Maxime Marquette
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COMMENTARY: Washington bans Wall Street from buying homes, and Wall Street had already left
Starting January 7, 2027, a large investor will no longer be able to buy a single-family home.
REVIEW: $5,000 if you vote right, zero if not, Trump’s campaign puts a price on the ballot
Five thousand dollars. For every American adult. If Republicans keep the House and the Senate. Otherwise, nothing. The president says so himself.
NARRATIVE: A fire watched all day, a wind that turns, four soldiers who do not come home
It is about 4 p.m. Mountain time. Saturday, October 17. The Wainwright base, in Alberta. A live-fire exercise. It is called Apollo Shooter.
SPECIAL REPORT: Brussels sanctions a camp called Peace and the judges who struck off the peace party
Romashka, Sputnik, Raduga, Mir, Leto, Vita: the Official Journal of the European Union published these names of children’s camps on September 28, with their…
COLUMN: At 54 Volodymyrska Street, Moscow burns the address Ukrainian science has held since 1919
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the presidium building of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine on September 28, in broad daylight, at 54…
OPEN LETTER: Leo XIV, you quote Benedict XV, so name the aggressor as he named Belgium
Holy Father, on September 28 in Metz, you asked Europe to be ready to sacrifice certain positions for the higher good of peace. You…
NARRATIVE: At 11:18 a.m. on a Monday, the Kremlin strikes Dnipro with its offices full
In Dnipro, once the search was over on September 28, the regional police were still trying to put a name to a woman found…
EXPLAINER: Putin denies any mobilization, then signs his fourth army expansion in seven months
Vladimir Putin signed a decree on September 28 that sets the authorized strength of Russia’s armed forces at 2,441,630 positions, including 1,550,500 service members.
EDITORIAL: Peskov names the “price” Ukraine will pay. Arm its sky before Putin’s spring
On September 28, speaking in Moscow, Dmitry Peskov warned that Ukraine would have to “pay a price for the actions that have taken place…