Maxime Marquette
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The EU-US trade deal takes effect with a 15% tariff
Since July 1, 2026, European companies exporting to the United States have been living under a new tariff regime. The Council of
The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding, separating fact from fiction
Since early June 2026, the rumor had been building: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would celebrate their wedding at Madison Square Garden
To Ukraine, as it tests its first anti-air lasers
Dear reader, let me start with the facts, before the emotion. On July 1, 2026, Ukraine's Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, speaking at
Inside the machinery of ICE's 10,000 arrests in five days
Between Friday, June 26, and Tuesday, June 30, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 10,000 people across the United States,
The day Claude Sonnet 5 shifted the race for artificial intelligence
On June 30, 2026, Anthropic published a blog post that looks, at first glance, like dozens of other technical announcements of the
Our summers no longer look like our parents', and that's no accident
There is something unsettling about living through, year after year, what we're told is a "historic episode." In June 2026, France experienced
Trump's economy holds up on paper, collapses in people's minds
There are now two economic narratives in the United States, and they almost never intersect. On one side, official labor market statistics,
NATO finally calls Russia the threat it is
It took more than four years of war in Ukraine for NATO to finally decide to put in writing what everyone already
Katie Phang, the journalist who refuses to let the DOJ bury the Epstein files
Few people would have bet, back in April 2026, that a single independent journalist could force the U.S. Department of Justice to