What is really known about Rahmanullah Lakanwal – our investigation, the verified facts, the open questions
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, ...
A Shot at Close Range - 20-year-old soldier Sarah Beckstrom has died and a president who uses the moment for himself
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 redraws the line – a voluntary military service for a generation that never thought about war and how the times have changed
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 ...
Green Card appointments are becoming a trap - we can barely keep up with how military families are being torn apart
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 ...
Rubio as a hero? Power struggles in the Trump administration? A distorted story is circulating in Germany – and it is simply nonsense
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 ...
A President Who Draws Borders - and a Country That Has to Watch Breathlessly
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 ...
November 27, 2025 - Short News
Newsom sounds the alarm over America's decline! Gavin Newsom reacted unusually sharply in an interview to the political situation in the country. “What the hell is going on in this country? ...
An attack in the heart of Washington - and a president who fuels the fire
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 ...
The Liar with the Red Cap - Trump’s Energy World: Promised Oil, Delivered Crises - a Political Style the AfD Copies
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 ...
A Man for Every Embarrassment - Putin’s New Calendar and the Art of Eternal Self-Adoration
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 ...
Weidel's 12-Point Show: A Program That Does Not Strengthen Germany but Turns It Into a Patient
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 ...
The mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew in ICE custody
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, ...
26 November 2025 – Short News
Italy takes a hard line – femicide becomes its own criminal offense! In Rome, Parliament has passed a step Italy has argued about for years: femicide will now be listed as a separate criminal ...
Foreign Trump Accounts on X Exposed – but X Is Unable to Reliably Detect or Block Modern VPN Architectures. An Investigative Report
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 ...
The 17-Cent Revolt of Monrovia - how day laborers force Home Depot to take a stand
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 ...
A Deal in the Shadow of Rockets – Trump Sends Two Trusted Envoys While a War Refuses to Wait
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. ...
25 November 2025 – Short News
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 ...
Thanksgiving In A State Of Exception – A President Living Off Images That Have Nothing To Do With Reality
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 ...
Chrupalla on the trash heap of diplomacy - and calls it politics
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 and the Flight From the Christmas Tree - two minutes fifty that say more about this White House than any press conference
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, ...
Selenskyj’s Message from Geneva - and the Attempt to Save a Peace That Is Already Under Fire
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 ...
A Backroom Peace Plan – and Now the White House Confirms the Joint US–Russia Architecture
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: “Trump has the mind of a four year old” - and the world has had enough of his king fantasies
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, ...
Gold, gasoline and a crumbling regime - how Mali becomes the scene of Putin’s defeat and also a problem for the West
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 ...
And someone like this is negotiating with Russia? - the question no one dares to ask
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, ...
November 24, 2025 – Short News
Trump increases the pressure - and the highest ranking US general appears in the Caribbean! The visit by General Dan Caine to Puerto Rico and to a warship marks the next escalation in the ...
Why Geneva Becomes a Burden for Ukraine – and for All Those Who Stand by Her
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 ...
Why a Republican Is Publicly Standing Up to Trump – Bacon’s Warning, McConnell’s Sentence and the Situation of the Refugees
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 ...
How a capitulation plan shakes Ukraine and puts hundreds of thousands in the United States at risk
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 ...
Ostbelgien shows what politics could be - when people are truly involved
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 ...
The small intruder - how a young alligator enchanted Boston for a moment
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 ...
November 23, 2025 – Short News
Bolsonaro, the former president, already sentenced to 27 years in prison, last escape route - and the end of a political myth! The arrest of Jair Bolsonaro marks a moment that is extraordinary even for Brazil’s political conditions ...
A girl, 12 years old, an empty street corner - and a state that takes her last parent
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 trembles – thousands demand the end of the Trump regime
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., ...
An Ending Without Direction - Why the Climate Conference in Brazil Is a Warning Signal for the World
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 ...
A Peace That Is Not One - Republicans Sharply Criticize the Peace Plan
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 ...
The Judge Who Opened the Gate - How John Roberts Paved Donald Trump’s Way Back to Power
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 ...
The woman in free fall – why the White House has long been discussing the end of Kristi Noem
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 ...
A Handshake That Shakes New York – “Are you confirming that you consider Trump a fascist?” – Mamdani: “Yes.”
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 ...
22 November 2025 – Short News
How to squeeze people - and then tell them it is for their own good - Health insurers in Germany! Sometimes you wonder whether some proposals arise out of sheer ...
At the limit of what is bearable – how Trump and Putin force Ukraine into a space from which there is no dignified exit
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, ...
21 November 2025 – Short News
Houlahan accuses Republicans of silence over death accusations! The Democratic congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan expresses disbelief that not a single Republican has reacted to Trump’s claim that she and five other Democratic lawmakers ...
The Missing Daughter – and the Russian Propaganda Fairy Tale about a “Rescue” that in Reality Others Carried Out
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 ...
The Abyss After the Fall - Why Trump’s Venezuela Course Could Push a Country Into Uncertainty
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 ...
Negotiating About Our Future - Just Without Us: Trump Treats Ukraine As If It Could Simply Be Handed Over to Moscow
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 ...
A Verdict With Shockwaves – Why a Federal Judge Is Halting Trump’s Deployment in the Capital
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 ...
Fire in the Blue Zone - a moment that shakes COP30
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, ...
The Moment of Truth? – what Trump’s signature means and how the Epstein files will proceed from here
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 ...
November 20, 2025 – Short News
Mamdani Travels to the Oval Office - With a Focus on Numbers! New York’s incoming mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he intends to present Trump with concrete data on the housing cost crisis during their meeting on Friday. He emphasized that despite ...
In the Crosshairs - a secret surveillance network on the roads and why tourists are getting caught in the line of fire
The United States has created a system over the past two decades that hardly anyone consciously notices, yet reaches deep into everyday life: a network of cameras, hidden devices, data ...
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