Investigative Journalism
It was Donald Trump’s grand promise – a “big beautiful bill” meant to overhaul America’s economy, reward his voters, and leave opponents speechless. But as soon as the House approved their draft, the Republican-controlled Senate ...
Belle Plaine, Minnesota – The two-day manhunt for the suspect in the deadly attacks on two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has come to an end. Vance Boelter, who is ...
It was the uniform that became their undoing. No alarm, no warning, no broken lock – just the shimmering blue of a fake police cruiser pulling up in the night like so many before it...
Culpeper, Virginia – It was the end of a peaceful day of protest that had brought thousands of people to the streets across the country: At a "No Kings" demonstration in the quiet town of Culpeper, the day ...
A moment from Washington that raises questions. It is the evening before Trump’s grand military parade. Washington feels tense, like it’s under glass. On the streets, the capital is preparing for June 14 – the 250th ...
Las Vegas – It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday afternoon. Two cousins, 15 and 16 years old, were on their way to a birthday party downtown. But they never got there...
Another chapter in the long saga of legal battles surrounding Donald Trump ends with a clear no – this time from one of the most powerful US courts. By a vote of 8 to 2, ...
It happened in broad daylight, on the 3700 block of Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles. A white sedan slowly turned into the street, two children in the back seat, a woman in the passenger seat. Seconds later, a light blue van rammed ...
It is an image more familiar from dictatorships than from what claims to be the world’s oldest democracy: 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines marching through ...
It sounds like a bad joke from a dystopian film – but the sentence was spoken, publicly and without a flinch: “If you’re driving on a street and a mob surrounds your car ...
As thousands of people once again took to the streets in Los Angeles on Sunday, there were not only clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement - several journalists also found themselves caught in the crossfire...
The moment America held its breath did not come with a thunderous blow but with a military grip on civilian flesh. No formal state of emergency. No Insurrection Act. No declaration of martial law. And yet: Donald Trump crossed the final line.
It begins with a chant, shouted thousands of times: No hate, no fear – immigrants are welcome here. And it ends – for now – with a police grab, with tear gas, with plastic zip ties. What is happening in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, ...
It was announced as a celebration – a festive day in honor of the 250-year history of the U.S. Army. But what Donald Trump bellowed into the microphone on June 10, 2025, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sounded less like a patriotic tribute ...
In an unremarkable neighborhood just beyond the U.S.-Mexican border, a deadly business is thriving. Here, in one of the countless cartel safe houses, the next shipment of fentanyl for American streets is being prepared...
Los Angeles, June 9, 2025, 3:00 AM (12:00 PM CET. It was already the evening of June 6 when the first protests formed and the raids began, but the nights ...
It is a light flickering above the city - not a sunrise, but the twitching of police sirens, burning dumpsters, and the harsh, unforgiving presence of a state turning against its citizens. On the night of June 7 to 8, Los Angeles became ...
It is just a country road that separates Ferriday from Vidalia – but crossing it means traveling through decades of American history. On one side: Ferriday High School, a campus ...
Tear gas and smoke hung over the southern outskirts of Los Angeles on Saturday. The streets of the small city of Paramount became the scene of an escalating confrontation between federal authorities and a civil society that refuses ...
It was a Friday in June, but the heat of that day came not only from the California sun. On June 6, 2025, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, something was brewing that could no longer be described merely as a political dispute ...
The view of the United States in June 2025 is not a view of a lost nation - it is a view of a deliberate decision. A decision for a politics that no longer negotiates difference but governs through exclusion. Donald Trump, who began his second ...
It was a Tuesday morning in Minneapolis, gray with rain and heavy with history - and yet a day that stands like a harbinger over a fractured nation. An armored vehicle bearing the ...
West Virginia prosecutors are now charging women for miscarriages - a dystopian reality - It sounds like a scene from a dystopian novel, yet it has become reality: In West Virginia, women now face criminal prosecution for miscarriages, starting as early as the ninth week of pregnancy...
It is not a new accusation – and yet it sounds sharper, more personal, more unflinching than many before. Michael Wolff, long-time Trump observer and author of several bestselling books about the president, ...
Yet truth is dangerous, and science is a public threat. We must keep it carefully chained and muzzled.” These are the words of Mustapha Mond in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, ...
On the evening of May 30, 2025, the city of San Diego, California, witnessed a law enforcement operation that left many residents and guests in utter shock: Around 6 p.m., units from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...
It is a sentence that cuts deep: “Tranquila, ma. Aquí estoy yo” - “Calm down, Mom. I’m here.” Spoken by a small boy who has to watch as his mother is arrested by ICE agents in San ...
An article about fear as a weapon, a fabricated letter, and the propaganda of power It begins with a letter. Light blue ink, an angry message threatening to shoot Donald Trump ...
It does not begin with tanks. Not with uniforms or marching music. It begins with a smile - and a nomination. Paul Ingrassia is the man Donald Trump wants to appoint as head ...
It is a sentence that echoes like a thunderclap in a democracy already crumbling under the weight of its own erosion: “I will take a look at it.” That’s how Donald Trump responded Wednesday when asked whether he would pardon the men ...
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