Investigative Journalism
Im März 2025 geschahen wundersame Dinge hinter den Türen des FBI: Eine Woche im März 2025, in der die Behörde 934 Mitarbeiter zusammentrommelte, um die Unterlagen zum Fall Jeffrey Epstein…
Venezuela seems in these weeks like a country that has already begun to prepare internally for an emergency. Behind closed doors, far from public press conferences, military officials and government advisers have drawn up two scenarios that are to be activated only in one case: ...
It was just a moment in Trump Tower, captured for Time Magazine, but in truth a warning. A bald eagle, the proud national emblem of the United States, sits next to Donald Trump, watches him, spreads its wings,
The White House presents itself as determined. A Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the applicable laws” when he ordered a second strike against an alleged drug boat on September 2. ...
Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter that reads like a warning cry from a country that senses something tightening around it. Addressed to the UN Secretary General and to all states of OPEC ...
In Washington, nerves are rising this weekend over an operation that was originally presented as part of a routine anti-drug effort. For months, the administration has ordered boats off the coast of Latin America to be fired upon, ...
One might have thought that things in America could not get any worse. One might have thought that the peak of madness had been reached. One might have thought that the US secretary of defense had enough to do ...
Donald Trump stood in the corridor of Air Force One, on the return flight from Florida, when reporters again asked him about the MRI from October. He immediately announced ...
Tino Chrupalla once again tried to present himself as someone who wants to keep distance from the most radical voices in his own party. But he cannot do it, and that shows how radical this party ...
Around the Temple of Debod, thousands of people stood shoulder to shoulder this weekend. Families, older couples, students, working people, veterans of democracy - a cross-section of ...
In Hallandale Beach, American and Ukrainian negotiators met at a place that looks more like a golf tournament than world politics. But behind the glass fronts of the club, the talks went far beyond courtesies ...
Jean-Pascal Hohm, the new chairman of the AfD youth organization “Generation Deutschland,” looks back on a political career that has shown close ties to extreme right-wing networks for years. As early as 2014, he was one of the founding figures of the ...
Marco Rubio made clear in just a few sentences how the United States under Trump now thinks about Europe. The secretary of state said that the EU had no right to define what international law ...
President Trump said a few days ago that the United States could "very soon" expand its campaign of killing suspected drug smugglers at sea to attacks on targets in Venezuela ...
Trump Vodka is back, gleaming under the lights, while Eric Trump proudly announces that the first bottles can already be preordered. A scene from another world: golden letters on an icy bottle, next to a small U.S. flag ...
Again one of those nights in which Ukraine is burning while elsewhere people speculate whether Putin is suddenly ready to negotiate. In Kyiv, Russian drones, missiles and ballistic weapons struck completely ...
She wanted to surprise her parents, spend a few free days at home, tell them what the first semester at a respected college feels like. Instead, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza’s trip ended ...
Marco Rubio says openly what has long been decided in Washington: The United States wants to filter more strictly. Visas should not only be able to be denied before entry, but also afterward - as soon as authorities ...
Trump is examining whether the United States should officially recognize Russian control over occupied territories in Ukraine. It feels like a political earthquake that had long ...
It was almost eerily quiet, only sometimes the rustling of the last leaves could be heard; the outlines of the houses rose into the gray sky, and it smelled of fresh tear gas after ...
Again and again the same question arises: What drives a person to commit such an atrocious act? – Over the past hours we have investigated Rahmanullah Lakanwal intensively – conducted conversations, ...
Only a few hundred meters from the White House, something happened on Wednesday afternoon that plunged Washington into a mix of shock, grief and political calculation. Two National Guard ...
France is changing something fundamental in its relationship between the state and society. A country that has lived in peace for decades is introducing a paid, voluntary military service for young adults ...
In recent weeks, something has been happening in the United States that has not existed in this form for decades – and it hits many completely unprepared. People appear for their green card interview to resolve their ...
A picture is spreading in Germany that has little to do with reality in Washington: Marco Rubio as the man who defused a plan fatal to Ukraine at the last second ...
Hardly had the first details of the attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington become known when a race for interpretation began that says more about the political climate in this country than about the ...
Washington was full of people on Wednesday afternoon preparing for the long Thanksgiving weekend when suddenly sirens tore through the streets, ambulances drove across stopped lanes, and a police helicopter ...
Donald Trump acted for a year as if he could flip the country with a switch: more oil, more gas, more drilling, fewer rules, fewer environmental standards ...
Russia is in season again - at least the kind you hang on your wall when you are politically completely desensitized. The new Putin calendars for 2026 are here, and as every ...
Alice Weidel presented her twelve-point plan today - and sells it as a major turning point. Anyone who listens closely quickly realizes: It is less a plan than political nonsense ...
Karoline Leavitt has been at the center of the political stage for months, but now an event beyond her control has created a direct connection to her own environment. The mother of her eleven-year-old nephew, ...
Over the weekend, users on X were able to see for the first time where certain accounts are actually located – and the results left few people indifferent. Many of the loudest pro-Trump profiles, filled with U.S. flags, images ...
In Monrovia, a few miles east of Los Angeles, day laborers and their supporters did something that was both quiet and impossible to miss. They walked into the Home Depot store, bought a single 17-cent ceramic cooktop ...
Trump announces that his peace plan has been "fine-tuned" and sends two trusted envoys on their way: Steve Witkoff is to go to Moscow, Dan Driscoll is to speak with Ukraine. He himself wants to appear only when everything is "final", as he writes. ...
Trump suddenly shows optimism about a Ukraine deal – but the price would be fatal During the ceremony, Trump said in passing that they were “very close” to an agreement between Russia and Ukraine ...
Donald Trump smiles into the cameras, two turkeys at his side, but hardly anyone is impressed by it anymore. While Waddle and Gobble are carried through the hotel, graphics run across ...
Tino Chrupalla has long lost any threshold of decency. As soon as Donald Trump presents his 28-point plan, the AfD leadership jumps on it like someone who has been waiting for a signal to finally say: ...
Melania Trump appeared in front of the White House on Monday, glanced briefly at the Christmas tree, said “beautiful” - and was gone again. Two minutes fifty. No enthusiasm, no interest, ...
The Ukrainian delegation has returned from Geneva, and what President Zelensky is now making public shows more clearly than any government spokesperson in Washington how fragile these talks are and how much ...
The truth had been on the table for weeks, yet the White House did everything it could to downplay it. Now the very spokeswoman who normally controls every word has said the decisive ...
Jeffrey Sachs has rarely pulled punches in politics, but his latest assessment of Donald Trump is unusually blunt even by his standards. Asked why Trump is not attending the G20 summit, ...
Mali is on the verge of losing a military government that has relied for years on Russian mercenaries, Russian weapons and Russian backing. Exactly where the Kremlin believed it could cement its influence ...
When Steve Witkoff said on the Tucker Carlson show on March 21, 2025, that he had liked Putin, that Putin had been open with him and that he did not consider him a bad person, ...
In Geneva, delegations from the United States and Ukraine sit at long tables, and both sides speak of progress. But the more words are spoken, the clearer it becomes that no one ...
Don Bacon has done something that is almost risky in today’s Republican Party. He publicly criticized the sitting president. Not in a roundabout way, not as a side remark, but sharply and unmistakably ...
In Bucha, where mass graves, bullet holes, and the smell of burned wood still remind people of what Russian soldiers left behind in the spring of 2022, residents are grappling with a new burden ...
In Eupen, the small capital of the German-speaking community in Belgium, a group of ordinary citizens meets on Saturdays to discuss issues that would otherwise get stuck in political committees. A truck driver, a physical therapist, a laboratory assistant ...
Sometimes a single animal is enough to jolt an entire city out of its routine. In Boston it was a tiny alligator, barely longer than a forearm, that appeared a few days ...
Delila stood in front of Logan Elementary School and looked, as she did every day, for her father’s face. It was routine, a small daily ritual between the two of them: ...
Washington showed on Saturday how quickly political dissatisfaction can turn into a tremor. Across the country, thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets nationwide, including here in the capital Washington, D.C., ...
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