Federal procurement filings posted to SAM.gov show ICE is fast-tracking a roughly $100 million intelligence program, "ERO ONE," that would place more than 140 cleared contractors in over two dozen U.S. cities to map the...
Common Cause and Minneapolis observer Michael Khalili filed a 94-page federal lawsuit on September 10, 2026, accusing DHS, the Justice Department, the FBI and other agencies of a coordinated campaign to intimidate people...
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia said on September 3 that the FBI and the Justice Department had notified him they intercepted some of his phone calls with Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas. His office...
The New York Times reported on Sept. 2, 2026 that the Department of Homeland Security has assigned hundreds of federal agents to a weekslong search for noncitizens among registered voters. Agents are scouring state voter...
Court documents released this week show that four days after Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in late January, the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation out of its St. Paul office into...
Internal records obtained by Wired through Freedom of Information Act requests to Customs and Border Protection's Office of Professional Responsibility document alleged misuse of sensitive law enforcement databases by...
A report published Aug. 3, 2026, by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology, titled “Raiding the Genome,” estimates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement submitted roughly 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s...
On July 13, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a joint Defense Department and Justice Department task force to identify and prosecute unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information to the news media. Under...
Elinor Hilton and Colleen Fagan filed a First Amendment suit in federal court in Maine on February 23, 2026 against federal immigration officials, alleging the government collects and maintains data on people who observe...
The Justice Department acknowledged on February 12, 2026 that it logs search activity when members of Congress review unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files on department systems. The practice surfaced the previous day when...