Investigative Journalism
Chandler Patey is 29 years old and has been standing for months in front of an ICE facility in South Portland. He protests. He lets demonstrators into his apartment so they can wash pepper spray from their eyes ...
Luke and Brent Ganger stood in the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday before members of Congress and said sentences that cannot be dismissed as a “statement.” They were family members who had to explain why their ...
In cities across the United States, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Friday to demand an end to the brutal deportation policy of the Trump administration and to call for the withdrawal of federal ...
Two federal officers fired. Not one, two. Both discharged their weapons in the encounter that cost intensive care nurse Alex Pretti his life in Minneapolis. This emerges from a ...
In Minneapolis, movement is emerging for the first time in the deadlocked situation surrounding the immigration operations. As we had already learned earlier from reliable sources , Mayor Jacob Frey has now confirmed ...
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was not an anonymous name in a police report. He was an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital, someone who stayed with people in their most vulnerable moments and did not walk away when things became difficult ...
Today is, as the saying goes, a major day of confrontation. Minnesota is preparing for a day that is deliberately meant to be anything but routine. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the largest ...
Overnight, something appeared that cannot simply be overlooked in this city. On the National Mall, just a few steps from the Capitol, a three-meter-tall version of the birthday card ...
Federal Judge Carl J. Nichols has delivered another setback to the Trump administration. The multibillion dollar offshore wind project Empire Wind off Long Island is allowed to continue construction. The construction halt imposed by the Department of the Interior ...
He showed up because the state required it. Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, 53 years old, reported properly for his appointment in Bethpage, Long Island – as instructed, without delay, without resistance ...
The United Nations reacted with unusual clarity. After the Trump administration announced that it would end support for more than 30 UN-affiliated bodies and a total of 66 international organizations, Secretary-General António ...
The U.S. government has seized two oil tankers linked to Venezuela and operating under sanctions in a coordinated military operation. The Bella 1, later renamed Marinera and flying a Russian flag, was stopped in the North Atlantic ...
The criminal prosecution of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores before a federal court of the United States is not an ordinary criminal case. It stands at the intersection of domestic criminal law, international law, and international human rights guarantees ...
Denis Kapustin is alive. And that is no minor detail, but a slap in the face for the Russian intelligence apparatus. Just days ago, agencies around the world reported his alleged death – hit by a Russian drone, ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has stopped Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the justices denied the administration permission to deploy National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area to support the ongoing deportation offensive ...
Paris - 1991, an evening gala of the fashion world: glaring lights, tense faces, young models on stage whose future depends on the votes of a few jurors. In the middle of the jury sits Donald J. Trump, ...
Donald Trump addressed the nation from the White House on Wednesday evening. On paper it was a speech to the nation. In its effect it was closer to a televised rally: fast, aggressive, full of self-praise, with long passages ...
It was the early evening of December 13, 2025, when families filled Bondi Beach. Children were playing in the sand, music was playing, soap bubbles drifted across the lawn ...
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 ...