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What Happened Today – March 9, 2026

Live Nation Entertainment headquarters building at 9348 Civic Center Drive in Beverly Hills, California

Live Nation Entertainment's Beverly Hills headquarters, where the company secured a DOJ settlement mid-trial that blindsided state co-plaintiffs and drew a rebuke from the judge for disrespecting the court. (Photo by Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Running a prison or winning a billion dollar drone contract no longer requires experience. ICE just awarded $426 million to two firms with little or no detention experience to convert warehouses into large-scale holding centers. Neither has ever run an ICE facility, and they’ll now be responsible for thousands of detained migrants as part of … Read more

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