Investigative Journalism
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, ...
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 ...
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
Kyiv – In a symbolic counterstrike, a Ukrainian long-range drone hit a major Russian arms plant in the city of Izhevsk - roughly 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The attack ...
It was a quiet yet powerful protest, carried by respect, sorrow, and anger: two former U.S. presidents and a rock star bid farewell on Monday in an emotional video call to the staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
Auburn, Washington – There are sporting events so epic you wonder if they really happened - or if a child with dino fever wrote the script. Welcome to one of those moments ...
Washington - It is a rare moment in the politically charged climate of the United States: The Republican-dominated Senate has turned against a central measure of President Donald Trump ...
There was a time when American politics smelled of burnt ideals, of cold coffee in Congress or the quiet sweat of responsibility. Today, it smells like "Victory 45-47" - a golden olfactory revelation from the House of Trump ...
Washington - Our investigation has now definitively confirmed it: The Trump administration has eased key sanctions against Russian banks, including Gazprombank, Sberbank, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation ...
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