Investigative Journalism
Since the beginning of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, a parallel public sphere has emerged within the German Telegram space, one whose scope and structure were long underestimated. Around 9,500 channels can statistically be attributed to Germany ...
Jeffrey Epstein was no ordinary inmate. Not because of his notoriety, not because of his crimes, but because of the people connected to him within a system that prefers silence over accountability ...
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 ...
The fixation on Greenland, on Arctic routes, rare earths, and geopolitical threat scenarios belongs to the public rituals of this administration. But while Donald Trump looks northward with ...
The numbers are clear, even if they are politically uncomfortable. In November, the United States trade deficit jumped sharply to 56.8 billion dollars - an increase of 95 percent within ...
In Minneapolis, a substance appeared in recent days that initially left many people puzzled. Not the familiar white or gray clouds, but a dense, green-colored smoke ...
Federal Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington has drawn clear limits for the Trump administration and expressed serious doubts about the use of a historic wartime law for deportations. James E. Boasberg made clear in a multi-hour ...
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 ...
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, ...
In the night leading into Saturday, the United States overthrew Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. US special forces entered his government residence at the Fuerte Tiuna military base, arrested him ...
In the United States, someone is missing. In Germany, perhaps soon more than people would like. Not as a headline, not as a number in a table, but as a gap in everyday life: ...
In Russia’s customs data for the year 2025, a gap of historic proportions has opened up. Around 180 categories of technically advanced goods have simply vanished. These are primarily electronics and industrial equipment, ...
In Charlotte, North Carolina, federal agents arrested two people. Their offense: they warned others about upcoming ICE raids. Ten days before Christmas Eve 2025, this is the new reality in the United States ...
Donald Trump has said something that can no longer simply be left unchallenged. He spoke of ground operations. Not only in Venezuela. He spoke of targets. Of people whom he ...
WELT and Politico journalist Pauline von Pezold are currently drawing a picture that sounds like major geopolitical movement: Markus Frohnmaier travels to the United States, accompanied by AfD members of parliament, ...
The image is brief and brutal: A small boat in international waters, a dot in the sea, seconds later a fireball. This freeze frame from a video of the U.S. Department of Defense shows the final ...
The truth about the strike on the alleged drug boat in the Caribbean will never fully come to light. Not because there are no witnesses or because political will is lacking ...
Over the weekend, users on X were able to see for the first time where certain accounts are actually located – and the results left few people indifferent. Many of the loudest pro-Trump profiles, filled with U.S. flags, images ...
It rarely begins with a chain at the gate or an armed guard. It usually begins with a promise. An enticing offer, an embellished photo, the illusion of a new beginning. For Dashima ...
Twelve hours America - and everything lies open: a country between hunger and megalomania, between poverty and power, between ideology and fear. Twelve hours that show how deep ...
There are political stories that lie in the dark for a long time until one discovery tears everything open. An analysis of private messages from Jeffrey Epstein’s communications archive belongs exactly in this category ...
One block away they stand, crowded together, freezing, papers in hand. Men, women, children - migrants who have come for routine hearings, as the law requires ...
The paralysis in Washington has further worsened the hunger crisis in America, which affects not only numbers but people. The shutdown has now lasted four weeks, and as of November 1, the ...
It was as if the nation had held its breath for a moment - and then set in motion what many had thought impossible. In all 50 states, from ...
First came the inflatable frog costumes. Dozens of them, wobbling through Times Square like a rush image of resistance, their oversized green limbs glittering in the October light. They were absurd, deliberately so ...
It began quietly – with a flight across the Atlantic, a handshake in a London café, and an invitation no one in Westminster had expected. Nigel Farage, the former ...
In hardly any other institution is Donald Trump’s will to power more visible than in the Supreme Court of the United States. With an ultra-conservative six-to-three majority, ...
The new security state has no pomp. It stands behind manicured hedges, wears glass facades without a nameplate, and works with data we produce voluntarily. In Vienna, Virginia, just a few miles ...
Sunday morning in Chicago felt like the beginning of a dystopian dream. Federal agents in camouflage uniforms patrolled the streets of River North, one of the city’s busiest tourist districts ...
An investigative research deep in the MAGA circle shows how loyalty became a weapon, how intrigues hollow the movement out from within and how Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk turned into symbols ...
A look at the latest numbers is enough to understand why the political atmosphere in the United States is so heated: According to the RealClearPolitics average, Democrats are currently clearly ahead with 45.0 percent, ...
On a Sunday morning in September 2025, the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, turned into a stage for a spectacle that revealed the profound fusion of religion and politics in America ...
"Racially or ethnically motivated extremists carried out the most deadly attacks since 2010." The sentence appears inconspicuously on pages two and three of a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO-25-107030, ...
An American tragedy in three acts. September 10, 2025, 11:52 a.m., Orem, Utah - The gray Dodge Challenger parks among the other student cars, inconspicuous, ordinary. Tyler James Robinson, 22 years old, gets out.
It was 12:20 p.m. on September 10, 2025, when a single shot echoed across the campus of Utah Valley University. Charlie Kirk, 31 years old, founder of Turning Point ...
The controversy over Donald Trump's past reached a new dimension on Monday. The House Oversight Committee released a document from Jeffrey Epstein's notorious birthday book that allegedly bears the signature ...
These are sentences you usually only hear in dystopian films: "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," writes the President of the United States on Truth ...
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
When CDU politicians repeatedly met with MAGA representatives from the USA in recent years, the media and fact checkers focused on the obvious connections: Trump, his loud supporters, the visible populists ...
There are moments when history exposes itself. 338 pages of transcript, we have read it in full, recorded under oath, were supposed to bring light into the darkness. Instead we are ...
For a long time, we have documented the growing tensions between the federal government in Washington and the state of California only in passing, without placing the escalation at the center.
Identified Targets: Judges and Associated Attackers. This article provides a shortened yet still comprehensive analysis of the targeted use of Truth Social by U.S. President Donald Trump and his extremist networks to undermine democratic institutions, particularly the judiciary.
One morning in 2025, students at School No. 15 in Melitopol enter their classroom. In front of them stands a man in camouflage and a balaclava. “Good morning. I am your new ...
Latin America may seem geographically far away to many, but the politics of dehumanization know no borders. They have already arrived here, creeping into our laws, our discourse, our normality....
Good morning Germany, we have given everything to deliver comprehensive reporting for the German-speaking world for an eventful August 2 - without forgetting Mrs. Weidel and the lips of ...
New filings by the U.S. Department of Justice in the case of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have exposed a gap that could hardly be more explosive. For years, the narrative of the scandal was shaped by secret ...
Whoever wants to understand the case of Jeffrey Epstein - whoever wants to grasp how a man facing dozens of witness statements, police photos, DNA evidence, victim lists, ...
Anyone who wants to understand Jeffrey Epstein must understand Jean-Luc Brunel - or better yet, let Epstein speak. Jean-Luc Brunel - that is the name that casts a shadow over the European ...
The truth about Jeffrey Epstein, his networks and his connections is not hidden in a few dozen pages of indictment. Nor is it in the verdict against Ghislaine Maxwel ...
It is one of those revelations that do not settle for being a scandal. They open a window into a parallel world – quiet, precise, inescapable. Nearly 200 mobile phones ...