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
2026-10-04Trump Confirms Intelligence Director Jay Clayton as Head of New White House AI Task Force 2 src
Donald Trump · Jay Clayton · David Sacks
confirmed
2026-10-03NYT Reports Russia-Ukraine Talks Expanded to a ~$20B Lukoil Foreign-Assets Sale; Boehly-Led Bid Includes Two Middle Eastern Groups With Prior Kushner/Witkoff-Family Business Ties; NYT Found No Indication Either Envoy Profits Personally 3 src
Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · Vladimir Putin · Kirill Dmitriev · +1
reported
2026-10-02Draft Agreement Calls Alexandria 528-Bed Family Facility ICE Detention While Its Pamphlet Says Non-Detained 1 src
ICE · National Immigration Project
confirmed
2026-10-02Federal Judge Enjoins Border Wall Construction in Texas' Big Bend Sector and Stays the Big Bend Waivers 5 src
Center for Biological Diversity · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-10-02Hilton v. Mullin PI Motion Made Public: HSI Agent Created ICM Records on Six Maine ICE Observers 6 src
Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Palantir · Protect Democracy · +1
confirmed
2026-10-02ICE Official Tells Attorney Whipple Re-Arrests Date to May as Cortez Is Released for Three Minutes 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-02Judge Trenga Denies Federal Defendants' Motion to Clarify the CDLIS Injunction, Calling Its Scope "Clear on Its Face" 2 src
Anthony J. Trenga · Department of Transportation · Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators
confirmed
2026-10-02Kaplan Amended Final Judgment on Federal Plaza Holding Rooms Grants Logbook Inspection, Not the Sworn-Compliance Reporting Plaintiff Sought 3 src
Lewis A. Kaplan · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-02Michigan Daily Reports $200-a-Head Group-Chat Offer to Boo El-Sayed in Flint, Calls America Next the PAC Financing It 1 src
Abdul El-Sayed
confirmed
2026-10-02NAACP Sues Dhillon in D.D.C. Under FOIA and Mandamus for Records on DOJ Election Monitors, Including Their "Legal Authority, If Any" 3 src
NAACP · Harmeet Dhillon · Civil Rights Division · Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan
confirmed
2026-10-02Nine Somali Men, Three of Them Minnesotans, Deported From Guantanamo to Somalia 1 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-10-02Polling-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
2026-10-02San Antonio Mayor Backs Legal Action to Halt Conversion of East Side Warehouse Into an ICE Processing Center 4 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-10-02Vance Chairs Camp David National Security Meeting on Iran War as Talks Stall and a Third Carrier Group Heads to the Region 2 src
JD Vance · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · Steve Witkoff · +4
confirmed
2026-10-01Brennan 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
2026-10-01DOJ Files a Suit Against Maryland and Prince George's and Montgomery Counties Over Federal-Agent Mask and ID Laws 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · State of Maryland · Anthony G. Brown
confirmed
2026-10-01Family 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
2026-10-01Federal Panel Dismisses Sherman v. Hargett: Memphis Vote-Dilution Count With Prejudice for Failure to Plead Discriminatory Purpose, First Amendment Count Without Prejudice as a Political Question (M.D. Tenn.) 1 srcconfirmed
2026-10-01ICE'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
2026-10-01Jindal-Founded America Next Reports $250,000 'Canvassing and Influencer Marketing' Spend Against El-Sayed, Paid to a Vendor at Its Own Baton Rouge Suite 5 src
Abdul El-Sayed
confirmed
2026-10-01Michigan PSC Order Holds DTE-Google 80% Minimum Billing Demand, Rejects AG Nessel's 90% and 20-Year Termination Asks 2 src
Michigan Public Service Commission · Google · Dana Nessel
confirmed
2026-10-01S.D.N.Y. Judgment Declares ICE's 2025 Courthouse Arrest Policy Arbitrary and Capricious, Vacating Its Rescission of 2021 Limits at Immigration Courts 3 src
David J. Venturella · ACLU
confirmed
2026-10-01Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha on Detention Without Bond Hearings 5 src
Supreme Court of the United States
confirmed
2026-10-01Tina Peters' lawyer Peter Ticktin tells Joe Oltmann her plan is to 'grab' ballots and hand-recount, and that Trump 'is not going to relinquish control again' in a 'nightmare' scenario 4 src
Peter Ticktin · Tina Peters · Donald Trump · Ed Martin
reported
2026-10-01Wayne 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
2026-09-30CSIS Commentary on Russia-Iran Intelligence Cooperation and the Targeting of U.S. Forces 1 src
Russia · Iran
reported
2026-09-30DOJ 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
2026-09-30DOJ Files Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Minnesota Judges Schiltz and Tunheim Over New York Times Interviews, Asks for Their Recusal from DHS Cases 2 src
Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter
reported
2026-09-30FBI Posts a Sole-Source Justification Naming UFC for Agent Combat Training (Notice of Intent, Not an Award) 2 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel
confirmed
2026-09-30FTC Confirms It Is Investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and Other AI Firms Over Consumer Risk; Says the Probe Opened This Summer 4 src
Federal Trade Commission · Andrew Ferguson · Anthropic · OpenAI
reported
2026-09-30Georgia Judge Dismisses DOJ Voter Data Lawsuit, Trump Administration's 26th Loss 2 src
DOJ · Brad Raffensperger
confirmed
2026-09-30GSA and Cushman & Wakefield Begin Marketing the Seven Offloaded ICE Warehouses, Bids Starting at $114 Per Square Foot, About $600 Million 1 src
General Services Administration · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-30GSA Order to Amazon Web Services Gets $1,232,840 Funding Modification Whose Description Reads "INCLUDING TTS AMERICA.GOV" 2 src
General Services Administration · Amazon Web Services
reported
2026-09-30ICE ERO Memo Limits Vehicle Stops to Trained Officers and Bars Pursuits, as Reported; Text Not Public 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-09-30Judge Martínez-Olguín Enters Paramount-WBD Consent Decree: Appointee-Run News Editorial Independence Board, Colorado and Washington Decline Section III.D 4 src
Araceli Martínez-Olguín · Rob Bonta · David Ellison
confirmed
2026-09-30Kurt Olsen Steps Off DOJ's Florida "Grand Conspiracy" Case but Stays on DOJ Payroll; Blanche Says He "Has Not Resigned" 2 src
Todd Blanche · Joseph DiGenova · Maria Medetis Long
confirmed
2026-09-30Newsom Signs SB 947 No Robo Bosses Act, Barring Employer Reliance Solely on Automated Systems to Fire or Discipline 3 src
Gavin Newsom
confirmed
2026-09-30Peter Ticktin says 'there would have to be martial law' in 'another rigged election' on a Steve Stern-hosted Rumble call for election activists, later reported by Axios 5 src
Peter Ticktin · Tina Peters · Cleta Mitchell
reported
2026-09-30Tennessee's attempt to execute Christa Pike by pentobarbital fails; she survives two doses; Gov. Lee pauses 2026 executions and orders a third-party review 3 src
Bill Lee
reported
2026-09-30Treasury Begins Mailing $500 'Obamacare Refund' Checks With a Trump Letter to More Than 950,000 HealthCare.gov Enrollees 4 src
Department of the Treasury · Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · White House
confirmed
2026-09-30Treasury Issues a GENIUS Act Interim Final Rule on State-Certification Review, Effective Immediately 3 src
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network · Office of Foreign Assets Control · Andrea Gacki
confirmed
2026-09-30Trump Announces Korean Investment of More Than $50 Billion in Alaska LNG With Sullivan Present; Seoul Says Nothing Has Been Decided and the Joint Fact Sheet Names No Amount 4 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick
confirmed
2026-09-29America Next Reported $250,000 in Canvassing and Influencer Spending Against El-Sayed 1 srcreported
2026-09-29California 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
2026-09-29Capitol-Attack Defendants Bring Federal Tort Claims Act Complaints Against the United States in D.D.C. 5 src
Todd Blanche · Peter Ticktin
confirmed
2026-09-29DOJ Charges Garces Perez With Assaulting a Federal Officer; DHS's Official Account of the Stop and CBP One Dispute Become Public 6 src
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-09-29EO 14432 Orders GSA, with NDS and OMB, to Make America.gov the Single Point of Entry for Federal Services and Run It on Login.gov 2 src
Donald Trump · General Services Administration · National Design Studio · Office of Management and Budget
confirmed
2026-09-29EO 14434 Orders the Executive Branch to Say Super Intelligence and SI Instead of AI 3 src
Donald Trump · Office of Science and Technology Policy
confirmed
2026-09-29FERC Accepts PJM Backstop Procurement for Filing, Suspends It Five Months to Feb. 28, 2027 and Sets a Paper Hearing on Cost Allocation, Exit Rules and Collateral 4 src
PJM Interconnection · Laura Swett
confirmed
2026-09-29Full D.C. Circuit Hears DOJ's Bid to Block Judge Boasberg's Criminal Contempt Probe Over the El Salvador Deportations; No Ruling 1 src
James Boasberg · Kristi Noem
confirmed
2026-09-29GAO Says Agencies Could Not or Would Not Show What Their DOGE Teams Accessed or Which Controls Applied 1 src
Government Accountability Office · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Department of Education · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3
reported
2026-09-29ICE Turn-key Detention RFP Auto-Archived on SAM.gov With No Award Notice 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
reported
2026-09-29Intercept Investigation: More Than 25,000 People Deported by DHS to Third Countries Under Trump 1 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-09-29Julian Curo-Churata Dies After Medical Emergency at Richwood Correctional Center in ICE Custody 1 src
ICE · Austin Kocher
confirmed
2026-09-29Mercer County, Kentucky Fiscal Court Unanimously Rejects Zoning That Would Have Allowed Hyperscale Data Centers Beside Coal Plant 2 srcconfirmed
2026-09-29Minnesota Truth Council Concludes Public Testimony Phase on Operation Metro Surge 1 srcconfirmed
2026-09-29MTC Signs $355M+ ICE Detention Contract to Reopen Marana Prison as 775-Bed Facility 2 src
Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · ICE · DHS
confirmed
2026-09-29Mullin Letter on Batavia Soft-Sided Facility: $8,779,275 First-Year Cost; ICE Sole-Source Memo Approves $16,703,366.80 Over Two Years 6 src
DHS · ICE · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-09-29National Design Studio Launches America.gov at Mellon Auditorium Event: Trump Names Coristine Lead Engineer, Thanks Arnell and Musk 6 src
Donald Trump · Joe Gebbia · Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · +1
confirmed
2026-09-29Supreme 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
2026-09-29Tim Dunn-Funded Super PAC Jefferson Rising Reports $220,139 in SparkFire SMS Messaging Opposing Talarico; Same Vendor Sits in the Clock Tower X Israel Contract Chain 3 src
James Talarico
reported
2026-09-29Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Agencies to Replace 'Artificial Intelligence' With 'Super Intelligence' 5 src
Donald Trump · White House
confirmed
2026-09-29Valentina Galvis Sues ICE Contractor MVM Inc. and Sonesta Over Hotel Detention 2 src
MVM Inc.
confirmed
2026-09-28Ambassador Perdue Says Trump Asked Xi if He Would Buy U.S. Arms; State Department Says No Offer or Plan, and Trump Says He Did Not Discuss It 1 src
Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · U.S. Department of State
reported
2026-09-28DHS OIG Audit: ICE Did Not Adequately Plan, Procure, and Monitor Detention Space Contracts Valued at Almost $10 Billion 1 src
DHS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-28DOJ Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas Involving 12 Individuals for Election Crimes 1 src
Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service
reported
2026-09-28DOJ Moves to Dismiss or Transfer Minnesota's Evidence-Access Suit, Arguing the State Skipped Touhy Procedure and Has No Tenth Amendment Right to Federal Investigative Files 1 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Mary Moriarty (Hennepin County Attorney) · Drew Evans (BCA Superintendent) · +1
confirmed
2026-09-28In 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
2026-09-28In California Nurses v. Mullin, the Government Says HSI Chose to Surge Voter-Fraud Investigations After USCIS Leads 2 src
Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Markwayne Mullin
reported
2026-09-28Judge Ali Vacates FEMA's Election Conditions and 20% Holdback on Homeland Security Grants in Nashville v. DHS 2 src
Federal Emergency Management Agency · Department of Homeland Security · Judge Amir H. Ali
confirmed
2026-09-28San Antonio East Side Opponents Press City to Challenge Planned $66.1M ICE Detention Center 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-09-28Texas 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 · Harris County District Attorney · Sean Teare
confirmed
2026-09-28Trump Announces $15 Billion Mesabi Metallics Steel Plant for Lee County, Iowa; Lutnick Says 'This Deal Is Done'; Iowa Legislature Then Approves $1.36 Billion in Incentives 3 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Kim Reynolds
confirmed
2026-09-27ICE 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
2026-09-27Prairieland Defense Says Withheld Bullet-Ricochet Evidence Would Undermine Attempted-Murder Charge Against Song 1 src
Benjamin Song
confirmed
2026-09-26Austin City Council Candidate Misael Ramos Arrested on Riot Charge Tied to ICE-Shooting Protest 3 srcconfirmed
2026-09-26Denver'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
2026-09-26DHS 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
2026-09-25Cattle 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
2026-09-25DHS Moves to Lift the Abeyance and Have the Court Decide the States' Motion to Quash the AAMVA Subpoena 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · Anthony J. Trenga · +1
confirmed
2026-09-25Federal 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
2026-09-25Hester Peirce Confirms She Will Leave the SEC October 2, Leaving Two Republican Commissioners and a Rewritten Quorum Rule 2 src
Hester Peirce · Paul Atkins · Mark Uyeda · Securities and Exchange Commission
confirmed
2026-09-25ICE 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
2026-09-25ICE Re-Arrests Alejandro in the Whipple Building After a Judge Ordered His Release on Sept. 22 2 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-09-25ICE Signs a $1,304,296 Not-Competed Purchase Order With RADeCO for Customized Spot Quadruped Robots; The Vendor Is a Boston Dynamics Distributor, Not Boston Dynamics 3 srcconfirmed
2026-09-25Judge Xinis Orders 30 Days' Notice Before DHS Activates State Citizenship Lists Portal 4 src
Paula Xinis · Electronic Privacy Information Center · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-09-25OpenAI 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
2026-09-25Sant 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
2026-09-25Supreme Court Stays Federal Orders Requiring Missouri's 2025 Map for a Third Time in Three Weeks, Leaving the 2022 Map in Place Under State Law 4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh
confirmed
2026-09-25Supreme Court, 6-3, Lifts Block on Trump's Expanded SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks 7 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · +1
reported
2026-09-25Trump Signs FY2027 Refugee Determination: Up to 17,500, "Primarily" Afrikaners Under EO 14204 (Published Oct. 2) 2 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State
confirmed
2026-09-25White House Bars CNN From Air Force One TV Pool Seat for Tennessee Trip in Friday-Night Schedule Note; Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC Decline to Fill It 4 src
CNN · Politico · MS NOW · Donald Trump · +6
confirmed
2026-09-24Amnesty International Calls for ICE Abolition for the First Time, Citing Killings in Chicago and Minneapolis 5 src
Amnesty International · Alex Pretti · Renee Good
confirmed
2026-09-24Bloomberg: Chinese Authorities Reportedly Hold an F-35 Cockpit Canopy and Weapons Bay Door From a UPS Shipment Diverted to Hong Kong; Australia Says No Sensitive Parts Were Aboard 1 src
Lockheed Martin
reported
2026-09-24DOJ Announces Four Aliens Charged With Election Fraud in Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Investigated by HSI 2 src
Department of Justice · Homeland Security Investigations
reported
2026-09-24EOIR 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
2026-09-24Federal Reserve Proposes 1:1 Reserve and Capital Rules for Stablecoin Issuers Under the GENIUS Act 3 src
Federal Reserve Board
confirmed
2026-09-24GAO: DOD Reported ~$68M Obligated for Immigration Detention and $2.85M on Guantanamo Tents Never Used; ICE's Military-Assistance Request Still Active 2 src
Government Accountability Office · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · +1
confirmed
2026-09-24GAO: 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
2026-09-24House Homeland Security Committee Democrats Demand Records, Set Oct. 1 Preservation Deadline Over Garces Perez Shooting 3 src
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez · Bennie G. Thompson · Markwayne Mullin · David Venturella · +1
confirmed