Investigative Journalism
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 ...
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: “I don’t think Pete or Bobby ...
Trisha Hope was never a fringe figure. In the world of Trumpism she belonged to the loud ones: self-proclaimed national delegate from Texas, permanent activist, chronicler and cheerleader all in one. Her book series “Just the Tweets” ...
There are moments when one wonders whether Washington is still a capital or already a badly written Netflix series. Donald Trump has once again proven that he does not just blur the ...
There are moments that, in their simultaneity, seem almost surreal. In Washington Donald Trump leads European heads of state and government through the West Wing and proudly ...
Donald Trump has reached a new low point in his political self-promotion - and that says something for a man who already sells Bibles with his name on them. The President of the United States ...
The Cotswolds - that English stretch of countryside that looks as if someone had soaked Rosamunde Pilcher in lavender and pressed her onto watercolor paper ...
Ten years after the historic ruling of the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed same-sex couples in all states the right to marry, the fight over this fundamental right is flaring up again - ...
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
There are investigations that make you want to put your head in your hands. Cory Mills is one of them. In a republic that once prided itself on moral leadership,
Bonjour Paris - There are moments when investigative work is not just a journalistic assignment but a democratic obligation. When we learned at the beginning of July ...
It was one of those moments when American politics effortlessly slips into a grotesque. Donald Trump, 79 years old and unshakably convinced of himself, sat in the Newsmax studio and spoke about what excites him ...
For years, parts of the Republican base under Donald Trump have retreated into their own universe of rumors, exaggerations, and conspiracy myths. In that world, absurd stories like Pizzagate, alleged mass abortions after birth, ...
On the morning of July 28, 2025, a black delivery van rolled through the granite streets of Aberdeen – inconspicuous in its form, provocative in its message. On the large LED screen ...
Donald Trump hat Washington wieder einmal in einen Strudel aus Spekulationen, Verdächtigungen und bizarren Verschwörungstheorien gestürzt – doch diesmal scheinen ihn die Geister, die er selbst rief, einzuholen.
It is one of those footnotes in history that ought to make a loud bang – but hardly anyone heard it. Buried in a congressional report, overseen by none other than Senator Marco Rubio, ...
Imagine the following: a former Democrat who sees herself as the Joan of Arc of enlightenment storms into the Department of Justice like she’s entering a Wild West saloon ...
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