China’s Counter to Trump’s Tariffs - Growth Despite Pressure
Donald Trump had hoped to bring China’s economy to its knees with punitive tariffs. But the reality reflected in the new figures from Beijing paints a different picture: despite tariffs of up to 145 percent in spring 2025, China’s economy continues to grow ...
The Great Tomato - An Obituary for a President Who's Long Since Gone Rotten
Once upon a time, there was a president who didn’t care much for anything fresh - except maybe the color of his tanning lotion. On July 14, 2025, long after the world should have forgotten him, ...
The President Who Desperately Wants to Let Go – Trump’s Epstein Memo, Pam Bondi, and the Dirty Game of Blame
Es hätte ein Befreiungsschlag sein sollen. Ein kurzes Memo, zwei Seiten, veröffentlicht von Trumps Justizministerium am 7. Juli 2025 – ein offizielles Dementi, nüchtern und final: Es gebe keine sogenannte „Epstein-Kundenliste“, ...
A Monster Misused – Elmo's X Account Hacked with Antisemitic Hate Messages
It is a disturbing turn for one of the world’s most beloved characters: Elmo, the red, fluffy Muppet from “Sesame Street,” has become the target of hackers ...
Mass Exodus at the Justice Department – Why Trump’s Lawyers Are Throwing in the Towel
It is an exodus rarely seen in Washington - and an unmistakable signal from the inner circles of the American rule-of-law establishment: Since Donald Trump’s re-election as President ...
The Dust of Progress – How Nanoplastics Pierce the Oceans and Research Campaigns for the North Sea and Baltic Sea in Germany Are Nowhere to Be Found
It begins with a veil – invisible and ubiquitous. A veil unseen by satellites, unfilmed by cameras – and yet weighing millions of tons. Nanoplastics, tiny fragments of synthetic materials smaller than a bacterium, lighter than a feather ...
Trump Turns Up the Heat: 50% Tariff Threat Against Russia, Ultimatums for Canada and Brazil - NATO at the White House, Wall Street on Edge
Washington, mid-July 2025. Once again, Donald Trump is at the center of world politics. Amid global unrest and growing doubts about his course, Trump stands alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte ...
The New Trade Front – Europe’s Response to Trump’s Tariff War
Brussels, mid-July 2025. A shadow fell across the halls of the European institutions as Donald Trump announced new tariffs from the White House – 30 percent on imports from the European Union, ...
Waiting in Hell – How the Dutch Refugee System Drives People to Suicide
It begins with an application - and ends for many with the loss of all hope. In the refugee camps of the Netherlands, a silent catastrophe is unfolding.
SUPERMAN TRUMP – A Farce in Red, White, and Madness
Once upon a time, there was a country with a constitution, a separation of powers, and a certain aversion to monarchies. But all of that now lies buried beneath a silky cape ...
Putin speaks nicely - and bombs at night: Trump sends Patriot missiles to Ukraine
Desperation and determination hung in the air as the train rolled into the station in Kyiv. On the platform stood Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
Grand Canyon in Flames - Why Old Methods Are Failing in a New Climate Reality
It was the heart of remoteness - a place of wood, stone, and memory, built on the edge of eternity. Now it's nothing but ashes. The Grand Canyon Lodge ...
Our investigation shows: Trump is effectively engaging in climate and weather terrorism
It doesn’t begin with a thunderclap. It begins with silence. With the voice that no longer warns. With the data that no longer arrives. With weather services standing empty ...
Spahn can – nothing! A politically well-oiled total failure in 10 billion pieces
Jens Spahn coined a phrase that could be plastered across a billboard for this republic: “We led Germany well through this difficult time.” That was in 2025.
The Wall of Silence Is Crumbling – Elon Musk Mocks Trump Over Epstein and Demands: "Release the Files"
It was one of those nights when history announces itself not with a bang, but with a tweet. Elon Musk, long one of Trump’s half-quiet allies and one of the most powerful men of the digital age, has broken the silence. And not only that ...
They Talk About Monsters – And Lock Up Families. The Lies of Donald Trump
Donald Trump calls them “the worst of the worst.” He speaks of rapists, murderers, child abusers – as if in recent years an army of evil had slipped across the border, led by gang bosses ...
How Russia’s Technical Commission Is Pushing Europe into Digital Isolation
Investigations reveal: The State Technical Commission of the Russian Federation – Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komissiya, or GosTekhKomissiya for short – is far more than a body for device certification. It is the invisible gear in Putin’s war economy ...
The Case of Chris Landry – How a Trump Supporter Became a Victim of His Own Hope
Chris Landry is 46 years old, a father of five children, and has lived in the United States for more than four decades. Born in Canada, he came to New Hampshire at the age of three, ...
The Day After the Death of Jaime Alanís, When California Said Stop – A Court Halts Trump’s Raids
It was the day after the assault. In front of “Glass House Farms” in Camarillo, north of Los Angeles, dozens of workers waited for an answer that had already been given ...
User Manual for a Broken Century – Why You Urgently Need the Democracy Repair Kit 2025
It begins the way so many collapses begin: with a quiet crack. A fracture in parliament, a loose bolt in the constitution, a splinter in the foundation of the rule of law.
The Shadow Prince of Abu Dhabi - How Trump and Mansour Turned Sudan into a Battleground
It's the story of a man who preferred to remain invisible. A man with a quiet voice but immense power. In Europe he's known as the owner of Manchester City, the discreet Emirati ...
And Then There Was One Less - How a Trump Fan Took Out the Trash
It starts with a man bun and ends in the bin. A bearded guy with a clean undercut, a "Vegeta" T-shirt, and a TikTok account steps in front of the camera, looks serious ...
One President, One Tariff - and the End of Reason
It was a Saturday morning straight out of the textbook of American unpredictability. Without prior notice, without final talks, without regard for the fragile order of global trade, Donald Trump ...
A Country That Hangs Up - Emergency Call into the Void
It was the day after the rain, and the rain was no longer rain but memory. Memory of the roar of the water that swallowed houses, tore open roads, swept away lives.
"They took one of our own" - The death of Jaime Alanís and the brutal ICE raid on a legal California cannabis farm
It was a hot, glaring day in Southern California when Jaime Alanís died – not of a natural illness, not in peace, but in a fall. He plunged more than nine meters from the roof ...
Empty Hallways, Empty Promises - How Trump’s Second Term Is Dismantling America’s Human Rights Architecture
It begins with a quiet image. An empty hallway, a locked glass door, behind it a printed note, simply taped to the window. No official statement, no logo, no sender ...
The Shadow Beneath the Carpet - How the Epstein Files Are Shaking the Trump Administration
It was one of those weeks when the facade begins to crumble. The Trump administration had hoped to keep the lid on the barrel with a brief memo, but what poured out was distrust, anger ...
The Hands That Help - and the Hands That Grab Why Mexicans Are Saving Lives in Texas While ICE Destroys Families
It is a hot, heavy summer in Texas, the ground still steaming from the floodwaters that swept through the land like a biblical plague. Mud covers the streets, the wood of houses rots in the sun ...
The tide is turning - How America is becoming an immigration country again under Trump, and how his support is beginning to crack
It is a development that has surprised many - and one that perhaps even Donald Trump himself did not see coming. Just a few months after his return to the White House, ...
Trump said he didn't want to "get in the way" of rescue efforts, which is why he is only now traveling to Texas
"A catastrophe without blame, or the appearance of rock bottom in peak form" - It was a landing with a message – and a visit that leaves many questions unanswered. On Friday, July 11, 2025, President Donald Trump ...
A Business of Fear - How Trump Seeks to Cement His World Order with Weapons, Tariffs and Threats While Europe Looks Awfully Outdated
It was only a sentence, but one that says everything about the new geopolitical thinking in Washington under Donald Trump: "We're sending weapons to NATO, ...
Trump Has Lost All Restraint - at the Expense of Canada and the Global Population
It is a letter that only Donald Trump could write: pompous, aggressive, economically dangerous. In his latest message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the US president announced plans to raise tariffs on Canadian imports to 35% ...
One of Our Newest Cases - “You Have No Right to Be Here”: How a California Surgical Center Stood Up to ICE Agents
It was just before noon when the doors of the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center near Los Angeles opened not only for patients, but for a drama ...
The Un-electable - How the CDU Suddenly Wants to Protect the Constitution
Once upon a time, there was a Bundestag that remembered its dignity. And because the republic stood on shaky ground, it resolved to elect constitutional judges...
The Gardener Who Wants to Fight Terror - Trump's Newest Security Chief Is 22, Loves Patriotic T-Shirts, and Was Questioned by Police Over a Teenage Drama
Sometimes the White House writes stories that even Netflix would reject. One of them begins in Kentucky, passes through a patriotically decorated college campus, brushes up against a police report involving a pubescent jealousy drama ...
20 Million Dollars for a Broken Life - Mahmoud Khalil Demands Justice from Trump's America
It is a quiet afternoon in Manhattan. Mahmoud Khalil sits on a narrow sofa, his ten-week-old son Deen in his arms, eyes fixed on the floor ...
Slowed, Challenged, Legally Blocked – How Trump's Administration Comes Under Pressure in July
It was a day of legal turning points, diplomatic tensions, and sociopolitical setbacks – and a day that made clear just how profoundly Donald Trump’s second term ...
The Swamp Camp of Horror – How Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe
It was intended as a flagship project of the new deportation policy - now it stands as a symbol of state failure and unrestrained cruelty. The “Alligator Alcatraz” ...
Europe at a Crossroads – Why Zelensky Is Speaking Plainly in Rome
In the halls of the Roma Convention Centre on this July 10, there was a tense seriousness in the air. The conversations were polite, the setting familiar, but the tone ...
"Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" – Trump’s Africa Summit Unravels in Tone
What was planned as a diplomatic meeting between President Trump and five West African heads of state at the White House turned into a linguistic and political flashpoint in seconds.
Lab Meals for the Fatherland - How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants to Rescue the Healthy Republic from the Microwave
It was a promo video for the ages - or at least for the archive of political self-contradictions. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s current Secretary of Health and Human Services and eternal scolder ...
Lost Years, Lost Lives - How Texas Knowingly Accepted a Catastrophe
Kerrville, Texas – It would have cost less than half a police car or courthouse security. One million dollars - that’s how much a flood warning system would have cost, ...
Water Levels from the Desert - Why Friedrich Merz Is Not a Chancellor for the 21st Century
When Friedrich Merz talks about climate, he sounds a bit like an insurance agent trying to downplay hail damage by pointing out that the sun will probably shine tomorrow.
What Is Chuck Schumer Hiding? - New Questions About Old Donations from the Epstein Network
Five years have passed since the public last seriously discussed the donation ties between Chuck Schumer and Jeffrey Epstein - and yet the affair now casts a larger shadow than ever in light of new political tensions ...
Kyiv in Flames - and the West Does What It Does Best: Hesitate
The night over Kyiv was short, loud, and deadly. For the second time within 48 hours, Russia pelted the Ukrainian capital with a hail of rockets ...
The Cold Truth About MH17 and How the European Court of Human Rights Finally Holds Russia Accountable
It begins with an indictment that was long overdue. For years, the families of the victims of flight MH17 fought for justice - against the machinery of international politics, against Moscow’s refusal to accept responsibility.
Supreme Court Halts DeSantis Law - Trump’s Immigration Agenda Falters Again
It was yet another setback for Ron DeSantis - and for the immigration regime Donald Trump has been trying to enforce across the states for months. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Florida ...
“Beautiful English!” – How Donald Trump Praised the President of Liberia for His Native Language
It was meant to be a lunch at the White House celebrating Africa’s economic potential – and ended, as so often, in a moment of unintended comedy likely ...
Global Game of Chicken: Tariff Yourself Rich - 90 Trade Deals in 90 Days, Says Trump
It sounded like a promise from a bad TV commercial: "90 deals in 90 days." But what Donald Trump announced in April turned out three months later to be an empty threat ...
“Magic Seas” Sunk - Houthi Rebels Attack Cargo Ship in the Red Sea
For the first time in months, a civilian cargo ship in the Red Sea has become the target of a deliberate attack. According to consistent reports from international media and security services, the Magic Seas, a Liberian-flagged, ...