Investigative Journalism
Washington, June 27, 2025 – It was a Friday of seismic upheaval: while Donald Trump, at an impromptu press conference, declared it “his most successful week ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – The Supreme Court’s decision to prohibit nationwide injunctions has triggered a political and legal wildfire - especially among those seeking to block ...
One might almost think that the United States is determined to prove that even democracies with a constitution, a Supreme Court, and checks and balances can eventually become a caricature of themselves...
Nashville, June 27, 2025 – It is a legal paradox that seems almost incomprehensible: the attorneys of a man who was wrongfully deported from the United States ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – When word leaked late Thursday evening that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had deemed central parts of Donald Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package inadmissible, ...
In Kabul, silence has fallen. Where once the desperate cries of malnourished children echoed off the walls of a therapeutic feeding center, all that remains now is the squeak of empty metal beds...
Washington, D.C. – A gold-colored television set, in the middle of the National Mall, between Capitol Hill and the White House. It’s no ordinary screen, but an art installation ...
It is a phrase that sounds like it came straight from the playbook of Germany’s AfD or Martin Sellner - and yet it comes from the America of 2025: “Denaturalize. Deport. Remigrate.” ...
It is a silent tremor that creeps into the balance sheets of American households – slowly, insidiously, but inexorably. The United States is experiencing an explosive increase in the amounts citizens are paying in tariffs ...
The White House has spoken. Not in a press conference, not through legislation – but with a phrase straight out of the arsenal of toxic family dynamics: “Daddy’s Home.” And suddenly, the world’s largest democracy feels like a poorly ventilated basement ...
Sometimes, a return to darkness doesn’t begin with a thunderclap, but with a microphone and a sentence that sounds like it was lifted from a 1425 catechism. “God has an order,” ...
Nashville, Tennessee - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose unlawful deportation has become a symbol of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, pleaded not guilty on Friday in a federal court in Tennessee...
It was one of those statements where it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between cynicism and calculated fearmongering: “People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? ...
They call it a poll record – but it's more of a confession. Thirty-two percent for the AfD in Brandenburg, measured by Infratest dimap on behalf of the RBB, is not just a political ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the press at the Pentagon on Thursday – and what followed was less a military briefing than a rhetorical offensive. With General Dan Caine at his side, Hegseth praised ...
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
Wonsan, June 26, 2025 – It was a spectacle straight out of a postmodern dystopia: North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his wife Ri Sol Ju and daughter Ju Ae, ceremoniously cut the red ribbon on Tuesday ...
New York, June 26, 2025 – It was a political earthquake that shook not only the streets of New York but threw the entire Democratic Party into turmoil: Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-declared democratic ...
Nashville, Tennessee – In a country that prides itself on being a beacon of freedom and the rule of law, a man sits in handcuffs – not because of guilt, but because of a dilemma the government created itself. Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
n the shadow of the stone presidential heads of Mount Rushmore - among rocks, forests, and the memories of a broken treaty - a project is taking shape that does not heal America's wounds but deepens them: ...
When the internet first stepped onto the world stage, it was hailed as a tool of liberation. It promised nothing less than the democratization of knowledge, a voice for the voiceless, ...
Atlanta, June 25, 2025 – It was a premiere under high tension. For the first time, the newly appointed vaccination committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday ...
It was a debut both expected - and algorithmically assisted. No sooner had U.S. Vice President JD Vance logged into the delicately coded world of Bluesky on June 18, 2025, than he had done it: ...
It was a moment that, even in the era of Donald Trump, remained a rarity. On an open stage, under the full spotlight of the NATO summit in the Netherlands, political seriousness dissolved completely - with just one single, adoringly inappropriate word: "Daddy."
It was one of those scenes in which political power lays over actual events like a thin sheet, barely able to conceal the truth beneath. In The Hague, where Donald Trump appeared as a guest at the NATO summit, drenched in sweat and full of his ...
There are videos that don’t need explaining - they expose. They don’t just show a face - they reveal an entire mindset. The 2:49-minute video that Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social ...
Donald J. Trump – Nobel Peace Prize. You really have to let that melt slowly on your tongue. Like a double cheeseburger from Mar-a-Lago, marbled with raw self-aggrandizement and the ketchup of global politics...
Donald Trump was having one of those days again. One of those days when he felt like Julius Caesar - only without the laurel wreath, armed instead with a Truth Social post and three stealth bombers...
It was a nighttime strike of immense symbolic power - and yet its echo could not sound more hollow. On June 22, 2025, in a military operation titled "Operation Midnight Hammer," ...
Follow-up to our previous article on the Compact ruling: Sometimes a glance at Telegram is enough to grasp how far the republic has fallen. Martin Sellner, convicted right-wing extremist, chief ideologue of “remigration,” ...
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there are indications of localized contamination and chemical hazards resulting from additional impacts at the nuclear sites in Fordo and Natanz...
New York / Tehran – It was an attack with symbolic power – and with far-reaching consequences: From symbolism to indictment – why the strike on Tehran’s most well-known prison exceeds the bounds of war...
It began, as always, with a screenshot. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and the first person to make diplomatic communication public via Signal screenshot, delivered once again. This time, it was a message from ...
Venice, June 23, 2025 – It was a symbolic moment that not only drew attention but cast a political spotlight on the relationship between power, money, and public space: activists from Greenpeace Italy, together with the British initiative “Everyone Hates Elon,” unfurled a huge banner in the middle of St. Mark’s Square ...
It doesn’t begin with violence. It begins with words. With so-called “opinions” that in truth are directed against the dignity of others. The ruling of the Federal Administrative Court on June 24, 2025, is therefore more than a legal event ...
Washington / Boston - It is a legal slap in the face for Donald Trump and a sigh of relief for thousands of young people around the world: A federal judge in Boston on Monday once again blocked a measure by the Trump administration aimed at keeping foreign students from attending Harvard University...
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
Tel Aviv / Tehran / Washington - It was a morning between hope and rubble: On Tuesday, Israel and Iran agreed to the ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, thus marking - at least for now - an end to an unprecedented twelve-day war ...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv – In the early hours of June 24, 2025, the war between Israel and Iran seemed to have reached a turning point – at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
Washington / Tel Aviv / Tehran / Doha - Amid one of the most dangerous escalations in decades, U.S. President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced a complete ceasefire between Israel and Iran late Monday evening...
It began with an impact - and did not end with the smoke. The death of Hossein Salami was more than a military loss for the Iranian regime. It was the prelude to a strategy that does not speak through bombs ...
Washington, June 23, 2025 – When Donald Trump mentions a nuclear submarine, it’s not because it sails underwater. It’s because – in his words – it is “the most technologically superior, ...
When Maximilian Krah appears in public, it is rarely without calculation. The AfD politician, long controversial for his proximity to far-right networks and his role in European scandals, likes to present himself as the intellectual ...
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
Doha / Tehran / Jerusalem - It was only a matter of time before the shadows of the new war fell over additional countries. In the early hours of Monday, several explosions shook the Gulf region - of all places, ...
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
Tehran / Tel Aviv / Washington – With targeted airstrikes on three military sites in Iran, the U.S. military directly entered the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic on Sunday evening ...
Wayne, Michigan - It could have been another bloodbath, one of those headlines America has read far too often. But on Sunday morning, a potential mass shooting was stopped at the last second: outside CrossPointe ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
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