Investigative Journalism
At the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, it wasn’t just the fluorescent lights flickering on Friday - it was the gleam of a deeply fractured nation reflected in the eyes of one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, ...
It will be early on June 20, International Refugee Day. Long before California’s light rises over the federal courthouses in San Diego, priests, deacons, and faith leaders will gather – silent, praying, present. Their mission is neither legal ...
The rockets are flying - and America remains silent. At least officially. But behind the scenes of the attacks between Israel and Iran, a very different picture emerges: the United States is already deeply involved...
It begins with a missed meal - and ends in an uprising whose full extent even the authorities do not yet fully grasp. Four detainees have escaped from the federal immigration detention center Delaney Hall in the state of New Jersey...
Another chapter in the long saga of legal battles surrounding Donald Trump ends with a clear no – this time from one of the most powerful US courts. By a vote of 8 to 2, ...
They are not traveling under cover of night, but with announcement. Neo‑Nazis, enemies of the constitution, political relics who portray themselves as the spearhead of a “homeland reconquest” ...
Kananaskis, a place of silence high in the Canadian Rockies, will this weekend become the stage for a global political drama. Here, where the wind whistles between the peaks and the echoes of ...
Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that there are "concrete military plans to take over Greenland and Panama." Early Friday morning, Israel launched a massive strike on Tehran ...
It happened in broad daylight, on the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles. A white sedan slowly turned into the street, two children in the back seat, a woman in the passenger seat. Seconds later, a light blue van rammed ...
Early Friday morning, as the streets of Tehran were still cloaked in half-light, a military escalation began that has the potential to set the entire Middle East ablaze. In one of the largest operations in decades, Israel struck targets ...
There are moments when football betrays itself. When the game that captivates millions suddenly seems detached from the reality in which it takes place. The summer of 2025 ...
While California continues to fight for its constitutional rights and the legal tug-of-war over the National Guard deployment drags on, a different picture emerges on the streets of Los Angeles – one of a government choosing escalation ...
SAN FRANCISCO – In a stunning move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily halted a ruling by federal judge Charles R. Breyer (Case No.: State of California v. Trump et al., 3:25-cv-04172-CRB) that would have required President Donald Trump
It is an image more familiar from dictatorships than from what claims to be the world’s oldest democracy: 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines marching through ...
It is a legal thunderclap that resonates far beyond California: On Thursday, federal judge Charles R. Breyer issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump in the case of Newsom v. Trump ...
It was a night that could hardly have unfolded more dramatically, even in a Middle East long accustomed to conflict. Shortly after midnight, loud explosions shook the Iranian capital, Tehran. Sirens wailed, people ran in panic...
It is a moment that seems almost too absurd to be real: The United States House of Representatives is not debating war or peace, not inflation or education, but Elmo. About Big Bird, known in Germany as Bibo, the yellow bird from ...
The decision came late in the evening, but its impact was immediate: On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, announced that hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, ...
What was announced as a routine press conference by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ended in a political bombshell: California Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat with Mexican roots, was handcuffed and removed on Thursday in Los Angeles ...
What began as a determined protest against the rigid immigration policies of the U.S. government escalated into one of the most violent clashes since the beginning of the nationwide wave of demonstrations. In front of the ICE office ...
It is a scene more familiar in authoritarian regimes than in a U.S. state: Over 5,000 members of the Texas National Guard have been deployed statewide at the direction of Governor Greg Abbott – days ahead of the planned "No Kings" protests this weekend...
It sounds like a bad joke from a dystopian film – but the sentence was spoken, publicly and without a flinch: “If you’re driving on a street and a mob surrounds your car ...
Gommern is located in Saxony-Anhalt, about 20 kilometers southeast of Magdeburg – a town of roughly 11,000 residents, nestled between the Elbe meadows, farmland, and small businesses. Politically, the unified municipality ...
Key West, Florida – It was a sunny morning in the Sunshine State when Vincent Scardina, a self-declared Trump supporter and owner of a small roofing company, suddenly realized what it means when election decisions have real ...
While President Donald Trump batters the federal rule of law with the battering ram of executive power, a quiet counter-movement is awakening in the Democratic-led states - determined, diverse, legally well thought out. It is a civil society ...
A young man walks past a burning car. In his hands: four flags, one of them Mexican. Smoke drifts over the asphalt, voices echo against the city’s walls. It is June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles ...
Donald Trump had almost won them over – the millennials, the largest generation in the U.S. electorate. Between 2020 and 2024, the Democrats’ lead among voters aged 30 to 44 shrank to just a few percentage points...
As thousands of people once again took to the streets in Los Angeles on Sunday, there were not only clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement - several journalists also found themselves caught in the crossfire...
It begins with a sentence on television. “Dictator,” says Enrique Anaya. “Despot.” He is referring to the president of his country, Nayib Bukele. A few days later, the police show up at Anaya’s home.
It is a spectacle on an open stage, a clash that is unparalleled in the history of the federal United States. California is on fire - not only in the literal sense, but politically...
The moment America held its breath did not come with a thunderous blow but with a military grip on civilian flesh. No formal state of emergency. No Insurrection Act. No declaration of martial law. And yet: Donald Trump crossed the final line.
It begins with a courtroom – sober, functional, often overcrowded – and ends with handcuffs in the hallway. Since May 2025, a silent escalation has been unfolding in the United States that few notice unless they’re directly ...
It starts like a scene from a poorly acted political play. Four elderly gentlemen, all holding party membership cards, pens, and peace-loving pathos, write a manifesto. Not just any manifesto – but a document that threatens to catapult Germany’s security policy straight back to the 1980s...
Ballymena. A small town in Northern Ireland, known for its brick buildings, its Loyalists, and its history. And now also for burning houses, shattered windows, racist manhunts, and a police force firing rubber bullets at its own youth...
It begins with a bulldozer – and ends with a monument to his own overconfidence. In Washington, where roses once bloomed and First Ladies made history, Donald Trump is tearing up the ground...
He became world-famous without uttering a single word – and now he’s leaving just as silently as he came. Khaby Lame, the most-followed TikToker in the world, is no longer in the United States. Amid President Donald Trump’s ...
What Donald Trump calls “excellent” on Truth Social is difficult to translate into economic terms with the same tone. The new deal with China, which the president claims is concluded – pending final approval by Xi Jinping ...
It begins with a chant, shouted thousands of times: No hate, no fear – immigrants are welcome here. And it ends – for now – with a police grab, with tear gas, with plastic zip ties. What is happening in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
What began as protests has long since become a domestic state of emergency. On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Police Department enforced the downtown curfew imposed by Mayor Karen Bass for the first time with full force...
These are images one would associate with crisis zones – not with an American metropolis. Amid the escalating protests in Los Angeles against President Trump’s immigration raids and the deployment of the National Guard, more and more ...
It was announced as a celebration – a festive day in honor of the 250-year history of the U.S. Army. But what Donald Trump bellowed into the microphone on June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sounded less like a patriotic tribute ...
The conflict between California and the federal government has reached a new level of escalation. Governor Gavin Newsom filed an emergency motion in federal court Tuesday evening to halt the deployment of National Guard members ...
The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, calls for torture against California's Governor Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, Marines are marching into Los Angeles, violence is escalating in Austin, and nationwide protests are set to culminate ...
It is a picture that could hardly be drawn more sharply: While Donald Trump cracks down on demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting his immigration policies, one of his first acts in his second term was to pardon over a thousand individuals – including those who brutally attacked police officers ...
In an unremarkable neighborhood just beyond the U.S.-Mexican border, a deadly business is thriving. Here, in one of the countless cartel safe houses, the next shipment of fentanyl for American streets is being prepared...
It began with a humming sound, barely distinguishable from the wind or distant machinery - but soon it became the sound of destruction that tore the cities of Kyiv and Odesa from the darkness. In the early hours of Tuesday, Russia ...
It has barely been a week since rainbow flags lined the streets of Washington, as World Pride transformed the capital into a celebration of diversity. The streets were colorful, the message clear - equality, visibility, freedom...
On Monday evening, Dallas became the next stage in the growing resistance against the deportation offensive of U.S. President Donald Trump. Dozens of demonstrators gathered on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, holding up signs and waving flags ...
It begins with an image many thought impossible: US Marines, trained for combat missions in Afghanistan or Syria, preparing to act against American citizens on American soil - right in the middle of Los Angeles. President Donald Trump has ...
t was a Sunday that felt like a turning point in American history. Thousands of people poured into the streets of Los Angeles, blocked freeways, and set self-driving vehicles on fire. These were images that recalled the summer of 2020 - George Floyd, tear gas, rebellion...
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