Investigative Journalism
Donald Trump has publicly belittled Great Britain. The United Kingdom, once perhaps the greatest ally, is now reportedly considering sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. But Washington no longer needs them ...
The Pentagon long ago said goodbye to what used to be called secularism. Pete Hegseth, war minister under Trump, has now ended the spectacle. Not secularism itself, of course - that had long been dismantled ...
Mike Johnson summed up the balance of power in a single sentence. "If we were to lose the midterm elections - God forbid - that would effectively be the end of the Trump presidency." He said this ...
FORT BRAGG, NC - In a performance best described as a hostage video under kiss orders at 30 knots of wind, First Lady Melania Trump landed in Fort Bragg on Friday ...
What sounded like the entire arena stopped the spectacle for a moment. Even before the first strike was thrown in the main event of AEW Dynamite, a unified chant echoed ...
The latest release from the holdings of US justice authorities brings to light a constellation that stands out less for new allegations than for its simplicity. A sofa, two young women, Jeffrey ...
The tone from the states is growing sharper. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nicholas Brown state that unconstitutional actions ...
Donald Trump backed down on Wednesday from his tariff threat against Denmark over Greenland. He calls it a framework agreement. He is now selling it as a breakthrough. In reality, it is an admission that his strategy did ...
The president has decided that America is to watch television together again. Not voluntarily, but properly. For four hours. At the same time. With no alternative. Army versus Navy, a mandatory appointment. Donald Trump wants ...
When Jerome Powell stepped before the public on Sunday, he did not choose conciliatory words. The chair of the US central bank said that the Justice Department had served the Federal Reserve with subpoenas and at the same time ...
Donald Trump stepped before the cameras on Saturday to explain the US military operation in Venezuela that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. What was intended as a justification for an extraordinary operation ...
No one was responsible. And yet everyone was. Donald Trump explains that he did not call Jeff Landry – Landry called him. Very proactive, in fact. Minutes later, Landry explains that the ...
Donald Trump, 79, has discovered a new talent: invisibility. Not his own, but that of the women around him. Since he entered politics, he claims, he never mentions ...
Ah, the mother-in-law. Made another comment about your cooking skills? Described your home decor as an “interesting transitional phase”? Or gave you that special look when you ruined the roast for the third time? ...
The photo appears casual, almost accidental. A desk in the Oval Office, a single sheet of paper lying on it. At the top are the words “Draft Truth.” A hand rests on it, as if holding the text in place ...
Many will now ask how it is possible that this man still has 36 percent approval. The answer is the same one we know from Germany: these are not protest voters, that term has not explained reality for a long time ...
Sometimes all it takes is a well-made image, a few invented lines and the right timing - and suddenly a complete social media wave takes off that no one can catch again ...
It was just a moment in Trump Tower, captured for Time Magazine, but in truth a warning. A bald eagle, the proud national emblem of the United States, sits next to Donald Trump, watches him, spreads its wings,
Tino Chrupalla once again tried to present himself as someone who wants to keep distance from the most radical voices in his own party. But he cannot do it, and that shows how radical this party ...
Alice Weidel presented her twelve-point plan today - and sells it as a major turning point. Anyone who listens closely quickly realizes: It is less a plan than political nonsense ...
There are appearances where even seasoned observers are no longer sure whether they are following a political speech or watching the free fall of a man who has long since lost all contact ...
Nicolás Maduro knows how to build a backdrop. On Saturday he stood on a stage, surrounded by supporters in red shirts, cameras of state television close to his face - and grabbed ...
It was one of those moments when the Oval Office seemed to develop its own gravity. No heavy speech, no orchestrated protocol, but a scene that felt disturbing, revealing, and almost intimate all at once ...
It sounded like a grotesque twist amid the American budget dispute: “U.S. Army refers its soldiers in Germany to the food bank.” Several German and British media outlets, as well as MSN News ...
Washington - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced that beginning Friday morning, it will reduce air traffic across 40 major markets in the country by ten percent. Officially, it says this is about safety. In truth, ...
Once upon a time there was a well-kept front yard in a wealthy neighborhood of Washington, a few withering pumpkins, a porch with an American flag - and in the middle of it all a skeleton sitting in a garden chair ...
Washington – In a city already under high tension, this is a signal of weight. More and more senior officials of the Trump administration are retreating to military housing complexes – places ...
It was a blow against any form of independent oversight: The White House has dismissed all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, the long-standing federal commission that for ...
What began as an architectural whim has long since become a political scandal with explosive potential. Behind the demolition of the historic East Wing of the White House lies no harmless renovation, but a massive construct of ...
Washington has seen a lot under Trump: burning documents, falling stars, the invention of stolen elections, bizarre things. Why? "The president wants to dance." But what unfolded today on the grounds of ...
There are days when history doesn’t begin with a bang but with a step – more precisely, with thirteen small ones. On Sunday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in ...
Austin is facing a weekend that says more about American democracy than any speech in the Capitol. The nationwide "No Kings" demonstration is scheduled for Saturday - a symbolic protest against abuse ...
When Donald Trump’s Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talks about “standards,” it now sounds like a declaration of war on his own body mass. On Monday, the self-proclaimed fitness warrior proudly boasted that several members of the Texas National Guard ...
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
Donald Trump once again maneuvered himself into a corner with a bizarre video. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, he posted a clip on his platform Truth Social generated ...
It sounds like a parody, but it is reality: Two Republican members of Congress, Abe Hamadeh from Arizona and August Pfluger from Texas, have introduced legislation in Congress that calls for the minting ...
Washington awoke this Tuesday morning with a grotesque surprise: In the middle of the National Mall since sunrise stands a twelve-foot-high monument showing Donald Trump and the late sex offender ...
Donald Trump has done it again: He has turned the stage of world politics into a traveling circus arena - this time with a performance somewhere between a horse stable, a children’s ward and a YouTube conspiracy forum ...
Once upon a time there was a country that prided itself on being the cradle of freedom. At some point it decided that the solution to all problems did not lie in education, social justice, or a functioning health care system
Donald Trump's visit to England did not begin with the expected splendor but with an image that cast a shadow over his arrival. Hardly had the presidential plane touched British soil ...
One would think the lowest point had been reached - and yet the country keeps sinking further. Now the vice president of the United States himself will step in as substitute host of the talk show of a man ...
Donald Trump has once again extended his hand for reconciliation - and at the same time swung a baseball bat. "I’d like to see the nation heal," he cooed into the cameras ...
Washington - Donald Trump went only a few hundred yards out the door to project strength - and landed in the middle of dissent. The president left the White House ...
Donald Trump has failed once again. A federal appeals court in Manhattan has upheld the verdict requiring the president to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll ...
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...