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Der Spiegel

German news website

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Nov 15, 2025
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Is Donald trump a Christian

Donald Trump has publicly identified as a nondenominational Christian since a 2020 interview with Religion News Service, having been raised and confirmed Presbyterian earlier in life . Reporting and a...

Nov 17, 2025
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What happened in the 2009 Las Vegas hotel incident with Cristiano Ronaldo and Kathryn Mayorga?

Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused by Kathryn Mayorga of raping her in a Las Vegas hotel in June 2009; Mayorga reported the incident to Las Vegas police soon after and later accepted a $375,000 settle...

Dec 19, 2025
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What has Der Spiegel publicly said in response to Till Lindemann’s criminal complaint and injunction rulings?

Der Spiegel has, in available reporting, largely stood by the substance of its investigative reporting while defending the credibility of the affidavits it relied upon, even as courts imposed interim ...

Oct 31, 2025

What were the findings of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation regarding Trump's involvement?

Documents released and reporting from mid‑2025 show that Donald Trump appears in Jeffrey Epstein’s investigative files and in third‑party accounts of Epstein’s social circle, but the U.S. Department o...

Jan 3, 2026

How was Germany like in 1899, 1914, 1939, 1962, and today?

Germany at the turn of the 20th century was an industrializing imperial power under Kaiser Wilhelm II, by 1914 an urbanized, militarized great power headed into total war, by 1939 a totalitarian state...

Dec 19, 2025

Till lindemann vergewaltiger

The question whether Till Lindemann is a rapist centers on allegations made in 2023, a subsequent Berlin prosecutor investigation, and the decision to drop that investigation for lack of evidence; pro...

Nov 19, 2025

What allegations did Kathryn Mayorga make against Cristiano Ronaldo regarding the 2009 Las Vegas encounter?

Kathryn Mayorga has alleged that Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in a Las Vegas hotel penthouse after they met at a nightclub on June 12–13, 2009, and that she later accepted a $375,000 settlement and con...

Nov 19, 2025

How did Kathryn Mayorga say the alleged 2009 incident was arranged and where in the Las Vegas hotel did it reportedly occur?

Kathryn Mayorga has said she met Cristiano Ronaldo at the Rain nightclub inside the Palms Hotel & Casino on June 12, 2009, that he invited her and a friend back to his suite, and that the alleged sexu...

Nov 18, 2025

How did the 2010 police investigation in Las Vegas into the Ronaldo-Mayorga claim proceed and why was it closed?

Las Vegas police first logged a report from Kathryn Mayorga in 2009 but closed the matter because she “neither identified her alleged attacker by name nor said where the incident took place,” leaving ...

Jan 7, 2026

Did Cristiano Ronaldo settle the civil lawsuit with Kathryn Mayorga?

Cristiano Ronaldo reached an out‑of‑court settlement with Kathryn Mayorga in 2010 over her allegation of sexual assault in Las Vegas, with most reporting the payment as roughly $375,000 in exchange fo...

Dec 21, 2025

What documents from Football Leaks were used in the Mayorga civil case and how did courts treat them?

Football Leaks material at the center of Kathryn Mayorga’s civil suit consisted principally of privileged attorney-client emails, work-product reports and a confidential settlement agreement and relat...

Dec 19, 2025

What legal remedies has Till Lindemann pursued against publications that reported on the 2023 allegations?

Till Lindemann has used a mix of civil injunctive relief and criminal complaints to push back against reportage of the 2023 allegations: his lawyers obtained interim court orders restricting certain c...

Nov 18, 2025

Has Cristiano Ronaldo been criminally charged for rape?

Available reporting shows Cristiano Ronaldo has been the subject of a long-running allegation that he raped Kathryn Mayorga in Las Vegas in 2009, but prosecutors decided in 2019 not to bring criminal ...

Nov 15, 2025

trifft es zu, daß die US-Regierung nicht nur Kenntnisse über außerirdische Errungenschaften hat und auch nutzt?

Es gibt wiederholt öffentlich gemachte Behauptungen, dass US-Stellen „intakte“ oder „nicht-menschliche“ Flugobjekte geborgen und untersucht hätten; prominente Whistleblower wie David Grusch haben das ...