Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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Trump ordered to pay Carroll after the Supreme Court's silence
On June 29, the U.S. SupremeCourt declined to hearDonald Trump's appeal over the defamation and sexual assault verdict handed down in the
Russia's offensive collapses in Ukraine amid a pointless bloodbath
Russia wanted to capture the remaining twenty percent of the Donetsk region by the end of the year. According to Kyiv, Moscow
July 7, the day 720,000 lives turn on a single click
There are dates you never forget. July 7, 2026 is one of them for more than 720,000 final-year high school students across
The heatwave is killing our birds and nobody wants to see it
There are numbers that hit harder than a thunderclap. Three hundred and twenty-four. That's the number of wild animals taken in over
Microsoft bets $2.5 billion on AI that must actually pay off
Microsoft announced on July 2, 2026 the creation of a new entity called Microsoft Frontier Company, backed by a $2.5 billion investment
Friedrich Merz, the Germany that pledges its security to the Balts
A few days before the NATO summit in Ankara, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosted the leaders of the three Baltic states in
Anthropic hunts down the Chinese firms working around Claude
The Financial Times reports that Anthropic is actively closing a series of loopholes that allowed Chinese firms like Ant Group, Alibaba's financial
Romania arms its skies with 24 Skyranger 35 units against Russian drones
Romania has just signed an order for 24 Skyranger 35 air defense systems from German giant Rheinmetall, a contract that is a
Jane Doe 4 is still waiting for justice to keep its word
She is called Jane Doe 4 in American court documents, and since 2019, she has lived out of the public eye, terrified