Investigative Journalism
Minnesota looks like a showcase for power holders of what happens when a government politically charges armed federal forces and at the same time sends them into an everyday environment that previously did not resemble a “war zone,” ...
In Minneapolis, federal agents drew weapons this morning and arrested legal observers. No armed individuals, no escalation, no flight. People who were documenting what was happening. American citizens. The pistols were off safety, ...
Three million more pages, plus thousands of videos and images – and then the sentence that this was supposed to be the final major release. That very contradiction hangs over everything ...
Josh Shapiro is governor of the US state of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, former attorney general, and one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in the country. He is considered legally precise, politically controlled, and restrained in his choice of words ...
Donald Trump is suddenly speaking of clarification. Of decency. Of an “honest” investigation. After the fatal shooting of the demonstrator and ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the president said on Tuesday ...
In Minneapolis, a deadly operation has turned into a far-reaching political and legal confrontation. Thousands of people marched through the city on Sunday to express their anger over the death of a local resident ...
On Saturday, Minneapolis was pushed further into a state that can hardly still be described as an exception, but rather as a new reality. Once again, a man has died from gunfire by federal agents. Alex Pretti, 37 years old, ...
The death of Geraldo Lunas Campos in a deportation detention facility in El Paso is not an accident, not a medical incident and not a failed rescue attempt. The autopsy speaks clearly: the 55 year old Cuban ...
A deep rift ran through the streets of Minneapolis this Saturday, visible, raw, and unmistakable. On one side were people opposing the escalation of deportation policy, on the other ...
The investigations following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis are taking a direction that reaches far beyond the specific operation. Federal investigators are not only examining the conduct of the ICE officer ...
The anger can no longer be ignored. In more than 1,000 cities and towns, people are gathering this weekend in squares, on streets, in front of ICE buildings, city halls, shopping centers, bridges, schools. The trigger: three shots, ...
The 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is sitting badly wounded, seconds matter. A doctor tries to reach her. ICE officers block access. Bystanders are instructed to “just calm down.” This conduct ...
In a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis, a woman was killed on Wednesday by a bullet fired by a federal agent. According to the Department of Homeland Security, she was shot by an immigration agent because she allegedly tried to run over officers with her car ...
Alma Bowman has lived in the United States for 49 years. She was born in the Philippines while her father was on active duty in the US Navy. Under the law in force at the time, ...
In Bell, an ordinary family home was turned into a scene of state violence. Officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection used explosives to arrest a father while his partner and a child ...
At AmericaFest, nothing was accidental, nothing loosely strung together. First Mike Johnson took the stage and made clear what this was about. He declared that a loss of the Republican majority in the House ...
Democrats in the House of Representatives have released several dozen additional photos from the possession of Jeffrey Epstein. The images show Epstein’s contacts with wealthy and influential people. They come from a collection ...
A woman is standing on a public street in Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. She is filming. Nothing more happens. An ICE agent has a problem with his vehicle immediately after an operation ...
Someone in Clinton, Utah, just wants to work out, escape the daily noise for a moment, and suddenly there is a guy standing there who looks as if he left his mind at the coat check ...
A MAGA grandfather in Wyoming calls 911 because the Amazon delivery driver is speaking Spanish, and it inevitably raises the question of whether the country has collectively failed a basic language test or whether too many people ...
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 ...
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 ...
Don Bacon has done something that is almost risky in today’s Republican Party. He publicly criticized the sitting president. Not in a roundabout way, not as a side remark, but sharply and unmistakably ...
The case against James Comey suffered a new and serious shock on Monday. In Alexandria, Virginia, a federal judge declared that the Justice Department may have committed misconduct – a word that is rarely...
Donald Trump began the second run of his presidency with big words: less global politics, more affordable living, jobs for Americans first. But in recent months a different reality has ...
They are inconspicuous lines, written years ago, yet they strike at the core of power. In emails obtained by us, Jeffrey Epstein writes that Donald Trump “spent hours at my house with one of the girls.” ...
It was planned as a triumphal march and ended as a lesson in political reality. (See video footage) Donald Trump, the first sitting president since Jimmy Carter to attend a regular NFL game, appeared on Sunday ...
Washington - There are sentences that are not analysis but confession. Steve Bannon spoke this one with that peculiar mixture of defiance and fatalism that makes his appearances so ominous ...
There are shows you attend after not eating for at least eight hours. Not because you want to fast – but because the very thought of what awaits you makes your stomach turn ...
Washington – It is an unassuming sheet of paper, little more than a few lines, hastily noted, almost casual. Yet within these lines lies a political detonation. The United States Department of Justice could no longer ...
"These boats are 2,000 miles from the United States. They cannot travel more than 100 miles." With this sentence, Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky and one of the few remaining ...
Donald Trump has discovered a new political weapon - and it is called the “Nuclear Option”. In an angry Truth Social post, after he had offended Asia, the president on Thursday ...
There are politicians who dress up for Halloween – and those who simply stay that way. Kristi Noem has decided to be both: minister, horror figure, and state myth all in one ...
The narrative is simple: more personnel, tougher crackdowns, more safety. The reality behind it is more complicated - and more dangerous. Our analysis of internal ICE figures, agency responses to inquiries, and publicly available datasets ...
The footage from Portland shows a country in a state of emergency. In front of the ICE building runs a blue line - it separates the agency’s property from public space. A boundary that no ...
Few scenes capture the moral imbalance of this administration as clearly as the headlines of this week: The Pentagon accepts a private "donation" of 130 million dollars to pay ...
They are sentences (the recordings are included further down in the article) that sound like a confession in real time. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a celebrated environmental lawyer, today a mouthpiece ...
When you think you have already seen everything in research - people, situations, every document, every image, every boundary of state cruelty - there usually comes the moment that silences even the most ...
As the nation watches Chicago, where Donald Trump is having the deployment of the National Guard against demonstrators defended, a decision has just been handed down that reaches far ...
There are moments in history when political power no longer looks outward but turns inward - against its own country, against its own citizens ..
Portland – It is a sentence that is hard to surpass in its absurdity: “It looks like a warzone… Unless they are playing false recordings, this looks like World War II ...
The deadly sniper attack on an ICE building in Dallas at first glance seemed to carry a clear message. On unfired shell casings recovered by the FBI at the scene, “ANTI-ICE” had ...
We took a look into the future of MAGA this weekend - and it no longer bears the name Donald Trump. What was revealed at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk ...
What was announced as a funeral service is threatening to turn into a monumental political and propaganda spectacle in Glendale, Arizona. Hours before the start, the stands of the State Farm Stadium were already filling, ...
Since the murder of Charlie Kirk has dominated the headlines, government and media have greedily rushed to find an explanation. Left or right, Trump or Antifa - the grid is predetermined, ...
The man has not even been buried yet, and the merchandising machine is already running at full speed. Turning Point USA, the organization founded by Charlie Kirk, is now selling a “Memorial Tee” with his sketched ...
Utah hat seinen meistgesuchten Mann. Zwei Tage nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk, dem Gründer von Turning Point USA und einem der schillerndsten wie umstrittensten Köpfe der amerikanischen Rechten, haben…
Donald Trump might be serious, or whatever one should call his behavior: On Monday, the president, as full of bravado as ever, announced that he would send National Guard troops ...
It is once again one of those weekends when everything happens at once. In Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP) pulled the emergency brake on Friday and expanded its ongoing lawsuit ...
It was one of those hearings that condense the ambivalence of American politics into a single room. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health, told the Senate Finance Committee that Donald Trump ...