Investigative Journalism
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 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 ...
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 - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 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 – 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
His name was Chad Joseph, 26 years old, a young fisherman from Trinidad and Tobago. Not a drug lord, not a terrorist, not a soldier. He just wanted to go home - a short boat ...
America is negotiating with itself. About whether equality remains a fundamental right - or a relic of a time when people still believed that history could mean progress ...
The American judiciary is at a boiling point. In the halls where once the whisper of dignity prevailed, there now echoes the muffled rumble of revolt. It is October 2025, ...
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
The linoleum floor on the twelfth floor of Federal Plaza 26 in Manhattan knows many stories. It has heard the shuffling steps of desperate families waiting anxiously for their hearings ...
Suzanne Swierc was director of health promotion and advocacy at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, when she wrote a sentence on her private Facebook account that would destroy her life: ...
The indictment against James Comey reads like a document from an authoritarian handbook: barely two pages, brought by a newly installed Trump loyalist with no notable prosecutorial experience, and yet a thunderclap.
Ken Paxton calls it a victory. In truth it is an assault on the minds of the youngest. The Attorney General of Texas forces the schools of Austin to erase every word about Critical Race Theory ...
It was a night that shone as brightly in Chongqing as rarely before - not because of the neon facades of the megacity, but because of a single projector. At 10 p.m., a few days before ...
The morning of June 6, 2025, broke over Los Angeles like so many others before - golden and deceptively peaceful. But in the warehouses of Ambiance Apparel in the Fashion ...
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world, yet behind its aromatic scent and shiny beans lies a bitter reality that keeps millions of people in poverty and robs countless children of their childhood.
On the early morning of June 12, 2025, Javier Diaz Santana went to work unsuspectingly. The 32-year-old was on his way to wash a car when he saw colleagues suddenly scattering in panic.
It was a Sunday like so many others: marked by hardship, by hope, by the instinctive drive to survive. In the streets of northern Gaza, amid ruins, dust, and burnt-out vehicles, ...
It was a moment that cut through political rhetoric - cold, defensive, resolute. "Don't you dare ever say that again" - never dare to say such a thing again.
They arrive across a border of dust and heat, with nothing but a plastic bag, an old backpack, sometimes a child in their arms. Nearly 20,000 people each day.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Imagine living in a world where you could be arrested for saying, “Don’t kill children.” Not because your words are wrong. Not because they incite hatred ...
Belgrade – Resistance is growing on the streets of the Serbian capital, and with it, Europe’s concern. What began as a peaceful protest against corruption and cronyism has ...
Laura Loomer wasn't making a joke. Her statement was not sarcasm, not exaggeration, but a calculated act of dehumanization. "Alligator lives matter," wrote the far-right commentator on June 30 - and added: ...
It began with a letter. On June 26, 2025, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles called on the United States Department of Justice to investigate the naturalization of Zohran Mamdani - a Democratic lawmaker ...
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...