Investigative Journalism
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, ...
It began with an unassuming leather volume, a black address book full of names, phone numbers, and coded notes. For some it was just another relic from the world of the super-rich ...
It is a video that speaks more through what remains unspoken than through any words. Jeffrey Epstein, being questioned under oath for the first time since his initial conviction ...
The meeting is as symbolic as it is politically explosive: On this Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to meet with one of the most feared women in the country ...
It was a moment many had been waiting for - some with hope, others with fear. But when the ruling came, it was as clear as it was final: A federal judge on Wednesday ...
On April 1, 2025, the first shock came: The Trump administration began mass layoffs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
It was April 26, 2016, when a woman named Katie Johnson filed a civil lawsuit in the Central District of California. The complaint, typed and submitted without legal counsel ...
There are stories that defy understanding - and yet must be written. The story of Vance Boelter is one of them. A man who was once honored in rural Minnesota for his kindness and decades later killed two people and seriously ...
There are encounters that change a life - and others that shake a world order, and why no one looked more closely. The meeting between Leslie H. Wexner, the discreet king of American retail,
With a single stroke of the pen, the Trump administration has torn down one of the central pillars of citizen-oriented policy history: access to the federal government for people ...
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“, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
These are images usually seen in conflict zones: Humvees among palm trees, armed soldiers by a lake, an amphitheater that looks more like a command post than a venue for summer concerts.
There are official letters that offer comfort. Others show resolve, responsibility, compassion. And then there is that one document from the White House dated July 6, 2025 ...
It was the image of a government failure - in lipstick and blazer. While the mud in the streets of Hunt was still steaming and Camp Mystic had become the ruin of a nightmare, ...
Washington, July 5, 2025 – It was a triumph, staged like a play from another era. On the South Lawn of the White House stood Donald Trump, surrounded by loyalists, flanked by his cabinet members ...
What if the world's most beautiful sideshow is no longer seen as an invitation to global exchange, but as a security risk? That is precisely the scenario emerging one year before the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel – yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an “unshakable patriot” and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back ...
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
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