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Washington – You have to let this scene melt on your tongue: a group photo with wide grins, proud faces, and triumphant thumbs. In the center: a sign that reads “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” ...
Washington/Moscow – US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation lasting about an hour on July 3. This was confirmed by Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov to the Russian news ...
Washington – On Tuesday, the White House released the full salary list of President Donald Trump’s staff. The document, submitted annually to the U.S. Congress, includes more than 400 individuals working ...
A country that intends to cut its development aid by one billion euros, with the parliamentary decision scheduled for July 9, that relativizes human rights and deports critically ill individuals without wheelchairs ...
Deep in the shimmering swamp of the Everglades, where mosquitoes fly thicker than morning fog and alligators lurk between reeds, a place has officially begun operations that some already describe as a symbol of a new America ...
Washington - It was a spectacle that will likely go down in the annals of resistance: In the early morning hours of July 3, 2025, Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, took the floor ...
Donald Trump calls it a new "beautiful" trade agreement – but anyone who takes a closer look at the deal with Vietnam announced on Wednesday will see: this agreement is neither finalized nor beneficial, ...
It is a summer that burns – literally. While meteorologists are forecasting temperatures beyond 95 degrees Fahrenheit for the coming weeks and health experts are urgently recommending regular hydration, Berlin ...
Chicago – It was a summer evening like many in this city, hot, vibrant, pulsing with music – and it ended in blood. Four people are dead, ...
When people in the Bundestag rant about “those at the top,” it often comes from the right – from a party that presents itself as the defender ...
It is the end of an era – and at the same time a harbinger of a policy that does not protect but destroys. Del Monte Foods, a giant of the American food industry ...
Washington – It was a calculated show of force by the Trump administration, but it threatens to become a political boomerang. For weeks now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been conducting aggressive mass raids ...
Washington – It is a return to prudishness and a political signal with far-reaching consequences. On Wednesday, the administration under President Donald Trump ...
Laura Loomer wasn't making a joke. Her statement was not sarcasm, not exaggeration, but a calculated act of dehumanization. "Alligator lives matter," wrote the far-right commentator on June 30 - and added: ...
Washington – It was just a number, but it cast a shadow over the Trump administration’s optimistic narrative: for the first time in nearly a year, the number of private-sector jobs in the US has declined ...
It does not begin with explosions, but with lawsuits. Not on the front lines, but in the chambers of Russian arbitration courts, whose dry transcripts reveal more than any military press conference ...
Washington, D.C. – In a powerful act of protest against looming cuts to the healthcare system, several activists were arrested on Tuesday after staging a sit-in at the Russell Senate Office Building ...
In March 1933, under pressure from the streets, the German Reichstag passed a law that still makes the world shudder: the so-called Enabling Act. It stripped parliament of its legislative power ...
It is a law of gigantic proportions - 887 pages long, filled with tax cuts, spending reductions, new billions for the military and the deportation machinery. But what President Donald J. Trump calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill" ...
It began with a letter. On June 26, 2025, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles called on the United States Department of Justice to investigate the naturalization of Zohran Mamdani - a Democratic lawmaker ...
It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel – yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an “unshakable patriot” and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back ...
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
It is a move that stands out even in the long history of narcissistic state art: Donald Trump had his official portrait at the Colorado State Capitol swiftly replaced - because it did not flatter him enough ...
Washington once again finds itself facing a targeted digital provocation that affects not only national security but also carries explosive political implications. Pro-Iranian hackers claim ...
It was a sentence fit for a dystopian novel - only it didn’t fall in fiction but during a press tour through a real internment camp in the state of Florida. Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary under Donald Trump, ...
It was a moment of self-congratulation in Washington. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State under Donald Trump, stood before the cameras and announced with a satisfied look the end of USAID ...
Washington - It was a political performance of rare ambiguity, staged in the solemn marble of the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, precisely at 2:42 p.m., Lisa Murkowski cast her vote - “Yes.” ...
There is a quiet truth about America’s labor market that is never spoken in campaign ads or stump speeches: The most successful, most profitable companies in the country are having their workforces subsidized by the government - through Medicaid, ...
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
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