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1、* THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 VOL. CCLXXIII NO. 54 WSJ.com HHHH $4.00DJIA 25673.46 g 133.17 0.5% NASDAQ 7505.92 g 0.9% STOXX600 375.48 g 0.04% 10-YR.TREAS. 9/32, yield 2.692% OIL $56.22 g $0.34 GOLD $1,284.90 $2.90 EURO $1.1309 YEN 111.77FacebookPivots toPrivateSharingService will offerencrypted messagi
2、ngand communicationsthat disappearBY PAUL KIERNANAND JOSH ZUMBRUNWASHINGTONHouseDemocratic leaders put onhold a vote to denounce anti-Semitism as divisions grewwithin the party over the re-sponse to a freshman law-makers repeated criticism ofU.S. policy toward Israel, thelatest issue to roil the par
3、tysince it gained a majority inNovembers elections.At issue were commentsfrom Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.,Minn.), who last week spoke ofpeople who “push for alle-giance to a foreign country,”which many listeners viewedas referring to Israel. In aclosed-door meeting of Demo-crats on Wednesday, somelawmakers
4、defended Ms.Omar, one of two Muslimwomen in Congress, and ob-jected to party leadershipmoving to vote on an anti-Semitism resolution that wasan implicit rebuke of her com-ments.A draft of the resolution byHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D., Calif.) and other top Dem-ocrats, reviewed by The WallStreet Jou
5、rnal, didnt nameMs. Omar, but condemned “themyth of dual loyalty, includingallegations that Jews shouldbe suspected of being disloyalneighbors or citizens.”Rep. Jahana Hayes of Con-necticut was among the Demo-cratic lawmakers who said inthe meeting that they objectedto finding out about the reso-lut
6、ion from news reports. Anaide in the room said mem-bers also were concernedabout how quickly leadershipmoved to set the vote andnoted that Ms. Omar has facedanti-Muslim animus since ar-riving in Congress andshouldnt be singled out.Others called WednesdayPleaseturntopageA4After 108 Days Behind Bars,
7、Ex-Nissan Chairman Ghosn Is FreedTAKAAKIIWABU/BLOOMBERGNEWSOUT ON BAIL: Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, shown after leaving his lawyers office Wednesday, was freed from aTokyo jail where he had been detained since Nov. 19. Released on bail, he vowed to fight the allegations of financi
8、al misconduct. B1Marie Kondo Craze IsntSparking Joy for Thrift StoresiiiTidying Up trend is burying donationcenters with junky goods nobody wantsOn a recent gray day, AnnCurtis loaded up the back of herstation wagon with bric-a-brac,eager to reclaim her house afterthe youngest ofher three daugh-ters
9、 left for col-lege. “Im smittenwith the Kondobug,” she said, re-ferring to the de-cluttering guruMarie Kondo. “Imdesperate to get inthe loft, the shed,the garage and sort, sort, sort.”Included in her haul: familygames that hadnt been playedin years, handbags past theirprime, shoes, ornaments andbedd
10、ing.She drove to her local thriftstore in Guildford, a large townjust outside London, where anelderly man appeared, she said,looking grumpy and sweaty.“I have some things for you,”she said, with a smile. The manrolled his eyes, she said, and re-plied: “Hasnt everyone?”It seems Marie Kondo isntsparki
11、ng joy for thrift-store workers.Since the TV show“Tidying Up With Ma-rie Kondo” made itsdebut on Netflix inJanuary, used-goodsstores have been inun-dated with donations.The problem: massquantities of dirty,worn-out clothes, ugly trinketsand unsellable appliances.“We love donations becauseits a thriv
12、ing part of our busi-ness,” said David Braddon, a se-nior district sales manager forGoodwill in Houston. But theyshould be in good condition, andPleaseturntopageA10BY RACHELPANNETTAND RHIANNONHOYLEOld plush toya colonel in the Syrian army. “I knew thatAssad would not leave until he had demol-ished t
13、he entire country and blood wouldrun in the streets.”Today, after nearly eight years of conflict,Mr. Assad is on the verge of victory. Hisforces have clawed back control over muchof the country, with the help of Russian airpower and Iran-backed foreign militias. De-spite his governments documented a
14、troci-ties, Arab states that long shunned it are be-ginning to normalize relations, evidentlyresigned to the regimes survival.The United Arab Emirates and Bahrainhave reopened embassies. Sudans PresidentOmar al-Bashir recently traveled to Damas-cus to meet with Mr. Assad, the first visit byPleasetur
15、ntopageA10Before the phrase was spray-painted onwalls and stenciled on cars, Syrian militaryofficers heard it in meetings to discuss howto quell an antigovernment uprising sweep-ing Syria in 2011.“Assad or we burn the country.”The stark words warned those who woulddefy President Bashar al-Assad. And
16、 whenprotests morphed into war, Mr. Assad,backed by hard-core members of his Alawitereligious sect, made good on the threat, pre-siding over much of Syrias destruction tomaintain his grip on power.“In every meeting we had, the Alawite of-ficers would say itAssad or we burn thecountry,” recalled Abdu
17、ljabar al-Akidi, thenBYRAJA ABDULRAHIMFacebook Inc., which becamethe worlds biggest social net-work by encouraging people toshare photos and messagespublicly, said it is now bettingon the opposite: that the futureof social media lies in privatemessaging and small-groupchats.In a major shift in strat
18、egy,Facebook plans to offer en-crypted messaging across all ofits major products and allowpeople to make private conver-sations ephemeral, Chief Execu-tive Mark Zuckerberg wrote ina blog post. It also will developproducts within those messag-ing servicessuch as paymentsand e-commercethat eventu-ally
19、 could allow it to diversifyfrom the ad-supported businessmodel that led to a number ofprivacy missteps, he said.In an interview, Mr. Zucker-berg couched the shift as a re-sponse to user demand, sayingpeople increasingly prefer tocommunicate in small groupsor one-to-one in the style of itsWhatsApp m
20、essaging platform,rather than blasting theirthoughts to a public audience,as most users do on its Insta-gram and the companys flag-ship Facebook platform.“I dont view this as replac-ing the public platform. Face-book and Instagram will con-tinue to get more important,”Mr. Zuckerberg said. But “there
21、is as rich of a platform to de-velop around the intimate andPleaseturntopageA2BYJEFFHORWITZWASHINGTONThe U.S.trade deficit in goods hit a re-cord in 2018, defying PresidentTrumps efforts to narrow thegap, as imports jumped andsome exports, including soy-beans and other farm products,got hammered by
22、retaliationagainst U.S. trade policies.The deficit in goods grew10% last year to $891.3 billion,according to Commerce De-partment data releasedCohens RoleIn Pardon BidFormer Trump lawyer Cohendirected his attorney to askabout pardon. A5DemocratsSplit onBigotryResolutionBY NATALIE ANDREWSAND KRISTINA
23、PETERSONWednesday. U.S. trade gapswith China and Mexico, alreadythe nations largest, reachednew records.The picture looked less direwhen services including tour-ism, higher education andbanking are counted, thoughthis deficit still deterioratedmarkedly. With services in-cluded, the trade gap grew 12
24、%last year to $621 billion, thewidest since 2008.Fast economic growth,driven in part by fiscal stimu-lus, led to a 7.5% increase inimports last year, marked byincreased spending on con-sumer goods, industrial sup-plies and capital goods. Ex-ports grew too, but by 6.3%and from a lower overall level.“
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