| 2026-09-24 | Judge Bryan Rules a Step Outside Whipple Followed by Immediate Re-Arrest Is Not "Release," Orders Pablo F. Freed Unconditionally
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Judge Kaplan Issues Permanent Injunction Over ICE Conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, 127-Page Ruling
3 src Lewis A. Kaplan · 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 · +4 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Justice Department Files to Intervene in EU General Court for X and Musk Against the Commission's €120,000,000 DSA Fine (T-114/26, T-121/26)
1 src U.S. Department of Justice · Elon Musk · European Commission | | reported |
| 2026-09-24 | Netanyahu's UN General Assembly Speech Addresses NYC Mayor Mamdani Directly and Cites Streamer Hasan Piker's 2019 '9/11' Remark as Proof of Mamdani's Friends
4 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Zohran Mamdani · Hasan Piker | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | NYT Publishes Audio of Paxton Telling Donors Trump's Dallas Convention 'Dropped Our Numbers'
2 src Ken Paxton · Donald Trump · James Talarico | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-24 | Xi Jinping State Visit Opens at White House; Trump Says He and Xi Have Forged a Friendship
1 src Donald Trump · Xi Jinping | | reported |
| 2026-09-23 | Democracy Docket Reports Judge Kollar-Kotelly Rejected DOJ's Bid to Delay Its Answer in the DNC FOIA Suit Over Plans to Seize Ballots
2 src Department of Justice · Democratic National Committee · Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · Paula Xinis | | 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 · Democratic Governors Association · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries · +1 | | 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 | Iowa Court Dismisses With Prejudice Trump's Suit Over the Selzer/Des Moines Register Poll, Holding the Poll Is Fully Protected Political Speech
2 src Donald Trump | | 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 | Judge Vargas Dismisses States' Treasury DOGE Suit as Moot After DOGE Expired
3 src U.S. Department of the Treasury · Scott Bessent |
| reported |
| 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 | Nevada Official Tells DHS 'Our Records Indicate That They Were Citizens' for 185 Flagged Voters
2 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | ODIHR and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly State the U.S. Has Not Invited the OSCE to Observe the 2026 Midterms, the First U.S. Federal Elections Since 2002 Without an Invitation
3 src United States | | confirmed |
| 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 | Reuters Review: DOJ Has Charged About 20 People This Month Under the "Voting by Aliens" Statute, Roughly 13% of All Prosecutions Under It; DOJ Spokesperson Counts 32 in Four Weeks
1 src Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Ken Paxton · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Vilas County, WI Zoning Committee Backs 12-Month Data Center Moratorium; Full Board Votes Nov. 10
1 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Votebeat: Texas Counties Receiving Tens of Thousands of Unprocessed Voter Registration Applications After a DPS Error, Some Dating to October 2025
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-09-22 | AP: Administration Tells Congress It Plans a 17,500 Refugee Limit for FY2027, Mostly White South Africans; Democrats Press Mullin at the Annual Consultation
4 src U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · Jamie Raskin · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Clearfield County Approves Six-Month Moshannon ICE Extension 2-1, Citing School Tax Base and Its Own Oversight
4 src Clearfield County Board of Commissioners · 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 · Sean M. Curran · CNN · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Fifteen Shield of the Americas Governments Endorse Joint Statement Targeting 24 Designated Terrorist Organizations With Asset Freezes and Visa Bans
1 src Marco Rubio · Kristi Noem | | reported |
| 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 | Hegseth Memo Orders Cyber Command and Defense Intelligence Enterprise to Counter Foreign Threats to the Midterms
2 src Pete Hegseth · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · +1 | | 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 | North Port FL Adopts 18-Month Data-Center Moratorium 3-2 on Second Reading; Pending Application Can Keep Moving Through Review
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-22 | Pima County AZ Supervisors Vote 3-2 for 120-Day Data Center Moratorium Under Resolution 2026-56
7 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 of Passport Records Routine Use for Voter-Eligibility Verification
1 src Department of State · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 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 · Susan Wiles · Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. · +1 | | 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 |
| 2026-09-21 | Graphika Publishes Its Own Assessment That Operation Overload and the Prigozhin-Founded R-FBI Produced Fake Videos Against US Midterm Candidates
1 src Graphika | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | Oversight Democrats' Letters: ICE Employees Allege Miramar Facility, Rated Capacity 56, Was Detaining Up to 342 People in One Day
7 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Robert Garcia · Bennie G. Thompson · Southern Poverty Law Center | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-21 | Residents and One Hundred Miles Sue Effingham County Development Authority Over Closed-Door OpenAI Data Center Deal
3 src OpenAI | | reported |
| 2026-09-21 | Texas Gov. Abbott Directs TCEQ to Halt All Data Center Permits Until ERCOT and TWDB Audits Are Complete
2 src Greg Abbott · ERCOT · Public Utility Commission of Texas | | 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 | CBP Signs $20 Million 'National Media Campaign' Order With LMD Agency; 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' Trump Ads Follow
5 src Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security · White House | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-20 | GardaWorld's Florence, AZ Award Is a Construction IDIQ With a Potential Value of $1,200,000,000 and $0 Obligated; Press Reported a $1.2 Billion Contract
7 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 | Kocher Digest: 10,255 of 10,258 FY2026 Refugee Admissions Through July 31 Were From South Africa (99.97%); State Department Tables Record Nationality, and PD 2025-13 Allocates 'Primarily' to Afrikaners and Other Victims of Discrimination
7 src U.S. Department of State · Donald Trump · Austin Kocher | | 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 | 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 | Defendants' Motion to Dismiss in Hilton Says an HSI Case-Management Record on a Maine Observer Led to Her March 2026 Border Stop
1 src Homeland Security Investigations · Customs and Border Protection · Markwayne Mullin | | 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 | ICE Posts ERO ONE RFI for About 142 Contract Intelligence Research Specialists
2 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Judge Lamberth Orders USAGM to Produce the Authority Behind Its Current Operations and Brief Whether the VOA Vacatur Is Moot; Agency Answers in Court Filing With Its FY2026 Program Plan
2 src Voice of America | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Judge Menendez Dismisses Tincher v. Mullin Observer-Rights Suit Without Prejudice for Lack of Standing After Operation Metro Surge Ends
1 src Markwayne Mullin · Tom Homan · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Trump Signs Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (H.R. 5334, Pub. L. 119-111): Duties on Russian Goods, Waiver by Certification, Congressional Review Only for Termination
3 src | | confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2026-09-18 | Washington Post: Six Officials Say Iran War Military Deaths Are at Least 22 or 23, Against 18 in the Pentagon Database
1 src U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth | | reported |
| 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 | Judge Trenga Preliminarily Enjoins AAMVA From Transferring States' CDLIS Master Pointer Records to DOT, FMCSA "or Any Other Agency" in Illinois v. DOT
3 src Anthony J. Trenga · Department of Transportation · Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration · American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators · +2 | | confirmed |
| 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 | Michigan v. DHS (Romulus Warehouse): Court Stays the Case a Second Time, Sixty Days, While DHS Completes the GSA Excess Process
2 src State of Michigan · Department of Homeland Security · General Services Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | Politico Reports Democratic Consultants Privately Telling Battleground Candidates Not to Go Hard on AI
1 src Leading the Future · Abdul El-Sayed · Pramila Jayapal · Anthropic · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-17 | Scanlon and Six PA House Democrats Demand Moshannon Invoices From ICE, GEO and Clearfield County Five Days Before the Extension Vote
2 src Clearfield County Board of Commissioners · GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | 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 | DOJ Sent Five Grand Jury Subpoenas for San Diego County Voter Records Between June 1 and Sept. 16, Registrar Says
2 src U.S. Department of Justice · Homeland Security Investigations | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-16 | Duke's Data-Center Cost Projections Blacked Out of the Consumer Brief Challenging Them, Under Duke's Pending Confidentiality Requests
5 src Florida Public Service Commission · Duke Energy Florida · Earthjustice | | reported |
| 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 | Leading the Future Announces $2 Million in General-Election Ads for Four Republican Senate Candidates
2 src Leading the Future · Darline Graham · Greg Brockman · Andreessen Horowitz | | 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 | Ballard Partners Registers to Lobby for Argentine-Owned Aldyl Energia on "Venezuelan Operations"; Former Waltz Chief of Staff Micah Ketchel Listed as Lobbyist
3 src Ballard Partners · Brian Ballard · Mike Waltz | | reported |
| 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 · Office of Legal Counsel | | 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 | Loudoun Supervisors Vote to Advance a Pause on Data Center Applications as County Attorney Says a Moratorium Is Not Legal
2 src Loudoun County Board of Supervisors · Juli Briskman | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | NJ Attorney General Reviewing Claims ICE Used the Roxbury Warehouse, a Site Covered by a May 12 Court-Ordered Stipulation Limiting Conversion Activity
5 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 |
| 2026-09-15 | Texas SOS Refers 117 Cases to the AG and Concedes 578 of 2,724 SAVE-Flagged Voters Proved Citizenship
1 src Texas Secretary of State | | 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 |
| 2026-09-14 | Former DHS Official Warns SAVE Is Becoming a Centralized Federal Database Deciding Voter Eligibility
4 src Miles Taylor · Department of Homeland Security · Texas Secretary of State | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | OPM Director Kupor Tells Benny Johnson He Wants More Coristine-Type Hires
3 src Scott Kupor · Edward Coristine · Benny Johnson · Office of Personnel Management | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | ProPublica: IBA president Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Trump Jr.'s May 2026 Bahamas wedding-weekend celebrations; repayment later asserted by Trump, unevidenced
6 src Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Robert Garcia | | reported |
| 2026-09-14 | Senators Release Anonymous Whistleblower Disclosure on USCIS Review of Voter Data: State-Law Concerns, Twelve-Minute Quota
2 src DHS · Democracy Defenders Fund · Chuck Schumer · Alex Padilla | | reported |
| 2026-09-14 | St. Joseph County Council Delays Microsoft Data-Center TIF Expansion Vote to September 22
3 src Microsoft | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules 7-2 for the 2026 Midterms, Kavanaugh Resting It on Timing Rather Than Authority
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Brett Kavanaugh · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-14 | Twenty-Two States Sue to Block Trump's Expanded Public Charge Rule Four Days Before It Takes Effect
3 src Rob Bonta · California Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-13 | Homan on Fox News: Can't 'Comment on an Ongoing Criminal Investigation' of Omar, 'I Know Things Are Going On'; 'Let HSI Continue'
2 src Ilhan Omar | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-13 | Judge Nichols Reverses Himself and Enjoins the USPS Mail-Ballot Rule, Holding the Postal Reorganization Act Gives USPS No Such Authority
1 src United States Postal Service · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Donald Trump | | reported |
| 2026-09-12 | Judge Lee Grants Preliminary Injunction Freezing Gilroy ICE Facility Construction on NEPA Grounds
4 src Rob Bonta · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · General Services Administration | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-12 | Texas PAC Booked $26.9 Million Against Talarico in One Day, Then $28.3 Million on Sept 29 and $32.4 Million on Oct 20
1 src | | reported |
| 2026-09-11 | D.C. Circuit vacates DOE's Campbell coal-plant emergency order; DOE seeks rehearing en banc
3 src Department of Energy | | reported |
| 2026-09-11 | DHS OIG Publishes Its May 2025 Krome Inspection: 1,102 Detainees Against a Maximum Capacity of 882, 25 Percent Over
1 src DHS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Akima Global Services | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-11 | DHS OIG Publishes Its Unannounced Inspection of Alligator Alcatraz: 79 Detainees Held in Metal Enclosures of About 18 Square Feet
1 src DHS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Florida Division of Emergency Management | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-11 | DHS Secretary Mullin to Benny Johnson: Omar Investigation 'Ongoing,' 'Something's Going to Happen,' 'We Know That She Married Her Brother'
2 src Ilhan Omar | | confirmed |