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Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Stephanie Kirchgaessner is the deputy head of investigations for Guardian US, based in Washington DC. Email: stephanie.kirchgaessner@theguardian.com. Click here for Stephanie Kirchgaessner's public key

July 2024

  • Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, speaks at an event on 12 April 2023.

    Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei

  • A woman walks past the entrance of an NSO Group building

    The Pegasus project
    Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests

June 2024

  • Middle-aged man with fingers intertwined.

    Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandal

  • Magician David Copperfield

    Today in Focus
    Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 2

  • Magician David Copperfield

    Today in Focus
    Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 1

  • FILE - Will Lewis, newly-appointed publisher and CEO of The Washington Post, poses for a portrait in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023.  Lewis is facing questions about whether he made efforts to conceal — in his own newspaper and elsewhere — his involvement in a British phone hacking scandal from his time working for Rupert Murdoch a decade ago. The weeklong saga, which began with the abrupt departure of the Post's executive editor Sunday, June 2, 2024 offers a window into differences between approaches to journalism in Britain and the United States.(Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, File)

    Anger mounts at Washington Post over leadership changes and CEO’s record

May 2024

  • The NSO Group logo on a wall, beside a smartphone

    Critics of Putin and his allies targeted with spyware inside the EU

  • A truck trailer belonging to magician David Copperfield sits outside his warehouse in Las Vegas, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Copperfield has been contacted by law enforcement authorities and the FBI has conducted an investigation in Las Vegas, where the magician regularly performs, his lawyer and the FBI confirmed. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    Behind the magic
    The FBI investigated David Copperfield for two years. The claim that he was ‘exonerated’ was widely embraced. Was he?

  • Epstein head Main Image

    Behind the magic
    ‘Magic David called’: David Copperfield repeatedly contacted Jeffrey Epstein

  • A Guardian US investigation is reporting allegations of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behaviour by illusionist David Copperfield. Testimonies from two women, both of whom are portrayed by actors, describe their alleged experiences and the impact it had on their lives

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    Behind the magic
    David Copperfield ‘was in my nightmares’: the women alleging sexual misconduct - video

  • Behind the magic
    Former teen models accuse magician David Copperfield of misconduct

  • Behind the magic
    Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women

  • Behind the magic
    ‘I honest to God believe I was drugged’: magician David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out

April 2024

  • Saudi Arabia women’s rights activist Manahel al-Otaibi has been sentenced to 11 years for ‘terrorist offences’.

    Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

    Manahel al-Otaibi, who promoted female empowerment on social media, was arrested under anti-terror laws

February 2024

  • NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware is capable of extracting information from a target’s phone without their permission or knowledge.

    Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp

  • a golfer chips his ball out of the bunker

    Top US consultancies face scrutiny over role in Saudi Arabia’s sports push

  • A hand types on a keyboard

    US announces new restrictions to curb global spyware industry

  • A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir.

    Dozens in Jordan targeted by authorities using NSO spyware, report finds

January 2024

  • A woman looks ahead

    New role for Amy Coney Barrett’s father inside Christian sect sparks controversy

  • President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv in October; IDF soldiers in Nahal Oz, in December; Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv also in October.

    ‘Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses

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