Investigative Journalism
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, ...
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 ...