Investigative Journalism
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 ...
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...
It is a step that goes far beyond political symbolism - and reaches deep into the constitutional entrails of the United States: On June 7, 2025, Donald Trump ordered ...
Los Angeles, June 9, 2025, 3:00 AM (12:00 PM CET. It was already the evening of June 6 when the first protests formed and the raids began, but the nights ...
It is a Sunday, but not one of peace. Not a quiet day, not a weary end of the week. June 8, 2025 marked one of those moments when a city doesn’t just tremble - it speaks. Loudly. ...
It is a light flickering above the city - not a sunrise, but the twitching of police sirens, burning dumpsters, and the harsh, unforgiving presence of a state turning against its citizens. On the night of June 7 to 8, Los Angeles became ...
It is just a country road that separates Ferriday from Vidalia – but crossing it means traveling through decades of American history. On one side: Ferriday High School, a campus ...
It is not a wall made of concrete. No barbed wire cutting through the dusty borderland. No, the new America does not build in stone, but in code. It erects its fences from algorithms, its watchtowers from camera eyes, ...
It starts with a crash. Not a loud, not a spectacular one – but a quiet, almost imperceptible glitch in a system that is no longer a technical toy, but a geopolitical echo chamber. When cybersecurity analysts at the firm iVerify began ...
It was one of those days when you wish politics would at least occasionally recognize the difference between a scandal and a slogan. On June 7, 2025, Alice Weidel took to X ...
These are the moments when not only the veil of political ignorance is lifted, but the very foundation of Republican identity begins to shake. On June 6, 2025, such a moment occurred – and it was so unmistakable, so revealing, ...
It was a day that will likely be etched deep into California’s collective memory – tear gas, burning cars, arrested union leaders – and now, soldiers. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would deploy 2,000 ...
Tear gas and smoke hung over the southern outskirts of Los Angeles on Saturday. The streets of the small city of Paramount became the scene of an escalating confrontation between federal authorities and a civil society that refuses ...
It is an escalation whose sharpness seems unusual even for Donald Trump – and at the same time a glimpse into the power dynamics of a president who tolerates no loyalty short of total devotion. In an interview with ...
It doesn't begin with Skripal. It doesn't end with Navalny. Anyone who believes the Kremlin’s political bloodlust is a whim of the present, a mere pathology of Vladimir Putin, ...
It looked like a scene from a dark thriller: three fine but distinct fractures in the neck of a man who became the face of a global abuse scandal – and whose death raised more questions than it answered. Jeffrey Epstein, ...
It begins with an irony that only flourishes in the depths of political power: A president who claims America has recovered from chaos under his leadership governs as if the country were in a state of permanent emergency...
"Due to current events, we have updated the publication date of our May 5 article to today's date. The content remains unchanged." It didn’t begin with a gunshot. It began with a link. A channel. A message in a dark corner of the web. And like a plunge out of civilization into a world of shadow and filth, thousands found themselves drawn in -...
American politics increasingly resembles a theater in which not only the roles but also the rules are being rewritten. What once lurked in the dark corners of ideological discourse is now ...
It begins with a sentence meant to sound like triumph, but it rings like retreat: "Mission accomplished. Private Military Company Wagner returns home." So read the announcement Friday evening on a Telegram channel run by the ...
It was a Friday in June, but the heat of that day came not only from the California sun. On June 6, 2025, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing that could no longer be described merely as a political dispute ...
The Shadow of Retreat – How the US Tries to Save Face in the Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It begins with a return flight. Not voluntary, not hopeful – but as the result of an institutional breakdown that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
They say everything is under control. The state television channels flicker with confidence: inflation is down, the economy is recovering, foreign companies are returning. All that’s left is to determine who is worthy of returning ...
"Prices are down, income is up, our Border is closed, gasoline is CHEAP, inflation is DEAD — Our Country is BOOMING!" – When words become weapons, this sentence is a glancing blow against reality. ...
It begins with a legal text, dry, bureaucratic, without poetry – and ends in a nightmare of discrimination, mistrust, and missed encounters. Donald Trump, President of the United States, currently presents himself as the host of the world. The 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics ...
It was a sentence so charged it sparked like a fuse into a political powder keg: "They should launch a formal investigation into his immigration status because I firmly believe he is an illegal alien and should be deported...
It begins with a sentence as simple as it is cutting: "The circumstances surrounding the entry of the 3 Somalis and the role of left-wing NGOs like Pro Asyl must be clarified." Spoken by Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader of the AfD, ...