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As we already revealed in our research in June and July 2025, the prisoner deal between Washington, Bukele and Maduro was a political and moral scandal. In our article ...
Kyiv is burning – literally and figuratively. On Sunday night, Russia launched the largest drone attack since the beginning of the war. 805 Shahed drones, supplemented by 13 missiles, rained down ...
The drone footage looks like something out of a dystopian war movie: A small boat, visibly overloaded, speeds through the dark Caribbean Sea. Seconds later, the strike, then silence. Eleven people dead ...
The sirens are wailing. Not those of the fire department - those of Wall Street. 22,000 jobs in August. For America, this is a total loss. While Trump is still raving about an economic miracle, the ground beneath him is ...
This weekend, several American cities stood as symbols of resistance. In Washington, D.C., thousands took to the streets to protest the federal takeover of their police force and the deployment of National Guard troops ...
These are sentences you usually only hear in dystopian films: "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," writes the President of the United States on Truth ...
The images from Brookland, Arkansas, are harrowing, even for us, and revealing at the same time: Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines from sun and worry, crowd into a gymnasium ...
It is once again one of those weekends when everything happens at once. In Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP) pulled the emergency brake on Friday and expanded its ongoing lawsuit ...
San Francisco, a late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and suddenly the clock stands still for more than a million people. Edward Chen, federal judge in the Northern District of California, has put the Trump ...
It sounds like a scene from an absurd play: A flight captain opens his navigation manual, the sober revision highlights – and suddenly finds politics. In black and white it says: ...
Donald Trump has a new idea for how to get to paradise: by credit card. In a mass email that his Super PAC “Never Surrender” sent out three times, it says in black and white: “Friend, I want to try ...
Sometimes it is the operations that no one is allowed to see that reveal the most about a presidency. In the spring of 2019, Donald Trump sent the legendary SEAL Team 6 on a mission so sensitive ...
Donald Trump had sold it as a triumph: "Liberation Day," the day he "freed" industry - from environmental regulations, from bureaucracy, from climate protection. Coal-fired power plants were to be brought back online, wind turbines ...
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
There are moments when Washington does not feel like the capital of a world power but like the worst reality show on earth. The latest scandal: A senior official at the Department of Justice, Acting Deputy Chief ...
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
It was a legal thunderclap that rolled over Washington this Tuesday: Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to accompany immigration raids was unlawful ...
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
For the first time in history they will stand together on one stage: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The North Korean ruler arrived in Beijing on Tuesday ...
In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...
From coast to coast they roar out their anger. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have flooded the streets this Labor Day. "Workers over Billionaires" is written on their signs, and it sounds like a vow: We will ...
Donald Trump celebrates America as "hot," as a country on the rise where prices are "way down," wages are "skyrocketing," and the nation is "strong and respected again." The images he spreads ...
Germany is at a tipping point. The news of the last few weeks is clear: almost 115,000 industrial jobs have disappeared within a year, more than 50,000 of them in the automotive sector alone, ...
Donald Trump is so alive that he fired off 42 posts in ten hours – a digital barrage that would make even Russian troll factories blush. Allegedly dead? Ha! The man ...
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
It is a ruling of great significance, even if it applies only for two weeks for now. Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has temporarily stopped the Trump administration ...
From now on you can also have all our Kaizen articles read aloud to you. With one click on the play button, our investigations become voices that accompany you - whether on the go, while exercising, ...
Our months-long research and data collection ultimately revealed a crystal-clear picture: the health gap between Democratic and Republican governed states is not a statistical anomaly - it is the result of deliberate political decisions that can be measured in human lives.
Donald Trump has struck again - this time not on the campaign trail but with the full force of his outrage aimed at a freshly laid stone slab. The 79-year-old president discovered a "huge gash" in the limestone of the White House ...
In a sterile conference room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ira Dunkel sits on a Tuesday morning in August, staring at his screen. The email he has just read contains only a few lines, ...
For four days there was eerie silence. No appearance, barely any tweets, no golf tournament, no spontaneous press event - for a man like Donald Trump, who loves public appearances like others love ...
It was an image that is likely to go down in history: Donald Trump at his golf club in Turnberry, the sun at his back, Ursula von der Leyen opposite him, smiling politely as the cameras clicked.
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