Investigative Journalism
Florida’s most expensive swamp pit is closing its gates. The Trump administration is quietly trying to shut down the Everglades camp that Kristi Noem celebrated only months ago as the model for a nationwide network of deportation prisons. The official reason - too expensive. The irony almost writes itself, because the very woman who ...
Howard Lutnick sat for hours behind closed doors before the House committee and tried to explain why his story about Jeffrey Epstein now barely aligns with the released documents and investigations. The United States secretary of commerce, one of the most visible men in Donald Trump’s cabinet, was questioned Wednesday by members of the House Oversight Committee about his contacts ...
There are days when you look at a screen and no longer know whether you are seeing the world or its caricature. Today is one of those days. A man, 79 years old, president of the most powerful military force on the planet, sits somewhere inside a gilded room and posts a computer generated image showing an American destroyer vaporizing an Iranian drone with a red laser beam ...
Hundreds of miles north of the Strait of Hormuz, a second supply line of the Iran war is now operating. No television cameras follow it. No American destroyers monitor the passage there. No Western navy can stop ships in those waters. That is exactly why the Caspian Sea is becoming one of the most important strategic zones of this conflict.
The war between the United States and Iran is slipping deeper into a dangerous in between phase in which both sides officially continue speaking about a ceasefire while simultaneously attacking each other. On Friday morning, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States of “reckless military escalation” and charged Washington with deliberately sabotaging ongoing negotiations.
Inside Germany’s security agencies, concern over Iranian directed attacks in Germany has been growing for months. While Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt continue publicly presenting the threat in restrained terms, intelligence officials internally are warning far more aggressively about possible attacks, sabotage operations and covert activities on German soil.
Donald Trump has suffered another major defeat in court. Only a few months after the Supreme Court’s clear ruling against his original punitive tariffs, the US Court of International Trade in New York has now declared the president’s new global tariffs unlawful as well. Judges Gary S. Katzmann, Jane A. Restani and Timothy M. Reif ...
In the summer of 2014, Jeffrey Epstein was not sitting somewhere on his island or in a luxurious apartment in Manhattan. He was walking through Washington, meeting officials from the U.S. Treasury Department, talking about cryptocurrencies, Iran sanctions, terrorist financing and international money flows. Years later, it now looks like one of those stories almost nobody took seriously at the time and that suddenly ...
The movement is not loud, but it is there. While Russia occupies militarily, China is building connections in the background that will last. Thousands of mobile network stations with Chinese technology are now operating in the occupied territories of Ukraine. Banks are handling cash in yuan locally. Delegations travel back and forth, cautiously, without much attention. Officially, Beijing recognizes neither the annexation ...
Donald Trump has once again released numbers that would destroy almost any ordinary businessman. Trump Media and Technology Group, the operator of Truth Social, reported just $871,200 in revenue for the first quarter of 2026. Not millions. Not billions. Less than one million dollars. At the same time, the company posted a net loss of $405.9 million. You have to ...
There are sentences that make you pause for a moment and wonder whether you actually heard them correctly. Robert Jeffress, an evangelical pastor from Dallas and for years one of the loudest religious voices inside Trump’s political camp, said on Fox News that Donald Trump understands the Bible better than the pope. Not as a wink, not as a talk show punchline, but ...
Before you understand why this story carries weight, you need to know what it is about. In 2015, the administration of Barack Obama passed an environmental regulation that should have entered the history books. The Clean Power Plan. A rule by the US Environmental Protection Agency aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by about thirty two percent ...
Within two years, the number of treason convictions in Russia has increased by 460 percent. This number does not come from a leak, not from a Western intelligence report, not from an estimate by Memorial or Human Rights Watch. It comes from extended investigation at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation itself. The country that reports the increase is the same country ...
Holger Robert, 63, Bergen on Rügen, trained carpenter, local politician, now janitor, several children, several grandchildren, a wife with Polish roots who cares for other people while he saves Germany. That is how the AfD faction in Bergen introduced him on May 15, 2024: the savior of Germany. On April 12, 2026, the savior appeared. He posted on Facebook that Viktor Orbán had won the election ...
There are evenings when a single sentence carries more weight than an entire speech, and the evening in Chicago was one of those evenings. Barack Obama sat beside Stephen Colbert in the new Presidential Center, the lighting warm, the audience silent, and he said something that in a functioning democracy should never have needed to be said out loud: A president must not ...
Note before reading: It is recommended not to read the following text on an empty stomach, but also not directly after eating. Possible side effects include quiet head shaking, prolonged silence at an open window and the suspicion that the world in 2026 is being written by someone who no longer takes himself seriously ...