Investigative Journalism
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., ...
The world has taken another step toward dangerous warming - but not in the fight against it. In Belém, in the heart of the Amazon, this year’s UN climate conference ...
In Washington, a quiet but unmistakable fracture is emerging even within the Republican Party - a break Trump did not anticipate. Several prominent Republicans are openly opposing key ...
In the coming years, there will be many explanations for why the United States, at this moment of all moments, once again entrusted power to a man who openly ...
Karoline Leavitt can get as loud as she wants – it does not change the fact that people in the president’s circle have long been talking about the future of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem. And not in the sense of a ...
It was a political encounter that revealed more than any party convention speech. The meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office was exactly such a moment. For weeks, both had ...
It feels like a moment in which several political axes are shifting at the same time. While Donald Trump publicly pressures Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign his peace plan by Thanksgiving, ...
It rarely begins with a chain at the gate or an armed guard. It usually begins with a promise. An enticing offer, an embellished photo, the illusion of a new beginning. For Dashima ...
Washington has long since decided where things are headed. Donald Trump describes Nicolás Maduro as an outlaw, as an enemy of the United States, and he has moved warships, aircraft and special units so close ...
Until shortly before this article, we were still researching, conducting conversations, gathering information. What Trump calls a peace plan goes further than anything Moscow ever dared to hope for. In Kyiv, people lived ...
Washington is experiencing a conflict these weeks that it has not seen in this form before: a president who lets the National Guard patrol the streets of the capital for months ...
Belém - It happens in seconds, yet it changes the mood of an entire summit. Around midday, a fire broke out in one of the pavilions of COP30 in Belém - right in the Blue Zone, ...
Sometimes a political situation shifts not because of major speeches but because of a single signature. On Wednesday, that was the moment. Trump put his name, surely without much enthusiasm, under ...
Donald Trump wanted to keep this issue under lock and key. For weeks he had resisted the effort by Congress to force him to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein. He could block it, delay it, talk it to death, ...
There are appearances where even seasoned observers are no longer sure whether they are following a political speech or watching the free fall of a man who has long since lost all contact ...
Twelve hours America - and everything lies open: a country between hunger and megalomania, between poverty and power, between ideology and fear. Twelve hours that show how deep ...
There are recordings that are so clear that they make any attempt at relativization unnecessary. The images from Oak Park, Michigan, belong exactly to that. A woman lies handcuffed on the ground, her hands pulled tightly ...
Research has revealed that Trump has given the C.I.A. permission to operate covertly in Venezuela. Not a side issue and not a technical detail, but a step that lifts the entire conflict to a new level ...
Belém - Friedrich Merz apparently wanted to share only a brief impression after his return from Belém. What followed was nationwide criticism in Brazil, accusations of arrogance, xenophobia and a President Lula who did not hesitate ...
The evening in Washington had barely ended when it became clear that the Senate would wave through the Epstein file without a single change, without hearings, without delay. A decision whose clarity ...
In the Oval Office, two men sit next to each other who know exactly what is at stake that afternoon. On one side Donald Trump, the president who is back at the lever ...
The US Congress sent a clear signal on Tuesday. With 427 to 1 votes, the House of Representatives approved the release of the Epstein file. A rare moment of bipartisan unity - ...
The MAGA world is on fire - open, visible, unmistakable. In the place where absolute allegiance ruled for years, loyalty is now breaking apart like a rotting orange tree. Trump is losing control over the people who once ...
There are withdrawals from public life that happen quietly, almost imperceptibly. And then there are those that resemble a political thunderclap because they expose a truth that had been pushed aside for years ...
There are political stories that lie in the dark for a long time until one discovery tears everything open. An analysis of private messages from Jeffrey Epstein’s communications archive belongs exactly in this category ...
Donald Trump has long relied on the belief that no one could politically harm him. A president who presents himself as invulnerable, who displays his ...
Belém showed this weekend what happens when a climate summit does not take place in sterile halls but in the middle of a city that breathes, sweats and struggles. Thousands of people moved through the streets, colorful, loud and ...