Investigative Journalism
When you hear this story, you might think it is a script for a biting political satire: A Lebanese entrepreneur who wants to build a fast food empire in Texas under the name "Trump Burger" ...
The political conflict in Texas escalated into an unprecedented power struggle over the weekend. Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican and loyal ally of Donald Trump, ...
Republican Bryan Steil, congressman from Wisconsin and loyal supporter of Donald Trump, should have known better. Despite urgent warnings from party leadership to avoid holding town halls during the summer recess ...
Ghislaine Maxwell has taken another quiet step in her long legal drama - and this step is fueling the rumor mill. The 63-year-old Epstein accomplice, convicted of child abuse and human trafficking, is now housed in a ...
When Donald Trump told reporters that Jeffrey Epstein had “stolen” a young woman from him, the statement hit the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre like a blow. Their sister was one of ...
On July 29, 2025 Donald Trump spoke to journalists on the return flight from Scotland aboard Air Force One - and made a statement that matches the decades-long relationship between him and Jeffrey Epstein ...
Donald Trump once again staged himself on Monday in Scotland as a contradictory conductor of a world thrown out of balance. On his luxurious golf course Turnberry, between greenkeepers and diplomacy, ...
Ghislaine Maxwell, once confidante and accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has taken a remarkable step in her dealings with the U.S. Department of Justice – in a total of nine hours of conversation with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche ...
"In the early hours of Thursday, July 24, 2025, far from the noise of cameras and the cacophony of political talk shows, a conversation took place in a prison in Tallahassee that is unlikely to close ...
Even before the House of Representatives could head into summer recess, it was clear: something in Washington had begun to falter. This wasn’t about a new immigration rule ...
It was a moment of rare tension between the Republican Congress and the White House: When the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, said in an interview last week that the public had a right to full transparency in the case ...
It was the summer of 1996 when Maria Farmer, a young artist from New York, went to the police for the first time. She reported sexual assaults by Jeffrey Epstein ...
It was a court ruling, sober in its language, yet epochal in its impact. On July 18, 2025, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered the partial release of the grand jury transcripts in the case ...
It was a day that visibly shifted the balance of power in Washington – and not just in the digital realm. With his usual pathos and a smug smile, Donald Trump signed the "GENIUS Act" ...
It was an attempt to regain control - but above all, it reveals just how much it is slipping away from the president. On Thursday evening, Donald Trump announced that he was authorizing Attorney General Pam Bondi ...
It begins with an image: the Oval Office, May 2025. A woman takes the oath of office, framed by golden drapes and frozen expressions. Jeanine Pirro, once a prosecutor, ...
It is a bizarre moment in the history of political self-denial: Donald J. Trump, celebrated martyr of truth, apostle of alternative facts, and leader of the “Great Unmasking” movement, ...
Inflation is back – not as a global fate, but as a political consequence. What economists have been predicting for months is now becoming apparent on the shelves, ...
It was the heart of remoteness - a place of wood, stone, and memory, built on the edge of eternity. Now it's nothing but ashes. The Grand Canyon Lodge ...
It was the day after the rain, and the rain was no longer rain but memory. Memory of the roar of the water that swallowed houses, tore open roads, swept away lives.
Sometimes the White House writes stories that even Netflix would reject. One of them begins in Kentucky, passes through a patriotically decorated college campus, brushes up against a police report involving a pubescent jealousy drama ...
Five years have passed since the public last seriously discussed the donation ties between Chuck Schumer and Jeffrey Epstein - and yet the affair now casts a larger shadow than ever in light of new political tensions ...
While medications run out in the health stations of Monrovia and more and more young women in rural Senegal face unplanned pregnancies, Donald Trump invites guests to lunch ...
It was a spring day in Milwaukee when Judge Hannah Dugan left the courtroom - but she did not do so as an untouched representative of justice, rather as a defendant before a federal court ...
Washington, July 8, 2025 – It was one of those meetings that, in the Trump era, are more than just routine government business: a political stage play, a display of power, a balancing act between improvised strategy ...
Washington, July 8, 2025 – It was a day that, even by the hyperactive standards of the Trump era, delivered an exceptional level of intensity: a cabinet meeting at the White House, a visit from Israel marked by geopolitical weight, ...
It is a catastrophe of biblical proportions - and a moment in which the entire country holds its breath: After the devastating floods in Texas, ...
It was still before sunrise when the sky over the Texas Hill Country broke open - not with light, but with water. Within 45 minutes, the Guadalupe River rose by eight meters ...
On the night of July 4 to 5, the sky over the Texas Hill Country turned into a black abyss. Within just a few hours, as much rain fell as usually does in several months.
Washington – You have to let this scene melt on your tongue: a group photo with wide grins, proud faces, and triumphant thumbs. In the center: a sign that reads “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” ...
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