Year of record

2026

1272 verified events recorded in 2026.

1272 events From Jan 1, 2026 To Sep 14, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-07-13Indianapolis Council Committee Advances Data Center Moratorium Through 2027, 10-3 2 srcreported
2026-07-13Santa Clara County + California Sue ICE Over Gilroy Detention Facility; Court Approves Construction Halt Through Sept. 9 3 src
Santa Clara County · State of California · ICE
reported
2026-07-12GENIUS Act's July 18 Deadline Looms: Banks Poised to Enter Stablecoin Market as Trump's WLFI Conflict Intensifies 2 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · World Liberty Financial
confirmed
2026-07-12McConnell Discloses Mid-June Fall Caused Weeks-Long Hospitalization, Cites Post-Polio Condition 3 src
Mitch McConnell
confirmed
2026-07-11DHS Lets the INA 244(b)(3)(C) Determination Deadline Pass for El Salvador TPS, Leaving Termination and Automatic Extension in Conflict 5 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Supreme Court of the United States
disputed
2026-07-11Missoula County, MT Adopts Temporary Moratorium on New or Expanding Data Centers 2 srcreported
2026-07-11OSINT Investigation Documents ICE Using Vehicle-Containment Tactics Designed for Violent Felons in Routine Civil Stops 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Renee Nicole Good
reported
2026-07-11Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71; SC Governor to Appoint Graham's Sister to Hold Seat 3 src
Lindsey Graham
confirmed
2026-07-105th Circuit En Banc Vacates Panel Ruling, Reinstates Mandatory No-Bond Detention 3 src
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · ICE
reported
2026-07-10Commerce Eases UAE MGX Export Controls Weeks After Tahnoon's $500M World Liberty Financial Stake Disclosed 3 src
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed · MGX · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren
reported
2026-07-10Federal Judge Orders Washington State Health Inspectors Into Tacoma GEO Group ICE Facility 1 src
GEO Group
confirmed
2026-07-10FEMA Notice of Funding Opportunity Conditions Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSP/UASI) Funding on Election-Rule Changes, Threatens 20% Withholding 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · Donald Trump
reported
2026-07-10National Land Developers Sues Andover Township, NJ Over Data-Center Ban Adopted Five Days After a Standards Ordinance 4 srcconfirmed
2026-07-10Nevada Federal Judge Rules ICE Is 'Rebelling' Against Court Order, Forces Release of 17 Detainees 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-10Retired Federal Judges Launch 'Justice in Motion' Bus Tour, Drawing Comparison to Post-PiS Poland 2 srcreported
2026-07-10Trump Fires Remaining Election Assistance Commission Members Nine Days After Humphrey's Executor Overturned 2 src
Donald Trump · Election Assistance Commission
confirmed
2026-07-09Bipartisan Congress Investigates FBI Director Kash Patel Over Jet Junkets, BMW Fleet, and Undisclosed Stock 2 src
Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · Jamie Raskin · Dick Durbin
confirmed
2026-07-09Board of Peace Narrows Gaza Reconstruction to Single Rafah Pilot Camp — From $50B Master Plan to Portable Cabins for 50,000 3 src
Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff
confirmed
2026-07-09DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act, Extending Federal Anti-Sanctuary Campaign to 21 States 3 src
Department of Justice · Anthony Brown · Maryland
reported
2026-07-09Fed Chair Warsh Appoints a16z's Marc Andreessen to Co-Lead AI Productivity Task Force 2 src
Kevin Warsh · Marc Andreessen · Federal Reserve
confirmed
2026-07-09GEO Group Wins $528.6M ICE Contract to Reopen Shuttered Hudson, CO Prison as Big Horn Detention Facility 7 src
GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-07-09ICE Builds New Hard-Sided Facility at Batavia, NY After State Bans County Jail Detentions 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-09ICE Posts $10B In-House Detention Construction Solicitation, Moving Off the Navy WEXMAC Vehicle After Senate Pressure 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Elizabeth Warren · +1
confirmed
2026-07-09Trenton, OH City Council Approves 15-Year 75% Tax Abatement for Prologis 250 MW Data Center Campus 3 srcreported
2026-07-09Trump Fires Top Election Assistance Commission Staff as SAVE Act 'Backdoor' Implementation Advances 1 src
Donald Trump · Election Assistance Commission
reported
2026-07-09US Government's Pre-Release Authority Over Frontier AI Becomes Operational; OpenAI's Equity-Stake Proposal Advances in Parallel 1 src
OpenAI · Anthropic · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-07-08Clearview AI Pursues FedRAMP Clearance as CBP Expands Facial Recognition to All Non-US Travelers 2 src
Clearview AI · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
confirmed
2026-07-08Lakeland FL 'Project Swan' AI Data Center Draws Bipartisan Opposition, Ratepayer Concerns 1 srcconfirmed
2026-07-08Sarasota County, FL Commissioners Direct Staff to Draft 12-Month Hyperscale Data Center Freeze, No Carveout, After Informal XF Group Inquiry 4 srcconfirmed
2026-07-08Trump Financial Disclosure Shows $1.4B in Crypto Gains; House Judiciary Democrats Document Foreign Pay-to-Play Pipeline 3 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · House Judiciary Committee Democrats
reported
2026-07-07Bell County, TX Residents Demand End to Meta Data Center Tax Abatements 1 src
Meta
confirmed
2026-07-07DeKalb County GA Extends Data Center Moratorium Through March 2027 After Rejecting Industry-Backed Regulations 2 srcconfirmed
2026-07-07DOJ Threatens Criminal Prosecution of Election Officials in All 50 States, Deploys Monitors to Democratic Jurisdictions 2 src
Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-07-07Douglas County GA Votes 4-1 to Block EdgeConneX's 700-Acre Data Center Campus — Second Denial in Seven Months 2 srcconfirmed
2026-07-07ICE Kills Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; Agency's Self-Defense Account Collapses Under Witness and Medical Evidence 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-07-07NSPM-7 Operationalized: Local Police Build Antifa Files via Fusion Centers as FBI Offers $200K to Informant-ize Texas Activist 1 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-07Oregon PUC Unanimously Approves PGE Large-Load Rates: Data Centers Up 29.7%, All Other Classes Down 3 src
Oregon Public Utility Commission · Portland General Electric
confirmed
2026-07-06David Streever Sues DHS Secretary Mullin Over ICE 'Warning Notice' Served on His Wife for a Critical Email — Same-Day Second Notice to Syracuse's Paigelynne Gonyea, Two Documented Instances 9 src
Markwayne Mullin · Todd Lyons · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-06Estancia, NM Declares Water Emergency; CoreCivic's Torrance County Detention Facility Is the Town's Biggest Water Customer 3 src
CoreCivic
confirmed
2026-07-06Nashville Mayor Files Eminent Domain to Block DC Blox Data Center Next to City Zoo 2 src
DC Blox
confirmed
2026-07-06Peña López Family Sues US, ICE, GEO Group, and CoreCivic Over Alleged Beating and Disability-Rights Violations at Two Kern County ICE Facilities 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-07-06Prince George's County MD Council Passes 2-Year Data Center Moratorium 1 srcconfirmed
2026-07-06ProPublica: Deportations of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors Have Tripled Under Trump 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-07-04DHS Marks OBBB Year One: $165B Doubled ICE's Force and Added 80,000 Beds; Oversight Has Not Scaled to Match 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-07-04No Kings Stages Nationwide July 4 Demonstrations Linking ICE Enforcement, Court Rulings, and Democratic Erosion 3 src
No Kings Coalition · Women's March
confirmed
2026-07-03AI Governance Fractures: EU AI Act Enforceable Aug 2 as 19 US State Laws Pass in Two Weeks and Trump EO Guts Federal Oversight 2 src
European Commission · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-07-03ProPublica: Camp East Montana Repeatedly Failed Detainee in Mental Health Crisis Before His Death 2 src
ICE · Camp East Montana
confirmed
2026-07-03The Intercept Documents Trump DOJ's Pattern of Charging Protesters as Terrorists 2 src
Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed
2026-07-025th Circuit Rules Due Process Requires Bond Hearings After 90 Days in ICE Detention, Deepening Circuit Split 3 src
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-07-02DHS Buys CoreCivic's Two Largest CA Detention Centers for $1.5B, Keeps CoreCivic as Operator, Sidesteps Federal Oversight 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · CoreCivic
confirmed
2026-07-02Federal Judge Hears Arguments on Howard County MD's Permit Revocation for Elkridge ICE Warehouse Conversion 2 src
Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-07-02OpenAI Proposes 5% U.S. Government Equity Stake (~$42.6B) as Sovereign-Wealth Vehicle 3 src
OpenAI · Donald Trump
reported
2026-07-02ProPublica: Supreme Court's October 2025 Term First to Decide More Cases by Shadow Docket Than Argued Opinion 2 src
Supreme Court of the United States · ProPublica
confirmed
2026-07-02Santa Fe County NM Passes Unanimous 18-Month Data Center Moratorium at 1 MW Threshold 1 srcconfirmed
2026-07-01Arizona AG Wins Binding Pause on Surprise, AZ Warehouse-to-ICE-Detention Conversion Pending Environmental Review 2 src
Kris Mayes · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GardaWorld Federal Services
confirmed
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
2026-07-01Otero County NM Renews 5-Year ICE Detention Contract Through 2031, Defying New Mexico's Statewide Detention Ban 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-07-01Washington Post Investigation Documents ICE's Full Surveillance Stack Deployed Against Both Immigrants and US-Citizen Protesters 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Clearview AI
confirmed
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
2026-06-30US Magistrate Certifies Gámez Salas Extraditable to Chile — Extradition Finding, Not a US Criminal Charge or Guilt Determination 3 src confirmed
2026-06-30Washington County MD Votes 4-1 for 12-Month Data Center Moratorium Over Infrastructure Cost-Shift Concerns 1 srcconfirmed
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 · Jennifer Davenport · +1
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
2026-06-28Leaked Draft Resolution Reveals Board of Peace Seeking Sweeping Legal Immunity in Gaza 3 src
Donald Trump
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
2026-06-26East Fishkill NY Adopts a Three-Year Data-Center Moratorium to 2029; the Treetop Proposal That Triggered It Leaves the NYISO Queue 2 srcconfirmed
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
Indira Talwani · 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
2026-06-25Snohomish County WA Council Unanimously Approves Emergency 6-Month Data Center Moratorium 3 srcconfirmed
2026-06-25Supreme Court (Mullin v. Doe, 6-3) Lets Trump End Haitian and Syrian TPS, Holds Terminations Shielded from Judicial Review 6 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
David Steiner · United States Postal Service · 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