Investigative Journalism
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
It was supposed to be a thunderclap of power. A triumphal march of steel, discipline, and deadly serious expressions. But instead: waving, smiling, swaying. And all of it – in front of empty stands. Donald Trump is furious.
The first day of the G7 summit in Canada marks a diplomatic balancing act for U.S. President Donald Trump. With a signed trade agreement with the United Kingdom, sharp criticism from within his own ranks, and a restrained stance toward Russia, Trump sets his own tone ...
In the boundless expanse of Arizona, where windmills slice the horizon and barbed wire preserves the memory of another century, an old man wrestles with time. Brantley Baird, 88 years old, a man of weathered skin ...
Calgary, Alberta – It was a moment in which symbolism weighed heavier than any diplomatic protocol. When Steven Crowchild, a respected tribal leader of the Tsuut’ina Nation in Alberta, Canada, ...
Belle Plaine, Minnesota – The two-day manhunt for the suspect in the deadly attacks on two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has come to an end. Vance Boelter, who is ...
New York, June 16, 2025 - Donald Trump is entering the mobile phone market. With a blend of pathos, patriotism, and product promise, the Trump Organization has introduced a new mobile phone brand: T1 Mobile ...
Washington, June 16, 2025 – It was the big day of the big man. The Army turned 250, Trump 79 – and together they marched as if the nation were still intact. ...
It was a double blow that shook the political landscape of the United States over the weekend: While President Donald Trump on Sunday evening directed the immigration agency ICE to carry ...
It was a day that was supposed to go down in Los Angeles history - but not because of peaceful civic demonstrations or the strength of civil society. Instead, it was because of how the city ...
When Donald Trump arrived at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies on June 15, 2025, he encountered a completely different agenda than he had envisioned. While the US President ...
Washington, June 14, 2025 – It wasn’t honors that rained down, but ridicule. The United States Army marched through the National Mall this Saturday - heavily armed, orchestrated, routine ...
A moment from Washington that raises questions. It is the evening before Trump’s grand military parade. Washington feels tense, like it’s under glass. On the streets, the capital is preparing for June 14 – the 250th ...
A republic holds its breath. On this Saturday, June 14 - the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, Flag Day, and Donald Trump’s 79th birthday - thousands of soldiers are ...
“This overview, developed by us, clearly reveals the qualifications that Donald Trump does not possess – and yet, he is President of the United States. If that doesn’t set off alarm bells, what will?”
Las Vegas – It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday afternoon. Two cousins, 15 and 16 years old, were on their way to a birthday party downtown. But they never got there...
At the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, it wasn’t just the fluorescent lights flickering on Friday - it was the gleam of a deeply fractured nation reflected in the eyes of one man: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 29 years old, ...
It begins with a missed meal - and ends in an uprising whose full extent even the authorities do not yet fully grasp. Four detainees have escaped from the federal immigration detention center Delaney Hall in the state of New Jersey...
Another chapter in the long saga of legal battles surrounding Donald Trump ends with a clear no – this time from one of the most powerful US courts. By a vote of 8 to 2, ...
Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that there are "concrete military plans to take over Greenland and Panama." Early Friday morning, Israel launched a massive strike on Tehran ...
It happened in broad daylight, on the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles. A white sedan slowly turned into the street, two children in the back seat, a woman in the passenger seat. Seconds later, a light blue van rammed ...
There are moments when football betrays itself. When the game that captivates millions suddenly seems detached from the reality in which it takes place. The summer of 2025 ...
While California continues to fight for its constitutional rights and the legal tug-of-war over the National Guard deployment drags on, a different picture emerges on the streets of Los Angeles – one of a government choosing escalation ...
SAN FRANCISCO – In a stunning move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily halted a ruling by federal judge Charles R. Breyer (Case No.: State of California v. Trump et al., 3:25-cv-04172-CRB) that would have required President Donald Trump
It is a legal thunderclap that resonates far beyond California: On Thursday, federal judge Charles R. Breyer issued a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump in the case of Newsom v. Trump ...
It is a moment that seems almost too absurd to be real: The United States House of Representatives is not debating war or peace, not inflation or education, but Elmo. About Big Bird, known in Germany as Bibo, the yellow bird from ...
What was announced as a routine press conference by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ended in a political bombshell: California Senator Alex Padilla, a Democrat with Mexican roots, was handcuffed and removed on Thursday in Los Angeles ...
What began as a determined protest against the rigid immigration policies of the U.S. government escalated into one of the most violent clashes since the beginning of the nationwide wave of demonstrations. In front of the ICE office ...
It is a scene more familiar in authoritarian regimes than in a U.S. state: Over 5,000 members of the Texas National Guard have been deployed statewide at the direction of Governor Greg Abbott – days ahead of the planned "No Kings" protests this weekend...
It sounds like a bad joke from a dystopian film – but the sentence was spoken, publicly and without a flinch: “If you’re driving on a street and a mob surrounds your car ...
Key West, Florida – It was a sunny morning in the Sunshine State when Vincent Scardina, a self-declared Trump supporter and owner of a small roofing company, suddenly realized what it means when election decisions have real ...
A young man walks past a burning car. In his hands: four flags, one of them Mexican. Smoke drifts over the asphalt, voices echo against the city’s walls. It is June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles ...
Donald Trump had almost won them over – the millennials, the largest generation in the U.S. electorate. Between 2020 and 2024, the Democrats’ lead among voters aged 30 to 44 shrank to just a few percentage points...
As thousands of people once again took to the streets in Los Angeles on Sunday, there were not only clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement - several journalists also found themselves caught in the crossfire...
It is a spectacle on an open stage, a clash that is unparalleled in the history of the federal United States. California is on fire - not only in the literal sense, but politically...
The moment America held its breath did not come with a thunderous blow but with a military grip on civilian flesh. No formal state of emergency. No Insurrection Act. No declaration of martial law. And yet: Donald Trump crossed the final line.
It begins with a courtroom – sober, functional, often overcrowded – and ends with handcuffs in the hallway. Since May 2025, a silent escalation has been unfolding in the United States that few notice unless they’re directly ...
It begins with a bulldozer – and ends with a monument to his own overconfidence. In Washington, where roses once bloomed and First Ladies made history, Donald Trump is tearing up the ground...
He became world-famous without uttering a single word – and now he’s leaving just as silently as he came. Khaby Lame, the most-followed TikToker in the world, is no longer in the United States. Amid President Donald Trump’s ...
It begins with a chant, shouted thousands of times: No hate, no fear – immigrants are welcome here. And it ends – for now – with a police grab, with tear gas, with plastic zip ties. What is happening in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
What began as protests has long since become a domestic state of emergency. On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Police Department enforced the downtown curfew imposed by Mayor Karen Bass for the first time with full force...