Investigative Journalism
Zelenskyy stands before journalists in Kyiv, but the real question has long been hanging heavily over the city: How deep does this new corruption scandal truly go? The resignations of ministers, the removal of half ...
There are moments when political history tilts because someone in the background throws a thought into the room that should never have been uttered. In the fall of 2018 - when the ...
There are moments when the past snaps back into the glaring light of the present, as if it had only been waiting to regain power over the present, the abyss of a man who ...
It was one of those moments when the Oval Office seemed to develop its own gravity. No heavy speech, no orchestrated protocol, but a scene that felt disturbing, revealing, and almost intimate all at once ...
Veracruz/Monterrey/Waco – It was a Tuesday morning in March when the quiet ritual of a workday began in Waco, Texas. Sergio Garcia heated the beans, ...
They are inconspicuous lines, written years ago, yet they strike at the core of power. In emails obtained by us, Jeffrey Epstein writes that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house with one of the girls.” ...
Cicero, Illinois – The morning began like any ordinary day. Rafael Veraza, 33, was on his way with his wife and their one-year-old daughter to Sam’s Club, a wholesale store west ...
Washington – It was a single sentence from the highest court in the land, yet its impact reaches millions: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the order blocking the payment ...
Eight votes were enough to end the longest government shutdown in American history. Eight votes that led the country out of paralysis - and at the same time plunged it deeper into self-forgetfulness ...
Greenbelt, Maryland – It is a case that runs like a crack through the foundation of American justice. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, husband, father, worker – and a symbol of a system ...
Belgrade – It was a quiet but unmistakable uprising. Thousands of young Serbians formed a human chain on Tuesday around the destroyed military headquarters in the center of Belgrade – that memorial ...
There are political decisions that change the course of the world. And then there are tariffs on pasta. Donald Trump apparently confused the two. In a country that once reached the moon, ...
We researched the total return of stocks in leading industrial nations. Germany is comparatively more stable - not a bad picture, but that of an aging yet resilient economy that, despite energy crises, ...
It was a late Sunday evening when the board in the Capitol lit up: 60 to 40 votes - the threshold had been crossed. After 41 days of paralyzing deadlock, the Senate had decided to reopen the government ...
New York – The statement by New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has drawn international attention. Mamdani declared in several interviews that he would order the arrest of Israeli Prime ...
Nebraska – It is the silent end of a land that once thought of itself as the world’s granary. While Washington debates budget numbers, the fields of the Midwest sink into debt ...
Washington - While millions of Americans do not know how they will pay for their food this month, Donald Trump’s administration is once again turning to the Supreme Court of the United ...
Washington - It was an act of breathtaking symbolism and political audacity at the same time: Donald Trump has, on the night before Monday, pardoned those men and women who, five ...
It was just before 11 p.m. in Washington when John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, entered the chamber to applause. The last senator whose vote mattered that night ...
It was planned as a triumphal march and ended as a lesson in political reality. (See video footage) Donald Trump, the first sitting president since Jimmy Carter to attend a regular NFL game, appeared on Sunday ...
It is an image meant to have an effect: two men, two suits, the US flag in the background, and above it in large letters: “Thank you, Mr. Bruesewitz! Social media advisor to US President Trump.” ...
It was just past noon when the first sirens wailed through the streets of Little Village. People ran out of shops, doors slammed shut, and a tense silence settled over 26th Street – ...
It sounded like a grotesque twist amid the American budget dispute: “U.S. Army refers its soldiers in Germany to the food bank.” Several German and British media outlets, as well as MSN News ...
Sometimes the state of a government reveals itself not in its laws but in the side remarks of its leading figures. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, on a stage in Mississippi, ...
It was a speech (see video recording) that will go down in history - not because of its content, but because of its tone. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s war minister, stood before representatives of the arms industry at the National War ...
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Washington – The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency ...
Portland – After many hours of waiting, we were glad about this ruling – a shared struggle that has, for now, found a good end. Of course, it can ...
It was a legal confrontation that, in its speed, surprised even experienced observers. Within just a few hours of the Trump administration’s emergency motion, the appeals court in Boston ruled that the full benefits ...
Boston – A president who moves billions like play money declares a state of emergency for his own people. While families wait in the cold outside food distribution centers, lawyers in Trump’s Justice Department argue ...
Washington – When Donald Trump speaks, it often sounds as if Vito Corleone himself were running the American state – only without charm, logic, or respect for reality. “The Donfather” rules over an empire of fear, Fox News ...
Washington - There are sentences that are not analysis but confession. Steve Bannon spoke this one with that peculiar mixture of defiance and fatalism that makes his appearances so ominous ...
There are shows you attend after not eating for at least eight hours. Not because you want to fast – but because the very thought of what awaits you makes your stomach turn ...
Washington – It is one of those decisions that will go down in the history of American separation of powers. John J. McConnell Jr., Chief Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court for the State of Rhode Island, has ordered ...
It was a scene (see video) that will likely burn itself into the nation’s memory. During a new announcement in the Oval Office, a man in the background collapsed. No sound ...
One block away they stand, crowded together, freezing, papers in hand. Men, women, children - migrants who have come for routine hearings, as the law requires ...
Washington - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced that beginning Friday morning, it will reduce air traffic across 40 major markets in the country by ten percent. Officially, it says this is about safety. In truth, ...
Washington - It was a day of speechlessness, a day of excuses and evasions. Hardly were the votes in Virginia and New Jersey counted when the feverish search for culprits began within the Republican Party ...
Miami - It sounds like a satire on the state of the world: FIFA, that billion-dollar syndicate of officials, corporations, and statesmen, has announced the creation of a "Peace Prize" - and intends ...
Chicago - It was just after seven in the morning. Children were laughing as they ran through the glass doors of the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center, a bilingual preschool in the northern part of the city, ...
It was 10 a.m. in Washington when the Supreme Court session began. The case before the highest court of the United States that day could redefine the limits of presidential power ...
Washington - It sounds like big politics but is really just a symbolic gesture: Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, a loyal voice of the MAGA movement, has announced that she will host a "Conference of Patriotic Forces" in Washington in December ...
It was the night when Donald Trump, for the first time since his return to office, realized that even a king in a golden palace can lose - especially ...
It was the first major test of sentiment since Donald Trump returned to the White House - and it ended in a crushing defeat for the president. The Democrats won the gubernatorial ...
New York - It was more than an election. After the Democrats’ victories today in Virginia and New Jersey, this success is more than a moment of renewal. Zohran Mamdani, 34 years old, ...
Montclair – On a night that carries political significance far beyond the borders of New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill decisively defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli ...
Richmond - It was an evening that will go down in Virginia’s history books. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, soundly defeated Republican Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears - becoming the first woman to hold...
Washington - Behind the walls of the federal courts, a silent yet momentous struggle is taking shape - one that reaches deeper than any single trial. It concerns the very foundation of American separation ...
Washington – It is an unassuming sheet of paper, little more than a few lines, hastily noted, almost casual. Yet within these lines lies a political detonation. The United States Department of Justice could no longer ...
Washington – In the midst of the longest government shutdown in decades, the Trump administration is once again under fire – this time over hunger. A coalition of cities, relief organizations, and social associations accuses the White House ...
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