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World-WidenWhite House adviser Po-desta will join Clinton’s emerg-ing presidential bid in February,in one of the strongest signs yetshe plans to launch a run.A1nThe U.S. budget gap in 2014was the smallest since 2007,marking an economic shift asObama and Congress prepareto face off over legislation. A2nObama said hewouldworkwith Republicans on areas in-cluding trade and national se-curity in his firstmeetingwithleaders of the newCongress.A4nTheWhite House proposeda new cyberattack strategy, in-cluding information-sharingdirectives with companies andstiffer criminal penalties. A4n France plans to beef up do-mestic surveillance to trackterror threats in the wake oflast week’s deadly attacks. A8nAn Illinois teenwho tried tofly to Turkey pleaded not guiltyof attempting to providemate-rial support to Islamic State.A6n Indonesian investigatorsdownloaded data from the firstof two black boxes recoveredfrom AirAsia Flight 8501. A10nBoko Haram and troops inCameroon clashed in a battlethat sent thousands fleeing. A9nUganda’s military said thatthe Lord’s Resistance Army’ssecond-in-command willstand trial at The Hague. A9n An artillery strike hit abus in eastern Ukraine, killing11 people in the largest civil-ian death toll in months. A9n An Egyptian appeals courtordered the retrial of Muba-rak in a corruption case. A11

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MetLife is suing the gov-ernment over its decision

to subject the insurer to stricteroversight, setting up a battleover U.S. financial regulation.A1nU.S. stockswere buffeted byvolatility in a session that saw a424-point intraday swing in theDow. The blue chips ended 27.16points lower at 17613.68. C1nOil prices fell again after theU.A.E. oil minister said OPECwould keep output steady. Cop-per sank to a five-year low andthe ruble weakened. C1, B1nTheWorld Bank cut itsglobal growth forecast for 2015to 3%, citing eurozone andemerging-market woes. A11n Caesars Entertainment’slargest unit is preparing tofile for bankruptcy protec-tion as soon as Thursday. B1n U.S. financial regulatorsare taking a closer look atelectronic bond quotes andbrokers’ markups on trades. C1n Samsung will release asmartphone in India that runsthe company’s homegrownTizen operating system. B1nAuto makers are on a colli-sion course with U.S. regulatorsover the timetable for strictfuel-economy standards. B1n Tesla’s CEO said the firmwon’t be profitable on a basisincluding executive compensa-tion and charges until 2020. B4n Ocwen Financial’s sharesplunged 36% as the mortgageservicer locked horns withregulators in California. C3n Amazon signed WoodyAllen to create a TV seriesfor its streaming service. B1

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John Podesta, a top WhiteHouse adviser, will take on a se-nior role in Hillary Clinton’semerging presidential bid afterhe leaves the administration inFebruary, three people familiarwith the matter said. The moveis one of the most definitivesigns yet that Mrs. Clinton isbuilding the apparatus to launcha 2016 run.

Mrs. Clinton isn’t likely to an-nounce her decision on whetherto enter the race until thespring. But her advisers aremaking preparations for such acampaign, as evidenced by Mr.Podesta signing on.

Mr. Podesta, who served aschief of staff in former PresidentBill Clinton’s second term andhas held a top role in the fam-ily’s charitable foundation, hassat in on informal meetings ofClinton aides in recent monthsdevoted to a possible presiden-tial bid, according to people fa-miliar with the matter.

The precise role Mr. Podestawould play in a Clinton cam-paign is unclear. People familiarwith discussions said he likelywould be campaign chairman,should she decide to run.

Campaign operations tend tohave a youthful cast, but Mr. Po-desta, who turns 66 this month,would come to the job as a se-nior strategist and trouble-shooter for Mrs. Clinton.

In the White House, Mr. Po-desta has been among PresidentBarack Obama’s small circle oftop advisers, keeping a hand in

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BY PETER NICHOLASAND COLLEEN MCCAIN NELSON

PodestaTo JoinClinton’sCampaign

PARIS—The man who lastweek murdered four Jewish hos-tages in a kosher grocery andshot down a police officernursed deep resentment againstFrench law enforcement, accord-ing to his friends and court doc-uments.

In 2000, when Amedy Couli-baly was 18 years old, policeshot dead a close friend while hewas attempting to flee the sceneof a robbery, said prosecutorsand the deceased man’s lawyer.Courts rejected requests by the

victim’s family to review the kill-ing, ruling that the officer actedin legitimate defense.

A portrait is emerging of Mr.Coulibaly and his path toward afriendship with a convicted ter-rorist, Islamic radicalization andlast week’s bloody shootingspree.

Mr. Coulibaly, whom policekilled when they stormed thegrocery, said last week’s attackswere coordinated with theKouachi brothers’ alleged assaulttwo days earlier on the Frenchmagazine Charlie Hebdo, and, ina video released online after hisdeath, said his assault was justi-fied by Western attacks on Is-lamic State militants.

Interviews with friends andlawyers—as well as police inter-rogation transcripts, phone tapsand court documents—show Mr.Coulibaly began having run-inswith the law at an early age.

The only boy in a family ofnine sisters, he was cited forrobbery at age 15. It was thestart of a criminal record thateventually included shoplifting,drug-dealing, armed robbery andthe sale of stolen goods. In 1999,Mr. Coulibaly was convicted ofassaulting a police officer.

The following year, his friend,19-year-old Ali Rezgui, waskilled. The decision not to re-view the killing set off days ofriots in his hometown of Grigny,

a dilapidated and crime-riddenarea at Paris’s southern rim.

“He was the only guy heliked,” Hayat Boumeddiene, Mr.Coulibaly’s partner and a sus-pected accomplice in the Parisattack, told police in 2010. “Andsince then, he doesn’t have abest friend.”

In 2004, a French court con-victed Mr. Coulibaly of armedbank robbery, sentencing him tosix years in prison. Mr. Coulibalywas sent to Fleury-Mérogis, aprison south of Paris. Inmates ofthe facility, which is shaped like aweb of concrete, routinely circum-vented its barriers by tying bedsheets into ropes to exchange

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By Stacy Meichtry,Noémie Bisserbe

and Benoît Faucon

French Man’s Path to TerrorLife of Crime and Resentment Preceded Gunman’s Massacre in Kosher Grocery

PITTSBURGH—Thorley Indus-tries LLC began planning severalyears ago to launch a baby carseat with a set of electronic con-trols and a potential novelty: ThePittsburgh-based firm consideredmaking the seats in the U.S.

Officials at Thorley, whichmanufactures most of its infant-care line in China, sought to avoidfor at least one product the trans-Pacific flights and language barri-ers that come with doing businessoverseas. They looked to lowershipping costs and eliminate themonthslong wait for supplies toarrive and clear customs. Therealso was the chance customersmight prefer American-made.

In the beginning, at least, “I think we were alldefinitely rooting for the U.S.,” said Rich Juchnie-wicz, a product developer at Thorley, which marketsits baby line under the 4moms brand.

For years, the U.S. has cededmore and more of its manufactur-ing to lower-cost corners of theglobal economy. No one expectsthe U.S. to again make most ofthe electronic gadgets, tools, toys,furniture, lighting and otherhousehold products that tallymore than $500 billion a year inimports.

But some companies contendthe U.S. has renewed its attrac-tion. Wages are stable, for exam-ple, while China’s have soared.The U.S. energy boom has re-duced natural gas prices and kepta lid on electricity costs. Plus,more companies want to protectdesigns from overseas copycats,keep closer tabs on quality con-trol and avoid potential disrup-tion in supply chains that span

oceans.As China’s cost advantages shrink, the U.S. has the

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BY JAMES R. HAGERTYAND MARK MAGNIER

MANUFACTURING SHIFT

Companies Tiptoe BackToward ‘Made in the USA’

MetLife Inc. is challenging thefederal government’s decision tosubject the insurer to stricteroversight, setting up the biggesttest yet for regulators responsi-ble for protecting the U.S. finan-cial system from another crisis.

The move comes as Republi-cans, now in control of bothhouses of Congress, plan changesthat would roll back some ele-ments of the 2010 Dodd-Frank fi-nancial-overhaul law, the signa-ture piece of legislationintroduced after the housingbust.

The lawsuit pits the nation’slargest life insurer by assetsagainst the Financial StabilityOversight Council, a group of topfinancial regulators created byDodd-Frank and given authority toidentify companies that could

threaten the U.S. economy in acrisis. MetLife, the fourth nonbankto be designated as “systemicallyimportant” by the council, is thefirst company to legally challengethat conclusion. The label meansthat MetLife could pose signifi-cant risks to the U.S. financial sys-tem should it collapse and war-rants tougher oversight, whichcould crimp its ability to raise div-idends and buy back shares.

MetLife said it doesn’t posesuch risks, and the governmentused flawed metrics in arrivingat its decision.

Lawmakers in recent monthshave mounted successful attemptsto roll back or change portions ofthe Dodd-Frank law, including asuccessful effort to eliminate a re-quirement big banks put certaintrading activities into separate af-filiates. Additional efforts by Re-publicans are expected in coming

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BY VICTORIA MCGRANEAND LESLIE SCISM

MetLife Suit Sets UpBattle Over Regulation

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SHAWANO, Wis.—Atop awooded hill here in the heart ofAmerica’s Dairyland, an industrylegend was recently laid to rest.

It wasn’t some milk magnateor a famed innovator, but an or-nery, 2,700-pound bull namedToystory—a titan of artificial in-semination who sired an esti-mated 500,000 offspring in morethan 50 countries.

“He was a dream bull,” saidJan Hessel Bierma, editor inchief of dairy-breeding magazineHolstein International.

In the increasingly high-tech

world of cow reproduction, a topbull’s career tends to last just afew years as farmers chase bet-ter genetics to boost milk outputand animal durability, playing anumbers game not unlike a Ma-jor League Baseball manager.

Rare is the bull with thegenes and testicular fortitude tosell a million units of semen,known among breeders as themillionaires club.

Over nearly a decade, Toystoryshattered the record for sales ofthe slender straws that holdabout 1/20th of a teaspoon andare shipped using liquid nitrogento farmers around the world. Aunit fetches anywhere from a fewdollars to several hundred.

After joining the millionairesclub, Toystory surpassed SunnyBoy, a Dutch bull who sold morethan 1.7 million units in the

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BY MARK PETERS AND ILAN BRAT

A Breeder Apart: The Bull Who Sired 500,000 Is Gonei i i

Fans Commemorate ‘Toystory,’ a Dairy LegendWith a Ravenous Libido

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The body of Ahmed Merabet, a policeman killed during a terrorist attack last week in Paris, is carried during a funeral Tuesday at a Muslim cemetery.

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