Irish arm of Western Union paid $32m dividend to parent company
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Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt Donald Trump
No matter how much the US president wishes him away, Epstein is persisting as a national obsession
Does it matter if Belle Burden’s controversial divorce memoir doesn’t tell the whole truth?
Women don’t explicitly promise to love, honour and surrender their financial autonomy in marriage, but many do anyway
The joy of obituaries: Celebrating people who ‘wrinkled the social fabric’
In what feels like a trick of postmodernism, reading New York Times obituaries has become a treat. Writing them is ‘one of the great jobs in journalism’ - and a huge responsibility
Sonny Rollins: ‘Genius’ saxophonist was one of the most inventive jazz musicians of his generation
Williamsburg Bridge practice sessions and sabbaticals from performing added to mystique of New York native and colossus of the saxophone
The Help author Kathryn Stockett on being fired by her publisher and feeling like a failure
Midway through writing The Calamity Club, her ‘difficult second novel’, the bestselling Mississippi author was fired by publisher. In retrospect, she says, it was a blessing
Obituary: Doris Fisher, co-founder of Gap retail empire which helped change how Americans dress
A billionaire who eschewed an ostentatious lifestyle, she was an avid collector of modern art
US intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities
Evidence suggests Iran has restored operational access to 30 of 33 missile sites it maintains along Strait of Hormuz
Peanut farmer-intellectual Jimmy Carter was just what Americans needed. They still need his ilk
There is a neat symmetry to Carter’s story and to his hometown’s quietly glowing presence in the US
Upward Bound by Woody Brown: A non-verbal autistic man’s valuable appreciation of humanity
An exceptional book that’s not only a great read but an enriching experience
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle legal dispute over It Ends With Us film
Baldoni claimed that Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds attempted to tarnish his reputation
How Trump transformed America’s media order
A recent report found the US was experiencing its sharpest decline in democracy, citing pressure on the media as a key factor
Sheer prevalence of AI prose is giving rise to a new and extreme kind of suspicion
We exist, increasingly, in a cultural environment where we can never be quite sure whether what we are reading was written by a human or LLM
‘Like something out of a movie’: The tranquil town where El Mencho met his end
Mexico’s most-wanted cartel boss made his last stand as military forces swept into a residential area favoured by wealthy families and tourists
Running a newspaper is a tricky business. Jeff Bezos has made a mess of it
Actively alienating subscribers is not an obvious winning strategy
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy: Darkly comic tale of a high-schooler’s illicit affair
McCurdy’s debut novel fails to offer much more than its deadpan, Bret-Easton-Ellis-adjacent comedy
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump lays out a vision of power restrained only by ‘my own morality’
US president makes clear in interview he will be the arbiter of any limits to his authority
Donald Trump attacked Joe Biden for being too old. Now his critics say the same about him
Trump uses bullying and personal attacks on his enemies - but we should be wary of the impulse to do the same
How Aer Lingus made its way onto pages of New York Times for the wrong reasons
Customer, wrongly denied boarding on flight to Dublin, was then ignored for almost three months, reports New York Times
Murder, scandal and greyhounds: 21 great podcasts to get stuck into
Looking for a good podcast? We’ve compiled a list of our favourite series and a few one-episode wonders
Irishwoman’s US restaurant named one of the best restaurants of 2025 by the New York Times
The Wren in Baltimore has achieved the recognition after being open for just a few months
Nature offers something to celebrate at ‘ecological disaster’ site
Terns continue to flock to Lady’s Island Lake despite damage from algal bloom
Anatomy of a photograph: Gaza, starvation and the battle for truth
The power of a picture operates on different levels
Attention, men: Books are sexy, but staring into a phone is not
Men are reading less these days, proving that what is rare is wonderful
Israel increasingly isolated as more countries sign up to recognise Palestine
Even allies such as Germany are moving towards recognition in light of worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza
New York Times and ‘Germany’s Wordle’ owner seek to reschedule UK trademark hearing on Wordle
Hearing is part of dispute between NYT and Hamburg-based puzzle maker over trademark rights to the name Wordle
Why is Irish media so reticent about covering gender issues?
Gender issues are a hugely important story in Ireland today, and deserves coverage to match
Irish journalists win Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Sudan civil war
Declan Walsh, a journalist originally from Co Mayo, and Co Cork born photographer Ivor Prickett among award winning team
It took about 40 seconds for US immigration officers to lift the Turkish student off the streets of Boston
She is one of at least 300 students whose visas were revoked, but we only know of her story because it was recorded
The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap: A beautiful, unsparing memoir about grief
Schaap was 39 when her husband, Frank, died on Valentine’s Day
Jeff Bezos has made a sacrificial offering of the Washington Post. A once-great newspaper is dying in darkness
The paper’s billionaire owner has said its opinion pages will in future support and defend ‘two pillars: personal liberties and free markets’
Will ‘steely, unflinching’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt be chewed up like her predecessors?
As with Sean Spicer and Kayleigh McEnany before her, Leavitt (27) knows that keeping media-obsessed Donald Trump happy is a high wire act
US culture is making a U-turn. Be prepared to feel the illiberal backlash in Ireland
The past few months also illustrate how shallow the diversity agenda has been, particularly in the corporate world
Justin Baldoni to sue Blake Lively after accusations of sexual harassment, attorney says
Baldoni’s attorney says he is prepared to release trove of text messages to prove his client’s innocence
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