Year of record

2026

923 verified events recorded in 2026.

923 events From Jan 1, 2026 To Jul 28, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-07-01ICE Arrests 10,000 in Five-Day Surge as LaSalle Signs 528-Bed Family Detention Contract in Louisiana 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-01Linn County Iowa Board Votes 2-1 for 18-Month Data Center Moratorium, Effective Immediately 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-30ICE Arrests Three at NYC Immigration Courts, in First Documented Violations of June 24 Nationwide Injunction 2 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-06-30Loudon County TN Commission Votes 6-Month Data-Center Moratorium After Resident Hearing 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-30New Jersey Enacts Nation's Most Expensive Data Broker Law, Effective Immediately 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-30SAVE Act Dies in Senate After NDAA Attachment Fails; Citizenship-Proof Voting Laws Spread Across 9 States 2 src
Mike Johnson · United States Senate · Brennan Center for Justice
confirmed
2026-06-30Supreme Court Eliminates Nationwide Injunctions, Stripping the Broadest Judicial Check on Executive Action 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-30Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright-Citizenship Executive Order at Term's End 5 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller
confirmed
2026-06-30Trump Disclosure Shows $1.2B in 2025 Crypto Earnings; $436M Traced to Foreign Interests 2 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · CIC Digital LLC
confirmed
2026-06-29DHS Abandons $130M Roxbury NJ Warehouse ICE Detention Plan After Bipartisan State Lawsuit and NEPA Delay 4 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Mikie Sherrill
confirmed
2026-06-29Historian Timothy Snyder Publicly Names the Springfield/Haiti TPS Policy 'Ethnic Cleansing of an American City' After Mullin v. Doe 4 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-06-29SCOTUS in Chatrie v. United States Holds Location Data Fourth-Amendment Protected, Geofence Warrants Need Judicial Approval 2 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-29SCOTUS in Watson v. RNC Upholds Mississippi 5-Day Mail-Ballot Window, 5-4, Barrett Writes for Liberal Bloc 2 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Amy Coney Barrett · Republican National Committee
confirmed
2026-06-29Supreme Court Overturns Humphrey's Executor, Grants President At-Will Firing Power Over Independent Agencies 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Federal Trade Commission · John Roberts · +1
confirmed
2026-06-27SCOTUS poised to grant Trump at-will firing power over independent agencies in Trump v. Slaughter 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Rebecca Slaughter · Federal Trade Commission
confirmed
2026-06-26Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, 63, dies in ICE custody — the 20th detention death of 2026 2 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-06-26NC DEQ Opens Comment on Amazon $10B Data-Center + Duke Energy Air Permits in Richmond County 2 src
Amazon
confirmed
2026-06-25DeSoto County, FL commissioners direct moratorium on new data centers — but carve out pending 4GW DCIP gas hyperscale campus 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-25Frank Carone and NYC hotel owner indicted in $6.8M migrant-shelter bribery scheme 1 src
Eric Adams
confirmed
2026-06-25HRW Documents 52 ICE Custody Deaths Since Jan 2025; UN's Türk Demands Independent Investigation 3 src
Human Rights Watch · Volker Türk · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-25Judge Talwani blocks Trump mail-voting executive order across 23 states and D.C. 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-06-25Rising ICE arrests of Asian immigrants in NYC as advocates push $3.5M for legal services before budget deadline 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-06-25SCOTUS in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado lets Trump turn away asylum-seekers metered at the border, 6-3 2 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1
confirmed
2026-06-25Supreme Court (Mullin v. Doe, 6-3) Lets Trump End Haitian and Syrian TPS, Holds Terminations Shielded from Judicial Review 5 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Samuel Alito · Elena Kagan · Sonia Sotomayor · +4
confirmed
2026-06-25Vance Calls Watergate 'a 12-Hour News Story' from the Nixon Library, Casts Nixon as a Deep-State Victim 3 src
J.D. Vance · Richard Nixon · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-06-24ACLU Documents 17 ICE Custody Deaths in 2026 as Warehouse Expansion Targets 96,600 Beds 3 src
American Civil Liberties Union · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Vera Institute of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-24Box Elder County UT: Two Commissioners Who Backed Stratos Hyperscale Data Center Lose Primaries in Voter Backlash 2 srcconfirmed
2026-06-24Federal Appeals Court Blocks DOJ Push to Seize Michigan Voter Information Before the Midterms 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-24GENIUS Act Rulemaking: OCC Adopts Industry-Preferred Reserve Standards, Issues Trust-Bank Charters to Crypto Firms 2 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · Crypto.com · Ripple
confirmed
2026-06-24Postmaster General Steiner Tells Congress USPS Will Withhold Mail Ballots From States That Refuse to Hand Over Voter Rolls 3 src
State of California · State of Maryland
confirmed
2026-06-24Sixth Circuit hands DOJ first appellate defeat in voter-roll fight, affirming Michigan dismissal 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-23Crow Wing County, MN: Residents Demand Termination of ICE/USMS Jail Agreement and Two 287(g) Pacts at June 23 Board Meeting 2 src
U.S. Marshals Service · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · ACLU
confirmed
2026-06-23Disabled U.S. Citizen Aliya Rahman Dragged from Car by DHS Agents in Operation Metro Surge; Files Civil-Rights Complaint 1 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-06-23DOJ Voter-Roll Suit Against Maryland Dismissed — DOJ Record Now 0-9, Five Trump-Appointed Judges in the Majority 2 src
Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division
confirmed
2026-06-23Eight Prairieland ICE-Protest Defendants Sentenced to 30–100 Years in First Federal Antifa Terrorism Case 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-23ICE 'Detention Reengineering Initiative' Targets 100,000 Beds by Sept 2026 via 24 Warehouse-Converted Facilities 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · GEO Group
confirmed
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
2026-06-23Whatcom 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
2026-06-22Arizona 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
2026-06-22Judge Sooknanan Blocks DOGE-Built SAVE Database, Ruling It Unlawfully Aggregates Millions of Voters' Data for Citizenship Purges 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · League of Women Voters · Democracy Forward
confirmed
2026-06-21ICE 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
confirmed
2026-06-21ICE to offload 7 of 11 purchased warehouses as mega-detention plan retreats under lawsuits 3 src
DHS · ICE · Salt Lake City
confirmed
2026-06-20ICE Signs Largest-Ever $3.75M Clearview AI Facial-Recognition Contract as DHS Deletes Its Own Oversight Policy 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection
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
confirmed
2026-06-18Citrus County FL Planning Commission Denies Holder Industrial Park Rezoning After One-Year Data-Center Moratorium 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-18Leaked DHS plan would push Mobile Fortify facial-recognition app to 1,300 local police departments 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
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
2026-06-17Judge Talwani Lets 24-State Challenge to Trump's Mail-Ballot EO Proceed, Rejecting the 'Postpone Review' Argument as the Election Window Narrows 4 src
Rob Bonta · Donald Trump · USPS · Markwayne Mullin
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
2026-06-17Trump 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
2026-06-16Data 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
2026-06-16Vermont Signs Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act, Overhauling Data Broker Registration and Adding Deletion Rights 4 src
Brennan Center for Justice
confirmed
2026-06-15SCOTUS Grants Cert in Genalo v. Black on Prolonged Immigration Detention — May End Bond-Hearing Requirement 3 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-06-15Trump Administration Threatens $1B DHS Grant Cutoff to Force State Voting-System Overhaul Before Midterms 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump · Protect Democracy · Senate Democrats
confirmed
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
2026-06-12After 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; First Federal Halt of a Deployed Commercial AI Model 13 src
U.S. Department of Commerce · Anthropic · Dario Amodei
confirmed
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
2026-06-12FBI Raids Ohio Organizing Collaborative on 'Voter Fraud' Framing; Probe Expands to America Votes Network by June 17 4 src
Brennan Center for Justice
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
2026-06-11SCOTUS 9-0 (Kagan) Reverses Ex-Twitter Employee's Saudi-Spy Obstruction Conviction on §1519 Venue, Rebuking DOJ Venue-Shopping 3 src
Elena Kagan
confirmed
2026-06-10Gov. 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
2026-06-10Oregon PUC Delays PGE Data-Center Large-Load Rate Ruling to July; 29% Rate Hike at Issue Under POWER Act 1 srcconfirmed
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
2026-06-10Trump 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 · 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 · Stephen Lynch · House Oversight Committee
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
2026-06-08Charlotte 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
2026-06-08Salt Lake City and County Sue DHS/ICE to Block $145M Warehouse Conversion into 7,500-Bed Detention Hub 3 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-06-08Salt Lake City and County sue DHS/ICE to halt 13,000-bed warehouse detention conversion 2 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · DHS · ICE
confirmed
2026-06-08Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County Jointly Sue DHS Over $145M Warehouse Conversion to Mega-Detention 1 src
Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
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 · Department of the Interior
confirmed
2026-06-05DOJ Files Supplemental Response to Mehta's Oath Keepers Order; Response Described by Critics as Insufficient 4 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
confirmed
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
Colorado Legislature · ICE · GEO Group
confirmed
2026-06-04DHS Approves EO 14399 State Citizenship Lists; SAVE Portal Operational by June 30 Before Midterm Cycle 4 src
DHS · DOJ · Common Cause · ACLU · +3
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 4 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
2026-06-03New York Legislature Passes Nation's First Statewide Data Center Moratorium (S.10642); Hochul Decision Pending 4 src
Kathy Hochul
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 srcconfirmed
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