Investigative Journalism
The Trump administration keeps tightening the screws. On September 4, the Department of Homeland Security submitted a new filing before the immigration court in Baltimore: Should Kilmar Abrego Garcia succeed with his latest attempt to reopen ...
There are moments when Washington does not feel like the capital of a world power but like the worst reality show on earth. The latest scandal: A senior official at the Department of Justice, Acting Deputy Chief ...
The backdrop could hardly be more symbolic: barbed wire, scorched grass, the flag above, Governor Jeff Landry in front, flanked by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. In the images released by his press office, black Ford Raptors ...
You rub your eyes, but the president is serious. Donald J. Trump, 79 years old, wants to rename the Pentagon. The Department of Defense is to become the Ministry of War again ...
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 ...
The rift runs straight through the American judiciary. It is September 2025, and what is happening in the marble halls of the federal courts has never happened before: ...
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
What is happening in Florida is not just another culture-war provocation. It is a frontal attack on modern public health. State Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced Wednesday that Florida would ...
If you believe Donald Trump, the first week of September was the start of a new political school year - with himself as the top of the class, putting America back on the right ...
A thunderclap from Boston: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs (U.S. District Court, Docket No. 25-CV-1421) has declared the Trump administration’s cuts of more than $2.6 billion in research ...
The images from Labor Day 2025 tell two stories at once. There are the raised fists in front of Trump Tower in New York, the blue-striped Chicago flags waving through the canyons of skyscrapers, the “No Kings” signs in Boston.
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 images are made for the news primetime: a grainy video from a bird's-eye view, a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, then an explosion. President Trump announces that on his orders US forces sank ...
33,000 pages, countless black bars, a country screaming for truth - and a Washington that prefers to suffocate it. Washington calls it transparency, in reality it is a disgrace ...
Der Verdacht lag schon damals lange in der Luft – bei einigen Journalisten, bei Menschenrechtsbeobachtern, bei jenen, die sich auch in diesem Teil der Erde auskennen. Nur Trump selbst durchschaute…
Donald Trump is in the middle of a series of legal defeats that are extraordinary even for his presidency, which is marked by constant fire. Within just a few days, one key pillar after another was pulled out from...
It was a legal thunderclap that rolled over Washington this Tuesday: Federal Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the use of the National Guard in Los Angeles to accompany immigration raids was unlawful ...
When California Governor Gavin Newsom strikes, he strikes hard - and this time it was Karoline Leavitt who got hit. Over Labor Day weekend, his press office dropped a meme depicting the 28-year-old White House ...
In Washington, a symbolic step was taken this Monday: Congress has withdrawn the subpoena of former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee as part of the investigation into the ...
From coast to coast they roar out their anger. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, have flooded the streets this Labor Day. "Workers over Billionaires" is written on their signs, and it sounds like a vow: We will ...
Donald Trump celebrates America as "hot," as a country on the rise where prices are "way down," wages are "skyrocketing," and the nation is "strong and respected again." The images he spreads ...
Donald Trump is so alive that he fired off 42 posts in ten hours – a digital barrage that would make even Russian troll factories blush. Allegedly dead? Ha! The man ...
It is a ruling of great significance, even if it applies only for two weeks for now. Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has temporarily stopped the Trump administration ...
Our months-long research and data collection ultimately revealed a crystal-clear picture: the health gap between Democratic and Republican governed states is not a statistical anomaly - it is the result of deliberate political decisions that can be measured in human lives.
Donald Trump has struck again - this time not on the campaign trail but with the full force of his outrage aimed at a freshly laid stone slab. The 79-year-old president discovered a "huge gash" in the limestone of the White House ...
In a sterile conference room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Ira Dunkel sits on a Tuesday morning in August, staring at his screen. The email he has just read contains only a few lines, ...
For four days there was eerie silence. No appearance, barely any tweets, no golf tournament, no spontaneous press event - for a man like Donald Trump, who loves public appearances like others love ...
It was an image that is likely to go down in history: Donald Trump at his golf club in Turnberry, the sun at his back, Ursula von der Leyen opposite him, smiling politely as the cameras clicked.
It is Friday afternoon, August 30, 2025. Traders on Wall Street are staring at their screens as the news flashes across the tickers: The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
In the summer of 1987, Donald Trump embarked on a conspicuous trip to the Soviet Union with his then-wife Ivana – embedded in a European tour that first took him to Paris and then on ...
The principle of loyalty replaces the principle of merit - and the world watches as the oldest democracy of the modern era tears itself apart. The American Republic does not die ...
There are documents, as our research shows, that come in dry bureaucratic language and yet capture an entire era in a nutshell. The “Justification & Approval” of the Department of Homeland ...
Our research reveals how Jim O’Neill, Peter Thiel, Rockbridge and Leonard Leo are undermining America’s health policy. It is a scene that resembles a political drama: In Atlanta, hundreds of CDC employees stand in front of ...
Es ist ein Bild, das man eher aus einer Diktatur erwarten würde als aus den Vereinigten Staaten: Während Flammen sich durch die Wälder der Olympic Peninsula fressen, tauchen plötzlich maskierte…
Chicago - The city is preparing for a scenario that only a few weeks ago seemed almost unthinkable - the possible deployment of the military in the third largest metropolis in the United States ...
What once stood as a beacon of freedom is sinking into a whirlpool of authoritarianism and institutional madness. The United States, that self-proclaimed city on a hill, is stumbling into a darkness that ...
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It is news that at first glance may seem inconspicuous, but whose consequences could be immense: Mexico announced on Wednesday that it is suspending postal shipments to the United States.
The American president has never made a secret of his contempt for the energy transition. Now Donald Trump is carrying his fossil campaign into the world with brute force – ...
The handcuffs clicked on Monday morning in Baltimore. Once again. For Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30 years old, father, metalworker, it must have felt like an endless nightmare with no awakening.
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 ...
Melania Trump as the cover star of a fashion magazine - for parts of the Vanity Fair staff this apparently sounds like the end of the Western world. “I am walking out that damn door,” threatened an editor, ...
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.
The cabinet meeting has already dragged on for more than two hours when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy makes a joke that unintentionally hits the core of the Trump administration: “I don’t think Pete or Bobby ...
When CDU politicians repeatedly met with MAGA representatives from the USA in recent years, the media and fact checkers focused on the obvious connections: Trump, his loud supporters, the visible populists ...
The news struck like a political thunderclap: Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve is such a moment. Not because it is about ...
One might think Washington had overnight been transformed into another capital. Not Moscow, not Beijing – no, the model lies further east: Pyongyang ...
It begins with ten sentences, carved in stone, that have survived for thousands of years. In Texas they are now to serve once again as a moral compass - not in churches, but in classrooms. Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
In Washington, armed National Guard soldiers patrol, heavily equipped, as one knows from crisis regions. Yet amid the machine guns and combat boots, a scene is revealed that could hardly ...