Investigative Journalism
Washington - Our investigation has now definitively confirmed it: The Trump administration has eased key sanctions against Russian banks, including Gazprombank, Sberbank, and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation ...
Washington, D.C. – In a powerful protest against Donald Trump’s controversial tax and spending bill – the so-called “Big Ugly Bill” – 38 demonstrators were arrested at the U.S. Capitol on Monday ...
Washington, D.C. – Anyone visiting or living in the United States should now think twice before speaking out. A new memo from the U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump is causing global outrage: ...
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
Nashville, Tennessee - A man remains in prison. Not because he is guilty. Not because he wants to flee. But because the justice system ...
Pride Month is coming to an end – and perhaps you barely noticed that it had begun. This year has been noticeably quiet: no rainbow-colored logos from major corporations, ...
Washington / Nashville - This is a case that long ago transcended legal questions - it has become a symbol for how a government deals with law, truth, and human life. Construction worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
There is political communication. There is propaganda. And then there is what the White House is publishing these days – a mixture of fast-food aesthetics, authoritarian commands, and post-ironic absurdity
It was a scene of biblical cruelty, but it did not take place two thousand years ago in Jerusalem – it happened in the spring of 2025 in the Arizona desert. An elderly pastor, William "Bill" Schonemann, 76 years old, ...
East Palo Alto, California – It was a promise born from the idea that wealth brings responsibility. When Priscilla Chan, pediatrician and wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, established a school for disadvantaged children in 2016 ...
It is the biographical details that can shake the political memory of a nation – especially when they stand in stark contradiction to one’s own demands. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a vocal proponent of strict immigration laws ...
It was an interview straight out of a Machiavellian stage play: two people on the set - Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News veteran known for her sharp rhetoric, and Donald J. Trump, the president of rearview mirrors and distortions ...
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
Kabul, June 2025 - By motorcycle, camper van, bicycle, or scheduled flights from Istanbul and Dubai, they are arriving: curious travelers from Europe, adventure-seekers from Asia, globetrotters with GoPros and visas in their passports ...
New Orleans, Portland, Basile - they are quiet places, far removed from the centers of power in Washington. And yet these days, they lie at the heart of a policy that strikes with full force.
Just a few hours ago, an image appeared on the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security (@DHSgov): Four alligators lined up in formation, each wearing a cap with the white letters "ICE
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
Los Angeles, May 2025 – It was a day like so many in the labyrinth of American immigration bureaucracy – functional, overcrowded, emotionless ...
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
"You’re done for – the judge doesn’t like Russia." The sentence hit like a stone. No legal argument, no doubt, no room for interpretation. Just a verdict that had already been made long before any hearing began ...
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
It was just after four in the morning when the blast shook the street. An explosion, an armored vehicle, armed agents, a drone – and in the middle of it all: a mother with her two small children, ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – It was a Friday of seismic upheaval: while Donald Trump, at an impromptu press conference, declared it “his most successful week ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – The Supreme Court’s decision to prohibit nationwide injunctions has triggered a political and legal wildfire - especially among those seeking to block ...
One might almost think that the United States is determined to prove that even democracies with a constitution, a Supreme Court, and checks and balances can eventually become a caricature of themselves...
Nashville, June 27, 2025 – It is a legal paradox that seems almost incomprehensible: the attorneys of a man who was wrongfully deported from the United States ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – When word leaked late Thursday evening that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had deemed central parts of Donald Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package inadmissible, ...
Washington, D.C. – A gold-colored television set, in the middle of the National Mall, between Capitol Hill and the White House. It’s no ordinary screen, but an art installation ...
It is a phrase that sounds like it came straight from the playbook of Germany’s AfD or Martin Sellner - and yet it comes from the America of 2025: “Denaturalize. Deport. Remigrate.” ...
It is a silent tremor that creeps into the balance sheets of American households – slowly, insidiously, but inexorably. The United States is experiencing an explosive increase in the amounts citizens are paying in tariffs ...
The White House has spoken. Not in a press conference, not through legislation – but with a phrase straight out of the arsenal of toxic family dynamics: “Daddy’s Home.” And suddenly, the world’s largest democracy feels like a poorly ventilated basement ...
A central element of Donald Trump's heavily touted legislative package of tax cuts, spending reductions, and border enforcement has been thrown into doubt: ...
Sometimes, a return to darkness doesn’t begin with a thunderclap, but with a microphone and a sentence that sounds like it was lifted from a 1425 catechism. “God has an order,” ...
Nashville, Tennessee - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose unlawful deportation has become a symbol of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policy, pleaded not guilty on Friday in a federal court in Tennessee...
The return of the “dealmaker” has ushered in a new era of greatness – at least for fans of 1970s nostalgia. The US dollar has lost more than 10% of its value in the first half of 2025 ...
It was one of those statements where it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between cynicism and calculated fearmongering: “People from mental institutions and insane asylums. You know what that is? ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the press at the Pentagon on Thursday – and what followed was less a military briefing than a rhetorical offensive. With General Dan Caine at his side, Hegseth praised ...
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
Nashville, Tennessee – In a country that prides itself on being a beacon of freedom and the rule of law, a man sits in handcuffs – not because of guilt, but because of a dilemma the government created itself. Kilmar Abrego Garcia ...
n the shadow of the stone presidential heads of Mount Rushmore - among rocks, forests, and the memories of a broken treaty - a project is taking shape that does not heal America's wounds but deepens them: ...
Atlanta, June 25, 2025 – It was a premiere under high tension. For the first time, the newly appointed vaccination committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday ...
It was a debut both expected - and algorithmically assisted. No sooner had U.S. Vice President JD Vance logged into the delicately coded world of Bluesky on June 18, 2025, than he had done it: ...
It was a moment that, even in the era of Donald Trump, remained a rarity. On an open stage, under the full spotlight of the NATO summit in the Netherlands, political seriousness dissolved completely - with just one single, adoringly inappropriate word: "Daddy."
It was one of those scenes in which political power lays over actual events like a thin sheet, barely able to conceal the truth beneath. In The Hague, where Donald Trump appeared as a guest at the NATO summit, drenched in sweat and full of his ...
There are videos that don’t need explaining - they expose. They don’t just show a face - they reveal an entire mindset. The 2:49-minute video that Donald J. Trump posted on Truth Social ...
Donald J. Trump – Nobel Peace Prize. You really have to let that melt slowly on your tongue. Like a double cheeseburger from Mar-a-Lago, marbled with raw self-aggrandizement and the ketchup of global politics...
It was a nighttime strike of immense symbolic power - and yet its echo could not sound more hollow. On June 22, 2025, in a military operation titled "Operation Midnight Hammer," ...