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New York City, June 2, 2025 – It was a quiet, poignant moment at the foot of a symbol of hope: More than fifty people gathered yesterday on the steps of the Statue of Liberty, ...
It is no longer only the political fringes where the language of contempt is taking root. When Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) declared the day after a constitutionally confirmed legal principle that he would not change ...
It is a political monument, a monument to overconfidence, baptized with the name of a marketing promise: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Donald Trump announced it as a masterpiece of fiscal policy – but within his own ranks ...
It was a Friday evening when smoke drifted through the streets of San Diego, when screams tore through the air and heavily armed men in tactical gear stormed into an Italian restaurant – just before dinner, just before the breaking of bread...
It was early on a Saturday morning when Ruth Eleonora López was arrested in her home. No summons, no judicial warrant, no timeline – just the vague accusation that she had helped ...
It was a quiet yet significant moment this Monday. The United States Supreme Court chose—with as much deliberation as signal effect—not to intervene. Two central cases concerning gun rights in America were not taken ...
Yet truth is dangerous, and science is a public threat. We must keep it carefully chained and muzzled.” These are the words of Mustapha Mond in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, ...
It was a brief moment of relief, hardly more than a breath in the history of economic rivalry: Just a few weeks ago, the United States and China announced in Geneva ...
From a president, one expects composure, judgment, at least the appearance of moral integrity. But what if, instead, a bouncer takes office - with a criminal record on his back, old acquaintances in shady circles, and a firm determination ...
Benjamin Enrique Berardinelli Manjarrez sitzt in einem Straßencafé in Madrid, wo der Frühling langsam in die Glut des Sommers übergeht. Er ist 33 Jahre alt, Kolumbianer, und erst seit wenigen…
t is a move that echoes dark times: On May 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by Kristi Noem, released a list of 500 cities, counties, and states ...
It is a message that makes even the most war-weary news cycle pause: On June 1, 2025, Moscow requested urgent consultations with the United States. The reason? An attack ...
On the evening of May 30, 2025, the city of San Diego, California, witnessed a law enforcement operation that left many residents and guests in utter shock: Around 6 p.m., units from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...
They were once allies: Donald Trump and Leonard Leo, the legal mastermind behind the conservative shift at the Supreme Court. Leo, longtime head of the Federalist Society, had advised Trump in selecting judges and is seen as the architect ...
It sounds like the plot of a cheap science fiction movie that even RTL2 wouldn’t air late at night – Joe Biden, allegedly executed in 2020, replaced by a soulless robotic decoy controlled by dark forces ...
It is a promise that could hardly be greater – and at the same time more dangerous: President Donald Trump wants to solve America’s debt problem. With multibillion-dollar tax cuts, growth-driven optimism, and an aggressive tariff policy. But ...
It begins with a question that few used to ask: "What did you post on your Instagram feed – and who might hold it against you?" In the United States of 2025, it has become ...
A new Republican budget proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives is drawing sharp criticism: Every employee of the immigration agency ICE is to receive a $42,000 bonus – in addition to their regular salary. ...
It is a sentence that cuts deep: “Tranquila, ma. Aquí estoy yo” - “Calm down, Mom. I’m here.” Spoken by a small boy who has to watch as his mother is arrested by ICE agents in San ...
One has to imagine it: The central health report of the US government - the very document that is supposed to provide millions of people with guidance on health issues - is crammed full of fabricated sources, dead links, and digital watermarks ...
It’s only four words, but they reveal everything - “I love Viktor Orbán.” With this sentence, Alice Weidel, chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, finally dropped the last remnants of her democratic mask at this year’s CPAC 2025 in Budapest. The stage - a right-wing carnival of authoritarian self-adoration...
It is just a word. And yet it acts like an explosive device in political language: remigration. Donald Trump uses it as if it were bureaucratic jargon. As if it referred to return assistance, applications, orderly procedures...
An article about fear as a weapon, a fabricated letter, and the propaganda of power It begins with a letter. Light blue ink, an angry message threatening to shoot Donald Trump ...
Greifswald, the historic university town on the Baltic Sea, is politically upside down. Since the municipal elections of 2024, the city council has been in a state that resembles a political experiment –albeit one without a plan ...
By a man who set out to make America great again – and burned billions along the way. It was one of those scenes that have become routine in Trump’s second term: a warehouse ...
It does not begin with tanks. Not with uniforms or marching music. It begins with a smile - and a nomination. Paul Ingrassia is the man Donald Trump wants to appoint as head ...
It begins with a court ruling, soberly worded, directed at a public long accustomed to the unimaginable. And yet, May 30, 2025, will go down in history – as the day the Supreme Court ...
Sometimes, one wonders if the White House kitchen has replaced its spices with political fumes. The recent maneuvers labeled as "China strategy" by Donald Trump's team seem less like calculated geopolitics ...
It begins with a letter. Printed on heavy letterhead, bearing the seal of the Department of Justice, signed by Pamela Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General. What is written there sounds harmless – almost bureaucratically dry...
He came to Washington wielding a chainsaw – both metaphorically and politically. Elon Musk, multi-entrepreneur, billionaire, and self-declared government reformer, entered the political stage with the swagger of a man who believes everything can be solved ...
An article about the four-year-old girl Trump wants to throw out of the United States. There are stories that make even seasoned observers stop in their tracks. Cases so cruel in their banality that you feel like you're watching the wrong movie...
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It was a statement with political explosiveness – and it was made not in Beijing, but in Washington: On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would begin revoking the visas of Chinese ...
Donald Trump has done it again. In a furious Truth Social post on May 29, 2025, the U.S. President declared a "total victory" in his lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board. His claim? That a Florida appellate court had ruled the Pulitzer Prize ...
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
It was a ruling spoken softly – yet its impact echoes loudly: On May 29, 2025, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from banning Harvard University from ...
Am 29. Mai 2025, um 4:32 Uhr morgens, postete der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten ein Bild, das in seiner Symbolkraft kaum überboten werden kann – und in seiner ideologischen Tiefe erschüttert. Donald J. Trump, in schwarzem ...
– Trump reacts angrily to his new Wall Street nickname: “Don’t ever say that again.” - It began with a sentence, spoken calmly, analytically, yet politically explosive. A reporter asked the President of the United States what he thought about Wall
It begins with a personnel decision, but it stands for far more than mere administrative reshuffling. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), the core of Donald Trump’s massive deportation policy, is undergoing a profound restructuring – and ...
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, ...
It was a moment of rare clarity in an increasingly multipolar world. On May 27, just a few hours after his throne speech, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke in an exclusive interview with CBC’s Power & Politics ...
Donald Trump loves to talk about “deals” – as if wars were merely tedious negotiations over square footage, suffering a collateral side effect of diplomacy. Now it’s Russia. And again: no word about the dead, no rebuke for the aggressor...
It begins, like so much with Donald Trump, with an image: a little boy, blond, well cared for, in the large house in Queens. A son from a good home – and yet, according to his niece ...
It is a sentence that echoes like a thunderclap in a democracy already crumbling under the weight of its own erosion: “I will take a look at it.” That’s how Donald Trump responded Wednesday when asked whether he would pardon the men ...
Once upon a time – that’s how fairy tales begin. And sometimes, it’s how debates begin, too – about works of art we’ve long since crowned as classics. But what happens when these works are viewed through the lens of a new era? ...
It was a sentence straight out of a reality show – staged, over-the-top, yet shockingly real in its cynicism: “Your parents are going to be free and clean – I hope by tomorrow.” Spoken by Donald ...
It was a sentence as if from another world: “A bill can be big or it can be beautiful - but both at once?” Elon Musk looked into the CBS studio camera, his gaze tired yet unwavering...
San Diego, May 2025. A concrete block in the desert. The air smells of bleach and fear. Inside sits a woman in a booth so small that pain seems to pool in it. She speaks into ...
A directive with far-reaching consequences: The U.S. State Department has suspended the scheduling of new visa interviews for international students - effective immediately. The move is justified by plans to expand the vetting of ...
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