Investigative Journalism
Washington - Behind the walls of the federal courts, a silent yet momentous struggle is taking shape - one that reaches deeper than any single trial. It concerns the very foundation of American separation ...
Washington – It is an unassuming sheet of paper, little more than a few lines, hastily noted, almost casual. Yet within these lines lies a political detonation. The United States Department of Justice could no longer ...
Washington – In the midst of the longest government shutdown in decades, the Trump administration is once again under fire – this time over hunger. A coalition of cities, relief organizations, and social associations accuses the White House ...
Kyle of Lochalsh - Late in the evening, five men stand in the hall of Scot West Seafoods. The light is harsh, the air smells of salt and metal. They ...
America votes - and yet it is not just about the candidates. It is about the condition of a nation that, since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, has turned into a mixture ...
New York - On this Tuesday, the largest city in the United States is deciding not only on its next mayor but also on a political self-conception that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
Chicago – The morning began harmlessly. Dayanne Figueroa only wanted to grab a coffee before heading to work. Then she drove into a scene that looked more like a war zone ...
Washington – For the first time since the beginning of the government shutdown, Donald Trump has been forced to back down. After weeks of defiance and growing anger, his administration announced on Monday evening that the nation’s most important food assistance program ...
Portland, Oregon – In a country that has grown accustomed to the constant rhetoric of chaos and unrest, a federal judge has silenced the noise. Karin Immergut, a judge appointed by Donald Trump himself, ...
The man who appeared in a Des Moines bar dressed as Hitler and posed with laughing guests was no stranger. His name is Donnie Gardner, he lives in Johnston, Iowa, and runs ...
Donald Trump’s Donald Trump’s reconstruction of the White House is no longer just a building project. It is a reflection of his architecture of power - built from concrete, vanity, and dependency. The demolition of the East Wing ...
"These boats are 2,000 miles from the United States. They cannot travel more than 100 miles." With this sentence, Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky and one of the few remaining ...
Donald Trump has turned the tariff policy of the United States into an art of exercising power. Where previous presidents negotiated, he threatens. Where others used sanctions or diplomacy, he swings the tariff hammer ...
Once upon a time there was a well-kept front yard in a wealthy neighborhood of Washington, a few withering pumpkins, a porch with an American flag - and in the middle of it all a skeleton sitting in a garden chair ...
Norfolk, Virginia - It is an image that feels both familiar and desperate at once: Barack Obama stands on a stage, the sun breaking through gray clouds, the crowd cheering, and ...
Donald Trump, the dealmaker, in his own world probably already a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the man who uses war as a metaphor for strength, threatened on Saturday on his own platform ...
The Trump administration has, within a few weeks, established a new pattern of power: it defines war so that it no longer looks like war and claims it is therefore not subject to legal limits ...
Desperation that shows up in grocery lists - that is how this November begins for millions of Americans. In Miami, Christine Tully sits at her kitchen table and writes down, as always, what she needs: chicken, ...
Trump's administration has erased the boundary between politics and profit. The state has become a service for its donors. By the end of October 2025, the Trump administration had suspended, dropped, or closed a total of 204 investigations ...
Washington – In a city already under high tension, this is a signal of weight. More and more senior officials of the Trump administration are retreating to military housing complexes – places ...
There are political symbols that make history - and then there are Donald Trump’s toilets. While millions of people in the country do not know how they will pay for their next meal, ...
In a country that likes to see itself as the embodiment of the “American dream,” a simple table says more about the political present than a thousand speeches. It comes from the official ...
Scott Ryan Presler, born May 15, 1988, in Jacksonville, Florida, embodies a new type of American activist – disciplined, media-savvy, and firmly rooted in Donald Trump’s orbit ...
Boston/Washington – Two federal courts ruled almost simultaneously on Friday that the Trump administration must continue payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown. Judges Indira Talwani ...
Donald Trump has discovered a new political weapon - and it is called the “Nuclear Option”. In an angry Truth Social post, after he had offended Asia, the president on Thursday ...
Washington – On the South Lawn of the White House, children stood in colorful costumes, between pumpkins and music, as the president of the United States stepped onto the stage ...
Boston – Outside, rain beats down on the asphalt of Boston, inside a nation waits for a verdict. In the courtroom of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ...
There are politicians who dress up for Halloween – and those who simply stay that way. Kristi Noem has decided to be both: minister, horror figure, and state myth all in one ...
The paralysis in Washington has further worsened the hunger crisis in America, which affects not only numbers but people. The shutdown has now lasted four weeks, and as of November 1, the ...
Donald Trump wanted to make history this week. A new chapter of strength, of the “Return of America.” Instead, the world is witnessing a president who sees himself as the greatest dealmaker fail at the reality ...
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