Investigative Journalism
It was a letter like a ransom note - with the letterhead of the White House, but the tone of a trade warrior on a personal vendetta. On July 7, 2025, Donald Trump, President of the United States, ...
Anyone driving through the Grand Avenue District in Phoenix these days - specifically between 10th and 11th Avenue ...
Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure - relying once again on the familiar mix of threats, ultimatums, and public displays of power. By Wednesday, all countries that trade ...
It is the open break of a once powerful alliance: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and former chief strategist of Trump's government overhaul, is turning against the president - publicly, directly, irreparably. On July 5, 2025, Musk ...
It was a shadow that stretched across decades - and over presidents, princes, and the conspiracy fantasies of a fractured public. But now Donald Trump’s administration has decided how the story should end.
These are images that burn themselves into the collective memory. A girl, drenched and shivering, clings to the branch of a pine tree.
Frankfurt – It is the largest trade relationship in the world - and it is on the brink. On Monday, the European Union expects to learn whether U.S. President Donald Trump will make good ...
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 still before sunrise when the sky over the Texas Hill Country broke open - not with light, but with water. Within 45 minutes, the Guadalupe River rose by eight meters ...
What is more dangerous - a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico or a strategy document from the White House? If the planners of the "2025 Presidential Transition Project"
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, ...
They call it a historic victory. Fox News is jubilant. MAGA supporters celebrate. Donald Trump stands at the podium and proudly declares that his new “Big Beautiful Bill” will finally relieve the working class.
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 ...
When the first raindrops hit the roof of the camp, the girls were already asleep. Hours later, the Guadalupe River had become a raging beast - and a summer camp a death trap.
On the night of July 4 to 5, the sky over the Texas Hill Country turned into a black abyss. Within just a few hours, as much rain fell as usually does in several months.
July 4th is the holiest day in the American calendar. It is the day of the Declaration of Independence, of fanfares and fireworks, of family picnics and barbecues.
When Donald Trump signs his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” on Friday - a gigantic package of tax cuts, social spending reductions, and billions for border security - most observers will focus on the obvious: less money for the poor, more money for fences.
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.
Let’s imagine the unimaginable for a moment – no, not that Friedrich Merz discovers a social conscience or Alice Weidel visits a migrant shelter. Rather: 42% of AfD voters want to leave Germany. For good ...
Des Moines – It was one of those evenings when Donald Trump elevated not only presidential pomp but also private kitsch to a matter of state. At the “Salute to America” event in Iowa, ...
Washington - Donald Trump has never made a secret of the fact that he doesn’t care much for international guests - and on July 3, 2025, he cemented that stance once again.
All ethics have been lost – when violence becomes honor. It begins with a memory, blurry yet tangible: the furious mob, the shattered windows of the Capitol ...
Washington – You have to let this scene melt on your tongue: a group photo with wide grins, proud faces, and triumphant thumbs. In the center: a sign that reads “ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT.” ...
Washington/Moscow – US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation lasting about an hour on July 3. This was confirmed by Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov to the Russian news ...
Washington – On Tuesday, the White House released the full salary list of President Donald Trump’s staff. The document, submitted annually to the U.S. Congress, includes more than 400 individuals working ...
Deep in the shimmering swamp of the Everglades, where mosquitoes fly thicker than morning fog and alligators lurk between reeds, a place has officially begun operations that some already describe as a symbol of a new America ...
Washington - It was a spectacle that will likely go down in the annals of resistance: In the early morning hours of July 3, 2025, Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, took the floor ...
Donald Trump calls it a new "beautiful" trade agreement – but anyone who takes a closer look at the deal with Vietnam announced on Wednesday will see: this agreement is neither finalized nor beneficial, ...
Chicago – It was a summer evening like many in this city, hot, vibrant, pulsing with music – and it ended in blood. Four people are dead, ...
It is the end of an era – and at the same time a harbinger of a policy that does not protect but destroys. Del Monte Foods, a giant of the American food industry ...
Washington – It was a calculated show of force by the Trump administration, but it threatens to become a political boomerang. For weeks now, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been conducting aggressive mass raids ...
Washington – It is a return to prudishness and a political signal with far-reaching consequences. On Wednesday, the administration under President Donald Trump ...
Washington – It was just a number, but it cast a shadow over the Trump administration’s optimistic narrative: for the first time in nearly a year, the number of private-sector jobs in the US has declined ...
Washington, D.C. – In a powerful act of protest against looming cuts to the healthcare system, several activists were arrested on Tuesday after staging a sit-in at the Russell Senate Office Building ...
In March 1933, under pressure from the streets, the German Reichstag passed a law that still makes the world shudder: the so-called Enabling Act. It stripped parliament of its legislative power ...
It is a law of gigantic proportions - 887 pages long, filled with tax cuts, spending reductions, new billions for the military and the deportation machinery. But what President Donald J. Trump calls the "One Big Beautiful Bill" ...
It began with a letter. On June 26, 2025, Republican Congressman Andy Ogles called on the United States Department of Justice to investigate the naturalization of Zohran Mamdani - a Democratic lawmaker ...
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 ...
From the very beginning, everything seemed discreet - perhaps too discreet. A shell company in Delaware, named after one of her horses. A dubious nonprofit organization with barely any discernible purpose. And finally: $80,000 that flowed directly to Kristi Noem’s ...
It is a move that stands out even in the long history of narcissistic state art: Donald Trump had his official portrait at the Colorado State Capitol swiftly replaced - because it did not flatter him enough ...
Washington once again finds itself facing a targeted digital provocation that affects not only national security but also carries explosive political implications. Pro-Iranian hackers claim ...
It was a sentence fit for a dystopian novel - only it didn’t fall in fiction but during a press tour through a real internment camp in the state of Florida. Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary under Donald Trump, ...
It was a moment of self-congratulation in Washington. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State under Donald Trump, stood before the cameras and announced with a satisfied look the end of USAID ...
Washington - It was a political performance of rare ambiguity, staged in the solemn marble of the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday afternoon, precisely at 2:42 p.m., Lisa Murkowski cast her vote - “Yes.” ...
There is a quiet truth about America’s labor market that is never spoken in campaign ads or stump speeches: The most successful, most profitable companies in the country are having their workforces subsidized by the government - through Medicaid, ...
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
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 ...
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
It was a quiet yet powerful protest, carried by respect, sorrow, and anger: two former U.S. presidents and a rock star bid farewell on Monday in an emotional video call to the staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
Washington - It is a rare moment in the politically charged climate of the United States: The Republican-dominated Senate has turned against a central measure of President Donald Trump ...