Boston Dynamics stands by ICE’s $1.3 million deal for four of its modified robot dogs after 300-plus employees petition against it.
Meta locks No Kings out of its Instagram accounts at the peak of its day of action, then apologizes for what it calls an automation error.
No Kings movement shifts from street marches to early voting with 2,500-plus events in all 50 states, 17 days before Election Day.
Chicago-area police joined ICE agents’ undercover surveillance of an anti-ICE talk, feeding the conspiracy case against 15 Minnesota activists despite Illinois sanctuary law.
Anti-war protesters interrupt Defense Secretary Hegseth four times in five minutes at an Army panel on his planned four-star autonomous warfare command.
ICE logged 60 encounters with Minneapolis protesters and observers in a secret “Agitator Log” despite its then-director telling Congress “there is no database for protesters.”
ACLU trains volunteer poll observers across South Dakota as a “deterrent” after Trump says he doesn’t “rule anything out” on an election emergency.
Thousands chant “ICE out now” as Springsteen sings for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed by federal agents, at Maryland’s Power to the People festival.
Filing alleges an ICE agent logged Maine ICE watchers’ photos and plates in a Palantir-built database, though ICE told Congress it keeps no protester database.
Satirical group behind the Trump-Epstein statue installs arcade games mocking Trump’s Greenland deal at DC War Memorial and online, shipping one to Greenland’s capital.
Texas troopers arrest Austin City Council candidate while he walks his dog, on a riot charge from protests after immigration agents shot a delivery driver.
Prosecutor in failed case against six Chicago-area ICE protesters retires, saying US Attorney Boutros ordered her to try again after grand jurors rejected it.
Springfield, Missouri, police arrest a woman speaking against Flock cameras at a council meeting, after the mayor blocked public comment on reviewing them.
Hundreds form a human chain around the fenced Kennedy Center as Trump, asked if he will demolish it, says his administration “saved” the “dump.”
Federal judge finds ICE likely violated the First Amendment when agents tracked a Rochester man to three locations over a scathing email calling its director a Nazi.
Federal planning commission led by a Trump appointee advances permanent fencing and gates around Lafayette Square, the protest ground facing the White House, without a permanent fence since the 1800s.
National Park Service fences off swaths of the National Mall to demonstrators and events through Jan. 24 for turf repair, a closure spanning the midterms.
Kennedy Center hauls away Joel Shapiro’s “Blue” sculpture by crane, closing Rock Creek Parkway for 7 rush-hour hours, days after Trump floated demolishing the building.
Homeland Security uses a customs-import law to obtain a Minneapolis journalist’s phone records without court approval, weeks after a judge twice rejected its warrant request.
Federal judge rules unconstitutional the immigration provision Rubio used to deport foreign students for criticizing Israel, in a case won by Stanford’s student newspaper.
Stars and Stripes’ editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Judge blocks Florida International University from punishing students who silently protested campus police working as ICE agents, citing 60 years of precedent.
US sanctions 9 Cuban state firms and detains American citizens returning from Castro centenary events, seizing their phones at the Miami airport.
Volunteer flight tracker documents the 5,000th shackled detainee flown from Minneapolis since November, with records more accurate than any public government count.
Texas police arrest an activist for “tumultuous behavior” at 3 AM, a week after he said “bullshit” at a meeting over cutting polling places.
Fusion centers monitor anti-surveillance TikTok and Instagram accounts and warn police ahead of a national week of protests against license plate readers.
Seven FIU students sue after the university demanded apology videos for a silent anti-ICE protest, withholding their degrees unless they comply.
Kennedy Center must pay musician Chuck Redd $250,000 in legal fees after its retaliatory suit over his canceled Christmas concert protesting Trump’s name.
DOJ brings first known charges against a citizen for giving border agents a duress passcode that wiped his phone during a warrantless airport search.
Good Trouble Lives On rallies open three days of voter registration and civil rights events at hundreds of locations honoring John Lewis.
Anonymous artists install a 10-foot gold Iran War Participation Trophy for Trump on the Mall, honoring his courage to participate regardless of the final score.
Arizona organizers train 250 election observers to respond if National Guard troops or ICE agents show up at polling places during the midterms.
White House weighs new fences across Pennsylvania Avenue that officials could close at will, alongside plans to gate Lafayette Square, the capital’s main protest ground.
Fourteen Minnesota protesters plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges as prosecutors say they need 90 extra days to process 20 terabytes of evidence.
ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.
Washington settles with a man arrested for playing the “Imperial March” behind National Guard troops in 2025, while his claims against the Ohio guardsman proceed.
Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.
Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
Federal prosecutors drop charges against Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester allegedly beaten unconscious and shackled to a hospital bed for five days, the 20th of 36 ICE-surge cases abandoned.
ICE blocks New Jersey Democrats from speaking with Delaney Hall detainees after a dozen prior tours allowed it, requiring 24-hour written notice.
Federal prosecutors indict 15 Minnesota anti-ICE protesters on conspiracy charges that allege no specific act of violence, months after dropping half their earlier surge cases.
No Kings stages a First Amendment concert in New York countering Trump’s 80th-birthday UFC fight card in Washington.
The FBI searches a voting-rights group’s Cleveland offices and seizes staff devices statewide without saying what crime it suspects, five months before the midterm elections.
Trump threatens to take back Washington and run it on a federal basis if Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins Tuesday’s mayoral primary.
A giant 86 47 message surfaces in dead grass on the National Mall days before Trump’s 80th birthday UFC event fills the area with crowds and cameras.
Trump becomes the first sitting president at an NBA Finals game and draws loud boos from the Madison Square Garden crowd.
Brawl erupts at Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center a day after Mayor Baraka pulled city police, with GEO Group guards pepper-spraying protesters.
Judge dismisses the Trump Kennedy Center’s lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd, ruling it retaliation for his objection to Trump’s name.
American Diabetes Association has state troopers remove five doctors from its conference for handing out an editorial from its own journal criticizing Trump’s research cuts.