Investigative Journalism
Donald Trump had hoped to bring China’s economy to its knees with punitive tariffs. But the reality reflected in the new figures from Beijing paints a different picture: despite tariffs of up to 145 percent in spring 2025, China’s economy continues to grow ...
Once upon a time, there was a president who didn’t care much for anything fresh - except maybe the color of his tanning lotion. On July 14, 2025, long after the world should have forgotten him, ...
Es hätte ein Befreiungsschlag sein sollen. Ein kurzes Memo, zwei Seiten, veröffentlicht von Trumps Justizministerium am 7. Juli 2025 – ein offizielles Dementi, nüchtern und final: Es gebe keine sogenannte „Epstein-Kundenliste“, ...
It is a disturbing turn for one of the world’s most beloved characters: Elmo, the red, fluffy Muppet from “Sesame Street,” has become the target of hackers ...
It is an exodus rarely seen in Washington - and an unmistakable signal from the inner circles of the American rule-of-law establishment: Since Donald Trump’s re-election as President ...
It begins with a veil – invisible and ubiquitous. A veil unseen by satellites, unfilmed by cameras – and yet weighing millions of tons. Nanoplastics, tiny fragments of synthetic materials smaller than a bacterium, lighter than a feather ...
Washington, mid-July 2025. Once again, Donald Trump is at the center of world politics. Amid global unrest and growing doubts about his course, Trump stands alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte ...
Brussels, mid-July 2025. A shadow fell across the halls of the European institutions as Donald Trump announced new tariffs from the White House – 30 percent on imports from the European Union, ...
It begins with an application - and ends for many with the loss of all hope. In the refugee camps of the Netherlands, a silent catastrophe is unfolding.
Once upon a time, there was a country with a constitution, a separation of powers, and a certain aversion to monarchies. But all of that now lies buried beneath a silky cape ...
Desperation and determination hung in the air as the train rolled into the station in Kyiv. On the platform stood Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
It was the heart of remoteness - a place of wood, stone, and memory, built on the edge of eternity. Now it's nothing but ashes. The Grand Canyon Lodge ...
It doesn’t begin with a thunderclap. It begins with silence. With the voice that no longer warns. With the data that no longer arrives. With weather services standing empty ...
Jens Spahn coined a phrase that could be plastered across a billboard for this republic: “We led Germany well through this difficult time.” That was in 2025.
It was one of those nights when history announces itself not with a bang, but with a tweet. Elon Musk, long one of Trump’s half-quiet allies and one of the most powerful men of the digital age, has broken the silence. And not only that ...
Donald Trump calls them “the worst of the worst.” He speaks of rapists, murderers, child abusers – as if in recent years an army of evil had slipped across the border, led by gang bosses ...
Investigations reveal: The State Technical Commission of the Russian Federation – Gosudarstvennaya Tekhnicheskaya Komissiya, or GosTekhKomissiya for short – is far more than a body for device certification. It is the invisible gear in Putin’s war economy ...
Chris Landry is 46 years old, a father of five children, and has lived in the United States for more than four decades. Born in Canada, he came to New Hampshire at the age of three, ...
It was the day after the assault. In front of “Glass House Farms” in Camarillo, north of Los Angeles, dozens of workers waited for an answer that had already been given ...
It begins the way so many collapses begin: with a quiet crack. A fracture in parliament, a loose bolt in the constitution, a splinter in the foundation of the rule of law.
It's the story of a man who preferred to remain invisible. A man with a quiet voice but immense power. In Europe he's known as the owner of Manchester City, the discreet Emirati ...
It starts with a man bun and ends in the bin. A bearded guy with a clean undercut, a "Vegeta" T-shirt, and a TikTok account steps in front of the camera, looks serious ...
It was a Saturday morning straight out of the textbook of American unpredictability. Without prior notice, without final talks, without regard for the fragile order of global trade, Donald Trump ...
It was the day after the rain, and the rain was no longer rain but memory. Memory of the roar of the water that swallowed houses, tore open roads, swept away lives.
It was a hot, glaring day in Southern California when Jaime Alanís died – not of a natural illness, not in peace, but in a fall. He plunged more than nine meters from the roof ...
It begins with a quiet image. An empty hallway, a locked glass door, behind it a printed note, simply taped to the window. No official statement, no logo, no sender ...
It was one of those weeks when the facade begins to crumble. The Trump administration had hoped to keep the lid on the barrel with a brief memo, but what poured out was distrust, anger ...
It is a hot, heavy summer in Texas, the ground still steaming from the floodwaters that swept through the land like a biblical plague. Mud covers the streets, the wood of houses rots in the sun ...
It is a development that has surprised many - and one that perhaps even Donald Trump himself did not see coming. Just a few months after his return to the White House, ...
"A catastrophe without blame, or the appearance of rock bottom in peak form" - It was a landing with a message – and a visit that leaves many questions unanswered. On Friday, July 11, 2025, President Donald Trump ...
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