Investigative Journalism
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...
These are images one would associate with crisis zones – not with an American metropolis. Amid the escalating protests in Los Angeles against President Trump’s immigration raids and the deployment of the National Guard, more and more ...
It was announced as a celebration – a festive day in honor of the 250-year history of the U.S. Army. But what Donald Trump bellowed into the microphone on June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sounded less like a patriotic tribute ...
The conflict between California and the federal government has reached a new level of escalation. Governor Gavin Newsom filed an emergency motion in federal court Tuesday evening to halt the deployment of National Guard members ...
The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, calls for torture against California's Governor Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, Marines are marching into Los Angeles, violence is escalating in Austin, and nationwide protests are set to culminate ...
It is a picture that could hardly be drawn more sharply: While Donald Trump cracks down on demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting his immigration policies, one of his first acts in his second term was to pardon over a thousand individuals – including those who brutally attacked police officers ...
In the digital agora of the 21st century, where words fly like arrows through the air of social media, the voice of a man rises once again - one who has never ceased to cast himself as the savior of a world in decline: Donald J. Trump ...
With a political thunderclap, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, has dismissed the entire CDC vaccine advisory committee ...
It has barely been a week since rainbow flags lined the streets of Washington, as World Pride transformed the capital into a celebration of diversity. The streets were colorful, the message clear - equality, visibility, freedom...
On Monday evening, Dallas became the next stage in the growing resistance against the deportation offensive of U.S. President Donald Trump. Dozens of demonstrators gathered on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, holding up signs and waving flags ...
It begins with an image many thought impossible: US Marines, trained for combat missions in Afghanistan or Syria, preparing to act against American citizens on American soil - right in the middle of Los Angeles. President Donald Trump has ...
36 million workers were to be better protected from heat by a new regulation from OSHA – the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Shade, drinking water, breaks: not ...
t was a Sunday that felt like a turning point in American history. Thousands of people poured into the streets of Los Angeles, blocked freeways, and set self-driving vehicles on fire. These were images that recalled the summer of 2020 - George Floyd, tear gas, rebellion...
It is a step that goes far beyond political symbolism - and reaches deep into the constitutional entrails of the United States: On June 7, 2025, Donald Trump ordered ...
Los Angeles, June 9, 2025, 3:00 AM (12:00 PM CET. It was already the evening of June 6 when the first protests formed and the raids began, but the nights ...
It is a Sunday, but not one of peace. Not a quiet day, not a weary end of the week. June 8, 2025 marked one of those moments when a city doesn’t just tremble - it speaks. Loudly. ...
It is a light flickering above the city - not a sunrise, but the twitching of police sirens, burning dumpsters, and the harsh, unforgiving presence of a state turning against its citizens. On the night of June 7 to 8, Los Angeles became ...
It is just a country road that separates Ferriday from Vidalia – but crossing it means traveling through decades of American history. On one side: Ferriday High School, a campus ...
It is not a wall made of concrete. No barbed wire cutting through the dusty borderland. No, the new America does not build in stone, but in code. It erects its fences from algorithms, its watchtowers from camera eyes, ...
These are the moments when not only the veil of political ignorance is lifted, but the very foundation of Republican identity begins to shake. On June 6, 2025, such a moment occurred – and it was so unmistakable, so revealing, ...
It was a day that will likely be etched deep into California’s collective memory – tear gas, burning cars, arrested union leaders – and now, soldiers. On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he would deploy 2,000 ...
Tear gas and smoke hung over the southern outskirts of Los Angeles on Saturday. The streets of the small city of Paramount became the scene of an escalating confrontation between federal authorities and a civil society that refuses ...
It is an escalation whose sharpness seems unusual even for Donald Trump – and at the same time a glimpse into the power dynamics of a president who tolerates no loyalty short of total devotion. In an interview with ...
It looked like a scene from a dark thriller: three fine but distinct fractures in the neck of a man who became the face of a global abuse scandal – and whose death raised more questions than it answered. Jeffrey Epstein, ...
It begins with an irony that only flourishes in the depths of political power: A president who claims America has recovered from chaos under his leadership governs as if the country were in a state of permanent emergency...
American politics increasingly resembles a theater in which not only the roles but also the rules are being rewritten. What once lurked in the dark corners of ideological discourse is now ...
It was a Friday in June, but the heat of that day came not only from the California sun. On June 6, 2025, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing that could no longer be described merely as a political dispute ...
It begins with a promise. "Energy dominance," the government calls it. Another word for the subjugation of entire landscapes – and the people who live there. In southern Louisiana, where the air smells of salt and houses cast barely any shadow ...
"Prices are down, income is up, our Border is closed, gasoline is CHEAP, inflation is DEAD — Our Country is BOOMING!" – When words become weapons, this sentence is a glancing blow against reality. ...