Investigative Journalism
Viktoriia Bulavina had done everything this state demands from people who seek protection legally. She had fled Putin’s war, entered under a humanitarian program created precisely for cases like hers ...
We wrote a few days ago about Trump’s new strategy paper and published the complete documents. For months we have been warning about the political direction from Washington and the roles of Russell Vought and E. J. Antoni, ...
Im März 2025 geschahen wundersame Dinge hinter den Türen des FBI: Eine Woche im März 2025, in der die Behörde 934 Mitarbeiter zusammentrommelte, um die Unterlagen zum Fall Jeffrey Epstein…
Trump Vodka is back, gleaming under the lights, while Eric Trump proudly announces that the first bottles can already be preordered. A scene from another world: golden letters on an icy bottle, next to a small U.S. flag ...
Russia is in season again - at least the kind you hang on your wall when you are politically completely desensitized. The new Putin calendars for 2026 are here, and as every ...
Sometimes a single animal is enough to jolt an entire city out of its routine. In Boston it was a tiny alligator, barely longer than a forearm, that appeared a few days ...
Karoline Leavitt can get as loud as she wants – it does not change the fact that people in the president’s circle have long been talking about the future of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem. And not in the sense of a ...
Sometimes a political situation shifts not because of major speeches but because of a single signature. On Wednesday, that was the moment. Trump put his name, surely without much enthusiasm, under ...
Zorro Ranch, a remote estate in the desert of New Mexico, has long been a place of silence. That, at least, is how the state of New Mexico treated it until now. A hilltop, a mansion, ...
There are moments when political history tilts because someone in the background throws a thought into the room that should never have been uttered. In the fall of 2018 - when the ...
Eight votes were enough to end the longest government shutdown in American history. Eight votes that led the country out of paralysis - and at the same time plunged it deeper into self-forgetfulness ...
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Washington – It is one of those decisions that will go down in the history of American separation of powers. John J. McConnell Jr., Chief Federal Judge of the U.S. District Court for the State of Rhode Island, has ordered ...
New York - It was more than an election. After the Democrats’ victories today in Virginia and New Jersey, this success is more than a moment of renewal. Zohran Mamdani, 34 years old, ...
Washington – In the midst of the longest government shutdown in decades, the Trump administration is once again under fire – this time over hunger. A coalition of cities, relief organizations, and social associations accuses the White House ...
Norfolk, Virginia - It is an image that feels both familiar and desperate at once: Barack Obama stands on a stage, the sun breaking through gray clouds, the crowd cheering, and ...
In a country that likes to see itself as the embodiment of the “American dream,” a simple table says more about the political present than a thousand speeches. It comes from the official ...
He is not a lawmaker, not a minister, not a televangelist - and yet Scott Presler channels more energy through the American right than many Republican power brokers in Washington. While Donald Trump fills the stage, ...
In the narrow streets of Myeongdong, where tourists and street vendors compete for the same space, Lin Yung-pin leads a group from Taiwan through the maze of lights, scents, and voices ...
Two men, a knock on the door, one sentence: "Your name came up." That is how Trump’s America shows its redefinition of terrorism - and how easily someone today can come into the sight of the state ...
It is a book that sounds like a last word from beyond the grave – unvarnished, harrowing, almost too direct to still pass as literature. Nobody’s Girl, the posthumously released autobiography of Virginia ...
He served his country for almost a quarter of a century. Afghanistan, Iraq, the endless desert drills from Camp Pendleton to Quantico - Doug Krugman was one of those officers who never raised their voice ...
What Mike Johnson said yesterday broke almost every chain. The Speaker of the House said on Wednesday: "Anyone participating in the 'No Kings demonstrations' this weekend to protest against the Trump administration ...
Washington these days resembles a besieged palace. In the corridors of the White House, where strategies were once forged, now reigns the silence of an administrative corpse. No budget, no trust, no sense ...
Twelve days of paralysis. Twelve days in which the most powerful country in the world disables its own institutions while hundreds of thousands of federal employees sit at home without pay ...
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...
It was shortly after the beginning of the service when in Grand Blanc Township, north of Detroit, the peace of Sunday Mass was torn apart in an inferno of violence. Hundreds of people ...
It was an ordinary Friday morning in Des Moines, the capital of Iowa, until the news spread that struck the school system and the community like a shock: Dr. Ian Roberts, ...
It is a number that makes you sit up and take notice: 17 percent of Americans today describe themselves as democratic socialists. 83 percent reject this. For decades, the term “socialism” in ...
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s defense secretary, has thrown the American armed forces into a state of shock. On the minister’s orders, dozens of generals and admirals from around the world are to gather next week at a base in Virginia ...
In the Rose Garden of the White House hangs not a portrait of history, but a manifesto of power. To the left Trump, to the right Trump - and in between no person, no face, no predecessor, ...
He is, then, the "sexual matador," tearing open the curtains in the morning as if the world were moments away from a bullfight rather than the morning commute. She smiles, her voice sultry, ...
It was a week full of headlines, speculation, and heated debates – and now comes the surprising reversal: Jimmy Kimmel is returning. Less than seven days after his suspension by ABC ...
It sounds like a plot from a bad political thriller - and yet it is bitter reality: Tom Homan, appointed by Donald Trump as the powerful border czar, was filmed in 2024 by undercover FBI agents as he accepted $50,000 in cash.
It was no longer a police operation, it was a battle. In Illinois on Friday morning heavily armed federal agents moved in like an army in urban combat. Black helmets, camouflage uniforms, gas grenades, assault rifles with chemical irritant attachments ...
The shots have faded, but the aftermath has only just begun. Hardly is Charlie Kirk buried, his family together with Turning Point USA is already staging the next act: defamation suits against media ...
Stephen Miller, one of the most influential advisers in the White House, announced over the weekend in sharp words that the government would now use every means at its disposal to go after what he called a "vast domestic terror movement."
The fog over the murder of Charlie Kirk is lifting, and the chain of evidence now presented by investigators is overwhelming. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed on Monday that DNA traces on ...
It is September 11, 2025, and Germany is experiencing a moment that could not be more painful in its hypocrisy. The Junge Union mourns Charlie Kirk with a black-and-white Facebook post, a man ...
Chicago these days is a city in a state of emergency - not because of crime, but because of politics. While Donald Trump is threatening with the National Guard and ICE is preparing large-scale raids, ...
The controversy over Donald Trump's past reached a new dimension on Monday. The House Oversight Committee released a letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly bears the signature ...
Donald Trump had sold it as a triumph: "Liberation Day," the day he "freed" industry - from environmental regulations, from bureaucracy, from climate protection. Coal-fired power plants were to be brought back online, wind turbines ...
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
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