Investigative Journalism
The Spanish government intends to involve state prosecutors and have the platforms X, Meta, and TikTok investigated over the alleged distribution of artificial intelligence generated material involving sexual child abuse. Prime Minister Pedro ...
While we review original files, cross-check references, and analyze legal documents sentence by sentence, a second front runs in parallel: the stream of digital forgeries that slows down any serious investigation. It is no longer enough ...
The anger is palpable whenever Donald Trump’s name appears next to Jeffrey Epstein’s. Old photos, shared parties, friendly remarks from the nineties - the picture seems clear. But anyone ...
Dr. Michael Baden was not the lead medical examiner at Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy, but was present as an observer on behalf of Epstein’s estate. In that role, he followed the examination ...
At least 3,800 children have been taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term. Behind this number are children who were taken from their homes at night or detained during enforcement operations ...
In our research, while working through the extensive data set of thousands of pages, we came across a case number that tells more than any press conference: 31E-HQ-C1461253. Anyone who works through the files labeled ...
The Kremlin has a problem: too many espionage scandals, too many exposed agents, too little credibility abroad. So Vladimir Putin is restructuring his propaganda machine. In August 2025, he dissolved the Directorate ...
Four years ago, American government officials traveled to Munich with satellite images and intercepted radio communications. They warned of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine. Many European leaders waved it off. Vladimir Putin ...
The United States has created a system over the past two decades that hardly anyone consciously notices, yet reaches deep into everyday life: a network of cameras, hidden devices, data ...
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the government to take concrete steps to bring certain Venezuelan migrants, who had been sent to the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador, back to the United States ...
FORT BRAGG, NC - In a performance best described as a hostage video under kiss orders at 30 knots of wind, First Lady Melania Trump landed in Fort Bragg on Friday ...
Russia’s economy enters 2026 weakened. Growth is slowing, oil prices are well below what the budget assumed, and the strong ruble compounds the problem in two ways: ...
One year ago, on the same stage at the Munich Security Conference, an American vice president openly lectured, snubbed and ideologically attacked Europe. JD Vance’s speech marked ...
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its search for identities behind social media accounts that monitor or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In recent months, hundreds of administrative subpoenas have been sent to Google, Meta, Reddit ...
It is one of those decisions in which a court not only speaks the law, but demands responsibility. Federal Judge Richard G. Stearns of the U.S. District Court in Boston has ordered the government to bring Any Lucia López Belloza ...
In Washington, the clock is ticking. If it runs out, the Department of Homeland Security will lose its funding overnight into Saturday. The conflict centers on the administration’s hard line ...
More than 6,500 Department of Homeland Security officers and analysts can now use a tool internally called “Masked Engagement.” Behind the technical sounding term lies a simple reality: federal agents are allowed to join ...
First and foremost: Never access the Epstein files at the Department of Justice without a secure, independent VPN connection. Based on the information currently available, search queries and document retrievals appear to be traceable. Anyone reviewing sensitive ...
In the Roosevelt Room of the White House, the president basked in applause and announced that the Environmental Protection Agency would no longer regulate greenhouse gases. What sounds technical is politically a frontal assault on the ...
There are those moments when a country makes itself ridiculous - without any help from the outside. The President of the United States stands in the White House, between flags, spotlights, ...
Marimar Martinez, 30 years old, a teaching assistant and US citizen, not a wanted criminal, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent on October 4 in Chicago. Criminal charges were initially filed against her, ...
On February 5, 2026, the last remaining treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons between Russia and the United States expired. It ended without extension, without replacement, without a new control regime ...
Without a press conference, without a victory pose, without a word of self-criticism, the federalized National Guard units vanished from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland; in Minneapolis, they are pulling out. In Minnesota, relief mixed with anger ...
The numbers are on the table. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has counted again. What Donald Trump sold as an economic success turns out to be a statistical illusion. 862,000 fewer jobs than originally reported ...
Pam Bondi knew it would not be a friendly appearance. When she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, the room was already tense. At the center was her handling of the released ...
Nearly 80,000 people logged into a video conference on Monday evening to learn how to monitor ICE. What is meant is documenting operations in public ...
More than 3,000 arrests in just two months. 3,091 adults between October 1 and November 28, carried out by the Memphis Safe Task Force. Of these individuals, only 169 appeared ...
Whoever wants to understand the case of Jeffrey Epstein - whoever wants to grasp how a man facing dozens of witness statements, police photos, DNA evidence, victim lists, ...
Before the House Homeland Security Committee, the heads of the agencies carrying out Trump’s mass deportations spent more than three hours today holding a line that left no room for doubt: defense, slogans of perseverance, statistics ...
While in Minneapolis two names still hang in the air - Alex Pretti and Renee Good - in Washington the heads of the agencies enforcing Trump’s ...
1,000 dollars. That is how much Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household last year. For 2026, economists are already projecting around 1,300 dollars - assuming the existing duties remain in place ...
Steve Bannon served four months in prison because he refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. A court found him guilty of ...
Ghislaine Maxwell is playing a double game. Through her attorney, she informed lawmakers that she was prepared to state that neither Donald Trump nor Bill Clinton were guilty of any wrongdoing in their respective contacts ...
The 1.5 degree mark was never a symbolic number. It was a red line. Enshrined in Paris in 2015, at the urging of those states that already knew they would pay first ...
Two hours before kickoff of the grand cultural counteroffensive: silence. The spectacle announced as a patriotic alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show had to capitulate at the last minute - not to left wing demonstrators, ...
Harald Laatsch sits in the Berlin House of Representatives. For the AfD. And on Friday he does what right wing populists do best: he spreads a lie so obviously false that one has ...
Five days before stopgap funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires, Washington once again faces a standstill. Democrats are tying their approval of a new spending bill to clear conditions: visible identification for officers, ...
For weeks, Minneapolis has been the scene of one of the most intense domestic political confrontations in the United States. Federal authorities are carrying out extensive immigration enforcement operations, courts are overwhelmed, and streets have become sites of protest ...
Since the beginning of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, a parallel public sphere has emerged within the German Telegram space, one whose scope and structure were long underestimated. Around 9,500 channels can statistically be attributed to Germany ...
Yevgenia Mykhailivna Bezfamilna was 88 years old. As a child, she survived the Holocaust. She then died alone in her apartment in the historic center of Kyiv, a European capital under constant bombardment ...
Federal Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego has ordered the government to bring back three recently deported families to the United States - and to bear the costs itself. In her order, ...
In the middle of Minneapolis, according to investigations and an internal inventory list, 35,765 pieces of crowd control equipment were on hand. Tear gas. Flash grenades. Pepper spray. Ammunition for dispersing crowds. Not equipment for visa checks, but tools for controlling protests ...
What sounded like the entire arena stopped the spectacle for a moment. Even before the first strike was thrown in the main event of AEW Dynamite, a unified chant echoed ...
Chandler Patey is 29 years old and has been standing for months in front of an ICE facility in South Portland. He protests. He lets demonstrators into his apartment so they can wash pepper spray from their eyes ...
Several shots in a residential building in northwest Moscow. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, 64 years old, first deputy chief of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, is taken to a hospital seriously injured. The attacker escapes ...
The racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes has disappeared. Deleted after massive criticism from both political camps. Even Republican senators and civil rights organizations demanded its removal ...
Republican Senator Tim Scott found clear words. He called it “the most racist thing I have seen from this White House” and demanded that the president delete the video. He was referring ...
The past months mark not an ordinary foreign policy dispute, but a structural rupture. When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared at the end of January that Washington was prepared to use force to secure "maximum cooperation" from Venezuela’s leadership, ...
Minnesota looks like a showcase for power holders of what happens when a government politically charges armed federal forces and at the same time sends them into an everyday environment that previously did not resemble a “war zone,” ...
After two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi, representatives of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States ended the talks on February 5, 2026 after only a few hours. Publicly, all sides predictably described the meetings ...