Investigative Journalism
Sometimes it is the small stories that reveal the full brutality of a system. Donna Brown-Hughes, 58 years old, has lived in the United States since she was eleven. She has renewed her ...
The Last Appearance of a Controversial Demagogue! Charlie Kirk is dead. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA was shot and killed on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University. While political violence ...
Three high-ranking FBI officials have filed a lawsuit that casts a harsh light on how the Trump administration dealt with the federal police. They speak of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by FBI Director Kash Patel, ...
The government of Donald Trump is currently reviewing signs, exhibits and even books in the United States’ national parks – with the aim of removing everything that, in its view, ...
Paris held its breath this Wednesday. Exactly at the moment when President Emmanuel Macron was swearing in his new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, protest erupted in the streets ...
Chicago these days is a city in a state of emergency - not because of crime, but because of politics. While Donald Trump is threatening with the National Guard and ICE is preparing large-scale raids, ...
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 ...
The numbers speak a brutal language: 62 out of 100 points on the financial distress scale. Texas, Florida, and Louisiana – precisely those states that present themselves as beacons of conservative politics ...
The morning sun of September 9, 2025, rose over Kathmandu, but instead of the usual golden light that makes the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayas glow, a biting smoke hung over the ...
There are days when the law breaks - not loudly, but with a quiet click, a shadow on paper, a ruling in the archives of the Supreme Court ...
Donald Trump might be serious, or whatever one should call his behavior: On Monday, the president, as full of bravado as ever, announced that he would send National Guard troops ...
JD Vance apparently wanted to prevent it with all his might - and achieved the opposite. The Republican vice president, usually a master of sharp rhetoric, resorted on Monday to ...
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 ...
The controversy over Donald Trump's past reached a new dimension on Monday. The House Oversight Committee released a letter addressed to Jeffrey Epstein that allegedly bears the signature ...
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for new, large-scale immigration raids in Los Angeles – a step that deeply infringes on the civil rights of millions of people ...
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 ...
It is the pattern that repeats itself over and over: right-wing media stage a distorted image of reality, and a president who long ago stopped distinguishing between truth and propaganda ...
As we already revealed in our research in June and July 2025, the prisoner deal between Washington, Bukele and Maduro was a political and moral scandal. In our article ...
Kyiv is burning – literally and figuratively. On Sunday night, Russia launched the largest drone attack since the beginning of the war. 805 Shahed drones, supplemented by 13 missiles, rained down ...
The drone footage looks like something out of a dystopian war movie: A small boat, visibly overloaded, speeds through the dark Caribbean Sea. Seconds later, the strike, then silence. Eleven people dead ...
The sirens are wailing. Not those of the fire department - those of Wall Street. 22,000 jobs in August. For America, this is a total loss. While Trump is still raving about an economic miracle, the ground beneath him is ...
This weekend, several American cities stood as symbols of resistance. In Washington, D.C., thousands took to the streets to protest the federal takeover of their police force and the deployment of National Guard troops ...
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 Brookland, Arkansas, are harrowing, even for us, and revealing at the same time: Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines from sun and worry, crowd into a gymnasium ...
It is once again one of those weekends when everything happens at once. In Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP) pulled the emergency brake on Friday and expanded its ongoing lawsuit ...
San Francisco, a late Friday night or early Saturday morning, and suddenly the clock stands still for more than a million people. Edward Chen, federal judge in the Northern District of California, has put the Trump ...
It sounds like a scene from an absurd play: A flight captain opens his navigation manual, the sober revision highlights – and suddenly finds politics. In black and white it says: ...
Donald Trump has a new idea for how to get to paradise: by credit card. In a mass email that his Super PAC “Never Surrender” sent out three times, it says in black and white: “Friend, I want to try ...
Sometimes it is the operations that no one is allowed to see that reveal the most about a presidency. In the spring of 2019, Donald Trump sent the legendary SEAL Team 6 on a mission so sensitive ...
Our research has shown that Donald Trump's tariff policy is not just an ideological project but a gigantic, invisible tax on the US economy. Since January 2025, companies in the United States ...
Donald Trump had sold it as a triumph: "Liberation Day," the day he "freed" industry - from environmental regulations, from bureaucracy, from climate protection. Coal-fired power plants were to be brought back online, wind turbines ...
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
There are moments when Washington does not feel like the capital of a world power but like the worst reality show on earth. The latest scandal: A senior official at the Department of Justice, Acting Deputy Chief ...
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
Sometimes the transformation of a society first becomes visible in its schools - that was one of the central findings of our investigation. It is a moment that lingers: In Russia, the Prosecutor General ...
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 ...
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
There are images that say more than a thousand words. The photo of an airplane on the runway, with the headline "Afghans miss flight because they were shopping," is such an image ...
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 ...
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
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.
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
The images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
Beijing, September 3, 2025. The sun rose over Tiananmen Square and illuminated a scene of surreal symbolism: three men whose regimes are responsible for the systematic oppression of millions shook hands ...
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...