Investigative Journalism
Washington - It was a spectacle that will likely go down in the annals of resistance: In the early morning hours of July 3, 2025, Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, took the floor ...
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 ...
Washington - It was a political performance of rare ambiguity, staged in the solemn marble of the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, precisely at 2:42 p.m., Lisa Murkowski cast her vote - “Yes.” ...
Washington - It is a rare moment in the politically charged climate of the United States: The Republican-dominated Senate has turned against a central measure of President Donald Trump ...
It is the biographical details that can shake the political memory of a nation – especially when they stand in stark contradiction to one’s own demands. Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a vocal proponent of strict immigration laws ...
Washington, June 29, 2025 – It was a moment of rare clarity in an era of political fog. On the night from Saturday to Sunday, the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 to move forward on a piece of legislation that changes everything: ...
Washington, June 28, 2025 – In a drastic move that shakes confidence in the independence of the American justice system, the US Department of Justice on Friday dismissed at least three prosecutors who played a key role ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – It was a Friday of seismic upheaval: while Donald Trump, at an impromptu press conference, declared it “his most successful week ...
Washington, June 27, 2025 – When word leaked late Thursday evening that Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough had deemed central parts of Donald Trump’s ambitious tax and spending package inadmissible, ...
A central element of Donald Trump's heavily touted legislative package of tax cuts, spending reductions, and border enforcement has been thrown into doubt: ...
New York, June 26, 2025 – It was a political earthquake that shook not only the streets of New York but threw the entire Democratic Party into turmoil: Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-declared democratic ...
It was one of those scenes in which political power lays over actual events like a thin sheet, barely able to conceal the truth beneath. In The Hague, where Donald Trump appeared as a guest at the NATO summit, drenched in sweat and full of his ...
Santa Ana, California - These are scenes reminiscent of dictatorships: A man stands on the sidewalk, a weed trimmer on his back, trying to flee. Masked men in vests marked as US Border Patrol agents overpower him, spray him with pepper spray ...
It is a law that seems to come from another era – a time when rights were not protected but suspected. In Ohio, the Republican-dominated Senate has approved the bill S.B. 172. A law that allows the U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Amid growing tensions between constitutional law and religious symbolism, the state of Texas has passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be visibly posted in all public school classrooms. With the legislation passed ...
Gainesville – This is a scandal that reaches far beyond the campus: At the University of Florida’s law school, a 29-year-old law student, Preston Damsky, was awarded the prestigious ...
Washington / Guam - The United States is deploying strategic stealth bombers of the B-2 Spirit type to the Pacific island of Guam. The move comes at a time of rising tensions in the Middle East ...
Los Angeles – It wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. It was a political signal – deliberate, calculated, and as serious as what it unleashed. When US Vice President JD Vance appeared Friday ...
It began with a head. Not a symbol made of marble, but a piece of latex, modeled after the face of the man who was soon to once again become the most powerful person in the Western world. In October 2024, ...
Los Angeles – It was a precedent with a warning: On June 19, 2025, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the case Newsom v. Trump (Docket No. 25‑3727) that President Donald Trump may, for now, retain control over the California National Guard troops ...
Los Angeles, June 19, 2025 - It was a morning full of symbolism. Shortly after sunrise, several SUVs and transport vans carrying agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) drove into a parking area near the famous Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles ...
Washington, June 19, 2025 – In a White House that currently resembles a petting zoo with suspected rabies more than a presidential command center, a discreet damage control operation is underway: ...
Some movements do not arrive with marching bands, but with prayer. Quiet, ghostly, organized. The so-called New Apostolic Reformation - or NAR - is such a movement. Not a church denomination, not a traditional sect, but ...
A deep rift is cutting through the heart of the MAGA movement. As President Donald Trump intensifies pressure on Iran, publicly calling for Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” and considering direct U.S. support for Israel, resistance is suddenly forming ...
San Francisco – It is a historic legal battle, the likes of which the United States has not seen in decades. Before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, President Donald Trump is defending his controversial deployment ...
It was supposed to be a thunderclap of power. A triumphal march of steel, discipline, and deadly serious expressions. But instead: waving, smiling, swaying. And all of it – in front of empty stands. Donald Trump is furious.
What appears to be a technical adjustment in the administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in truth a political breach of the dam. From now on, medical personnel there may refuse treatment ...
Washington, June 16, 2025 – It was the big day of the big man. The Army turned 250, Trump 79 – and together they marched as if the nation were still intact. ...
It was a day that was supposed to go down in Los Angeles history - but not because of peaceful civic demonstrations or the strength of civil society. Instead, it was because of how the city ...
It was a matter of seconds—seconds of silence that suddenly shook the entire political climate: In two sharply captured security camera images, a man in a dark uniform is seen, equipped with tactical gear, a flashlight, ...
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