Investigative Journalism
On Friday morning, the White House set in motion a step that shook the foundations of the public service: the beginning of mass dismissals of federal employees. What is officially called a “reduction in force” ...
The American financial markets experienced on Friday a rare combination of overvaluation, nervousness, and political unpredictability. The trigger was not a macroeconomic shock but a message from the president ...
In Broadview, an unassuming suburb of Chicago, more was revealed in a single day about the political climate of the United States than in weeks of parliamentary debate. In front of an unremarkable building ...
There are nights when history takes a grotesque turn - and in this case, it takes the shape of frogs. While Washington argues about "uprisings" and "national security," ...
It was to be expected - and yet again a spectacle for the history books. While in Oslo the cameras were focused on a 58-year-old Venezuelan woman receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her unwavering ...
Over Montgomery, Alabama, there hangs a strange heaviness these days. It is not the weather - it is the waiting. In a small house not far from Maxwell ...
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
Sometimes I sit there, read the news, and wonder if maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m the last one who missed the memo. Maybe the new reality ...
What began as a serious legal dispute quickly turned into a farce in a Chicago courtroom, more reminiscent of a political slapstick show than a hearing on the legality of a military ...
It was a morning like any other in the White House - if you ignore the fact that the President of the United States nearly fell asleep during a two-hour press conference, insulted the press, ...
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
There are moments when power unintentionally exposes itself. One of those moments occurred during the October 7, 2025 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Reuters photographer Jonathan ...
A federal judge in Chicago has drawn a line against the Trump administration’s drive for executive dominance. In a ruling that reaches far beyond Illinois, he declared the arrest of 26 people by ...
Donald Trump has finally turned the office of the president into a political court of punishment. On Wednesday, he publicly called for the imprisonment of two elected officials – the Democratic governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, ...
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, ...
In Portland, a city that in recent months has become the focal point of American constitutional questions, a woman entered the ICE building on October 7 whose public persona has long been draped in a religious myth ...
What is unfolding this Tuesday in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago is more than a show of force - it is a precedent. The first units of the Texas National Guard arrived in the afternoon ...
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 ...
October 7, 2025, begins with a promise and ends with a claim. In between lies a hearing in which fewer answers were found than battle lines. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General of the United ...
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
What is unfolding these days in the United States is more than a political conflict - it is an open stress test for American democracy. Donald Trump has ...
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
Chicago, Broadview, Springfield – on this Monday, the legal front line stretched across the Midwest. Hardly had a federal court in Oregon prohibited the deployment of National Guardsmen to Portland ...
t was a morning like many others in Washington - and yet one in which the very foundations of American democracy trembled. While the venerable Supreme Court opened its new session, in which ...
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
A massive fire completely destroyed the beach house of Judge Diane S. Goodstein in the coastal town of Edisto Beach, South Carolina, on Saturday morning. Three family members of the 69-year-old jurist were injured and had to be taken to hospitals ...
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
Anyone walking through the well-kept suburbs of Virginia would hardly suspect that behind a row of pastel-colored houses, built in 1949, in Arlington lies the nerve center of a political radicalization. Russ Vought, ...
On Saturday morning, an unremarkable intersection in southwest Chicago turned into a reflection of American power politics. Against the backdrop of escalating immigration raids, a federal officer shot a female driver who ...
A federal judge has put an end to the grand production: Karin Immergut, Case No. 3:25-cv-01756, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s planned federalization ...
There are news stories that sound as if they were stolen straight from a parody show. But this is America under Trump: this is where the absurd becomes governance. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...
Sometimes the political anatomy of a government reveals itself not in grand speeches or international crises but in the quiet, paper-filled rooms of a courtroom. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
There are images one would take for satire if they were not real. In Portland, the city once known for protest culture, creativity, and progressive values, police officers led a man away in handcuffs on Friday night ...
What remains when a building is stormed in the middle of the night by hundreds of heavily armed federal agents? In Chicago’s South Shore the answer shows itself in shards, smashed doors, blood stains on the floor ...
Four men dead, a burning boat off the coast of Venezuela - and a U.S. government that spins a war narrative out of it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared on Friday that the strike ...
A new chapter of brutality unfolded in front of the ICE prison in Portland - an incident that makes clear that the escalation of violence is not coming from the ranks of protesters but ...
Apple and Google have sent a clear signal this week - and in doing so banned far more than just an app from their stores. Both companies blocked applications that allowed ...
The fronts in the bitter budget dispute continue to harden. While Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the House session week in order to force the Senate to adopt the funding bill passed by Republicans, the pressure ...
It is perhaps the most absurd scene of the evening: police officers standing in front of an ICE building under cover of night, the whole day without migrants to pick up, no big brawls, ...
A not publicly released, unclassified communication to Congress, 17 dead at sea, a new narrative: Donald Trump has it recorded that the United States is in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels ...
The president of the free world lifts world history to the level of a tongue-twister test. "I believe we have settled Aber-baijan and Albania," says Donald Trump, 79, delivering the rare ...
When the lights go out in Washington, it does not affect everyone equally. Hardly had the shutdown begun when it became clear who was hit hardest by the first blows: Black federal employees ...
It is the second day of the government shutdown in Washington, and Donald Trump is staging it like an instrument of power. Where previous presidents in such moments tried to keep the damage to public administration ...
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 ...
While in Washington since October 1, 2025 the clocks have stood still, the Trump administration once again proves that standstill does not apply to everyone. More than 750,000 federal employees do not know if and when they will be ...
The hall in Quantico was full, the stands tightly packed with generals and admirals, flag officers who have spent decades in service. One would have expected facts, strategies ...
It takes only a few clicks, yet they can move worlds. Right-wing networks long ago understood that with brazen claims they can poison public debate. A tweet here, a share there — soon false ...
The linoleum floor on the twelfth floor of Federal Plaza 26 in Manhattan knows many stories. It has heard the shuffling steps of desperate families waiting anxiously for their hearings ...
The United States has been at a standstill since midnight. A country that sees itself as a bastion of stability and reliability begins October with closed offices, empty counters, and 750,000 federal ...