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The allies’ intelligence agencies discovered a rare opportunity to target high-level officials, including the country’s supreme leader, write Dov Lieber in Tel Aviv, Alexander Ward in Washington and Laurence Norman in Berlin, The Wall Street Journal.

The mass release of the Epstein files has produced embarrassment, outrage and online blood sport. What it hasn’t produced is clarity.

From Trump’s muddled geography in Davos to a $1bn “Board of Peace” and ICE raids in Vacationland, another week of slippery language, hard power and harder truths.

Some concern is driven by longer-term debasement of data collection budgets. Yet, most concern stems from politically charged moves from the White House and its challenge of statistical agencies' independence.

As Tennessee voters inch leftward and Trump lashes out at immigrants, allies and adversaries alike, Washington is consumed by economic alarm, foreign-policy fog and a restless MAGA base.

The frightening, doomed drift away from dialogue is growing more common in the US, a nation that has never once been a stranger to political violence and is further from that status, now, than it was even two weeks ago.

The trade deal announced this week by the US and the EU places Britain and Europe on different footings. While it also brings advantages for Northern Ireland, significant uncertainty remains.

Jamie Walker, the global CEO of payments giant Elavon, speaks to The Currency about his years spent building the business from Arklow, America's changing relationship with Europe, and the need for cryptocurrencies to develop consumer protections.

As Trump’s second term barrels forward with spectacle, tariffs, and foreign posturing, the cracks at home are widening. From food stamps to fighter jets, Siobhan Brett asks: how long can the president sell strength abroad while Americans tighten their belts?

The Government has been tapping up Irish business leaders in the US to join its new Strategic Economic Advisory Panel, but refuses to release details of members or how they may be influencing State policy.