Investigative Journalism
Some ironies of world affairs are so bizarre that they could not survive in fiction. Imagine: an arsonist is promoted to fire chief. A money launderer teaches an ethics course. Or - even more grotesque - Pam Bondi, the woman who most recently made a name ...
It was a moment of rare tension between the Republican Congress and the White House: When the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said in an interview last week that the public had a right to full transparency in the case ...
On April 1, 2025, the first shock came: The Trump administration began mass layoffs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
It’s just past one in the morning when the phone rings at Howard Lutnick’s home. Not every night, but often enough for it to have become a ritual. On the other end of the line: the President ...
It is a case that reaches far beyond the campus of Cambridge: On Monday, the storied Harvard University defended itself before the federal court in Boston against a massive intervention by the U.S. government ...
It was a Sunday like so many others: marked by hardship, by hope, by the instinctive drive to survive. In the streets of northern Gaza, amid ruins, dust, and burnt-out vehicles, ...
It was a move that calls into question everything a democratic state claims to know about responsibility: On July 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald ...
The truth about Jeffrey Epstein, his networks and his connections is not hidden in a few dozen pages of indictment. Nor is it in the verdict against Ghislaine Maxwel ...
It was the summer of 1996 when Maria Farmer, a young artist from New York, went to the police for the first time. She reported sexual assaults by Jeffrey Epstein ...
Luis Leon was 82 years old when the American state erased him - not with a bullet, not with a verdict, but with silence. A routine appointment with ICE in Philadelphia, ...
The war in Ukraine has entered a state that can no longer be described as either a ceasefire or an escalation – but rather both at once. While Russian rockets and drones rain ...
It was April 26, 2016, when a woman named Katie Johnson filed a civil lawsuit in the Central District of California. The complaint, typed and submitted without legal counsel ...
It is a document that at first glance appears official – sober, almost bureaucratic in its language. But those who look more closely will recognize a tectonic shift: Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President ...
The woman speaking sounds calm. Almost casual. But every word she utters is an explosive charge. Stacey Williams, once a model, then mistress to one ...
Veronica Taylor lives in a wooden house on a hill in McDowell County, West Virginia. No doctor for miles, no bus, no taxi, no signal.
It was a court ruling, sober in its language, yet epochal in its impact. On July 18, 2025, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered the partial release of the grand jury transcripts in the case ...
It's not just the interest rates. Not just the seed prices, not just the missing rain. It's a silent quake rippling through the rural regions of the United States ...
There are stories that defy understanding - and yet must be written. The story of Vance Boelter is one of them. A man who was once honored in rural Minnesota for his kindness and decades later killed two people and seriously ...
It is one of those revelations that do not settle for being a scandal. They open a window into a parallel world – quiet, precise, inescapable. Nearly 200 mobile phones ...
It is perhaps the most explosive power struggle within the American financial system - and one that grows sharper with each passing week: Donald Trump ...
It was a thunderclap rarely seen even in the American media system: Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States, has filed a lawsuit against media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his flagship publication, The Wall Street ...
It was a moment that cut through political rhetoric - cold, defensive, resolute. "Don't you dare ever say that again" - never dare to say such a thing again.
It was a day that visibly shifted the balance of power in Washington – and not just in the digital realm. With his usual pathos and a smug smile, Donald Trump signed the "GENIUS Act" ...
It was one of those files that were never meant for the public. No press release, no tweet, no transparency portal. Just a sober procurement document, circulated internally between agencies and contractors ...
It begins with a sentence as laconic as it is devastating: "HUD assistance is not supposed to be permanent." It is June 2025 when Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing under Donald Trump ...
It wasn’t a day of giants, but of the many. Not a march with grand speeches, but a beginning in small groups, decentralized, creative, ...
It is a quiet revolution, initiated not with fanfare but with treaties, train journeys and sober press statements. While Donald Trump once again shakes the transatlantic alliance ...
It was an attempt to regain control - but above all, it reveals just how much it is slipping away from the president. On Thursday evening, Donald Trump announced that he was authorizing Attorney General Pam Bondi ...
The news of this day could hardly be more urgent. While President Donald Trump puts his feet up - swollen, as his doctor casually notes - the political fever in Washington continues to rise.
It begins with an image: the Oval Office, May 2025. A woman takes the oath of office, framed by golden drapes and frozen expressions. Jeanine Pirro, once a prosecutor, ...
In the language of power, there is no hesitation. Donald Trump acted, and the world held its breath. In a night that is set to go down in history as "Operation Midnight Hammer," ...
It was no ordinary talk show. It was a cross-examination. A lesson in how political campaigns condense into personal attacks - and how a jurist who has dedicated her entire life to academia must defend ...
What began as a routine court date ended for Carlos Javier Lopez Benitez in a violent assault – and his arrest. Masked federal agents dragged ...
It was a post made for headlines - and as so often with Donald Trump: loud, confident, unverified. On Wednesday, July 16, 2025, the president announced on Truth Social that Coca-Cola ...
Es war ein Schnitt, der mehr war als ein Personalvorgang. Mitten in einem eskalierenden Streit um die Aufarbeitung des Epstein-Komplexes hat die Trump-Regierung am Mittwoch eine prominente Staatsanwältin gefeuert –…
They go where no human can go. They smell what no scanner can detect. And they work when the body has long since failed. In the days following the devastating floods of July ...
With a single stroke of the pen, the Trump administration has torn down one of the central pillars of citizen-oriented policy history: access to the federal government for people ...
It was a single sentence that was enough to shake Wall Street: Donald Trump had “talked about firing the Fed chair.” He said nothing more at first - and yet it was enough to send the stock market ...
It was 2:22 p.m. Eastern Time when the universe seemed to pause for a second – as if to ask itself whether this was really serious. Elon Musk, part-time visionary, full-time provocateur, ...
It was a reception filled with pomp, pathos, and political calculation. On Wednesday, Donald Trump welcomed Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa to the White House ...
It is a bizarre moment in the history of political self-denial: Donald J. Trump, celebrated martyr of truth, apostle of alternative facts, and leader of the “Great Unmasking” movement, ...
They arrive across a border of dust and heat, with nothing but a plastic bag, an old backpack, sometimes a child in their arms. Nearly 20,000 people each day.
In the international debate on the Middle East conflict, one accusation keeps resurfacing: that UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, ...
It was a weekend of dismissals - quiet, abrupt, consequential. Within just a few days, seventeen immigration court judges in the United States were removed from their positions without explanation. This measure does not target just anyone ...
It was a sentence that felt like a smoke bomb - and at the same time like a revelation. Alan Dershowitz, longtime star attorney, Trump defender, retired Harvard professor, and once part of the exclusive circle that not only knew Jeffrey Epstein but also defended him ...
It began with a sentence that struck like a punch through his own ranks: "The Epstein files are a made-up Democrat hoax." Donald Trump repeated these words publicly, clearly, definitively. And Laura Loomer ...
It wasn’t an exchange of polite niceties, no diplomatic feelers—this was a letter. Capital letters, tariffs, threats. Donald Trump has brought several world leaders into line with his new approach: “A letter means a deal.” ...
It was supposed to be a moment of faith. A pause. An invitation to humility. But what took place yesterday at the White House under the banner of the “Faith Office Luncheon” ...
Inflation is back – not as a global fate, but as a political consequence. What economists have been predicting for months is now becoming apparent on the shelves, ...
It began gradually, like everything that ultimately becomes irreversible. First, the lightness disappeared, then the sand. What once embodied the promise of the South in countless images ...
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