Investigative Journalism
Shortly after two o’clock in the morning, Caracas was jolted awake. At least seven explosions shook the Venezuelan capital, accompanied by low-flying aircraft whose roar cut through several neighborhoods ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands on the brink of its next major escalation. For days, protests have spread across the country, born of economic desperation and turning into an open ...
Alma Bowman has lived in the United States for 49 years. She was born in the Philippines while her father was on active duty in the US Navy. Under the law in force at the time, ...
In the shadow of all front lines lies a place where Ukraine’s future could be decided - not by weapons, but by electricity. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, has been under Russian occupation ...
Anyone walking through Tehran today without a headscarf is no longer stopped. No warnings, no fines, no intervention. Young women like Sahar, who does research at a university, take advantage of this - ...
A federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it sought to revoke deportation protection for tens of thousands of migrants ...
Denis Kapustin is alive. And that is no minor detail, but a slap in the face for the Russian intelligence apparatus. Just days ago, agencies around the world reported his alleged death – hit by a Russian drone, ...
The trail was not the explosion, but an inconsistency. A Russian cargo vessel, traveling on a route that defied every principle of maritime logic, declared a harmless cargo – empty containers, harbor cranes, equipment ...
Since September 2023, a criminal trial has been underway in Stockholm that appears outwardly inconspicuous but breaks new legal ground. Two former executives of the Swedish company Lundin Oil are standing trial on charges ...
For ten months, Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez has been held at the Eloy Detention Center. Ten months in which her body has visibly deteriorated while authorities, operators and politicians argue over whether she is sick or not ...
America faces big questions. War, climate, the economy – all secondary now that part of the republic, with a serious expression, is asking whether the press secretary’s lips are ...
In the middle of the open sea, the crew turned to paint and calculation. While U.S. units were tracking the oil tanker Bella 1, a Russian flag suddenly appeared on the hull. Not a symbol of conviction, but a shield ...
The return came without warning. In mid-December, Gregory Bovino reappeared in the Chicago area, accompanied by several hundred federal agents – and a film crew. The same hard methods that had already ...
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin personally informed him that Ukraine had attempted to attack one of his residences with drones. A serious accusation, made at a sensitive moment ...
Monday evening in Bautzen. Once again, hundreds of people move through the streets, celebrating themselves as resistance, as a freedom movement, as peacemakers, as alleged heirs of a suppressed history. “Free Saxony” echoes back to itself, ...
The day Donald Trump receives Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida smells of power and staging. While houses burn in Ukraine and people are pulled from rubble, ...
In the United States, someone is missing. In Germany, perhaps soon more than people would like. Not as a headline, not as a number in a table, but as a gap in everyday life: ...
Donald Trump has once again expanded the circle of those excluded - and this time it does not stop at symbolic toughness at home. With the decision of December 16 to extend the existing entry ban...
Arturo Rafael Brito Goncalvez is 22 years old, a pilot in training, and from Venezuela. During the Christmas week, he suddenly found himself in detention. Arrested not during a check, not following a complaint, ...
HALLELUJAH, says the new program, and it sounds like a fitness subscription for the conscience. The president is promoting the idea that Americans should pray for one hour each week. Not mandatory, of course - just as “voluntary” as a smile ...
Hardly had the U.S. Department of Justice released new files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in late December 2025 when a race began online for supposed shortcuts to the truth. A simple flick of the mouse, people said, ...
In Bell, an ordinary family home was turned into a scene of state violence. Officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection used explosives to arrest a father while his partner and a child ...
After the U.S. airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria, Donald Trump declared that the targets had been fighters of the Islamic State who were brutally murdering Christians. The message was clear, sharpened, easy to connect with ...
There are sentences that carry weight on their own. Placed next to each other, they form a picture – of what the United States currently is, a country that has lost its bearings ...
Outside the Hampton Inn in Eagan, it was impossible to ignore what was happening that night. Activists had gathered to send a clear signal with chants and noise makers ...
In Russia’s customs data for the year 2025, a gap of historic proportions has opened up. Around 180 categories of technically advanced goods have simply vanished. These are primarily electronics and industrial equipment, ...
In Berlin, the same invitation has been circulating in some feeds for weeks: “Europe Vibes”, “first ESN student party”, champagne glasses, young faces, an EU lawmaker giving a ...
When Volodymyr Zelensky presented the new 20-point peace plan on Tuesday, it was immediately clear that this was not simply an addendum, but a deliberate break with a draft that in the fall had looked very much ...
Donald Trump did not sit by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, but at his preferred altar: Truth Social. While others lit candles, he lit words. A Christmas greeting, 101 words long, filled with resentment, self-pity, ...
Emmanuel Macron found unusually clear words. The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on former British and European officials were aimed at undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty. No diplomatic formula, ...
Washington builds a wall, Trump likes doing that, and calls it principle. From one day to the next, several European actors are deemed unwelcome. The accusation: “censorship.” What is meant is the European practice ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has stopped Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the justices denied the administration permission to deploy National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area to support the ongoing deportation offensive ...
No one was responsible. And yet everyone was. Donald Trump explains that he did not call Jeff Landry – Landry called him. Very proactive, in fact. Minutes later, Landry explains that the ...
It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death ...
The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades ...
The courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, filled with tension, mistrust, and an unusually candid judge. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is allowed to remain free. Not because his case is simple, but because it ...
With a single post, Donald Trump reignited a simmering conflict and at the same time pushed it to a far higher level of escalation. The US president appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, ...
Many readers now ask what happened to the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected ...
There are encounters that change a life - and others that shake a world order, and why no one looked more closely. The meeting between Leslie H. Wexner, the discreet king of American retail,
In recent days, we have repeatedly reported on ICE operations, including in Minneapolis. We will not repeat all of the shocking footage here again. Long before you could see the people, the noise ...
At AmericaFest, nothing was accidental, nothing loosely strung together. First Mike Johnson took the stage and made clear what this was about. He declared that a loss of the Republican majority in the House ...
Paris - 1991, an evening gala of the fashion world: glaring lights, tense faces, young models on stage whose future depends on the votes of a few jurors. In the middle of the jury sits Donald J. Trump, ...
The Kaizen Blog had the exclusive opportunity to speak with an investigator who was closely involved from the very beginning in both the investigation and the now published version of the Epstein files ...
Trump likely enjoyed the images. Armed U.S. units, a helicopter hovering over an oil tanker, soldiers on the deck. The impression the Trump regime wants to project to the world, that of a lawful seizure, is false. At the time of the operation, ...
Donald Trump, 79, has discovered a new talent: invisibility. Not his own, but that of the women around him. Since he entered politics, he claims, he never mentions ...
It was an act of almost literary purity: an Epstein document package so clean, so free of incriminating names that even high gloss kitchen cleaners would be jealous. No Trump trace, no shadow, no speck of dust ...
What was intended as a memorial event for Charlie Kirk turned into a ruthless reckoning within the American right in Phoenix. At the AmericaFest conference of Turning Point USA, one of the most important stages for the right wing ...
What Alice Weidel is currently selling as a triumph is, upon closer examination, the opposite. The ruling of December 18, 2025, by the Administrative Court of Weimar, Case No. 8 K 1271/23 We, is clear, sober, and ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has begun releasing files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case – while at the same time acknowledging that this release is incomplete. In a letter to Congress, the department confirmed ...
What is happening here is less a cultural policy decision than a display of power. A president who reshapes a board according to his own preferences, removes critics, installs loyal partisans and then allows himself to be honored by that very ...