Investigative Journalism
After the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, the Department of Homeland Security did not respond with transparency or clarification, but with a show of force. Under the name “Operation Metro Surge,” hundreds of additional federal forces are to be deployed to Minneapolis. Outwardly, the government sells this as determination. The internal documents tell a different story. They show a department that doubts, hesitates, and does not trust its own people.
There are cases in which the greatest difficulty lies not in the research, but in dealing with excess. Hardly any serious use of force today is not immediately accompanied by hundreds of fragments of information: official statements, contradictory eyewitness accounts, political instrumentalization, social media in a state of permanent agitation. The reader is not informed, but overwhelmed ...
The investigations following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis are taking a direction that reaches far beyond the specific operation. Federal investigators are not only examining the conduct of the ICE officer who fired three shots at the unarmed 37-year-old, but also possible links between the deceased and activist groups protesting the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy.
Minneapolis is under a strain that goes far beyond protest. In a city that for days has been shaped by tear gas, heavily armed federal forces, and nighttime confrontations, President Donald Trump has openly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to end the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement by military means. It is a threat that reaches far beyond ...
In the United States, a political shift is underway that comes with hardly any slogans or grand gestures, yet runs deep. More and more people no longer want to identify with either the Democrats or the Republicans. By now, nearly half of the adult population describes itself as independent. Twenty years ago, the number was significantly lower. This development is not a momentary spike, ...
The meeting in the orbit of the White House was meant to calm the heated situation, but in the end it mainly brought clarity about the front lines. After talks with Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen made clear that a fundamental disagreement with President Donald Trump remains. Washington is sticking to its demand for full U.S. control over Greenland, ...
One week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, there has been another firearms incident involving federal agents in Minneapolis. On Wednesday evening, a federal agent wounded a man during an operation in the northern part of the city. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the man is a Venezuelan who was to be taken into custody. He was hit in the leg ...
He showed up because the state required it. Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, 53 years old, reported properly for his appointment in Bethpage, Long Island – as instructed, without delay, without resistance. Hours later, he was in custody. Arrested by ICE agents, taken out of a public building, with no apparent new allegation. No arrest warrant, no judicial order, no explanation on site.
The attack by Ukrainian drones on the tanker Qendil in the Mediterranean was not an isolated incident, but a glimpse into a web of camouflage, personnel shifts, and informal structures. On board the vessel, which was targeted in December, two Russian nationals had previously served as security personnel whose résumés go far beyond what civilian shipping would explain ...
The number is alarming and yet barely discussed: Forty percent of US women between the ages of 15-44 are considering emigrating, according to Gallup. This makes this age group twice as ready to leave as the population average – precisely those who give life, start families, and want to shape the future. The reasons are many, but one stands out: gun violence.
During a walk-through of the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Donald Trump is hit by a heckle from the crowd. A man shouts “protector of pedophiles” at him, a direct reference to the ongoing dispute over the Epstein files and how the administration has handled them. Trump does not respond verbally into the microphone, but physically. The footage shows ...
On Monday, federal agents advance in formation in Minneapolis. No conversation, no hesitation, only enforcement. In the front row stands a woman. She holds a sign, makes the peace sign. She says nothing, she attacks no one, she does not move. Seconds later, she is violently shoved to the ground. Her body slams into the asphalt ...
We did not take this step lightly. Filing a complaint before international bodies is not a symbolic act, not a political statement for in between, and certainly not a convenient undertaking. It means real work, legal precision, careful weighing - and the knowledge that resistance is certain. That is precisely why we filed it.
Monday evening in Bautzen. Once again, hundreds of people move through the streets, celebrating themselves as resistance, as a freedom movement, as peacemakers, as alleged heirs of a suppressed history. “Free Saxony” echoes back to itself, flanked by AfD comrades, Christian Abel also AfD completely losing his head in the brown frenzy, fueled by Telegram slogans, stupid placards reading “Our country first.” Anyone who listens closely ...
One of the most serious internal upheavals in months has shaken the US Justice Department. Following further reporting, at least four senior attorneys from the Criminal Section within the Civil Rights Division have resigned their posts, and others intend to leave their positions later this month. Their resignations are an open protest against the decision by the responsible departmental leadership not to pursue...
Washington, somewhere between the breakfast table and the facts. Donald Trump declares that milk increases cognitive abilities. Ben Carson nods dutifully and adds that you can even see it. Anyone who is smart has obviously drunk milk. Anyone who is not, probably oats.