Investigative Journalism
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 ...
Donald Trump delivered a remarkable speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that makes his leadership style in his second term unmistakably clear: he wants Greenland for the United States ...
It was supposed to be a speech about the economy. Perhaps a few words about housing policy as well, as his advisers had announced for weeks. Forty-five minutes were scheduled. In the end, Donald Trump spoke for more ...
This year, Davos is not a place of self-affirmation, but a seismograph. When Donald Trump finally set course for the World Economic Forum on Wednesday after a technical malfunction aboard Air Force One, it was already clear that ...
On Tuesday in the White House briefing room, Donald Trump delivered a rare, nearly two-hour display of power that sounded less like foreign policy than an improvised program for a new world order. It was the anniversary of his ...
Davos is not a place for plain talk. At least it was not for a long time. This January, however, something has shifted. The threats from Washington to pressure Greenland and use tariffs as leverage have forced ...
Germany counts a lot. Income, employment, inflation, new housing. But it does not count how many homeless people die. Not nationwide, not consistently, not continuously. Those who die become part of the general mortality statistics ...
Weeks before an ICE agent in Minneapolis shot and killed the 37-year-old Renee Good, an internal memo lay on the desk of immigration authorities in Washington. Not a marginal note, not a theoretical paper, but a clear warning ...
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 ...
Three influential U.S. cardinals have admonished the Trump administration with unusually blunt words of conscience. In a joint statement, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin emphasize that the foreign policy debate in Washington is losing its direction ...
In the cold of Copenhagen over the weekend, red baseball caps appeared that at first glance look familiar and at second glance call everything into question. Instead of Trump’s slogan, a clear ...
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, ...
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 ...
Nervousness is growing in Washington. Not because new information has emerged, but because the president is stubbornly clinging to an idea that many in both parties consider ...
In Minnesota, something is coming apart that long seemed stable. Quietly, but unmistakably, federal prosecutors are leaving their offices, clearing their desks, turning in their badges. Not for career reasons, not because they are ...
In these days, a heavy, leaden mood hangs over Copenhagen. Not only because of the winter, but because many people in Denmark feel that something fundamental has broken ..
A deep rift ran through the streets of Minneapolis this Saturday, visible, raw, and unmistakable. On one side were people opposing the escalation of deportation policy, on the other ...
Donald Trump crossed a line over the weekend that, even in the long history of American power politics, has rarely been practiced so openly. Eight European countries are to be hit with a flat ten percent import tariff starting in February, ...
Sarah B. Rogers holds the office of Under Secretary of the United States for Public Diplomacy at the State Department. In this role, she bears responsibility for the international communication of the American government ...
You really have to let this sink in. An AfD state parliament member cancels her own event – and instead appears jointly with Martin Sellner, one of the most prominent faces of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Donald Trump is introducing a new level of escalation. Countries that do not align themselves with the US demand for control over Greenland could be hit with punitive tariffs. He did not provide details ...
What investigations now reveal is a system that has expanded in secrecy over many years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer acts merely as a deportation authority. Internal documents in our possession ...
Washington, somewhere between the breakfast table and the facts. Donald Trump declares that milk increases cognitive abilities. Ben Carson nods dutifully and adds that you can even see it. Anyone who is smart has obviously drunk milk ...
Minneapolis is under a strain that goes far beyond protest. In a city that for days has been shaped by tear gas, heavily armed federal forces, and nighttime confrontations, President Donald Trump has openly threatened to invoke the ...
One week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, there has been another firearms incident involving federal agents in Minneapolis. On Wednesday evening, a federal agent wounded a man during an operation in the ...
The meeting in the orbit of the White House was meant to calm the heated situation, but in the end it mainly brought clarity about the front lines. After talks with Vice President J.D. Vance and ...
After the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, the Department of Homeland Security did not respond with transparency or clarification, but with a show of force. Under the name “Operation Metro Surge,” hundreds of additional ...
In the United States, a political shift is underway that comes with hardly any slogans or grand gestures, yet runs deep. More and more people no longer want to identify with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
The investigations following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis are taking a direction that reaches far beyond the specific operation. Federal investigators are not only examining the conduct of the ICE officer ...
During a walk-through of the Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan, Donald Trump is hit by a shout from the crowd. A man yells “protector of pedophiles” at him, a direct reference to the ongoing dispute over the Epstein ...
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 ...
On Monday, federal agents advance in formation in Minneapolis. No conversation, no hesitation, only enforcement. In the front row stands a woman. She holds a sign, makes the peace sign ...
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 first deadly attack by the United States on a boat that the government described as a drug smuggling vessel did not begin with a recognizable military aircraft. It began with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft ...
The attack by Ukrainian drones on the tanker Qendil in the Mediterranean was not an isolated incident, but a glimpse into a web of camouflage, personnel shifts, and informal structures. On board the vessel, which was targeted ...
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 ...
We did not take this step lightly. Filing a complaint before international bodies is not a symbolic act, not a political statement for in between, and certainly not a convenient undertaking ...
They ram the door. They go in. And they present a piece of paper that looks like law, but is not. The ICE operation in the south of Minneapolis has made visible what many have long feared ...
A federal court in Boston has temporarily barred the Trump administration from stripping tens of thousands of people of their lawful immigration status. On January 9, 2026, Judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary restraining ...
The anger can no longer be ignored. In more than 1,000 cities and towns, people are gathering this weekend in squares, on streets, in front of ICE buildings, city halls, shopping centers, bridges, schools. The trigger: three shots, ...
The number is alarming and yet barely discussed: Forty percent of US women between the ages of 15-44 are considering emigrating, according to Gallup. This makes this age group twice as ready to leave as the population average ...
There are cases in which the greatest difficulty lies not in the research, but in dealing with excess. Hardly any serious use of force today is not immediately accompanied by hundreds of fragments of information: official statements, contradictory eyewitness accounts, political instrumentalization, ...
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 ...
The final seconds of Renee Nicole Macklin Good are now captured not only in shaky cellphone videos from bystanders, but also in footage from the perspective of the ICE officer who fired the shots ...
Multiple recordings from private security cameras and from different angles now draw a clear, internally consistent picture of the events in Minneapolis. They show that Renee Nicole Good did not attempt to run over an officer ...
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 ...
Donald Trump speaks as if Venezuela’s oil were already fully in American hands. But behind this demonstrative certainty lies a problem that cannot be solved by decree. A substantial portion ...
Shortly before midnight, the Ukrainian Air Force issued an unusual warning. From Kapustin Yar, a Russian strategic missile test site near the Caspian Sea, the launch of a ballistic missile was possible ...