Investigative Journalism
Washington / Los Angeles / New York – He is a president on a collision course. With millions of people. With constitutional principles. With the notion that the state shouldn’t kick down ...
Los Angeles – It wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. It was a political signal – deliberate, calculated, and as serious as what it unleashed. When US Vice President JD Vance appeared Friday ...
Washington - It is a move that leaves many stunned: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider the ban on white asbestos - the last form ...
Kyiv – As the war in Ukraine continues with unabated ferocity, a contradictory picture is emerging these days. On the one hand, attacks on cities such as Odesa and Kharkiv ...
Geneva - While sirens wail in Tehran and shelters fill in Jerusalem, leading European diplomats met on Friday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi for a crisis meeting in Swiss neutrality...
Washington - It was a day when the law took a breath. While in the East, the venerable buildings of Harvard gleamed in the early summer light, in the West, heavily armored vehicles rumbled through the streets of Los Angeles ...
New York – In a high-profile ruling, a U.S. federal judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention. The former Columbia student had been arrested in March 2025 under the pretext ...
Washington, June 2025 – It was a hot Friday night when the President of the United States once again launched himself into battle against phantoms. Not against the nuclear-armed reality of the Israel-Iran war, ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran is intensifying its systematic surveillance and oppression of women with alarming consistency. A recent UN report reveals that the regime is deploying drones, ...
Washington, June 2025 – It was a statement that struck the Senate like a slap in the face: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that renaming several US military bases after Confederate generals was ...
A night that changed the Middle East – and the world with it. On June 13, 2025, Israel launched a large-scale military operation against Iran’s nuclear program. What initially appeared to be a targeted strike on uranium enrichment ...
We know Job Garcia. As a photographer. As a quiet chronicler of everyday life, as a thoughtful mind, as a friend. He was never someone who sought the spotlight. But when he ...
It began with a head. Not a symbol made of marble, but a piece of latex, modeled after the face of the man who was soon to once again become the most powerful person in the Western world. In October 2024, ...
Los Angeles – It was a precedent with a warning: On June 19, 2025, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case Newsom v. Trump (Docket No. 25‑3727) that President Donald Trump may, for now, retain control over the California National Guard troops ...
Vienna – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Iran, Europe is opting for de-escalation. As confirmed on Thursday, the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom plan to meet directly with Iranian Foreign ...
On June 19 – the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned of their freedom – the White House remained conspicuously silent. President Donald Trump, who had publicly ...
It is a digital nightmare that is hard to surpass: On June 18 and 19, 2025, it became public that more than 16 billion stolen login credentials had surfaced online ...
Los Angeles, June 19, 2025 - It was a morning full of symbolism. Shortly after sunrise, several SUVs and transport vans carrying agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) drove into a parking area near the famous Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles ...
Erst kam das Einlenken, dann der Rückschlag: Als Donald Trump vergangene Woche eine Pause bei den umstrittenen ICE-Razzien in Farmen, Hotels und Restaurants verkündete, atmeten viele Unternehmer:innen kurz auf. Doch…
Washington, June 19, 2025 - Once upon a time, there was a network that loved Donald Trump. It broadcast him in high gloss, warmed him in prime-time slots, and rolled out the red carpet ...
San Diego, June 19, 2025 - These are images you don’t forget: Two masked officers from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency escort a man in handcuffs out of a federal courthouse in San Diego. His name is Sayed Naser...
Washington, June 19, 2025 – U.S. President Donald Trump has approved a comprehensive military strike plan against Iran but is hesitating to give the final order to carry it out. According to government sources, ...
Washington, June 19, 2025 – In a world where even the most loyal Trump supporters are tearing each other apart like hungry carp in the kiddie pool of the apocalypse, a new order is needed. A woman who doesn’t debate, but documents...
Washington, June 19, 2025 – In a White House that currently resembles a petting zoo with suspected rabies more than a presidential command center, a discreet damage control operation is underway: ...
When the rockets began to fall, our team had already been thinned out. More than half of Radio Farda’s newsroom had been furloughed – not due to a lack of work, but because of political calculation...
Early Thursday morning, an Iranian missile struck the Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Be’er Sheva - the central medical facility serving over one million people in southern Israel. The impact caused significant damage, ...
Some movements do not arrive with marching bands, but with prayer. Quiet, ghostly, organized. The so-called New Apostolic Reformation - or NAR - is such a movement. Not a church denomination, not a traditional sect, but ...
In the middle of the night on Wednesday, June 18, someone rings the doorbell of a Georgian family in Brigachtal. The police ask the parents to get themselves and their children ready to leave within an hour...
Megrih - In a night drenched in sirens and hopelessness, the quiet evacuation began. While another missile alert echoed over Tel Aviv and beachgoers ran barefoot across the hot asphalt, a government plane took off from Israeli ...
It was a case that turned a small rural town in Wisconsin into a nationwide symbol in America’s culture war: In the spring of 2022, three middle school students in Kiel were accused ...
As Israeli airstrikes hit key facilities of Iran’s nuclear program, something is beginning to stir inside the Islamic Republic as well. Pressure is mounting not only internationally ...
While the G7 nations are meeting in Canada to discuss the looming escalation in the Middle East, while diplomats search for the right words and generals debate flight paths, there is one place where the tectonic ...
“I may do it, I may not do it - nobody knows what I’m going to do.” With this sentence, spoken to reporters at the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump once again made it clear ...
It was supposed to be a patriotic coup – a symbol of technological independence, economic revival, and nationalist identity: the “All-American Smartphone” announced by Donald Trump, presented with stars-and-stripes pageantry, MAGA flair, ...
What does a man do who already has everything – power, a golden toilet, and a TV network named after himself? Exactly – he builds himself a monument. And not just any monument, but two gigantic flagpoles ...
In the shadow of escalating tensions between the U.S., Iran, and Israel, an internal power struggle is unfolding that could shake the leadership structure of America’s national security agencies. According to White House insiders, President Donald Trump is increasingly losing confidence ...
A deep rift is cutting through the heart of the MAGA movement. As President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on Iran, publicly calling for Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” and considering direct U.S. support for Israel, resistance is suddenly forming ...
Tehran is burning. On Wednesday night, Israeli fighter jets once again targeted key facilities in the Iranian capital – according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), two sites linked to Iran’s nuclear program were struck: ...
It is a message that feels like it’s from another era - from the time of colonial powers or Cold War threats. Over the weekend, the U.S. State Department, on behalf of President Donald ...
Shortly after five in the morning, a massive explosion shakes the Iranian capital. Smoke rises above the building of the state broadcaster, a reporter has to cut off his live broadcast. It is the dramatic climax ...
Washington – It may have been the last remnant of economic common sense in an administration increasingly driven by deterrence, fear, and ideology. Donald Trump had promised to "protect our farmers" – even publicly stating on social ...
Washington – It is a moment of global significance – and a moment in which history begins to rhyme once again. Donald Trump, President of the United States, sits with a solemn expression in the Situation Room, ...
A federal court in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration from restricting gender marker options in U.S. passports. The decision by Judge Julia Kobick prohibits the Department of Homeland Security ...
San Francisco – It is a historic legal battle, the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. Before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, President Donald Trump is defending his controversial deployment ...
Donald Trump has spoken. And as so often in his second term, what he says is less an assessment than a command – and less a truth than an act of will. Iran, the US president declared on the return flight from the aborted G7 ...
What lies there is not a cemetery. It is a sewage tank. And inside it: the mortal remains of 796 children – from newborns to nine-year-olds. Buried beneath a patch of grass, in the middle of a housing estate in western Ireland, ...
As we have now learned, an American aerial refueling aircraft of the type KC-135 Stratotanker with the callsign K35R is currently en route over the western Mediterranean. Departing from the British airbase RAF Mildenhall, ...
New York, June 17, 2025 – It was a morning like many in the stuffy hallways of the federal building at 26 Federal Plaza, where day after day, migrants fight for their right to stay. Brad Lander, ...
It starts with a law that sounds harmless – and ends in a perversion of political responsibility. The U.S. Senate is expected to pass a crypto bill this week that supposedly aims to bring order to the market. In reality, it opens the floodgates to corruption. The law, known as the “GENIUS Act,” ...
It was a moment that laid bare the full political disarray of the United States. As Donald Trump sat aboard Air Force One, flying back from an abruptly ended G7 summit in Canada, ...