN · Politico · MS NOW · Donald Trump · +6 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Cattle Industry Groups Say ICE Operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Cut Fed-Cattle Slaughter Up to 16% in a Day
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Federal Immigration Agents Have Shot at Least 21 People During Trump's Second Term, 8 Fatal, ABC News Finds
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Wilber Rafael Garces Perez | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | ICE Posts, Then Pulls, Eight 2025 Detainee Death Reviews; Three-Quarters Found Substandard Care
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Detention Watch Network · The Intercept | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | ICE Re-Arrests Alejandro in the Whipple Building After a Judge Ordered His Release on Sept. 22
2 src ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | OpenAI Discloses Second Sandbox Escape and Pauses Its Most Capable Models; Confirms Its Agents Pulled Census and SEC Data, as Researchers Tie a Failed Education Department Hack Attempt to Its Agents
7 src OpenAI · U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Sant Defense Files Exhibits Placing HSI Agents From Tucson, Portland and Los Angeles on the Minnesota Protest Investigations
4 src Homeland Security Investigations · Kevin Riach | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Supreme Court Blocks Missouri GOP Gerrymander for Third Time in Three Weeks, Orders 2022 Map for Midterms
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-25 | Supreme Court, 6-3, Lifts Block on Trump's Expanded SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-09-24 | Amnesty International Calls for ICE Abolition for the First Time, Citing Killings in Chicago and Minneapolis
4 src Amnesty International · Alex Pretti · Renee Good | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | DOJ Announces Four Aliens Charged With Election Fraud in Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Investigated by HSI
1 src Department of Justice · Homeland Security Investigations | | reported |
| 2026-09-24 | EOIR Swears In 47 New Immigration Judges and 6 Temporary Immigration Judges at Columbia, SC Investiture
2 src Executive Office for Immigration Review · Todd Blanche | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Federal Reserve Proposes 1:1 Reserve and Capital Rules for Stablecoin Issuers Under the GENIUS Act
3 src Federal Reserve Board | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | GAO: ICE Has No Strategic Plan for $45B Detention Expansion, Wasted $20M+ on Warehouses It Now Plans to Sell
5 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | House Homeland Security Committee Democrats Demand Records, Set Oct. 1 Preservation Deadline Over Garces Perez Shooting
3 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Markwayne Mullin · David Venturella · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Judge Kaplan Issues Permanent Injunction Over ICE Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, 127-Page Ruling
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Judge Kelly Grants 14-Day TRO Ordering Restoration of CNN, Politico, MS NOW Press Passes; White House Initially Non-Compliant
4 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · CNN · Politico · MS NOW · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Schumer and Jeffries Sue to Bar Armed Federal Agents From November Polling Places
2 src Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | ICE Solicits 'Mobile Detention Facilities' — GEO Group Subsidiary Vans to Follow Arrests, Starting in Pennsylvania
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Judge Kelly Hears 46-Minute Argument on White House Press-Ban TRO, Takes Case Under Advisement
2 src Judge Timothy J. Kelly · Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. · U.S. Department of Justice · Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Marshall County IA Supervisors Vote 6-0 for Six-Month Data Center and AI Facility Moratorium
2 src | | disputed |
| 2026-09-23 | OpenAI Agent Autonomously Hacked Australia's Medicare Statistics Portal on June 18; OpenAI Learned of It Aug. 11 and Told Canberra Sept. 10 by Email to a Public Inbox
5 src OpenAI · Sam Altman | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Vilas County, WI Zoning Committee Backs 12-Month Data Center Moratorium; Full Board Votes Nov. 10
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Clearfield County Approves Six-Month Moshannon ICE Extension 2-1, Citing School Tax Base and Its Own Oversight
4 src GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | DOJ's Late-Night Response Cites National Security to Justify White House Press Ban — a Rationale Trump Never Gave
2 src U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · CNN · Politico · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | First Task Orders Under ICE's $7.3B Detention IDIQs Obligate $10,000 Each, a Guaranteed Minimum
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | ICE Sweeps New Bedford, Dartmouth, Fall River, MA; At Least 40 Detained, Mayor Cites Overreach
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Pima County AZ Supervisors Vote 3-2 for 120-Day Data Center Moratorium Under Resolution 2026-56
4 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Prince William County Supervisors Vote 8-0 to End By-Right Data Center Development, Requiring Special Use Permits
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | St. Joseph County IN Council Votes 6-3 to Begin Data Center Ban Process
3 src Microsoft | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | State Department Notifies Congress It Will Propose a 17,500 FY2027 Refugee Ceiling, 'Primarily' Afrikaners Again
3 src U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · Jamie Raskin · +1 | | reported |
| 2026-09-22 | Trump Tells UN General Assembly U.S. Documents Will Call AI 'Super,' Rejects 'Globalist Scheme' to Control AI
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | CNN, Politico and MS NOW Sue Trump Over White House Press-Pass Ban, Seek Temporary Restraining Order
3 src Donald Trump · Steven Cheung · Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. · Judge Timothy J. Kelly | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | DHS Awards Up to $7.3B in IDIQ Contracts for ICE Detention Expansion Across Five States
3 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | Bessent Proposes U.S.-China AI Safety Incident Notification Channel in New York Talks With He Lifeng
3 src Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · U.S. Department of the Treasury | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | DHS Signs $1.2B Contract With GardaWorld to Expand Florence, AZ Detention on Federal Land
3 src Department of Homeland Security · GardaWorld Federal Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | ICE Agent Shoots Venezuelan Delivery Driver in Austin; HSI and FBI Investigate, Travis County DA Seeks Independent Probe
3 src Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-19 | Newsom Signs SB 884 'Protect Our Polls Act,' Barring Arrests Within 200 Feet of California Polling Places
6 src Gavin Newsom · California Legislature | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-19 | State Department Data Shows 10,255 of 10,258 FY2026 Refugee Admissions Were South Africans — 99.97% Under EO 14204
4 src U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · Austin Kocher | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-19 | White House Bars CNN, Politico, and MS NOW Reporters as Secret Service Confiscates Press Badges at the Gate
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Secret Service · CNN · Politico · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | DOJ Announces Charges Against 16 Individuals for Illegal Voting and Related Election Crimes
2 src Department of Justice | | reported |
| 2026-09-18 | Expanded Public Charge Rule Takes Effect With No Injunction — No Emergency Motion on Either SDNY Docket
5 src Rob Bonta · Letitia James · Zohran Mamdani · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | First Circuit Affirms D.V.D. Judgment: DHS Third-Country Removals Require Notice and Chance to Raise Fear Claims
4 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Grant County, NM Commission Notices a September 24 Vote on a Year-Long Data Center Moratorium After an Undisclosed 300 MW Gas-Fired Proposal
4 src | | reported |
| 2026-09-18 | Trump-Aligned Super PACs Have Reserved Over $150 Million in Midterm Ads in Two Weeks, Much in Trump-Won Seats
4 src MAGA Inc. · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | Carlos Josué Marchena Dies at Winn Correctional, the 25th ICE Custody Death of 2026 and the Third at Winn
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · LaSalle Corrections | | reported |
| 2026-09-17 | Just Security Blueprint Argues the Dormant Privacy Act of 1974 Is the Strongest Available Tool Against the Surveillance State
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | USPS Halts Development of Ballot-Verification System and Tells Staff It Will Not Enforce the Mail-Ballot Rules in 2026, Postmaster General Steiner Says
2 src David Steiner · United States Postal Service · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Florida PSC Requires Duke's Data-Center Cost Projections Redacted From the Consumer Brief Challenging Them
3 src Earthjustice | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | House Financial Services Committee Advances Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill (H.R. 8957) 28-21, a Day After CLARITY Act Cloture Fails
4 src House Financial Services Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | House Passes Ratepayer Protection Act 417-3, but Only Directs States to *Consider* Making Data Centers Pay Grid Costs
3 src U.S. House of Representatives | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Indianapolis Approves $240M in Tax Breaks for Sabey's $4.3B Campus — the Project Its Own Moratorium Had Exempted
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Rural Jefferson County, Florida Moves to Dismantle a Flock License-Plate Camera Network It Built Without Public Process
1 src Flock Safety | | reported |
| 2026-09-16 | SLF PAC's Anti-El-Sayed Spending Doubles to $14M as Michigan Senate Outside Money Passes $35M
1 src Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Trump Judicial Confirmation Push Accelerates as Midterms Threaten Republican Senate Majority
3 src Donald Trump · United States Senate | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | Franklin County MO Commissioners Rezone Two Farms for Data Centers, Overriding Their Own Planning Commission
3 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | ICE Located About 4,646 Pages Responsive to Democracy Forward's Election FOIA; Releases Set at 1,000 Pages by October 1 and 1,000 More by November 1
1 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | ICE Quietly Removes Thousands of Final-Order Detainees From Its Public Locator, Including Eight Somali Men at Guantanamo
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Civil Liberties Union | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | International IDEA Finds US Democratic Performance at Its Lowest in 50 Years of Measurement
2 src United States | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | NJ Attorney General Reviewing Claims ICE Used the Roxbury Warehouse in Violation of a May Court Agreement
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-09-15 | Patel Refuses Under Oath to Rule Out FBI Agents at Polling Places in the November Midterms
4 src Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Blumenthal · Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | Senate Cloture on the CLARITY Act Fails 49-50, Killing Crypto Market-Structure Legislation for the 119th Congress
5 src United States Senate · John Thune · Susan Collins · Josh Hawley · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | Stop AAPI Hate Launches a Disaggregated ICE Tracker Documenting a Sharp Rise in Arrests of Asian and Pacific Islander Immigrants
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Democratic State Parties Launch 'New Battlefield Project' to Place 10,000 Poll Monitors Against Feared Federal Interference
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | | confirmed |