Investigative Journalism
It is a legal bombshell from the First Lady's office: Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden immediately retract statements in which he linked her, in an interview, to convicted ...
The Cotswolds - that English stretch of countryside that looks as if someone had soaked Rosamunde Pilcher in lavender and pressed her onto watercolor paper ...
In Washington, a political experiment is currently underway whose explosive force extends far beyond the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Donald Trump ...
It sounded like an American dream that was supposed to fit seamlessly into the romantic biography of a country superstar: Carrie Underwood, 42, a child of a small town in Oklahoma, ...
Forget fake papers, forget fleeing through deserts or tunnels - the new trend in the United States is called "Epstein Files Camouflage." Simply make a coat out of the endless pages of the never- ...
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
Ten years after the historic ruling of the United States Supreme Court that guaranteed same-sex couples in all states the right to marry, the fight over this fundamental right is flaring up again - ...
It is a piece of news that stands out even in the bizarre world of the American prison system: Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted human trafficker for the sexual abuse of minors, is allowed to leave prison - not because her ...
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
In a sharply worded message to President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom made it unmistakably clear on Monday that he considers the attempt by Republican-led states ...
There are moments in history that burn themselves into the collective memory because they show how thin the veneer of civilization really is. August 11, 2025, was such a moment ...
It was meant to be the masterstroke. Donald Trump, under growing pressure over persistent questions about his ties to the Epstein scandal, pushed the Justice Department ...
Sometimes a single sentence is enough to feel the nervousness building in the background. For Donald Trump, that moment has now come - and the fear level is rising ...
Latin America may seem geographically far away to many, but the politics of dehumanization know no borders. They have already arrived here, creeping into our laws, our discourse, our normality....
JD Vance has once again shown in recent days how far a politician can go when party loyalty matters more than truth. In several TV interviews, he presents himself as a supposed whistleblower in the Epstein affair ...
The email reached FEMA employees late Tuesday night. Management Directed Reassignment Effective August 5, 2025 - a subject line that ended careers and upended lives. Sara Birchenough, a personnel director whose name would ...
There are images that reveal more about a society than any statistic ever could. In the United States, sometimes a glance into an ICE detention center is enough to understand how far reality, delusion, and unreality have already merged.
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 ...
Sometimes it takes decades for a sentence to come back and catch up with its author. Donald Trump is experiencing exactly that moment this week. Just now, as the debate over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein ...
When Gretchen Whitmer entered the Oval Office on Tuesday, she did so with a message the President of the United States did not want to hear. The Democratic governor of Michigan, ...
Our work is not only an analysis of American domestic policy, but also an early warning system for democracy on this side of the Atlantic. When we document how in the United States academic freedom is being shut down ...
It is a scene that has long been recorded in the history books: summer 1932, the so-called "Preußenschlag" (Prussian Coup). Under the pretext of restoring security and order, the Reich government removed the democratically ...
There are investigations that make you want to put your head in your hands. Cory Mills is one of them. In a republic that once prided itself on moral leadership,
Alaska - that vast, icy outpost of America, where the Bering Strait leaves only 88 kilometers between two world powers, will on August 15, 2025, become the stage for a meeting whose historical irony is hard to surpass.
It was a moment that could only arise in the presence of Donald Trump: a podium, a crowd, a president, and in his hand not the Constitution, not a concept, but a laminated piece ...
The withdrawal of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf from her candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court on August 8, 2025 marks a turning point that goes far beyond the person and the office.
It was one of those weeks in which the headlines from Washington, Austin, London, Moscow and Geneva did not stand side by side, but merged into a single breathless panorama ...
It was one of those stories that sounded too absurd to be true - and for that very reason, it was. While the country speculated, the administration denied. While journalists investigated, the vice president himself dismissed the reports.
What appears to be a bureaucratic directive is in truth an attack on the heart of American education: President Donald Trump wants to force universities across the country to disclose how much a person's origin ...
An investigative report on the systematic shutdown of the NASA missions OCO-2 and OCO-3, the silence of mainstream media, and the catastrophic consequences for the future We also ask for your support ...
Our investigations reveal the shocking details of an unprecedented wave of purges that is shaking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to its very foundations. What is happening behind closed doors in Washington surpasses ...
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 ...
With a single stroke of the pen, Donald Trump has done what economists had been warning about for months – he has plunged the world into an economic state of emergency. As of Thursday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ...
Es war ein Abend, der für den republikanischen Abgeordneten aus Nebraska, Mike Flood, eigentlich Routine sein sollte. Ein klassisches Town Hall Meeting, wie er sie seit Jahren ...
Sometimes reality writes its own parodies. When Kristi Noem, the cosplay-loving Secretary of Homeland Security, proudly announced her latest prestige project on Tuesday - a migrant detention center in rural Indiana, christened “ICE Baby’s ...
We nearly fell off the courthouse steps - The longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein is pulling every legal lever to prevent the release of explosive procedural documents. Behind it lies a complex calculation.
It is a document that chillingly shows how normalized and at the same time grotesque life around Jeffrey Epstein was. A letter from director Woody Allen from 2016, ...
While Texas is in a state of political emergency and the national question of democracy is becoming sharper and sharper, Donald Trump strolls across the roof of the White House and inspects the place ...
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 ...
When you hear this story, you might think it is a script for a biting political satire: A Lebanese entrepreneur who wants to build a fast food empire in Texas under the name "Trump Burger" ...
Las Vegas, the sparkling desert metropolis that for decades has shone into the Nevada sky like a glowing promise of luck, entertainment, and boundless freedom, ...
It was a dramatic scene that unfolded in the summer of 2025 in the United States: While in Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott angrily threatened to have Democratic lawmakers arrested, ...
It is a political minefield that Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have entered these days - and it is precisely leading Republicans who are urgently warning their party against the next breach of taboo: ...
Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, the atmosphere in New York City has changed noticeably. Not through sudden mass raids, as many had feared, but through a bureaucracy that has lost its face ...
The political conflict in Texas escalated into an unprecedented power struggle over the weekend. Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican and loyal ally of Donald Trump, ...
Sometimes life writes stories that make even the sharpest satirists faint. The new revelation about Prince Andrew and Donald Trump is such a case - a global elite porno, performed on the stage of international scandals, ...
Frenchtown, an unremarkable place with just under 2,000 residents in Missoula County in western Montana, exemplifies the rural West of the United States – and both the hope and the ...
Good morning Germany, we have given everything to deliver comprehensive reporting for the German-speaking world for an eventful August 2 - without forgetting Mrs. Weidel and the lips of ...
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 ...
It was one of those moments when American politics effortlessly slips into a grotesque. Donald Trump, 79 years old and unshakably convinced of himself, sat in the Newsmax studio and spoke about what excites him ...