Investigative Journalism
Las Vegas – It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday afternoon. Two cousins, 15 and 16 years old, were on their way to a birthday party downtown. But they never got there...
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.
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