Key Events (10)
Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges for an alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in June. The attack plan involved drone and sniper components, and prosecutors said the suspects used code names including 'Shriveled Shlong' and 'Whiskey Six.'
President Trump refused to sign a landmark bipartisan housing bill to protest Senate Republicans' failure to pass the SAVE Act (requiring voter ID). The bill became law at midnight without his signature, marking a rare instance of bipartisan cooperation that Trump opposed.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced her government will file criminal complaints in the U.S. over the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals in ICE custody. This follows the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in Houston.
An ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years, in Houston. DHS admitted Salgado was not the intended target of the operation. Witnesses dispute the government's claim that he 'weaponized' his vehicle, and ICE is reportedly pressuring witnesses to self-deport.
Marco Rubio announced the deportation of Tou Lue Vang, a Hmong immigrant whom Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had pardoned in June for a 2006 sex offense conviction. Rubio revoked Vang's legal status after the state pardon, triggering federal deportation to Laos.
President Trump fired members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a move critics called a 'brazen attempt' to control midterm elections. The firings came as Trump sought to gain control over ballot counting in November's midterm elections.
The Trump administration rolled back a key 50-year-old safeguard under the Endangered Species Act, repealing the definition of prohibited 'harm' to endangered animals and plants. The move opens habitats to logging and mining, threatening imperiled species.
The Trump administration appointed climate science skeptic Matthew Wielicki to oversee the National Climate Assessment, the government's flagship climate report. Wielicki has publicly criticized climate science consensus and promoted PragerU content questioning established climate science.
President Trump claimed he has left instructions to bomb Iran 'at levels they've never seen before' if Tehran assassinates him. The statement came as the U.S.-Iran ceasefire collapsed and tensions escalated following recent U.S. airstrikes and mysterious unclaimed attacks on Iranian targets.
The Trump administration charged the 'Minnesota 15'—protest organizers who opposed ICE crackdowns—with conspiracy charges, marking the latest attempt by Trump's DOJ to criminalize resistance and political opposition to immigration enforcement.