Investigative Journalism
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 ...
It was a ruling that struck Sacramento like a thunderclap - and was celebrated in Washington as a return to old power dynamics. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
A few moments ago, the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in the case Trump v. State of Oregon, Case No. 25-17108, that Donald Trump may formally assume command of the Oregon National ...
The air on Chicago’s South Side has been thick with anger – and tear gas – since Tuesday afternoon. In a residential neighborhood where children were playing and people were running errands, agents of the U.S. Border Patrol ...
It began as so many weekends in the American South begin - with floodlights, music, and homecoming. Homecoming: the ritual of return, pride in one’s school, the attempt to hold a fractured ...
What began as a weekend of joy ended in blood and disbelief. We have deliberately refrained from showing images, because the scenes on site exceed the limits of what is bearable ...
In Washington, there is once again that silence louder than any argument. It drifts through the long halls of Congress, through the empty metro stations of the capital, through the closed gates of the national parks ...
It is late in the federal courthouse at the Everett McKinley Dirksen building in Chicago. The benches are full, the air is heavy, and the words Judge April M. Perry speaks ...
It was one of those evenings when a city begins to breathe, even though everything looks as if it were holding its breath. At dusk, hundreds of people ...
It was shortly after midnight when Judge Karin Immergut picked up the phone. Outside in Portland, clouds of tear gas hung over a single city block, while new deployment orders were already being sent out in Washington.
What was still seen as a legal turning point yesterday has already become obsolete today. Barely had a federal judge in Oregon prohibited the federalization of that state’s National Guard when Donald Trump reacted ...
A new chapter of brutality unfolded in front of the ICE prison in Portland - an incident that makes clear that the escalation of violence is not coming from the ranks of protesters but ...
While in Washington since October 1, 2025 the clocks have stood still, the Trump administration once again proves that standstill does not apply to everyone. More than 750,000 federal employees do not know if and when they will be ...
It was a power demonstration with prior announcement. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had hundreds of the highest-ranking officers of the United States flown in on Tuesday to dictate to them ...
A military all-hands meeting is not unusual in itself. But when Donald Trump and his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issue the invitation, it looks less like a sober briefing and more like ...
Donald Trump speaks of a “war-ravaged city,” as if Portland’s streets were fields of ruins. Those who live here see the opposite: people jogging along the Willamette River, drinking coffee by the fountain, strolling ...
In our article "The Big Lie of Portland - How Fox News Feeds Trump and Turns a City into an Enemy Image" at https://kaizen-blog.org/en/die-grosse-luege-von-portland-wie-fox-news-trump-fuettert-und-eine-stadt-zum-feindbild-macht/ we exposed how Donald Trump ...
It is shortly after eight o'clock in the morning when traffic on US Route 1 in Hyattsville, Maryland, slows down. Car horns, congestion, the routine of a commuter corridor
The September sun had barely begun to rise over the Dallas skyline when, at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, the first shots rang out, shattering the morning calm with a staccato rhythm of violence ...
Donald Trump has once again shown how he understands politics: not as a search for compromise but as a staging of power. Only one day after announcing a meeting with the leading Democrats in Congress, Chuck Schumer ...
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