Investigative Journalism
It is one of those reversals that characterize Donald Trump's presidency: just moments ago he was boasting with the certainty of a conqueror "We are going in," and already he is rowing back, ...
The masked men came at dawn in East Palo Alto. Dressed in black, faces covered, with no visible insignia. It is August 26, 2025, shortly after 7 a.m., when ...
It was a sentence, casually spoken in the Oval Office, that triggered a tectonic shift within the Trump camp. Donald Trump announced that 600,000 Chinese students should in the future be welcome in the United States.
It is August 21, 2025, three o'clock in the morning. While Orlando sleeps, the vehicles of the Florida Department of Transportation roll in. Their mission: the erasure of a rainbow. Not just any rainbow ...
A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday denied the government’s request to release the transcripts of a grand jury from the prosecution of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ...
In the annals of democratic degeneracy, the apotheosis of Andrew Bailey will be recorded as a turning point - that fatal moment when the last bastions of constitutional integrity capitulated before the altars of populist demagoguery ...
What drives a president to cover the capital of his own country with soldiers from three different states? The answer does not lie in the officially cited reasons of crime and homelessness, but ...
On Monday morning, Washington will not wake up but be rearranged. At several locations, signs read: "General cleaning from 10 a.m." A harmless phrase from city sanitation - that is how it sounds. Yet in recent days, the capital ...
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
There are political gestures that say more than any speech – and that carry more weight in their symbolism than any spontaneous remark. When US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently shared a video ...
It is over. The United States of America, this great experiment of the Enlightenment, is sinking into a vortex of religious delusion so dark that even ...
Washington - In a move that once again thrusts the political explosiveness of the Jeffrey Epstein case into the spotlight, the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday compelled the Justice Department ...
It is a scene that had become increasingly rare in the US for decades – and which now suddenly takes on symbolic power again: In the glaring light of a prison chamber, watched by guards ...
In the endless series of mysteries surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a new, disturbing detail has emerged: In previously little-noticed surveillance footage from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York ...
There are moments when a single sentence is enough to bring down the illusion of stability in American politics. Such a sentence was spoken in 2016 - at least behind closed doors, ...
It began with an unassuming leather volume, a black address book full of names, phone numbers, and coded notes. For some it was just another relic from the world of the super-rich ...
It is a video that speaks more through what remains unspoken than through any words. Jeffrey Epstein, being questioned under oath for the first time since his initial conviction ...
The meeting is as symbolic as it is politically explosive: On this Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice is set to meet with one of the most feared women in the country ...
It was a moment many had been waiting for - some with hope, others with fear. But when the ruling came, it was as clear as it was final: A federal judge on Wednesday ...
On April 1, 2025, the first shock came: The Trump administration began mass layoffs at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
It was April 26, 2016, when a woman named Katie Johnson filed a civil lawsuit in the Central District of California. The complaint, typed and submitted without legal counsel ...
There are stories that defy understanding - and yet must be written. The story of Vance Boelter is one of them. A man who was once honored in rural Minnesota for his kindness and decades later killed two people and seriously ...
With a single stroke of the pen, the Trump administration has torn down one of the central pillars of citizen-oriented policy history: access to the federal government for people ...
Es hätte ein Befreiungsschlag sein sollen. Ein kurzes Memo, zwei Seiten, veröffentlicht von Trumps Justizministerium am 7. Juli 2025 – ein offizielles Dementi, nüchtern und final: Es gebe keine sogenannte „Epstein-Kundenliste“, ...
It was a hot, glaring day in Southern California when Jaime Alanís died – not of a natural illness, not in peace, but in a fall. He plunged more than nine meters from the roof ...
It was one of those weeks when the facade begins to crumble. The Trump administration had hoped to keep the lid on the barrel with a brief memo, but what poured out was distrust, anger ...
It is a quiet afternoon in Manhattan. Mahmoud Khalil sits on a narrow sofa, his ten-week-old son Deen in his arms, eyes fixed on the floor ...
These are images usually seen in conflict zones: Humvees among palm trees, armed soldiers by a lake, an amphitheater that looks more like a command post than a venue for summer concerts.
There are official letters that offer comfort. Others show resolve, responsibility, compassion. And then there is that one document from the White House dated July 6, 2025 ...
It was the image of a government failure - in lipstick and blazer. While the mud in the streets of Hunt was still steaming and Camp Mystic had become the ruin of a nightmare, ...
Washington, July 5, 2025 – It was a triumph, staged like a play from another era. On the South Lawn of the White House stood Donald Trump, surrounded by loyalists, flanked by his cabinet members ...
What if the world's most beautiful sideshow is no longer seen as an invitation to global exchange, but as a security risk? That is precisely the scenario emerging one year before the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026.
It is a story that reads like something from a dark Southern novel – yet it comes from the pen of a politician who presents herself as an “unshakable patriot” and, until recently, was considered a strong contender for Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick. In her book No Going Back ...
Washington, summer 2025. The world has grown accustomed to many impositions. But sometimes there are sentences that appear out of nowhere and carve themselves into the public consciousness like a scratch on glass ...
Sometimes history is not written but barked into existence. Saturday was one of those days. JD Vance, Vice President of the United States and a passionate virtuoso of right-wing rhetoric, picked up his pen
Washington, June 28, 2025 – The highest judges in the United States, whose rulings can bend entire societies, are suddenly showing thin skin. Chief Justice John Roberts took the microphone in Charlotte on Saturday ...
One might almost think that the United States is determined to prove that even democracies with a constitution, a Supreme Court, and checks and balances can eventually become a caricature of themselves...
It is a phrase that sounds like it came straight from the playbook of Germany’s AfD or Martin Sellner - and yet it comes from the America of 2025: “Denaturalize. Deport. Remigrate.” ...
Sometimes, a return to darkness doesn’t begin with a thunderclap, but with a microphone and a sentence that sounds like it was lifted from a 1425 catechism. “God has an order,” ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared before the press at the Pentagon on Thursday – and what followed was less a military briefing than a rhetorical offensive. With General Dan Caine at his side, Hegseth praised ...
Atlanta, June 25, 2025 – It was a premiere under high tension. For the first time, the newly appointed vaccination committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Wednesday ...
Washington / Boston - It is a legal slap in the face for Donald Trump and a sigh of relief for thousands of young people around the world: A federal judge in Boston on Monday once again blocked a measure by the Trump administration aimed at keeping foreign students from attending Harvard University...
Wayne, Michigan - It could have been another bloodbath, one of those headlines America has read far too often. But on Sunday morning, a potential mass shooting was stopped at the last second: outside CrossPointe ...
Washington / Los Angeles / New York – He is a president on a collision course. With millions of people. With constitutional principles. With the notion that the state shouldn’t kick down ...
Washington, June 2025 – It was a statement that struck the Senate like a slap in the face: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that renaming several US military bases after Confederate generals was ...
Washington, June 19, 2025 - Once upon a time, there was a network that loved Donald Trump. It broadcast him in high gloss, warmed him in prime-time slots, and rolled out the red carpet ...
It was a case that turned a small rural town in Wisconsin into a nationwide symbol in America’s culture war: In the spring of 2022, three middle school students in Kiel were accused ...
Washington – It may have been the last remnant of economic common sense in an administration increasingly driven by deterrence, fear, and ideology. Donald Trump had promised to "protect our farmers" – even publicly stating on social ...
New York, June 17, 2025 – It was a morning like many in the stuffy hallways of the federal building at 26 Federal Plaza, where day after day, migrants fight for their right to stay. Brad Lander, ...
It was a moment that laid bare the full political disarray of the United States. As Donald Trump sat aboard Air Force One, flying back from an abruptly ended G7 summit in Canada, ...