Investigative Journalism
Donald Trump is once again in his element. In a scene that feels more like a schoolyard drama than international diplomacy, the President of the United States tells a story about how France’s head of state, ...
While one device after another is unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, the golden smartphone from Donald Trump’s orbit remains invisible. Trump Mobile had announced a market launch ...
What is now being said openly in Washington would, only a few years ago, have been considered a foreign policy taboo. Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump’s most influential advisers, stated in a television interview ...
The sharpest criticism did not come from Caracas, nor from the ranks of Washington’s political opponents, but from Geneva. The United Nations human rights office has unequivocally condemned the military seizure carried out by the United ...
The view of January 6, 2021 changes fundamentally when it is not seen from the distance of political headlines, but from the perspective of those who were trapped inside the violence ...
The US government has quietly retreated from a central allegation with which it politically and legally prepared the seizure of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. In a revised indictment, the Department of Justice has abandoned ...
Under massive security, Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were brought on Monday to the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan. Two days after their arrest during a US commando operation in Caracas, ...
As international pressure grows after the US military operation in Venezuela, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has drawn a clear line. In her daily press conference, she firmly rejected any form of military intervention and openly ...
One day after the US military seizure in Venezuela, Donald Trump sharpens his tone – and expands the circle of targets. While Nicolás Maduro is in US custody, the president openly speaks ...
On Monday, January 5, 2026, around midday, a process will unfold that has few parallels in the history of American criminal justice. Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, and his wife ...
The criminal prosecution of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores before a federal court of the United States is not an ordinary criminal case. It stands at the intersection of domestic criminal law, international law, and international human rights guarantees ...
Donald Trump stepped before the cameras on Saturday to explain the US military operation in Venezuela that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. What was intended as a justification for an extraordinary operation ...
Our intensive investigations show that the US administration’s belligerent change of course is not merely the result of diplomatic pressure or spontaneous reactions to provocative overflights by Venezuelan jets. It is built on internal intelligence papers that show how ...
In the night leading into Saturday, the United States overthrew Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. US special forces entered his government residence at the Fuerte Tiuna military base, arrested him ...
The news came shortly before sunrise and hit Caracas like a blow: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has been arrested and taken out of the country. Donald Trump confirmed this early Saturday ...
Shortly after two o’clock in the morning, Caracas was jolted awake. At least seven explosions shook the Venezuelan capital, accompanied by low-flying aircraft whose roar cut through several neighborhoods ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands on the brink of its next major escalation. For days, protests have spread across the country, born of economic desperation and turning into an open ...
Alma Bowman has lived in the United States for 49 years. She was born in the Philippines while her father was on active duty in the US Navy. Under the law in force at the time, ...
A federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it sought to revoke deportation protection for tens of thousands of migrants ...
The trail was not the explosion, but an inconsistency. A Russian cargo vessel, traveling on a route that defied every principle of maritime logic, declared a harmless cargo – empty containers, harbor cranes, equipment ...
For ten months, Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez has been held at the Eloy Detention Center. Ten months in which her body has visibly deteriorated while authorities, operators and politicians argue over whether she is sick or not ...
America faces big questions. War, climate, the economy – all secondary now that part of the republic, with a serious expression, is asking whether the press secretary’s lips are ...
In the middle of the open sea, the crew turned to paint and calculation. While U.S. units were tracking the oil tanker Bella 1, a Russian flag suddenly appeared on the hull. Not a symbol of conviction, but a shield ...
The return came without warning. In mid-December, Gregory Bovino reappeared in the Chicago area, accompanied by several hundred federal agents – and a film crew. The same hard methods that had already ...
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin personally informed him that Ukraine had attempted to attack one of his residences with drones. A serious accusation, made at a sensitive moment ...
Monday evening in Bautzen. Once again, hundreds of people move through the streets, celebrating themselves as resistance, as a freedom movement, as peacemakers, as alleged heirs of a suppressed history. “Free Saxony” echoes back to itself, ...
The day Donald Trump receives Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida smells of power and staging. While houses burn in Ukraine and people are pulled from rubble, ...
In the United States, someone is missing. In Germany, perhaps soon more than people would like. Not as a headline, not as a number in a table, but as a gap in everyday life: ...
Donald Trump has once again expanded the circle of those excluded - and this time it does not stop at symbolic toughness at home. With the decision of December 16 to extend the existing entry ban...
Arturo Rafael Brito Goncalvez is 22 years old, a pilot in training, and from Venezuela. During the Christmas week, he suddenly found himself in detention. Arrested not during a check, not following a complaint, ...
HALLELUJAH, says the new program, and it sounds like a fitness subscription for the conscience. The president is promoting the idea that Americans should pray for one hour each week. Not mandatory, of course - just as “voluntary” as a smile ...
Hardly had the U.S. Department of Justice released new files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in late December 2025 when a race began online for supposed shortcuts to the truth. A simple flick of the mouse, people said, ...
In Bell, an ordinary family home was turned into a scene of state violence. Officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection used explosives to arrest a father while his partner and a child ...
After the U.S. airstrikes in northwestern Nigeria, Donald Trump declared that the targets had been fighters of the Islamic State who were brutally murdering Christians. The message was clear, sharpened, easy to connect with ...
There are sentences that carry weight on their own. Placed next to each other, they form a picture – of what the United States currently is, a country that has lost its bearings ...
Outside the Hampton Inn in Eagan, it was impossible to ignore what was happening that night. Activists had gathered to send a clear signal with chants and noise makers ...
When Volodymyr Zelensky presented the new 20-point peace plan on Tuesday, it was immediately clear that this was not simply an addendum, but a deliberate break with a draft that in the fall had looked very much ...
Donald Trump did not sit by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, but at his preferred altar: Truth Social. While others lit candles, he lit words. A Christmas greeting, 101 words long, filled with resentment, self-pity, ...
Emmanuel Macron found unusually clear words. The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on former British and European officials were aimed at undermining Europe’s digital sovereignty. No diplomatic formula, ...
Washington builds a wall, Trump likes doing that, and calls it principle. From one day to the next, several European actors are deemed unwelcome. The accusation: “censorship.” What is meant is the European practice ...
The Supreme Court of the United States has stopped Donald Trump. On Tuesday, the justices denied the administration permission to deploy National Guard troops in the greater Chicago area to support the ongoing deportation offensive ...
No one was responsible. And yet everyone was. Donald Trump explains that he did not call Jeff Landry – Landry called him. Very proactive, in fact. Minutes later, Landry explains that the ...
It is a remainder. Something that stayed behind because there was no one left to pass it on. Jeffrey Epstein wrote it from detention. That is documented. Manhattan Correctional Center. Pretrial detention. A few days before his death ...
The cold hanging over Lexington, Nebraska, this winter does not come from the weather. It comes from the certainty that on January 20, 2026, something will end that carried this town for decades ...
The courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, filled with tension, mistrust, and an unusually candid judge. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is allowed to remain free. Not because his case is simple, but because it ...
With a single post, Donald Trump reignited a simmering conflict and at the same time pushed it to a far higher level of escalation. The US president appointed the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, ...
Many readers now ask what happened to the Proud Boys – that far-right group that once served as Trump’s street army and played a central role in the storming of the Capitol. The answer is as unexpected ...
There are encounters that change a life - and others that shake a world order, and why no one looked more closely. The meeting between Leslie H. Wexner, the discreet king of American retail,
In recent days, we have repeatedly reported on ICE operations, including in Minneapolis. We will not repeat all of the shocking footage here again. Long before you could see the people, the noise ...
At AmericaFest, nothing was accidental, nothing loosely strung together. First Mike Johnson took the stage and made clear what this was about. He declared that a loss of the Republican majority in the House ...