DHS sends hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord demanding names and personal data of Americans who criticize or track ICE agents online.
Two top RFK Jr. aides leave HHS in a White House-driven shakeup to sharpen health messaging ahead of midterm elections, including the acting CDC director who rarely visited the agency.
State Department orders roughly 1,400 nonprofit public libraries to stop processing passport applications, threatening closures and layoffs in states where most libraries are nonprofit entities.
Virginia Supreme Court allows Democrats to hold an April 21 special election on a proposed 10D-1R congressional map while a legal challenge to the redistricting effort continues.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion to convert warehouses into eight large-scale detention centers and 16 processing sites, expanding capacity to 92,600 beds using funds from the OBBBA.
ICE places two agents on administrative leave for lying under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one week after an agent killed Renee Good in the same city.
Two Washington golfers sue to block Trump’s overhaul of a century-old public golf course where crews are dumping White House demolition debris on historic parkland.
Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI in the military operation to capture Maduro despite the company’s policy prohibiting use of its tools to facilitate violence.
Trump tells Fort Bragg soldiers “we are feared” while praising the Maduro capture and outlining plans for U.S. oil companies to rebuild Venezuela’s energy industry.
U.S. military kills three more people in Caribbean boat attack, bringing the death toll from at least 38 operations since September to 133.
Trump calls regime change in Iran “the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. repositions a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
Affordable housing residents ask federal judge to restrict DHS chemical munitions near Portland ICE facility, saying tear gas seeping into units caused heart failure and breathing problems.
Justice Department sues Harvard for withholding race-related admissions records, escalating a retaliation campaign that has already targeted $2 billion in research grants.
Don Lemon, civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, and three activists plead not guilty to federal charges for protesting ICE enforcement at a St. Paul church.
Department of Homeland Security shuts down as Democrats and White House trade offers on ICE reforms, with Congress gone until Feb. 23 and no deal in sight.
Defense Secretary Hegseth skips NATO’s defense ministers meeting in Brussels, sending the Pentagon’s third-ranking official as the U.S. prepares to hand over major NATO command posts to Europeans.
Trump’s nominee for a top State Department post loses Republican support after senators confront him over “Great Replacement” posts, Holocaust minimization, and comments he continued making after being nominated.
FBI used warrantless “assessment” authority to gather intelligence on over 1,000 journalists, religious organizations, and politicians between 2018 and 2024, watchdog report finds.
FDA’s top vaccine regulator single-handedly rejected Moderna’s flu shot application over a trial design the agency had previously approved, overruling career scientists who wrote a formal objection.
U.S. military hands its strategic al-Tanf base in Syria to Damascus, removing a key barrier to Iranian weapons shipments and signaling a broader troop withdrawal.
Federal prosecutor moves to dismiss charges against the Venezuelan man an ICE agent shot in Minneapolis, saying newly discovered evidence contradicts the government’s own complaint and testimony.
Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard blocked a whistleblower complaint from Congress for eight months that centered on an intercepted conversation referencing Jared Kushner and Iran.
The Justice Department’s antitrust chief resigns after less than a year, as Trump has personally inserted himself into major merger decisions including Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros.
Federal judge orders the government to fly deported Venezuelans back to the U.S. for court hearings, ruling the 137 men were denied due process before being sent to an El Salvador prison.
Columbia protest detainee Leqaa Kordia says she was chained to a hospital bed for 72 hours after a seizure, nearly a year into detention without criminal charges.
FTC chairman tells Apple its news app may violate federal law by not featuring enough Fox News and Breitbart, citing research from a group whose founder Trump appointed as ambassador.
Hundreds gather as New York officials re-raise the pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two days after the Trump administration ordered it removed.
Federal judge orders ICE to stop blocking thousands of Minnesota detainees from contacting attorneys, calling the agency’s claim it provided access “threadbare” and unsupported by evidence.
Federal judge blocks $600 million in public health funding cuts targeting four Democratic states, finding the grants were likely rescinded to retaliate against immigration enforcement opposition.
Federal judge rules Defense Secretary Hegseth violated the First Amendment by censuring Senator Mark Kelly over a video telling troops they can refuse illegal orders.
Trump pardons five former NFL players convicted of crimes including drug trafficking, cocaine conspiracy, counterfeiting, and perjury, without explaining why.
Pentagon sends the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier to join 10 warships already in the Middle East as the U.S. prepares for a potential strike on Iran over its nuclear program.
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro sues her hometown of Rye, New York, and Con Edison for $250,000 after tripping over a wooden block in the street.
Senate leaves for recess after failing to fund DHS, with ICE and Border Patrol unaffected because last year’s reconciliation bill already gave them billions.
Border czar Tom Homan announces the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, claiming credit for “unprecedented coordination” from the same local officials who said ICE never contacted them.
Speaker Johnson calls DOJ’s tracking of lawmakers’ Epstein file searches an “oversight,” declining to confront the agency as bipartisan members call it spying.
EPA revokes the 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, eliminating the legal foundation for all federal climate regulation.
Customs and Border Protection chief tells senators Alex Pretti was “fighting back nonstop” after watching video showing the unarmed nurse standing with his hands up before agents shot him.
NATO launches “Arctic Sentry” mission to boost military presence around Greenland after Trump backed off his seizure threat in exchange for a joint security framework.
Speaker Johnson says six Democratic lawmakers “should be indicted” one day after a grand jury refused to indict them, as Kelly calls the failed prosecution “straight from the authoritarian playbook.”
CBP signs $225,000 deal with Clearview AI to use facial recognition built on 60 billion scraped images for “tactical targeting” of border intelligence operations.
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials’ objections.
New Jersey launches website for residents to report ICE conduct and signs executive order barring federal immigration enforcement on state property without judicial warrants.
Florida House votes 92-14 to ban the term “West Bank” in schools and state agencies, requiring use of “Judea and Samaria” instead.
Pentagon tells a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare for Middle East deployment as Trump warns Iran of military action if nuclear talks fail.
Federal judge blocks Trump from transferring Biden-commuted death row inmates to supermax prison, ruling the transfer process “cannot be a sham.”
House passes SAVE America Act 218-213, requiring in-person proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, but Senate Republicans say they lack the votes to break a filibuster.
DOJ fires a U.S. attorney hours after federal judges appointed him in Albany, with Deputy AG Blanche announcing on X: “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”
Trump orders Pentagon to purchase power from coal plants, signing the executive order with Peabody Energy’s CEO at his side.
