Investigative Journalism
It began, as always, with a screenshot. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States and the first person to make diplomatic communication public via Signal screenshot, delivered once again. This time, it was a message from ...
Washington / Boston - It is a legal slap in the face for Donald Trump and a sigh of relief for thousands of young people around the world: A federal judge in Boston on Monday once again blocked a measure by the Trump administration aimed at keeping foreign students from attending Harvard University...
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
Tel Aviv / Tehran / Washington - It was a morning between hope and rubble: On Tuesday, Israel and Iran agreed to the ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, thus marking - at least for now - an end to an unprecedented twelve-day war ...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv – In the early hours of June 24, 2025, the war between Israel and Iran seemed to have reached a turning point – at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Washington – It was a day when power triumphed over the law. On June 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a six-to-three vote that the Trump administration may once again deport migrants to so-called ...
Washington, June 23, 2025 – When Donald Trump mentions a nuclear submarine, it’s not because it sails underwater. It’s because – in his words – it is “the most technologically superior, ...
Washington - It was a weekend that will be remembered - as an example of a government contradicting itself, and of a president who prefers to destroy rather than unite. While foreign policy balancing acts around Iran ...
Doha / Tehran / Jerusalem - It was only a matter of time before the shadows of the new war fell over additional countries. In the early hours of Monday, several explosions shook the Gulf region - of all places, ...
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
Tehran / Tel Aviv / Washington – With targeted airstrikes on three military sites in Iran, the U.S. military directly entered the war between Israel and the Islamic Republic on Sunday evening ...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - When Noah, nearly two years old, asks for his mother at bedtime, his father Adrian Clouatre simply says, “Mama will be back soon.” For his three-month-old daughter Lyn, who was still being breastfed, ...
Boise, Idaho – June 2025 - Announced with much pathos and grand rhetoric, the self-proclaimed “Hetero Awesome Fest” on June 20 and 21 in Boise turned out to be a prime example of the pitiful attempt to replace ...
Nashville, Tennessee – June 23, 2025 - A case that has long become symbolic of President Donald Trump’s controversial deportation policy took a new turn over the weekend: U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes ...
There are moments when global politics outpaces itself. And then there are moments like this one - when the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, calls on China ...
Washington, June 22, 2025 – There was no State of the Union address, no press conference, no solemn moment in the Oval Office. Instead: a single social media post. “We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear ...
It is an image that burns itself into memory: Donald Trump against a blood-red background, next to a figure that demands attention – 230,473,622 US dollars. That’s how much money, according to a sharepic ...
It was a massive yet limited strike - a show of force with calculated restraint. No political targets, no command centers, no air defense systems were hit. According to official Pentagon statements, Fordow was heavily ...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - In the early hours of June 22, 2025, the world changed. Three targeted U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear core sites - Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan - struck not only military objectives ...
McAllen, Texas – Children being shoved aside by adults to reach drinking water. A toddler with diarrhea who was given only tap water for days. A boy with swollen feet denied a medical ...
Amid the dramatically escalating situation in the Middle East, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, has issued an urgent warning ...
There are moments in history when a single command is enough to destroy decades of diplomatic work - and to plunge the world into an abyss whose depth no one can truly fathom...
Washington / Tehran / Tel Aviv - June 22, 2025 - In an escalation with unforeseeable consequences, US President Donald Trump confirmed that American forces struck three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday night ...
Amid growing tensions between constitutional law and religious symbolism, the state of Texas has passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be visibly posted in all public school classrooms. With the legislation passed ...
Gainesville – This is a scandal that reaches far beyond the campus: At the University of Florida’s law school, a 29-year-old law student, Preston Damsky, was awarded the prestigious ...
Washington – It is a warning signal that cannot be ignored, even amid the constant noise of political messaging: Donald Trump's approval ratings are in free fall ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...