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NPR has suspended Uri Berliner, the senior business editor who broke ranks and published an essay arguing that the nonprofit radio network had allowed liberal bias to affect its coverage.Mr. Berliner was suspended by the network for five days, starting last Friday, for violating the network’s policy against doing work outside the organization without first getting permission.Mr. Berliner acknowledged his suspension in an interview with NPR on Monday, providing one of the network’s reporters with a copy of the written rebuke. In presenting the warning, NPR said that Mr. Berliner had failed to clear his work for outside outlets, adding that he would be fired if he violated the policy again.Mr. Berliner’s essay was published last week in The Free Press, a popular Substack publication.He decl...

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President Biden’s aides are preparing to hit Iran with economic sanctions over Tehran’s attack on Israel, but experts say they face limited meaningful options for doing so without antagonizing China or risking a spike in the price of oil.In retaliation for a strike against its consulate, Iran over the weekend sent more than 300 drones and missiles toward Israel. The unprecedented aerial barrage did not cause major damage or injuries, as U.S.-led forces intercepted most of the projectiles.Still, U.S. officials and their European allies are discussing potential economic responses to Iran, as leading Western officials converged Monday on Washington for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Their options are limited because Iran is already one of the most heav...

When Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, took office in 2021, he pledged that his government would shift his country’s relationship with China away from one of economic dependence. Three years later, talk of scaling back reliance on China has been replaced with calls for equal access to China’s market for foreign firms.That strategy puts the Germans at odds with many of their closest allies, including the United States and other European countries, which would like to see China scale back its recent surge of exports in the green energy sector, including electric vehicles. The U.S. Treasury secretary, Janet L. Yellen, has talked about imposing trade restrictions on China.The chief executives of several leading multinational companies based in Germany joined Mr. Scholz on his three-day tour ...

Goldman’s share price rose 3 percent on Monday.Doesn’t a bank like Goldman always make lots of money? Err, no, not always.How have other banks fared?At the end of last week, some of Goldman’s competitors, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, reported weaknesses in some parts of their businesses in the first quarter. Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, warned of an “unsettling” global landscape, highlighting a cascade of pressures, including war, rising geopolitical tensions and inflation. He described financial markets as “too happy.”As Goldman has a relatively tiny consumer business — think bank branches — it may weather the uncertainty better than lenders with broader exposure to the economy. It may even do well; Goldman said Monday that it actually made more money from its cr...