Investigative Journalism
In the middle of Minneapolis, according to investigations and an internal inventory list, 35,765 pieces of crowd control equipment were on hand. Tear gas. Flash grenades. Pepper spray. Ammunition for dispersing crowds. Not equipment for visa checks, but tools for controlling protests ...
When Liam Conejo Ramos arrived back in Minnesota on Sunday, it was not just a child returning home. It was the end of a week that showed how ...
Federal Judge Fred Biery has ruled that five year old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias must leave a Texas immigration detention facility no later than Tuesday. We have written about the case repeatedly and have also been actively involved ...
In Washington, the words suddenly sounded softer, staged and unconvincing, but softer. Donald Trump spoke of progress, of a similar sense of tact with Democratic Governor Tim Walz, of ...
Federal Judge Patrick J. Schiltz of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has done something that is rare in its clarity: he has personally summoned the leadership ...
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti has triggered a development that for a long time was considered unthinkable even within the Republican Party. For the first time since the start of the ...
In the House of Representatives this week, a decision was made that says more about the state of American politics than any Sunday speech ever could. Seven Democratic lawmakers voted to continue funding the deportation agency ICE ...
The conflict surrounding the fatal shooting of the 37-year-old Renee Good has now reached a church space as well. In St. Paul, activists interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church, ...
In Palm Beach County, order has now been definitively established: A stretch of Southern Boulevard now bears the president’s name. Precisely the stretch that runs from the airport directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...
One of the most serious internal upheavals in months has shaken the US Justice Department. Following further reporting, at least four senior attorneys from the Criminal Section within the Civil Rights Division have resigned ...
Welcome to America, where Sunday is about to become holier than the Constitution, Tinder is treated as a security risk, and the state is no longer neutral but an official relationship therapist. The Heritage Foundation ...
Under massive security, Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were brought on Monday to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Two days after their arrest during a US commando operation in Caracas, ...
The trail was not the explosion, but an inconsistency. A Russian cargo vessel, traveling on a route that defied every principle of maritime logic, declared a harmless cargo – empty containers, harbor cranes, equipment ...
Donald Trump has once again expanded the circle of those excluded - and this time it does not stop at symbolic toughness at home. With the decision of December 16 to extend the existing entry ban...
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 ...