P2JW012000-6-A00100-17FFFF5178F ****** TUESDAY,JANUARY12, 2021 ~VOL. CCLXXVII NO.9 WSJ.com HHHH $4.00 DJIA 31008.69 g 89.28 0.3% NASDAQ 13036.43 g 1.3% STOXX 600 408.41 g 0.7% 10-YR. TREAS. g 8/32 , yield 1.131% OIL $52.25 À $0.01 GOLD $1,849.60 À $15.50 EURO $1.2151 YEN 104.25 House What’s News Looks to Impeach Business&Finance Trump taples’ owner made an Sunsolicited offer forOf- fice Depot, looking to unite In Days rivals whose previous mar- riageattemptswerethwarted by competition concerns. B1 Resolution charges Intercontinental Exchange president with inciting will take itscryptocurrency venturepublic by merging insurrection; some in it with aspecial-purpose GOP discuss censure acquisition company. B1 TheNasdaq lost 1.3%, with BY NATALIE ANDREWS S adropintech shares weighing AND REBECCA BALLHAUS NEW on the broader market. The G S&P 500 and Dowfell 0.7% WASHINGTON—Congress and 0.3%, respectively. B11 OOMBER careened toward afresh show- /BL down with President Trump,as Tyson and Pilgrim’sPride House Democratssaid they separately said they had plan to vote on impeaching him reached deals with a group SILBIGER H Wednesdayoveraccusations he of poultry buyers to settle RA incited supporterstostorm the price-fixing claims. B1 SA Membersofthe National Guardstand outside of the Capitol building on Mondayassecurity wassteppedupinWashington. U.S. Capitol. Steris is in talks to House Democratsintroduced combine with Cantel Medi- an article of impeachment on cal, adeal that would bring Mondaymorning and said they together two big providers SecurityMeasures Tightened would moveahead regardlessof of sterilization products. B1 tepid Republican support. While some Republicans have con- Goldman, JPMorgaN demned the GOP president for and MorganStanley moved encouraging his supportersto to delist hundreds of Hong In U.S. Ahead of Inauguration march to the Capitol as lawmak- Kong-traded derivatives in erswerevoting to ratifyDemo- the wake of aU.S.blacklisting cratic President-elect JoeBiden’s of some Chinese stocks. B1 BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF testsinthe nation’scapital and TheFederal Bureau of Inves- by Saturday—up from a victory, only ahandful have Lilly said its experimen- AND GORDON lUBOLD acrossthe countryinthe com- tigation circulated an internal planned 6,200—tobolster se- backed removing him from of- talAlzheimer’s drug helped ing days. memo warning of armed pro- curity.And the National Park fice through impeachment or patients in a small trial, U.S. officials ordered thou- Thesigns of newsecurity testsatall 50 statecapitols Service, citing continuing dan- othermeans,while some have renewing hopes for thera- sandsofextraNational Guard concerns ahead of President- and in WashingtonbeforeInau- gerfromviolent groups,said floated censureasanalternative. pies to fight the disease. A3 troops to Washington, D.C.,by electJoe Biden’sinauguration guration Day, according to an Monday that it had closed fa- Democrats, who have unsuc- the weekend as part of newse- on Jan. 20 followlast week’s official. cilities,parking areas and road- cessfully pressed Vice President Bluebird Bio plans to curity measures that include attack on the U.S. Capitol by a TheNational Guard’stop of- waysand is restricting access MikePencetoinvokethe 25th spin offits cancer-drug unit halting public toursofthe pro-Trump mob that sought to ficersaid he would increase to the WashingtonMonument. Amendment to removeMr. into a new, publicly traded WashingtonMonument, as au- stop Congressfromcertifying the number of Guardtroops in FBI officials arepreparing to Trump from office, areexpected companythis year. B3 thorities warn of armed pro- Mr.Biden’selectoral victory. Washingtontoatleast 10,000 PleaseturntopageA7 to have enough votestoim- Blackstone hired Joe peach in the House,which re- Dowling, the ex-CEO of quires only asimple majority.A BrowN University’s endow- two-thirds vote in the Senate ment, as co-head of its Parler Felled by Riot’s Tech Backlash would then be required to con- hedge-fund business. B10 vict Mr.Trump.SenateMajority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Dr. Martens said it had Ky.) has said therewould be no takenthe firststeps toward BY KEACH HAGEY siveapproach. Capitol. On the afternoon of the Parler policychief AmyPeikoff time to conduct atrial and vote a listing on the LSE. B3 AND JEFF HORWITZ Amazon.com Inc.abruptly riot, Amazon warned execu- told Amazon afew hourslater in the SenatebeforeInaugura- endedweb-hosting services to tivesfromParler it had re- in an email reviewedbyThe tion DayonJan. 20,with the World-Wide Parler launched in 2018 as a the company, effectively halting ceived reportsthe social-media Wall Street Journal. PleaseturntopageA4 freewheeling social-media site itsoperations,prompting Par- platform washosting “inappro- Amazon wroteback Thurs- forusersfed up with the rules ler to sue Amazon in Seattle priate” content, and that Parler PleaseturntopageA6 Gerald F. Seib: A no-win House Democrats intro- on Facebook and Twitter, and it federal court.Other tech part- had 24 hourstoaddressit. choice awaits Biden............... A4 duced an article of im- quickly wonfans from support- nersalso acted, crippling oper- “Wehavebeen appropriately Congress gets fuel to rein in More companies halt political peachment against the ersofPresident Trump.ON ations. addressing this type of content big tech firms............................ A6 donations after riot................ A7 president over accusations Monday, it went dark,felled by Driving the decision waslast and actively working with law Facebook to remove content Acting Homeland Security that he incited supporters blowback over itsmorepermis- week’smob attack on the U.S. enforcement forweeks now,” mentioning ‘stopthe steal’.. A7 leader Wolf steps down...... A8 to storm the U.S. Capitol and said they planned to vote on Wednesday. A1 Alabama Thousands of extra Na- Popular Online Communities tional Guardtroops were Captures ordered to Washington, D.C., National by the weekend as authorities Push Stocks to Record Gains warned of armed protests Title in the capital and acrossthe countryincoming days. A1 TheCrimson Tide Anew armyofsocial-me- munities wherethey gather. and trades,helping fuel the Acting DHS chief Wolf is crushedOhio State dia-enabled daytradersis Platforms including TikTok, momentum that has propelled stepping down, citing court 52-24incollege helping propel stocks to re- Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, In- some companies to triple-digit decisions ruling he wasn’t football’s cords and turning companies stagram, Facebook and mes- or biggergains in 2020. serving legally in the acting championship into market sensations. saging platform Discord have “People fall in lovewith post, according to an email he game Monday GES become the newWall Street [some stocks] and they get in sent to department staff. A8 nightinMiami IMA By Caitlin McCabe, trading desks.Individual in- theseecho chambers, where Gardens,Fla. Gunjan Banerji and vestorsgather to talk about they areall shouting,like, Facebook said it is re- GETTY Running back X/ hot stocks likeTesla Inc., ‘We’regoing to buy Tesla for- moving all content mention- Mischa Frankl-Duval NajeeHarris (No. CO boast of gains and commiser- ever!’ ” said Blake Bassett,a ing “stopthe steal,” aphrase C. popular among supporters 22)was among the As trading by individual in- ate about losses. 31-year-old deliverydriver of Trump’sunproven stars. A14 KEVIN vestorsboomed during the These investorsdomore who began trading several coronavirus pandemic, so has than just talk,though. They yearsago. “People post all day claims of election fraud. A7 the popularity of online com- piggyback on each others’ ideas PleaseturntopageA2 Agrowing wave of big businesses aredeciding to suspend or reviewtheir cam- The Office Commute Is Gone, paign donations in the wake INSIDE of the riot at the Capitol. A7 So Workers Make One Up Biden plans to nominate William J. Burns,aformer ca- iii reer diplomat, as CIA director, filling in the last topslot on Missing the routine, people are trying CK his national-security team. A8 ways to mark the start and end of day TO TheTrump administra- tion is putting Cuba back on BY JENNIFER lEVITZ Ms.Hein embraced astrat- SHUTTERS the list of countries consid- egy to power through the re- A/ EP ered statesponsorsofterror- Formorethan adecade, maining months of working ism, rescinding a2015 move Holly Hein rode the #10 bus 45 from home: the pretend com- PERSONAL JOURNAL by the U.S. to thawties. A3 minutes to her administrative mute. Scientists don’t yet Israel’s Netanyahu said job at Portland State Univer- Nine months intoAmerica’s knowwhether vaccine sity in Oregon. She would plop pandemic lockdowns,work- he orderedhis government ontoher usual spot at the from-homeemployees who will preventvirus’s to expand Jewish settle- spreadtoothers. A12 mentsinthe West Bank,aN back of thebus and “space used to slog to the officeoN early test forthe incoming out” with abook.Atclose of the train, bus,ferryorhigh- business, she would repeat the way areforcing themselves to Biden administration. A9 ritual in reverse. take short walks,drives or When the pandemic struck other excursions to re-create CONTENTS Opinion.............. A15-17 in March, Ms. Hein felt grate- commuting and provide asep- P WE STOP Arts in Review... A13 Personal Journal A11-12 fultobeable to do her job re- aration between their work /A Business News.. B3,5 Sports....................... A14 SA Capital Journal...... A4 Technology............... B4 motely from home.But in and nonwork lives. Crossword.............