Year of record

2026

2094 verified events recorded in 2026.

2094 events From Jan 1, 2026 To Nov 3, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-06-23Jackson MS: 230-Acre Northwest Jackson Data Center Rezoning (Saxum) Heads to June 24 Planning Board Hearing 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-23Lake County FL Commissioners Unanimously Agree to Draft 1-Year Data-Center Moratorium; Final Vote ~July 14 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-23Marin County Joins CA AG Lawsuit Against Permit-Bypassing Gilroy ICE Facility as Multi-County Coalition Grows 3 src
California Attorney General · Santa Clara County · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-23Warren Township, NJ Adopts a Data-Center Ban That Reproduces Roughly Half the County-Counsel Model Ordinance Verbatim 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-23Whatcom County, WA Council votes 5-2 for one-year moratorium on new immigration detention facilities 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-06-22Archer County TX Unanimously Denies Tax Abatement for Google's 2,800-Acre 'Project Raptor' Data Center 3 src
Google
confirmed
2026-06-22Arizona and Illinois Impose Data Center Tax Moratoriums Effective July 1; 300+ Data Center Bills Filed in 30+ States in 2026 4 src
JB Pritzker · State of Illinois · State of Texas · Public Utility Commission of Texas
confirmed
2026-06-22Gov. McKee Signs H7434/S3339, Barring ICE Agents Within 200 Feet of Rhode Island Polling Places 5 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-22Judge Sooknanan Blocks DOGE-Built SAVE Database, Ruling It Unlawfully Aggregates Millions of Voters' Data for Citizenship Purges 3 src
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) · +2
confirmed
2026-06-22Placemakr Wins Guard Housing Order for D.C. Troops 4 src
D.C. National Guard
confirmed
2026-06-21[DUPLICATE — see canonical] ICE Offloads Seven Noem-Era Warehouses Under Mullin, Exposing Overpriced Detention Buildout — But $45B Mandate Holds 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Kristi Noem · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
superseded
2026-06-21GEO Group Employee Charged With Assault by Auto After Driving Into Delaney Hall Protester at Father's Day Vigil 2 src
GEO Group
confirmed
2026-06-21ICE to Offload 7 of 11 Purchased Warehouses (of $1.074B Total Program) as Mega-Detention Plan Retreats Under Lawsuits 4 src
DHS · ICE · Markwayne Mullin · Kristi Noem · +1
confirmed
2026-06-19DHS Scraps Seven Warehouse Conversions as GAO Finds Camp East Montana 'Wasted Millions' 2 src
Government Accountability Office · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-19Oracle sues Wisconsin PSC over credit-rating rule that could shift data-center costs onto ratepayers 3 src
Oracle · Wisconsin Public Service Commission · We Energies
confirmed
2026-06-18Citrus County FL Planning Commission Denies Holder Industrial Park Rezoning After One-Year Data-Center Moratorium 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-18FERC issues Federal Power Act Section 206 show-cause orders to all six RTOs/ISOs on large-load interconnection — RM26-4-000 rulemaking itself remains un-acted-on 6 src
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Chris Wright · Department of Energy · Laura Swett
reported
2026-06-18ICE-MTC Marana AZ Private Prison Reactivation Grows From 513 to 1,300-Plus Beds With No Contract Signed 5 src
Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-06-18NPR: A DHS privacy analysis documents ICE's Task Force Module face-scan app for 287(g) local police; NPR says the analysis suggests police are already using it 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-06-18SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Drug-User Gun Ban (US v. Hemani) — Bruen Extension Narrows Federal Criminal Firearms Law 3 src
Neil Gorsuch · Donald Trump · Supreme Court
confirmed
2026-06-17IURC Order in Cause 46322 Approves NIPSCO-Amazon Special Contract and NIPSCO-GenCo PPA on a Partial Settlement; Pricing Terms Held Confidential 3 src
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) · NIPSCO · NIPSCO Generation LLC (GenCo)
reported
2026-06-17Judge Talwani Lets 24-State Challenge to Trump's Mail-Ballot EO Proceed, Rejecting the 'Postpone Review' Argument as the Election Window Narrows 4 src
Indira Talwani · Rob Bonta · Donald Trump · USPS · +1
confirmed
2026-06-17Polis Signs Executive Order Activating Unarmed Colorado National Guard Members for Election Cybersecurity at the Primary 2 src
Jared Polis
confirmed
2026-06-17Reuters Analysis: ICE Detention Death Rate Doubles Under Trump — One Death per 1,630 Detainees vs. Prior Baseline of 1 per 3,848 4 src
ICE · DHS · GEO Group · CoreCivic · +2
confirmed
2026-06-17Treasury Publishes the Privacy Act Notice for Fraud.gov Tip Records, Treating Them as Permanent and Open to Law Enforcement 1 src
U.S. Department of the Treasury · Task Force to Eliminate Fraud
confirmed
2026-06-17Trump and Pezeshkian Sign 14-Point Iran War MOU at Versailles; Hormuz Blockade Lifts, 60-Day Nuclear Clock Starts 5 src
Donald Trump · Masoud Pezeshkian · J.D. Vance · Steve Witkoff · +3
confirmed
2026-06-17Trump Family's World Liberty Financial Nearing OCC Federal Bank Charter Approval 1 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · WLTC Holdings LLC · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
confirmed
2026-06-16Data Leak Exposes Membership of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society — Bessent, Cruz, Booker, Musk, a NATO Commander, and a Stanford President on the List 4 src
Peter Thiel · Scott Bessent · Ted Cruz · Cory Booker · +4
confirmed
2026-06-16Imperial County, CA reverses its own data center approval, enacts 45-day moratorium; developer files restraining order 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-16Minnesota US Attorney Indicts 15 Members of Direct Action Minnesota, Alleging Antifa Ties, Invoking NSPM-7 10 src
Daniel Rosen · Department of Justice · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · +3
confirmed
2026-06-16Vermont Signs Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act, Overhauling Data Broker Registration and Adding Deletion Rights 4 src
Brennan Center for Justice
confirmed
2026-06-15HSI Incident Report on Sant Arrest Tags Whipple Shield With Program Codes for "ANTIFA", "NSPM-7" and "CUC OP KEYHOLE" 3 src
Homeland Security Investigations
reported
2026-06-15NWCCU Splits From C-RAC, Moves to Rebrand as National Accreditor and Revise Standards 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-15SCOTUS Grants Cert in Genalo v. Black, No. 25-886, on Prolonged Immigration Detention and Bond Hearings; Case Later Dismissed 6 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-14Mullin on CNN: ICE Could Respond at a Polling Station if a Threat Arose, Citing a Bomb Threat as the Example 1 src
Markwayne Mullin · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-06-14Trump's 80th-Birthday UFC 'Freedom 250' South Lawn Event ($60M, 4,300 Guests) Proceeds as No Kings Protests Hit 1,800–2,000+ Locations Nationwide 3 src
Donald Trump · No Kings Coalition
confirmed
2026-06-13'Progressive Champions PAC' Exposed as GOP Front via Bryant Bank / Rep. Gary Palmer Tie; Polymarket Ends Sponsorship of Influencer Election-Fraud Posts After Popular Information Reporting 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-13ICE/HSI and HHS-OIG Agents Attempt to Enter Legal-Aid Offices Serving Unaccompanied Migrant Children, Demand Files; Denied Entry Without Warrant 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-13NBC Publishes Investigation Citing DOJ Epstein Library Records That Report Women Described Sexual Encounters During Epstein's Palm Beach Work Release 3 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office · Florida Department of Law Enforcement · NBC News · +1
reported
2026-06-12After Callais + Alabama Orders, Southern Republicans Race to Redraw Maps Eliminating Majority-Black Districts 4 src
Hakeem Jeffries
confirmed
2026-06-12Commerce Export-Control Order (Lutnick) Forces Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 + Mythos 5 Worldwide 13 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · Anthropic · Dario Amodei
reported
2026-06-12Denny Adan Gonzalez Reported as 18th ICE Detention Death of 2026; Year on Track as Deadliest in DHS History at ~1 Death Every 6 Days 3 src
ICE · GEO Group · CoreCivic · DHS
confirmed
2026-06-12FISA Section 702 Lapses for First Time Since 2008; House Vote Fails 198-218 Over Pulte DNI Appointment 4 src
Bill Pulte · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump · House Democrats · +2
confirmed
2026-06-12Iran War: Ceasefire Deal Described as Imminent; US Shoots Down Two Iranian Drones at Hormuz Same Day 4 src
Donald Trump · Abbas Araghchi · U.S. Military · Iran
confirmed
2026-06-12McFarland, California MOU Relieves City Police of Any Investigative Duty for PREA Sexual-Assault Incidents at GEO's Golden State and Central Valley Annexes 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-12SEC No-Action Letter to SIFMA Temporarily Waives Customer-Reserve Protection for Brokerages Handling SpaceX IPO; Warren Presses SEC and Index Providers 11 srcconfirmed
2026-06-12Section 702 of FISA Expires After Two Stopgaps Fail, in a Senate Fight Reporting Ties to the Pulte Nomination Rather Than Surveillance Substance 2 src
United States Congress · Chuck Grassley · National Security Agency
confirmed
2026-06-11Data-Center Fiscal Capture Crystallizes Across States: Multibillion-Dollar Sales-Tax Exemptions Blow Holes in State Budgets as the Issue Reaches the Ballot (Lever/Capital&Main/Popular Information cluster) 5 srcconfirmed
2026-06-11FBI Raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative on 'Voter Fraud' Framing; Probe Expands to America Votes Network by June 17 5 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) · Brennan Center for Justice
confirmed
2026-06-11Lesley Stahl Signs Two-Year 60 Minutes Extension Through 2028, Choosing to Stay Amid Post-Capture Upheaval 4 src
David Ellison · CBS · Paramount Skydance
confirmed
2026-06-11SCOTUS 9-0 (Kagan) Reverses Ex-Twitter Employee's Saudi-Spy Obstruction Conviction on §1519 Venue, Rebuking DOJ Venue-Shopping 3 src
Elena Kagan
confirmed
2026-06-11TrumpRx Privacy Policy Drops Its PostHog Analytics Disclosure in a Revision Dated June 11; No PostHog Award Found in USAspending 4 src
National Design Studio · Joe Gebbia
reported
2026-06-11Vance Boelter Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to the Hortman Killings and the Hoffman Shootings 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-10FBI Raids Ypsilanti and Three States, Unseals 63-Page Indictment Charging Eight Pro-Palestinian Activists Tied to University of Michigan 7 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · University of Michigan
reported
2026-06-10Gov. Abbott directs PUCT to require data centers to fully fund own electric infrastructure; PUCT must act to reduce residential transmission costs by July 31, 2026 4 src
Greg Abbott · Public Utility Commission of Texas · ERCOT
confirmed
2026-06-10ICE Defies Federal Judge's Release Order, Re-Detains 77-Year-Old Palestinian Lawful Resident Akram Omar for Deportation Flight 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-10Oregon PUC Delays PGE Data-Center Large-Load Rate Ruling to July; 29% Rate Hike at Issue Under POWER Act 1 src
Oregon Public Utility Commission · Portland General Electric
confirmed
2026-06-10Red/Blue ICE Divergence Sharpens: NJ Becomes 10th State to Bar 287(g) Contracts as DOJ Sues Four States Over Agent License-Plate Confidentiality 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Tennessee
confirmed
2026-06-10Southern Baptist Convention Advances Constitutional Ban on Churches With Women Pastors (6,028–2,026) and Elects Abuse-Crisis Skeptic Willy Rice President 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-10Trump Signs $70B ICE/CBP Enforcement Bill; Anti-Weaponization Fund Survives Intact 4 src
Donald Trump · Lisa Murkowski · ICE · CBP
confirmed
2026-06-09DOJ dismantles federal election-crime oversight before 2026 midterms; no FBI command center stood up 4 src
Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2026-06-09GENIUS Act AML/Sanctions Comment Period Closes 11:59 PM ET — WLF Verified Absent at Docket Closure; July 18 Final Rule Statutory Deadline 8 src
Scott Bessent · Andrea Gacki · World Liberty Financial · WLTC Holdings LLC
confirmed
2026-06-09Lesley Groff Appears Before House Oversight, Testifies Voluntarily, Denies Knowledge of Epstein Crimes — Transcript Released 2026-06-23 10 src
James Comer · Robert Garcia · James Walkinshaw · Stephen Lynch · +2
confirmed
2026-06-09Trump Family Clears $2.3B in Crypto Income as World Liberty Financial Seeks National Trust Bank Charter 3 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Public Citizen
confirmed
2026-06-08[DUPLICATE — see canonical] Salt Lake City and County sue DHS/ICE over warehouse detention conversion 2 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · DHS · ICE
superseded
2026-06-08[DUPLICATE — see canonical] Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County Jointly Sue DHS Over $145M Warehouse Conversion 1 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
superseded
2026-06-08Charlotte City Council Unanimously Imposes 150-Day Data Center Moratorium — Largest US City to Pause 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-08CNN Investigation Links Bari Weiss CBS Firings Directly to Paramount-WBD Merger Timeline; Bonta Investigation Active 3 src
Bari Weiss · David Ellison · Rob Bonta · Scott Pelley · +3
confirmed
2026-06-08Hazle Township, PA Board Votes Unanimously for 180-Day Pause on Data Center Applications, Halting Project Hazelnut Review 2 src
Amazon Web Services · Josh Shapiro
confirmed
2026-06-08ICE Orders ITIN Data Subscription From Thundercat for $9,968,353.56; After a D. Mass. Injunction on IRS-Sourced Return Information 6 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Homeland Security Investigations · Internal Revenue Service · Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · +2
confirmed
2026-06-08Salt Lake City and County Sue DHS/ICE to Block $145M Warehouse Conversion to Mega-Detention (Up to 10,000 Beds) 6 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-08Seventh Circuit (2-1) Upholds Indiana's Total Press Ban on Execution Witnesses, Invoking 'Dignity'; AP and Coalition Lose First Amendment Challenge 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-07Iran Ceasefire Breaks Down June 7-8; US Navy Attacks MT Marivex Tanker in Gulf of Oman; Iran Establishes Dual-Chokepoint Security Belt 3 src
Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · J.D. Vance
confirmed
2026-06-07Public Integrity Project Sues to Block UFC Freedom 250 White House Event; Judge Mehta Orders Briefing; Trump TKO Stock Holding Disclosed 7 src
Donald Trump · Judge Amit Mehta · David Ellison · National Park Service · +1
confirmed
2026-06-06DeSantis Launches Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE): Six-State Accreditor; June 2026 First-Accreditation Target; DOE Recognition by June 2028 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-05DOJ Files Supplemental Response to Mehta's Oath Keepers Order; Response Described by Critics as Insufficient 3 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
confirmed
2026-06-05Hexa Builders Sues Monroe Township, NJ Over Data-Center Ban, Pleading That Data Centers Are Protected Speech 6 srcconfirmed
2026-06-05NSPM-11 Replaces Biden's AI National-Security Guardrails and Threatens Termination for Vendors Who Limit Government Use 4 src
Donald Trump · Department of Defense · U.S. Intelligence Community · Electronic Privacy Information Center
confirmed
2026-06-05Surveillance-Pricing Bans Move Across the States: Connecticut Enacts, New York Approves, Colorado Vetoes — 24-State Cascade 4 srcconfirmed
2026-06-04Blanche AG Confirmation Faces GOP Resistance; Grassley Confirms Receipt; Hearing Not Scheduled; Summer Timeline Uncertain 4 src
Todd Blanche · Chuck Grassley · Senate Judiciary Committee · John Thune
confirmed
2026-06-04Blanche Nominated Permanent AG; Senate Testimony Reveals Anti-Weaponization Fund Scrapped 3 src
Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · Dan Scavino · Senate Judiciary Committee · +1
confirmed
2026-06-04Bondi Epstein Transcript Released: Privilege Invoked on Trump Conversations; Blanche Named 30+ Times 4 src
Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · House Oversight Committee · +1
confirmed
2026-06-04Colorado Signs HB 1276: State Gets Unannounced Inspection Authority Over ICE Detention 2 src
Jared Polis · Colorado Legislature · ICE · GEO Group
confirmed
2026-06-04DHS Approves, Then Rescinds Within Four Days, USCIS Plan for EO 14399 State Citizenship Lists and SAVE Voter-Roll Submission 4 src
DHS · DOJ · Social Security Administration · State Department
confirmed
2026-06-04Great American AI Act Discussion Draft Proposes 3-Year Preemption of State AI Laws; White House Bundles It With KOSA Package 3 src
White House
confirmed
2026-06-04ICE Detainee Placed in Solitary, Transferred to Louisiana After Moshannon Protest Over Sick Detainee 2 src
GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
confirmed
2026-06-04Venturella Issues Internal Memo Ending ICE Post-Release Death Reporting; Reverses 2021 Transparency Rule 7 src
David Venturella · ICE · DHS
confirmed
2026-06-0360 Minutes Phase 5: Pelley Fired for Insubordination; Cooper Gone; CBS Capture Complete 2 src
Scott Pelley · Bari Weiss · Nick Bilton · Anderson Cooper · +7
confirmed
2026-06-03EOP Office of Administration Signs a Five-Year, $1 Million-Ceiling Software BPA With Parscale's Campaign Nucleus; White House and Vice President's Office Orders Follow 3 src
Brad Parscale
reported
2026-06-03New York Legislature Passes Nation's First Statewide Data Center Moratorium (S.10642); Hochul Decision Pending 4 src
Kathy Hochul
confirmed
2026-06-02DHS Inspector General Publishes OIG-26-08: Winn Correctional's March 2025 Unannounced Inspection Found Medical-Record, Use-of-Force and Sanitation Failures 1 src
DHS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · LaSalle Corrections
confirmed
2026-06-02EO 'Promoting Advanced AI Innovation and Security' — Voluntary Frontier-Model Framework, Shortened Federal Pre-Release Window, Rejects Mandatory Licensing 4 src
Donald Trump · White House
confirmed
2026-06-02Monterey Park becomes first U.S. city to ban data centers (88% vote) as Arizona, Illinois, Oklahoma pull back incentives 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-02NJ AG Jennifer Davenport Sues GEO Group for Delaney Hall Health-Inspector Access; Tuberculosis Case Reported, Full Inspection Blocked Since May 28 5 srcconfirmed
2026-06-02Orange County FL Adopts Restricted ICE Basic Ordering Agreement with 48-Hour Cap, Stops Short of Full Exit 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-02SCOTUS Shadow-Docket Order Reinstates Alabama GOP Map for 2026, Staying Lower-Court Finding of Intentional Racial Discrimination 5 src
Alabama Legislature · ACLU
confirmed
2026-06-02Shapiro Releases Pennsylvania Data Center Incentive Conditions as $2B Sales-Tax Exemption Faces June 30 Budget Fight 3 src
Josh Shapiro
confirmed
2026-06-02Trump signs AI executive order giving government 30-day pre-deployment access to frontier models, mandating AI cyber defense 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of the Treasury
confirmed
2026-06-0160 Minutes 'Black Thursday': Weiss Fires Alfonsi, Vega, Simon; Pelley Says She's 'Murdering' the Show; Dan Rather Letter 3 src
Bari Weiss · Sharyn Alfonsi · Cecilia Vega · Tanya Simon · +5
confirmed
2026-06-01BBC Verify Satellite Analysis Finds Iranian Attacks Damaged 20 U.S. Military Sites 2 src
U.S. Department of Defense · Planet Labs
reported