Investigative Journalism
It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death ...
The decision has been made. The most important cultural institution in the United States will now also carry the name of the sitting president. The supervisory board personally appointed by Donald Trump has decided to rename the John ...
In an unremarkable neighborhood just beyond the U.S.-Mexican border, a deadly business is thriving. Here, in one of the countless cartel safe houses, the next shipment of fentanyl for American streets is being prepared...
Donald Trump continues to militarize the southern border of the United States, and this time it affects California. The Interior Department has announced that it will transfer jurisdiction over large parts of the border region to the U.S. Navy ...
Hegseth said a sentence without hesitation: parents should entrust the military with “their most precious resource – their sons and daughters.” At exactly this point it becomes clear how far American politics has drifted from what ...
The Trump administration has instrumentalized many things in recent months, but this time it took on two worlds that normally exist far from political noise: pop culture and ...
Marco Rubio made clear in just a few sentences how the United States under Trump now thinks about Europe. The secretary of state said that the EU had no right to define what international law ...
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, ...
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 ...
Our research quickly revealed what the White House is hiding: behind Trump’s loudly announced 2,000-dollar “dividend checks” there is no financing, no concept, no law – nothing but a claim that sounds powerful ...
It was a late Sunday evening when the board in the Capitol lit up: 60 to 40 votes - the threshold had been crossed. After 41 days of paralyzing deadlock, the Senate had decided to reopen the government ...
Washington - It was an act of breathtaking symbolism and political audacity at the same time: Donald Trump has, on the night before Monday, pardoned those men and women who, five ...
Washington – The events are unfolding rapidly today, and it has become a bitter day for millions of Americans who rely on food assistance. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday evening, in an emergency ...
Washington - It was a day of speechlessness, a day of excuses and evasions. Hardly were the votes in Virginia and New Jersey counted when the feverish search for culprits began within the Republican Party ...
Montclair – On a night that carries political significance far beyond the borders of New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill decisively defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli ...
The man who appeared in a Des Moines bar dressed as Hitler and posed with laughing guests was no stranger. His name is Donnie Gardner, he lives in Johnston, Iowa, and runs ...
Washington – On the South Lawn of the White House, children stood in colorful costumes, between pumpkins and music, as the president of the United States stepped onto the stage ...
Chicago - In a country that loves to celebrate its soldiers as heroes, dissent is an act of courage. Two former members of the Illinois National Guard have now crossed that line ...
In Washington, it has long been the norm for Republican majorities to bend to the will of the president. But in Indiana and Kansas, two states in the heart of the Midwest, Donald Trump ...
On a mild autumn afternoon, the smell of tear gas still hangs in the air. Between the Victorian houses of Lakeview, where children usually zip by on scooters and gardeners rake leaves, ...
A confidential FBI intelligence report prepared in early October reveals how Donald Trump is redefining the concept of domestic security - as a weapon against his own population. Protest is terrorism ...
It began with a lunch in Manhattan and ended in a system of money, humiliation and moral extortion. Jeffrey Epstein, who had maneuvered his way from ...
In the pale light of a San Francisco courtroom, between stacks of paper and flickering fluorescent tubes, Judge Susan Illston spoke a sentence that sounded like an echo from another political time ...
Once upon a time there was a man who believed he could heal the American soul. Dr. Phil McGraw, the television psychologist with the fatherly frown and the warm Texan accent, who had ...
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
Donald Trump has once again put an idea into the world that can hardly be surpassed in absurdity. In an angry post on his platform Truth Social, he declared that the movie business had been “stolen from Hollywood
It is an image that carried symbolic power for many in the summer of 2020: FBI agents in plain clothes kneeling during a demonstration in Washington - a quiet signal, an attempt to de-escalate amid ...
It is a document that was never meant to reach the public. Classified as “For Official Use Only” and “Law Enforcement Use Only,” it carries the sober title “Terrorism – Potential for Violence ...
An investigation, a video, a frozen moment, a misleading gesture - and already a storm ignites in social media that can no longer be contained. This is what happened at St. Thomas Aquinas ...
With a 17-page paper to the capital press, the Pentagon is tightening the reins: anyone who still wants to report on the Department of Defense must now take a pledge - namely, not to gather or use any information ...
It was a sober setting for an event that has long exceeded the borders of Utah in its significance: In the Fourth District Court of Provo, Utah County, the first hearing ...
The news of Tyler Robinson’s alleged confession on Discord has shaken the United States. The 22-year-old, suspected of having shot right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an event ...
It was a moment straight out of a screenplay: Donald Trump was sitting on the couch of "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning when he was allowed to announce the news meant ...
The FBI has just released images of a “person of interest” sought in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point ...
Paris held its breath this Wednesday. Exactly at the moment when President Emmanuel Macron was swearing in his new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, protest erupted in the streets ...
JD Vance apparently wanted to prevent it with all his might - and achieved the opposite. The Republican vice president, usually a master of sharp rhetoric, resorted on Monday to ...
The sirens are wailing. Not those of the fire department - those of Wall Street. 22,000 jobs in August. For America, this is a total loss. While Trump is still raving about an economic miracle, the ground beneath him is ...
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
From coast to coast they roar out their anger. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have flooded the streets this Labor Day. "Workers over Billionaires" is written on their signs, and it sounds like a vow: We will ...
In a sterile conference room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ira Dunkel sits on a Tuesday morning in August, staring at his screen. The email he has just read contains only a few lines, ...
The principle of loyalty replaces the principle of merit - and the world watches as the oldest democracy of the modern era tears itself apart. The American Republic does not die ...
Chicago - The city is preparing for a scenario that only a few weeks ago seemed almost unthinkable - the possible deployment of the military in the third largest metropolis in the United States ...
It begins with ten sentences, carved in stone, that have survived for thousands of years. In Texas they are now to serve once again as a moral compass - not in churches, but in classrooms. Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
From the outside, Hungary appears to be the darling of Europe’s far right. For Germany’s AfD, the country under Viktor Orbán is seen as a model – a fortress against migration, a haven of conservative values ...
On a weathered wall in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, an ICE agent chases a dog wearing a Superman cape. The spray can has captured what a thousand diplomatic pens do not dare to write: the naked face of power ...
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