Investigative Journalism
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 ...
Democrats in the House of Representatives have released several dozen additional photos from the possession of Jeffrey Epstein. The images show Epstein’s contacts with wealthy and influential people. They come from a collection ...
A woman is standing on a public street in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. She is filming. Nothing more happens. An ICE agent has a problem with his vehicle immediately after an operation ...
Someone in Clinton, Utah, just wants to work out, escape the daily noise for a moment, and suddenly there is a guy standing there who looks as if he left his mind at the coat check ...
A MAGA grandfather in Wyoming calls 911 because the Amazon delivery driver is speaking Spanish, and it inevitably raises the question of whether the country has collectively failed a basic language test or whether too many people ...
She wanted to surprise her parents, spend a few free days at home, tell them what the first semester at a respected college feels like. Instead, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza’s trip ended ...
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 ...
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 ...
The case against James Comey suffered a new and serious shock on Monday. In Alexandria, Virginia, a federal judge declared that the Justice Department may have committed misconduct – a word that is rarely...
Donald Trump began the second run of his presidency with big words: less global politics, more affordable living, jobs for Americans first. But in recent months a different reality has ...
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.” ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
"These boats are 2,000 miles from the United States. They cannot travel more than 100 miles." With this sentence, Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky and one of the few remaining ...
Donald Trump has discovered a new political weapon - and it is called the “Nuclear Option”. In an angry Truth Social post, after he had offended Asia, the president on Thursday ...
There are politicians who dress up for Halloween – and those who simply stay that way. Kristi Noem has decided to be both: minister, horror figure, and state myth all in one ...
The narrative is simple: more personnel, tougher crackdowns, more safety. The reality behind it is more complicated - and more dangerous. Our analysis of internal ICE figures, agency responses to inquiries, and publicly available datasets ...
The footage from Portland shows a country in a state of emergency. In front of the ICE building runs a blue line - it separates the agency’s property from public space. A boundary that no ...
Few scenes capture the moral imbalance of this administration as clearly as the headlines of this week: The Pentagon accepts a private "donation" of 130 million dollars to pay ...
They are sentences (the recordings are included further down in the article) that sound like a confession in real time. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a celebrated environmental lawyer, today a mouthpiece ...
When you think you have already seen everything in research - people, situations, every document, every image, every boundary of state cruelty - there usually comes the moment that silences even the most ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
Portland – It is a sentence that is hard to surpass in its absurdity: “It looks like a warzone… Unless they are playing false recordings, this looks like World War II ...
The deadly sniper attack on an ICE building in Dallas at first glance seemed to carry a clear message. On unfired shell casings recovered by the FBI at the scene, “ANTI-ICE” had ...
We took a look into the future of MAGA this weekend - and it no longer bears the name Donald Trump. What was revealed at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk ...
What was announced as a funeral service is threatening to turn into a monumental political and propaganda spectacle in Glendale, Arizona. Hours before the start, the stands of the State Farm Stadium were already filling, ...
Since the murder of Charlie Kirk has dominated the headlines, government and media have greedily rushed to find an explanation. Left or right, Trump or Antifa - the grid is predetermined, ...
The man has not even been buried yet, and the merchandising machine is already running at full speed. Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk, is now selling a “Memorial Tee” with his sketched ...
Utah hat seinen meistgesuchten Mann. Zwei Tage nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk, dem Gründer von Turning Point USA und einem der schillerndsten wie umstrittensten Köpfe der amerikanischen Rechten, haben…
Donald Trump might be serious, or whatever one should call his behavior: On Monday, the president, as full of bravado as ever, announced that he would send National Guard troops ...
It is once again one of those weekends when everything happens at once. In Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP) pulled the emergency brake on Friday and expanded its ongoing lawsuit ...
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
The masked men came at dawn in East Palo Alto. Dressed in black, faces covered, with no visible insignia. It is August 26, 2025, shortly after 7 a.m., when ...
It was a sentence, casually spoken in the Oval Office, that triggered a tectonic shift within the Trump camp. Donald Trump announced that 600,000 Chinese students should in the future be welcome in the United States.
It is August 21, 2025, three o'clock in the morning. While Orlando sleeps, the vehicles of the Florida Department of Transportation roll in. Their mission: the erasure of a rainbow. Not just any rainbow ...
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied the government’s request to release the transcripts of a grand jury from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
In the annals of democratic degeneracy, the apotheosis of Andrew Bailey will be recorded as a turning point - that fatal moment when the last bastions of constitutional integrity capitulated before the altars of populist demagoguery ...
What drives a president to cover the capital of his own country with soldiers from three different states? The answer does not lie in the officially cited reasons of crime and homelessness, but ...
On Monday morning, Washington will not wake up but be rearranged. At several locations, signs read: "General cleaning from 10 a.m." A harmless phrase from city sanitation - that is how it sounds. Yet in recent days, the capital ...
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
There are political gestures that say more than any speech – and that carry more weight in their symbolism than any spontaneous remark. When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently shared a video ...
It is over. The United States of America, this great experiment of the Enlightenment, is sinking into a vortex of religious delusion so dark that even ...
Washington - In a move that once again thrusts the political explosiveness of the Jeffrey Epstein case into the spotlight, the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday compelled the Justice Department ...
It is a scene that had become increasingly rare in the US for decades – and which now suddenly takes on symbolic power again: In the glaring light of a prison chamber, watched by guards ...
In the endless series of mysteries surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a new, disturbing detail has emerged: In previously little-noticed surveillance footage from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York ...
There are moments when a single sentence is enough to bring down the illusion of stability in American politics. Such a sentence was spoken in 2016 - at least behind closed doors, ...
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