Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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COMMENTARY: Health Care Gets Pricier As 21 States Sue Over New Trump Rule
Two million Americans would lose their health coverage by 2027, five million by 2030, according to the federal government's own estimates cited by a…
COLUMN: Off Oman, a tanker hit by unknown projectile revives pressure on Hormuz
A tanker was sailing peacefully off Oman when an "unknown projectile" struck its engine room, according to UKMTO. The vessel was left "not under…
INVESTIGATION: Wildberries hit as far as Tatarstan, Ukrainian drones strike Russian logistics
A woman died under the rubble of a residential building in Volgograd, according to The Moscow Times. A warehouse burned hundreds of kilometers from…
ANALYSIS: The July 28 results — Georgia and South Dakota deliver an early verdict
A number first, because that's where everything starts: 9,439. That's the vote count that puts Marcye Scott ahead in a special election almost nobody…
INVESTIGATION: GasLog Shanghai, the LNG carrier identified by cross-checking in the Strait of Hormuz
ANALYSIS: Volgograd, the Lukoil refinery Ukraine says it hit twice in two months
TESTIMONY: Presley Nassise used to get 200 dollars a month, now it's 50
ANALYSIS: Hormuz, the Iranian claim nobody can verify
