Investigative Journalism
There are crimes executed so deliberately that at some point one must stop speaking of isolated cases. The abduction of Ukrainian children is one of them. It is systematic, planned, and built over years ...
Sometimes all it takes is a well-made image, a few invented lines and the right timing - and suddenly a complete social media wave takes off that no one can catch again ...
The survey does not come from a left wing campaign office but from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank usually far more sympathetic to the Republican world. That is exactly what makes the numbers so explosive ...
A taco shop in Tucson, a morning that begins inconspicuously, and a few minutes later a commotion that raises the question of how much consideration federal authorities still show toward their own population ...
The image is brief and brutal: A small boat in international waters, a dot in the sea, seconds later a fireball. This freeze frame from a video of the U.S. Department of Defense shows the final ...
Donald Trump's administration has published a paper that rolls across Europe like a political quake. In dry bureaucratic language, but with an ideological force rarely expressed so openly, Washington tells the European states ...
Donald Trump has fired someone again. Not for incompetence, not for disloyalty, but for something far worse: architecture. James McCrery II, the man who had been tasked with shaping Trump’s personal palace dream ...
Yuanxin Zheng is six years old, wears glasses, a white shirt - and was torn out of the world he had just begun to build in a single day. When his ...
The day brought a series of statements that deepen the image of a defense secretary who has crossed boundaries - politically, militarily, and in matters of security. While Senate and House ...
The truth about the strike on the alleged drug boat in the Caribbean will never fully come to light. Not because there are no witnesses or because political will is lacking ...
Pete Hegseth actually tells people, in all seriousness, that he banned his kids from watching Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Just picture it: a grown man ...
Europe and Ukraine are making it clear these days how little trust they place in Putin's supposed willingness to negotiate. He spent five hours in the Kremlin with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, ...
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth presented the September 2 strike at the time as proof that their administration was acting decisively against violence in the region. One boat, eleven dead, a quick success ...
Pete Hegseth was already a risk during his confirmation hearing, a political experiment that even parts of the Republicans accepted only through gritted teeth. A former television commentator who brought more headlines than trust and entered the position ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised Donald Trump for the fact that no hurricane appeared in this year’s hurricane season - a scene that shows how far reality has shifted in the political sphere ...
The Trump administration has instrumentalized many things in recent months, but this time it took on two worlds that normally exist far from political noise: pop culture and ...
Im März 2025 geschahen wundersame Dinge hinter den Türen des FBI: Eine Woche im März 2025, in der die Behörde 934 Mitarbeiter zusammentrommelte, um die Unterlagen zum Fall Jeffrey Epstein…
Venezuela seems in these weeks like a country that has already begun to prepare internally for an emergency. Behind closed doors, far from public press conferences, military officials and government advisers have drawn up two scenarios that are to be activated only in one case: ...
It was just a moment in Trump Tower, captured for Time Magazine, but in truth a warning. A bald eagle, the proud national emblem of the United States, sits next to Donald Trump, watches him, spreads its wings,
The White House presents itself as determined. A Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the applicable laws” when he ordered a second strike against an alleged drug boat on September 2. ...
Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter that reads like a warning cry from a country that senses something tightening around it. Addressed to the UN Secretary General and to all states of OPEC ...
In Washington, nerves are rising this weekend over an operation that was originally presented as part of a routine anti-drug effort. For months, the administration has ordered boats off the coast of Latin America to be fired upon, ...
One might have thought that things in America could not get any worse. One might have thought that the peak of madness had been reached. One might have thought that the US secretary of defense had enough to do ...
Donald Trump stood in the corridor of Air Force One, on the return flight from Florida, when reporters again asked him about the MRI from October. He immediately announced ...
In Hallandale Beach, American and Ukrainian negotiators met at a place that looks more like a golf tournament than world politics. But behind the glass fronts of the club, the talks went far beyond courtesies ...
Marco Rubio made clear in just a few sentences how the United States under Trump now thinks about Europe. The secretary of state said that the EU had no right to define what international law ...
President Trump said a few days ago that the United States could "very soon" expand its campaign of killing suspected drug smugglers at sea to attacks on targets in Venezuela ...
Trump Vodka is back, gleaming under the lights, while Eric Trump proudly announces that the first bottles can already be preordered. A scene from another world: golden letters on an icy bottle, next to a small U.S. flag ...
Again one of those nights in which Ukraine is burning while elsewhere people speculate whether Putin is suddenly ready to negotiate. In Kyiv, Russian drones, missiles and ballistic weapons struck completely ...
She wanted to surprise her parents, spend a few free days at home, tell them what the first semester at a respected college feels like. Instead, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza’s trip ended ...
Marco Rubio says openly what has long been decided in Washington: The United States wants to filter more strictly. Visas should not only be able to be denied before entry, but also afterward - as soon as authorities ...
Trump is examining whether the United States should officially recognize Russian control over occupied territories in Ukraine. It feels like a political earthquake that had long ...
It was almost eerily quiet, only sometimes the rustling of the last leaves could be heard; the outlines of the houses rose into the gray sky, and it smelled of fresh tear gas after ...
Again and again the same question arises: What drives a person to commit such an atrocious act? – Over the past hours we have investigated Rahmanullah Lakanwal intensively – conducted conversations, ...
Only a few hundred meters from the White House, something happened on Wednesday afternoon that plunged Washington into a mix of shock, grief and political calculation. Two National Guard ...
In recent weeks, something has been happening in the United States that has not existed in this form for decades – and it hits many completely unprepared. People appear for their green card interview to resolve their ...
A picture is spreading in Germany that has little to do with reality in Washington: Marco Rubio as the man who defused a plan fatal to Ukraine at the last second ...
Hardly had the first details of the attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington become known when a race for interpretation began that says more about the political climate in this country than about the ...
Washington was full of people on Wednesday afternoon preparing for the long Thanksgiving weekend when suddenly sirens tore through the streets, ambulances drove across stopped lanes, and a police helicopter ...
Donald Trump acted for a year as if he could flip the country with a switch: more oil, more gas, more drilling, fewer rules, fewer environmental standards ...
Karoline Leavitt has been at the center of the political stage for months, but now an event beyond her control has created a direct connection to her own environment. The mother of her eleven-year-old nephew, ...
Over the weekend, users on X were able to see for the first time where certain accounts are actually located – and the results left few people indifferent. Many of the loudest pro-Trump profiles, filled with U.S. flags, images ...
In Monrovia, a few miles east of Los Angeles, day laborers and their supporters did something that was both quiet and impossible to miss. They walked into the Home Depot store, bought a single 17-cent ceramic cooktop ...
Trump announces that his peace plan has been "fine-tuned" and sends two trusted envoys on their way: Steve Witkoff is to go to Moscow, Dan Driscoll is to speak with Ukraine. He himself wants to appear only when everything is "final", as he writes. ...
Donald Trump smiles into the cameras, two turkeys at his side, but hardly anyone is impressed by it anymore. While Waddle and Gobble are carried through the hotel, graphics run across ...
Melania Trump appeared in front of the White House on Monday, glanced briefly at the Christmas tree, said “beautiful” - and was gone again. Two minutes fifty. No enthusiasm, no interest, ...
The truth had been on the table for weeks, yet the White House did everything it could to downplay it. Now the very spokeswoman who normally controls every word has said the decisive ...
Jeffrey Sachs has rarely pulled punches in politics, but his latest assessment of Donald Trump is unusually blunt even by his standards. Asked why Trump is not attending the G20 summit, ...
When Steve Witkoff said on the Tucker Carlson show on March 21, 2025, that he had liked Putin, that Putin had been open with him and that he did not consider him a bad person, ...
In Geneva, delegations from the United States and Ukraine sit at long tables, and both sides speak of progress. But the more words are spoken, the clearer it becomes that no one ...