Investigative Journalism
For weeks, Minneapolis has been the scene of one of the most intense domestic political confrontations in the United States. Federal authorities are carrying out extensive immigration enforcement operations, courts are overwhelmed, and streets have become sites of protest ...
The racist post depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes has disappeared. Deleted after massive criticism from both political camps. Even Republican senators and civil rights organizations demanded its removal ...
Republican Senator Tim Scott found clear words. He called it “the most racist thing I have seen from this White House” and demanded that the president delete the video. He was referring ...
In this case, it does not begin with a law and not with a public decision, but with a sentence spoken on the street. A masked federal officer mocks a protester and tells him that he is now in a database and is considered ...
Minnesota has been living for weeks under a state of emergency that is not explained but imposed. Thousands of armed federal agents, streets filled with tactical gear, tear gas, gunfire, dead. Now a federal judge has rejected an attempt ...
Eleven days before his death, Alex Pretti had already once been lying on the asphalt of Minneapolis. Not dead, but humiliated, surrounded by masked federal agents who dragged him to the ground while ...
In Washington, failure is rarely spoken of as openly as it is these days. The demand that Kristi Noem step down from office is not coming from one corner, not from a party headquarters, not from ...
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
What has been unfolding in Minneapolis for weeks can no longer be described as the escalation of individual operations, not as a series of regrettable mistakes, not as a security operation that spun out of control. It is something else ...
A five year old boy comes home from kindergarten, the car engine is still running, the driveway has been reached. What follows is not a misunderstanding, not a mix up, but an enforcement action. Federal agents take ...
Three influential U.S. cardinals have admonished the Trump administration with unusually blunt words of conscience. In a joint statement, Blase Cupich, Robert McElroy, and Joseph Tobin emphasize that the foreign policy debate in Washington is losing its direction ...
In Minnesota, something is coming apart that long seemed stable. Quietly, but unmistakably, federal prosecutors are leaving their offices, clearing their desks, turning in their badges. Not for career reasons, not because they are ...
One week after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, there has been another firearms incident involving federal agents in Minneapolis. On Wednesday evening, a federal agent wounded a man during an operation in the ...
The first deadly attack by the United States on a boat that the government described as a drug smuggling vessel did not begin with a recognizable military aircraft. It began with a plane that looked like a civilian aircraft ...
The final seconds of Renee Nicole Macklin Good are now captured not only in shaky cellphone videos from bystanders, but also in footage from the perspective of the ICE officer who fired the shots ...
The Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, has unequivocally rejected the White House’s account of today’s fatal ICE operation. According to police, Renee Nicole Good was the only person injured ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
It was an act of almost literary purity: an Epstein document package so clean, so free of incriminating names that even high gloss kitchen cleaners would be jealous. No Trump trace, no shadow, no speck of dust ...
Rarely has a sitting White House chief of staff spoken so openly about a president, his closest circle, and the internal fault lines of an administration. Susie Wiles, previously known for discipline, control, ...
You could sense as she entered the room that this hearing would not unfold routinely. Since Noem last appeared before Congress in May, the situation in America’s cities has ...
Donald Trump is backing away from his own promise, even though only a few days ago he claimed that releasing the video of the boat strike in the Caribbean would be “no problem.” Now he even denies ever having said ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 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 ...
Washington showed on Saturday how quickly political dissatisfaction can turn into a tremor. Across the country, thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets nationwide, including here in the capital Washington, D.C., ...
It was a political encounter that revealed more than any party convention speech. The meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office was exactly such a moment. For weeks, both had ...
Donald Trump wanted to keep this issue under lock and key. For weeks he had resisted the effort by Congress to force him to release the files on Jeffrey Epstein. He could block it, delay it, talk it to death, ...
The evening in Washington had barely ended when it became clear that the Senate would wave through the Epstein file without a single change, without hearings, without delay. A decision whose clarity ...
The US Congress sent a clear signal on Tuesday. With 427 to 1 votes, the House of Representatives approved the release of the Epstein file. A rare moment of bipartisan unity - ...
Charlotte experienced a low point this weekend unlike anything the city had seen in years. Within a few hours, the everyday life of a metropolis that is usually shaped by Latin American life, international immigration and ...
Brad Sherman understands the mechanics of public outrage better than many of his colleagues. For nearly three decades he has served as a Democratic representative from California in the House of Representatives, an experienced budget and foreign policy specialist, ...
It was the moment that revealed everything about this administration: instead of seriously addressing the growing number of explosive Epstein emails, press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped before the public and turned the ...
There are moments when the past snaps back into the glaring light of the present, as if it had only been waiting to regain power over the present, the abyss of a man who ...
We researched the total return of stocks in leading industrial nations. Germany is comparatively more stable - not a bad picture, but that of an aging yet resilient economy that, despite energy crises, ...
It was just before 11 p.m. in Washington when John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, entered the chamber to applause. The last senator whose vote mattered that night ...
Portland – After many hours of waiting, we were glad about this ruling – a shared struggle that has, for now, found a good end. Of course, it can ...
It was the first major test of sentiment since Donald Trump returned to the White House - and it ended in a crushing defeat for the president. The Democrats won the gubernatorial ...
Richmond - It was an evening that will go down in Virginia’s history books. Democrat Abigail Spanberger, 46, soundly defeated Republican Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears - becoming the first woman to hold...
New York - On this Tuesday, the largest city in the United States is deciding not only on its next mayor but also on a political self-conception that reaches far beyond the borders of ...
Donald Trump has turned the tariff policy of the United States into an art of exercising power. Where previous presidents negotiated, he threatens. Where others used sanctions or diplomacy, he swings the tariff hammer ...
Desperation that shows up in grocery lists - that is how this November begins for millions of Americans. In Miami, Christine Tully sits at her kitchen table and writes down, as always, what she needs: chicken, ...
Boston/Washington – Two federal courts ruled almost simultaneously on Friday that the Trump administration must continue payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown. Judges Indira Talwani ...
Boston – Outside, rain beats down on the asphalt of Boston, inside a nation waits for a verdict. In the courtroom of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ...
There are people the course of history could do without - and sometimes such a person dances on the edge of an abyss. Donald Trump, 79, created such a scene in Malaysia: a president who ...
Washington is once again on the brink of an earthquake - this time not in the White House, but in the gray corridors of the agency that Donald Trump has turned more than any other into his personal instrument ...