Investigative Journalism
You could sense as she entered the room that this hearing would not unfold routinely. Since Noem last appeared before Congress in May, the situation in America’s cities has ...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s name has come to symbolize an immigration system that no longer understands its own decisions. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has ordered that the Salvadoran national be released from ICE custody immediately ...
Many will now ask how it is possible that this man still has 36 percent approval. The answer is the same one we know from Germany: these are not protest voters, that term has not explained reality for a long time ...
Viktoriia Bulavina had done everything this state demands from people who seek protection legally. She had fled Putin’s war, entered under a humanitarian program created precisely for cases like hers ...
Donald Trump continues to militarize the southern border of the United States, and this time it affects California. The Interior Department has announced that it will transfer jurisdiction over large parts of the border region to the U.S. Navy ...
Arauca, Colombia - Donald Trump has tightened the tone in the Caribbean once again. An oil tanker, the Skipper, was stopped by the Coast Guard in international waters off Venezuela, its boarding enabled by a helicopter ...
Die Szene, die Christian Abel von der AfD heute verbreitet hat, wirkt auf den ersten Blick wie ein diplomatischer Hammerschlag: Andrij Melnyk, angeblich in einer aktuellen Sitzung der Vereinten Nationen,…
As we indicated several weeks ago based on our research, it is now becoming true. The US government is planning a step that will reorder the relationship between states, civil rights and travel. Anyone who ...
Someone in Clinton, Utah, just wants to work out, escape the daily noise for a moment, and suddenly there is a guy standing there who looks as if he left his mind at the coat check ...
WELT and Politico journalist Pauline von Pezold are currently drawing a picture that sounds like major geopolitical movement: Markus Frohnmaier travels to the United States, accompanied by AfD members of parliament, ...
When the head of the country's largest deportation machine sits laughing in a Mexican restaurant, wearing a pink sombrero on her head and applauding “Feliz cumpleaños”, it is not a scandal but a snapshot of the political schizophrenia ...
The decision came soberly, the struggle, especially for the victims, attorneys and investigative journalists, was a hard and long path, yet its impact extends far: Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ...
Donald Trump is backing away from his own promise, even though only a few days ago he claimed that releasing the video of the boat strike in the Caribbean would be “no problem.” Now he even denies ever having said ...
The day in London could hardly have gone worse for Donald Trump. While he loudly claimed in Washington that the Ukrainian president had not read his “peace offer,” a coalition was forming on Downing Street ...
We wrote a few days ago about Trump’s new strategy paper and published the complete documents. For months we have been warning about the political direction from Washington and the roles of Russell Vought and E. J. Antoni, ...
Donald Trump Jr. sat on stage at the Doha Forum on December 7, 2025, confident and arrogant as always, and spoke about Ukraine as if he were describing a country ...
Hegseth said a sentence without hesitation: parents should entrust the military with “their most precious resource – their sons and daughters.” At exactly this point it becomes clear how far American politics has drifted from what ...
The Most Dangerous Emerging Far-Right Threat to Children in Germany: In a digital world where children and adolescents are long accustomed to navigating platforms like Discord, Roblox, or Telegram, a network is spreading almost unnoticed whose threat potential is hard to grasp: the "764" network.
A MAGA grandfather in Wyoming calls 911 because the Amazon delivery driver is speaking Spanish, and it inevitably raises the question of whether the country has collectively failed a basic language test or whether too many people ...
There are crimes executed so deliberately that at some point one must stop speaking of isolated cases. The abduction of Ukrainian children is one of them. It is systematic, planned, and built over years ...
Sometimes all it takes is a well-made image, a few invented lines and the right timing - and suddenly a complete social media wave takes off that no one can catch again ...
The survey does not come from a left wing campaign office but from the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank usually far more sympathetic to the Republican world. That is exactly what makes the numbers so explosive ...
A taco shop in Tucson, a morning that begins inconspicuously, and a few minutes later a commotion that raises the question of how much consideration federal authorities still show toward their own population ...
The image is brief and brutal: A small boat in international waters, a dot in the sea, seconds later a fireball. This freeze frame from a video of the U.S. Department of Defense shows the final ...
Donald Trump's administration has published a paper that rolls across Europe like a political quake. In dry bureaucratic language, but with an ideological force rarely expressed so openly, Washington tells the European states ...
Donald Trump has fired someone again. Not for incompetence, not for disloyalty, but for something far worse: architecture. James McCrery II, the man who had been tasked with shaping Trump’s personal palace dream ...
Yuanxin Zheng is six years old, wears glasses, a white shirt - and was torn out of the world he had just begun to build in a single day. When his ...
The day brought a series of statements that deepen the image of a defense secretary who has crossed boundaries - politically, militarily, and in matters of security. While Senate and House ...
The truth about the strike on the alleged drug boat in the Caribbean will never fully come to light. Not because there are no witnesses or because political will is lacking ...
Pete Hegseth actually tells people, in all seriousness, that he banned his kids from watching Fox News for a year “because they were so ungrateful.” Just picture it: a grown man ...
Europe and Ukraine are making it clear these days how little trust they place in Putin's supposed willingness to negotiate. He spent five hours in the Kremlin with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, ...
Donald Trump and his defense secretary Pete Hegseth presented the September 2 strike at the time as proof that their administration was acting decisively against violence in the region. One boat, eleven dead, a quick success ...
Pete Hegseth was already a risk during his confirmation hearing, a political experiment that even parts of the Republicans accepted only through gritted teeth. A former television commentator who brought more headlines than trust and entered the position ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised Donald Trump for the fact that no hurricane appeared in this year’s hurricane season - a scene that shows how far reality has shifted in the political sphere ...
The Trump administration has instrumentalized many things in recent months, but this time it took on two worlds that normally exist far from political noise: pop culture and ...
Im März 2025 geschahen wundersame Dinge hinter den Türen des FBI: Eine Woche im März 2025, in der die Behörde 934 Mitarbeiter zusammentrommelte, um die Unterlagen zum Fall Jeffrey Epstein…
Venezuela seems in these weeks like a country that has already begun to prepare internally for an emergency. Behind closed doors, far from public press conferences, military officials and government advisers have drawn up two scenarios that are to be activated only in one case: ...
It was just a moment in Trump Tower, captured for Time Magazine, but in truth a warning. A bald eagle, the proud national emblem of the United States, sits next to Donald Trump, watches him, spreads its wings,
The White House presents itself as determined. A Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the applicable laws” when he ordered a second strike against an alleged drug boat on September 2. ...
Nicolás Maduro has sent a letter that reads like a warning cry from a country that senses something tightening around it. Addressed to the UN Secretary General and to all states of OPEC ...
In Washington, nerves are rising this weekend over an operation that was originally presented as part of a routine anti-drug effort. For months, the administration has ordered boats off the coast of Latin America to be fired upon, ...
One might have thought that things in America could not get any worse. One might have thought that the peak of madness had been reached. One might have thought that the US secretary of defense had enough to do ...
Donald Trump stood in the corridor of Air Force One, on the return flight from Florida, when reporters again asked him about the MRI from October. He immediately announced ...
In Hallandale Beach, American and Ukrainian negotiators met at a place that looks more like a golf tournament than world politics. But behind the glass fronts of the club, the talks went far beyond courtesies ...
Marco Rubio made clear in just a few sentences how the United States under Trump now thinks about Europe. The secretary of state said that the EU had no right to define what international law ...
President Trump said a few days ago that the United States could "very soon" expand its campaign of killing suspected drug smugglers at sea to attacks on targets in Venezuela ...
Trump Vodka is back, gleaming under the lights, while Eric Trump proudly announces that the first bottles can already be preordered. A scene from another world: golden letters on an icy bottle, next to a small U.S. flag ...
Again one of those nights in which Ukraine is burning while elsewhere people speculate whether Putin is suddenly ready to negotiate. In Kyiv, Russian drones, missiles and ballistic weapons struck completely ...
She wanted to surprise her parents, spend a few free days at home, tell them what the first semester at a respected college feels like. Instead, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza’s trip ended ...
Marco Rubio says openly what has long been decided in Washington: The United States wants to filter more strictly. Visas should not only be able to be denied before entry, but also afterward - as soon as authorities ...