Investigative Journalism
Since the beginning of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, a parallel public sphere has emerged within the German Telegram space, one whose scope and structure were long underestimated. Around 9,500 channels can statistically be attributed to Germany ...
Quietly and without public debate, a new guideline has taken effect that massively expands the discretion of ICE officers. An internal memorandum, now disclosed in a federal court proceeding overseen by Judge Kate ...
We did not take this step lightly. Filing a complaint before international bodies is not a symbolic act, not a political statement for in between, and certainly not a convenient undertaking ...
The number is alarming and yet barely discussed: Forty percent of US women between the ages of 15-44 are considering emigrating, according to Gallup. This makes this age group twice as ready to leave as the population average ...
The sharpest criticism did not come from Caracas, nor from the ranks of Washington’s political opponents, but from Geneva. The United Nations human rights office has unequivocally condemned the military seizure carried out by the United ...
The view of January 6, 2021 changes fundamentally when it is not seen from the distance of political headlines, but from the perspective of those who were trapped inside the violence ...
As international pressure grows after the US military operation in Venezuela, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has drawn a clear line. In her daily press conference, she firmly rejected any form of military intervention and openly ...
Anyone walking through Tehran today without a headscarf is no longer stopped. No warnings, no fines, no intervention. Young women like Sahar, who does research at a university, take advantage of this - ...
A federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it sought to revoke deportation protection for tens of thousands of migrants ...
There are sentences that carry weight on their own. Placed next to each other, they form a picture – of what the United States currently is, a country that has lost its bearings ...
Donald Trump did not sit by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, but at his preferred altar: Truth Social. While others lit candles, he lit words. A Christmas greeting, 101 words long, filled with resentment, self-pity, ...
The courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, filled with tension, mistrust, and an unusually candid judge. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is allowed to remain free. Not because his case is simple, but because it ...
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,
What was intended as a memorial event for Charlie Kirk turned into a ruthless reckoning within the American right in Phoenix. At the AmericaFest conference of Turning Point USA, one of the most important stages for the right wing ...
The UN Security Council is convening for an emergency meeting at Venezuela’s request. The session is scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time, as Slovenia announced, which holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council ...
Russia’s defense industry likes to present itself as self sufficient, as a closed system fed by its own raw materials and its own technology. That narrative does not hold up under closer scrutiny. Behind the facade of domestic ...
Doug Ford is drawing a clear personal consequence from Donald Trump’s policies. The premier of the Canadian province of Ontario has stated that he will not travel to the United States under Trump’s presidency ...
What happened near the Riverside Plaza housing complex in Minneapolis was neither a misunderstanding nor a gray area. It was a documented operation that shows how quickly state power turns into open violence ...
The decision came soberly, the struggle, especially for the victims, attorneys and investigative journalists, was a hard and long path, yet its impact extends far: Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ...
The Most Dangerous Emerging Far-Right Threat to Children in Germany: In a digital world where children and adolescents are long accustomed to navigating platforms like Discord, Roblox, or Telegram, a network is spreading almost unnoticed whose threat potential is hard to grasp: the "764" network.
A taco shop in Tucson, a morning that begins inconspicuously, and a few minutes later a commotion that raises the question of how much consideration federal authorities still show toward their own population ...
Pete Hegseth actually tells people, in all seriousness, that he banned his kids from watching Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Just picture it: a grown man ...
Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter that reads like a warning cry from a country that senses something tightening around it. Addressed to the UN Secretary General and to all states of OPEC ...
It was almost eerily quiet, only sometimes the rustling of the last leaves could be heard; the outlines of the houses rose into the gray sky, and it smelled of fresh tear gas after ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research has revealed that Trump has given the C.I.A. permission to operate covertly in Venezuela. Not a side issue and not a technical detail, but a step that lifts the entire conflict to a new level ...
There are withdrawals from public life that happen quietly, almost imperceptibly. And then there are those that resemble a political thunderclap because they expose a truth that had been pushed aside for years ...
Donald Trump wanted to keep this chapter closed at any cost. For weeks, he resisted every move in Congress that could force the release of the Epstein file. But on Monday night, ...
Pam Bondi’s reaction was so quick that it was hard to tell where the order ended and the execution began. No sooner had Donald Trump publicly demanded that Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman ...
Washington – It was a single sentence from the highest court in the land, yet its impact reaches millions: The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the order blocking the payment ...
Washington - While millions of Americans do not know how they will pay for their food this month, Donald Trump’s administration is once again turning to the Supreme Court of the United ...
It was a speech (see video recording) that will go down in history - not because of its content, but because of its tone. Pete Hegseth, Trump’s war minister, stood before representatives of the arms industry at the National War ...
It was a legal confrontation that, in its speed, surprised even experienced observers. Within just a few hours of the Trump administration’s emergency motion, the appeals court in Boston ruled that the full benefits ...
Boston – A president who moves billions like play money declares a state of emergency for his own people. While families wait in the cold outside food distribution centers, lawyers in Trump’s Justice Department argue ...
Washington - Behind the walls of the federal courts, a silent yet momentous struggle is taking shape - one that reaches deeper than any single trial. It concerns the very foundation of American separation ...
Washington – For the first time since the beginning of the government shutdown, Donald Trump has been forced to back down. After weeks of defiance and growing anger, his administration announced on Monday evening that the nation’s most important food assistance program ...
Donald Trump, the dealmaker, in his own world probably already a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the man who uses war as a metaphor for strength, threatened on Saturday on his own platform ...
In Washington, it is no longer a rumor but an official proceeding: The United States Congress is already investigating the Trump administration for the alleged misuse of unauthorized communication platforms for government ...
It was one of those scenes that make history - not because of its grandeur, but because of its tone. On the flight deck of the U.S.S. George Washington, before thousands of soldiers, ...
Between two songs, a voice suddenly appears. It sounds factual, almost friendly, but the message hits: “In too many cities, dangerous illegals walk free. Join ICE - with ...
Sometimes it takes no scream, only a sentence. In San Francisco, on the façade of the legendary bookstore City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, four large banners have been hanging since this week - white fabric, ...
The news came quietly, almost bureaucratically - a Pentagon statement in a neutral tone: The United States is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest warship in the world, to the waters off ...
Steve Bannon has once again ignited a fire that was long considered extinguished. In an interview, he said with the composure of a man who loves chaos: “Trump is gonna get a third term ...
It is a pattern you only notice when you pause. When you stop scrolling through the endless stream of images, headlines, quotes, and faces and start to look at it like a choreography ...
A dead fisherman, a raging president, and a continent watching as the old order of the West begins to crumble. In the Caribbean, where America has projected its power ...