Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will take over the top job at the search giant’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step away from their roles as CEO and president, respectively.

Page and Brin, who founded Google in 1998, will continue to serve as Alphabet “board members, shareholders and co-founders,” they wrote in a company blog post Tuesday. They continue to control the majority of voting shares in Alphabet.

Pichai’s ascendancy to Alphabet CEO was not a complete surprise, as Page and Brin have been inching away from public-facing roles and were no longer involved in daily operations.

“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company,” the founders said.

The decision comes amid rising profits at Alphabet. Since Page and Brin established Alphabet in 2015 and appointed Pichai the CEO of Google, the parent company has recorded 15 profitable quarters. Its stock has climbed more than 80% since the parent company was formed. Last year, Google reported $136 billion in revenue, up from $110 billion the year before.

Despite this financial success, Alphabet and other large technology companies now face increased scrutiny over privacy concerns, hate speech and disinformation.

Pichai has managed this scrutiny, testifying before Congress last December to answer questions about data privacy and Google’s purported political bias in search results against conservatives, which he denied.

Such pressure is likely to continue, particularly heading into the 2020 election year, and it might be a reason Page and Brin are choosing to further distance themselves from day-to-day operations, analysts said.

In the years since Google cemented its slot as the dominant player in search, the co-founders have at times opted to stay out of the public eye and focus on projects that particularly interest them. Page has recently spent time on a company called Kitty Hawk, which is trying to build flying cars. Brin has focused on promoting Google’s more creative initiatives, including Google Glass.

“The regulatory head wind is hitting everyone — no one is immune,” said Brent Thill, managing director of technology at financial services firm Jefferies. “As long as they are doing the right thing for consumers and making their life better and not taking advantage of some loophole … they’re going to be fine.”

This isn’t the first time Page and Brin have stepped aside. Eric Schmidt took over as Google CEO from Page in 2001, a few years before the company’s initial public offering, and kept the job for a decade. Page resumed the Google CEO role in 2011 until Pichai’s appointment in 2015.

Page and Brin retain power in a different way: through their holdings of Alphabet stock. Their shares give them a combined 51.3% of votes, so if they join forces they can unseat a CEO who dissatisfies them.

Pichai has had a meteoric rise since joining Google in 2004. He helped to spur development of Google Toolbar and later, Google Chrome. In 2014, he was tapped to lead product and engineering for all of Google’s products and platforms, including Gmail and Android. The next year, he was leading the company. He joined Alphabet’s board of directors in 2017.

As Alphabet CEO, his portfolio will expand beyond Google’s core products to include initiatives such as the self-driving car subsidiary, Waymo.

“I’m excited about Alphabet and its long-term focus on tackling big challenges through technology,” Pichai said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to continuing to work with Larry and Sergey in our new roles. Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values and a culture of collaboration and exploration. It’s a strong foundation on which we will continue to build.”

Analysts said they didn’t expect much to change under Pichai’s leadership at Alphabet. After all, the company has seen growth in its other bets, such as Waymo.

“It’s not like Larry’s leaving the keys at a time when the company is in flux,” said Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities.

Investors reacted similarly to the news — shares of Alphabet were up 0.6% in after-hours trading on Wall Street.

“It’s just a natural evolution,” Thill said. “When you’ve had a two-decade run where they’ve had incredible success … there’s a lot of other things in life to pursue.”

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Bumble Bee Foods former Chief Executive Chris Lischewski was convicted in a price-fixing conspiracy, capping a years-long U.S. investigation that shook the packaged-seafood industry and pushed Bumble Bee into bankruptcy protection last month.

Lischewski was found guilty Tuesday by a federal jury in San Francisco after just a few hours of deliberations in what experts say is likely the final piece of the Justice Department investigation. Prosecutors alleged that Lischewski conspired with colleagues and executives at rival companies on a “peace proposal” in order to boost prices and meet earnings targets set by Bumble Bee’s 2010 sale to Lion Capital.

The former CEO faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $1 million, according to the indictment. His lawyer, Elliot Peters, declined to comment.

The conviction underscores the Justice Department’s “willingness and ability to try high-stakes price-fixing cases against senior corporate executives,” said Phil Giordano, a partner in the antitrust practice of Hughes Hubbard & Reed and a former federal prosecutor who is not involved in the case.

San Diego-based Bumble Bee, owner of the largest North American brand of packaged seafood, pleaded guilty in 2017 to a felony charge of conspiring with competitors Starkist Co. and Chicken of the Sea Inc. to fix and raise prices of canned tuna in the United States from 2011 through at least late 2013.

The company’s guilty plea carried a criminal fine of $25 million, a reduced figure that the Justice Department agreed to after Bumble Bee argued that a stiffer penalty would tip it into bankruptcy. Subsequent lawsuits filed against Bumble Bee by its customers — mostly major U.S. grocers — added to the financial pressure, leading the tuna company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors Nov. 21.

“Prosecutors don’t try to put companies out of business,” Giordano said. “But sometimes a fine by the book is in fact so substantial that it can bankrupt the company.”

Starkist pleaded guilty to the price-fixing charges in 2018 and also agreed to cooperate. Chicken of the Sea, owned by Thai Union Group, received conditional leniency from the Justice Department for its cooperation with the investigation and didn’t have to pay fines.

In the case against Lischewski, prosecutors leaned on testimony from his former subordinates, Kenneth Worsham and Walter Cameron, who in 2016 pleaded guilty to price fixing and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Peters devoted much of his closing arguments to attacking the credibility of Worsham and Cameron, arguing that they fed prosecutors information that prosecutors wanted to hear in order to reduce their own sentences and fines.

Lischewski’s conviction may make him a target in class-action lawsuits against Bumble Bee and related parties, said Eric Snyder, chairman of the bankruptcy practice at Wilk Auslander, who is not involved in the case.“Given the criminal fine here, he might end up filing for personal bankruptcy,” Snyder said.

Dressed in a black suit and wearing a somber expression, Elon Musk testified in a Los Angeles federal court Tuesday that he was merely trading insults with a British cave rescue diver when he called him a “pedo guy” on Twitter.

Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and SpaceX, is accused of defaming Vernon Unsworth with accusations of pedophilia and child rape with no basis in fact.

Unsworth helped lead the effort to extract 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in July 2018.

The tweet came after Musk showed up in Thailand with a miniature submarine that he said could safely transport the children. On CNN, Unsworth called his move a “PR stunt” and said Musk “can stick his submarine where it hurts.”

Musk responded with the “pedo guy” tweet, and doubled down when a Twitter user questioned his claim, writing “bet ya a signed dollar it’s true.” Later Musk sent an email to a Buzzfeed reporter urging him to “stop defending child rapists,” apparently referring to Unsworth.

Musk testified that Unsworth’s criticisms were “wrong and insulting, so I insulted him back.” Musk’s lawyers argue that does not constitute defamation.

Unsworth’s attorney, L. Lin Wood, portrayed Musk as egotistical and vindictive. Musk accused Unsworth “of being a ‘pedo’ in the midst of what should have been one of the proudest moments of his life,” Wood said.

Unsworth is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.

On the stand in U.S. District Court in downtown L.A. Musk portrayed himself as a concerned human being trying to do the right thing.

“At first I thought my help would not be needed,” Musk said. But after a cave rescue diver died, with a monsoon on the way, it looked like a “pretty bad situation,” Musk said. “If immediate action wasn’t taken, the boys would die.”

“That would be on my conscience forever,” he said.

Declining Musk’s offer, the rescue team dressed the boys in wetsuits, supplied them with oxygen, anesthetized them to avoid panic, and guided them out underwater one by one.

In opening arguments, Musk’s lawyers painted Unsworth as a man hungry for fame who suffered no damages for being labeled a “pedo guy.” The tweet, the argument went, was a joke, which Musk later deleted and apologized for. “This case is about an argument between two men exchanging insults,” said Musk lawyer Alex Spiro.

The case is not the first time Musk’s Twitter behavior has caught up with him. In an August 2018 tweet, Musk claimed he had “funding secured” to take Tesla Inc. private. That tweet proved false and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sued him for fraud. Musk settled, but had to pay a $20 million fine and give up his chairman’s seat at the electric car company.

Musk has called Twitter a “war zone.” He told the television news show “60 Minutes” last December that “if somebody’s gonna jump in the war zone, it’s like, ‘OK, you’re in the arena, let’s go!”

Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ tweet prompted a letter from Unsworth’s lawyer to Musk in August 2018, which read in part: “You published three different tweets to your 22 million followers that Mr. Unsworth engages in the sexual exploitation of Thai children, and you did so at a time when he was working to save the lives of 12 Thai children.”

Buzzfeed News reporter Ryan Mac ran a story about the letter, prompting an email from Musk, in which the executive told told him to “stop defending child rapists” and accused Unsworth of moving to Thailand to take a child bride. (Unsworth said his wife was 40 when he married her.)

Musk’s lawyers were unsuccessful in their attempt to keep the email from the jury.

When Wood asked Musk whether he should choose his words carefully, Musk replied, “There are a lot of things I say, and not all of them have the same quality of thought … not everything can be thoughtful.”

At one point, when the lawyers were getting in the weeds of a following Twitter exchange, Musk, seemingly frustrated, noted that people say falsehoods on Twitter “all the time.”

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The world may be heading for an even greater oversupply of oil, and that possibility — which could drive down fuel and energy prices — is hanging over members of the OPEC cartel as they head into negotiations Thursday.

The oil-producing nations will decide whether to stick with production cuts they’ve endured for the last three years, relax them or deepen them in the hopes of propping up prices.

They’re negotiating through a tangle of tensions driving members in competing directions.

Saudi Aramco’s stock market debut, which is expected Friday, has put Saudi Arabia in a precarious position as it bets on what volume of oil production will hit a sweet spot for prices, with the added pressure of considering the interests of the state-run oil giant’s shareholders. The nation is already bearing the burden of the largest share of OPEC’s production cuts.

But some nations such as Iraq have been ignoring the agreement and producing more than their allotted amount.

“If people are already not complying to the current agreement, what’s the point to those that are complying cutting more? So the others can go on cheating?” said Bhushan Bahree, executive director of global oil at research group IHS Markit. “I think the Saudi position is they’re willing to cut more if needed, but they want better compliance.”

Brent crude oil hovered around $61 per barrel Wednesday afternoon. Prices have fluctuated throughout the year, reaching nearly $75 per barrel in April after U.S. sanctions on Iran and Venezuela limited world supply, but lingering trade tensions between the U.S. and China dampened economic expectations, pushing prices back down.

West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude, was trading at around $56 Wednesday afternoon, and its price followed a similar trajectory throughout the year.

As it stands, OPEC nations have agreed to cut production by 1.2 million barrels per day through March 2020, and most analysts expect OPEC nations to extend those production cuts until at least summer.

“If they just keep the existing situation, then you get this massive oversupply,” said Jacques Rousseau, managing director at Clearview Energy Partners.

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Rousseau believes OPEC nations will cut production by an additional 400,000 barrels per day to keep supply and demand in balance during the first half of next year, with the cuts made mainly by Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. But substantial cuts may be difficult to achieve with some OPEC members following their own agendas.

“Iraq has exceeded its production target every month this year,” Rousseau said. “Granted, there’s some unrest going on in the country, but I don’t think they’ll voluntarily reduce.”

Meanwhile, Russia, which is not part of OPEC but has been following its lead on production limits in recent years, has indicated it wants its oil production recalculated in a way that’s in line with OPEC nations. That could enable it to produce more oil.

And even if members of the cartel cut production, there’s more oil coming online from non-OPEC nations including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Norway and Guyana, which will more than make up for any drop in production, according to IHS Markit.

The dynamic to watch will be whether Russia and Saudi Arabia will come to an agreement on production levels in the early and middle parts of next year, said Heather Heldman, managing partner at Luminae Group, a geopolitical intelligence firm.

“If something goes awry with Saudi production in the next few months, and there’s a fairly good chance something will happen … Russia’s going to be the first party looking to fill that gap,” Heldman said. “And I think the Saudis know that.”

DALLAS — 

Federal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including American citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology.

The Department of Homeland Security says it expects to publish a proposed rule next July. Officials did not respond to requests for more details.

Critics are already raising objections.

Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) said Tuesday he would introduce legislation to block the plan and prohibit U.S. citizens from being forced to provide facial-recognition information. He said a recent data breach at Customs and Border Protection shows that Homeland Security can’t be trusted with the information.

Facial recognition is being tested by several airlines at a number of U.S. airports. American citizens are allowed to opt out of being photographed, although a 2017 audit by a federal watchdog agency found that few U.S. travelers exercised that right — barely more than one per flight.

Federal law requires Homeland Security to put into place a system to use biometrics to confirm the identity of international travelers. Government officials have made no secret of their desire to expand the use of biometrics, which they say could identify potential terrorists and prevent fraudulent use of travel documents.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the possibility of expanding biometrics to U.S. citizens in a recent filing. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, part of Homeland Security, said there would be a chance for the public to comment on any change in regulations.

In a November 2018 report, Homeland Security said facial recognition is the best biometric approach at borders because it can be done quickly and “with a high degree of accuracy.” The agency said privacy risks “are mostly mitigated.” Photos used to match Americans to their identities are deleted within 12 hours, according to the report.

Jay Stanley, a policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the government has told the public and Congress repeatedly that American citizens would be exempt from mandatory biometric screening.

“This new notice suggests that the government is reneging on what was already an insufficient promise,” Stanley said in a statement. “Travelers, including U.S. citizens, should not have to submit to invasive biometric scans simply as a condition of exercising their constitutional right to travel.”

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WASHINGTON — 

The Justice Department on Tuesday charged eight people — including a prominent political donor to both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and a Lebanese American businessman who was a witness in Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation — with conspiring to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in donations to Clinton.

The 53-count indictment unsealed in federal court in Washington detailed efforts by Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja and George Nader to conceal the true source of the millions of dollars in campaign contributions, which prosecutors allege were made to gain influence with high-level political figures, including Clinton.

Khawaja, who lives in Los Angeles and is the owner of the online processing company Allied Wallet, is accused of making the donations in his name, his wife’s name and his company’s name, even though they were actually funded by another businessman, Nader.

As they arranged the payments, Nader was in touch with an official from a foreign government about his efforts to gain influence with the prominent politicians, prosecutors charge. The government is not identified in court documents.

A 2018 investigation by the Associated Press detailed that Khawaja, Allied Wallet and top executives contributed at least $6 million to Democratic and Republican candidates and groups. The donations earned Khawaja access to Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign and a post-election Oval Office visit with Trump.

Clinton is not identified by name in the court documents made public Tuesday, but there are repeated references in the indictment identifying the candidate as a woman. Federal donor records show Khawaja gave millions of dollars to Democratic candidates, including the main political action committee supporting Clinton’s campaign. He also donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.

Nader is already in federal custody on unrelated charges accusing him of transporting a dozen images of child pornography and bestiality. He had provided grand jury testimony in the special counsel’s Russia investigation about his efforts to connect a Russian banker to members of Trump’s transition team. He had also worked to advance Saudi Arabia’s agenda to the Trump administration.

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An attorney for Nader and a spokesman for Khawaja’s company did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The indictment alleges that Khawaja, Nader and another defendant, Rudy Dekermenjian, attended an event to support Clinton in April 2016. The next day, Nader told the foreign official in a WhatsApp message that he had a “wonderful meeting with the Big Lady,” according to the indictment.

Prosecutors allege that Dekermenjian and five others — Roy Boulos, Mohammad “Moe” Diab, Rani El-Saadi, Stevan Hill and Thayne Whipple — conspired with Khawaja to make contributions while concealing the actual origin of the funds. Those contributions, made to various political committees, totaled more than $1.8 million, according to federal prosecutors.

Khawaja is also accused of obstructing a federal grand jury investigation by providing a witness with false information about Nader and his connection to Khawaja’s company after he knew the witness was called to testify, prosecutors said. Boulos, Diab, Hill and Whipple also are charged with obstructing the grand jury’s investigation by allegedly lying to the FBI.

SEOUL, South Korea — 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rode a white horse up a sacred mountain on his second symbolic visit in less than two months, state media reported Wednesday, as his country is threatening provocation if the United States refuses to make concessions in nuclear diplomacy by year’s end.

The Korean Central News Agency released many photos showing Kim riding on snow-covered Mt. Paektu along with his wife and top lieutenants, all on white horses. Kim also climbed the mountain, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, on horseback in mid-October.

Mt. Paektu and white horses are symbols associated with the Kim family’s dynastic rule. Kim has made previous visits there before making major decisions.

Kim said that “we should always live and work in the offensive spirit of Paektu,” according to KCNA. “The imperialists and class enemies make a more frantic attempt to undermine the ideological, revolutionary and class positions of our party.”

On Monday, Kim visited Samjiyon county at the foot of Mt. Paektu to attend a ceremony marking the completion of work that has transformed the town to “an epitome of modern civilization,” KCNA said. It said the town has a museum about the Kim family, a ski slope, cultural centers, a school, a hospital and factories.

Samjiyon was one of main construction projects that Kim launched in an effort to improve his people’s livelihoods and strengthen his rule at home. The construction spree has also been seen as a demonstration of his power in the face of international sanctions designed to squeeze his economy and get him to give up his nuclear program.

The latest mountain trip comes as a year-end deadline set by Kim for Washington to come up with new proposals to salvage nuclear diplomacy is approaching. The negotiations remain stalled for months, with North Korea trying to win major sanctions relief and outside security assurances in return for partial denuclearization steps.

The North’s Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday that it’s entirely up to the United States to choose what “Christmas gift” it gets from the North. North Korean officials have previously said whether North Korea lifts its moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear tests depends on what actions the U.S. takes.

Last week, North Korea test-fired projectiles from what it called a “super-large” multiple rocket launcher that South Korea’s military said landed in the waters off the North’s east coast.

KCNA said Wednesday the ruling Workers’ Party will hold a central committee meeting in late December to discuss unspecified “crucial issues” in line with “the changed situation at home and abroad.” It’s unclear what specific agendas are at stake.

Many experts say the United States is unlikely to make new proposals that would satisfy North Korea.

President Trump on Tuesday urged Kim to follow through on what he described as a promise to denuclearize the North. Trump and Kim have met three times since North Korea entered nuclear negotiations last year.

“My relationship with Kim Jong Un is really good, but that doesn’t mean he won’t abide by the agreements … he said he will denuclearize,” Trump said during a visit to London. “Now, we have the most powerful military we ever had, and we are by far the most powerful country in the world and hopefully we don’t have to use it. But if we do, we will use it.”

Trump also revived a nickname he had previously given Kim when he traded crude insults and threats of destruction during a provocative run in North Korean nuclear and missile tests in 2017.

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Kim “likes sending rockets up, doesn’t he?” Trump said. “That’s why I call him Rocket Man.”

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The Next Phase of Impeachment

The House Judiciary Committee will hold its first impeachment hearing today, signifying a new — and unpredictable — step in the Democrats’ inquiry into President Trump. Why unpredictable? Because it includes some of the most partisan Republicans and Democrats in Congress.

Today’s hearing will feature constitutional law experts, with the aim of educating members and the public on what exactly impeachment is and what actions by a president merit that punishment.

The Judiciary Committee took control of the inquiry yesterday after the House Intelligence Committee voted to approve a 300-page report (read it here) concluding that “the evidence of the President’s misconduct is overwhelming.”

The Intelligence Committee revealed in its report that it obtained a series of call logs among key players in the Ukraine affair, including Trump’s lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani; his indicted associate Lev Parnas; and the Intelligence Committee’s senior Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes of Tulare.

Republicans have issued their own, 123-page report stating that Trump committed no impeachable offenses, participated in no cover-up and did not obstruct justice.

What Went Wrong?

Sen. Kamala Harris began her run for president as a rising star, representing the more youthful and diverse voters that have become the Democratic Party‘s base. Yesterday, she suspended her campaign, blaming a lack of money.

The reasons for its demise lie deeper than that: a muddled purpose, campaign infighting and an inability to sustain support from vital Democratic voting blocs, particularly African Americans.

A new poll even showed a majority of California Democrats wanted Harris to exit the race. But her departure also underscores how Democrats are left with a slate of presidential candidates dominated by white men.

More Politics

— On the first day of the two-day NATO leaders’ summit, one that was supposed to emphasize unity and celebrate the alliance’s 70th anniversary, Trump unexpectedly launched a verbal assault at the United States’ oldest ally, France, and denounced impeachment (“a disgrace”), Democrats (“gone crazy”), Joe Biden’s family (“We want the son”), Rep. Adam Schiff (“a maniac”) and more.

— A hefty majority of Californians support impeachment, but they’re split along party lines, a new poll finds.

— Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to misuse campaign funds. Prosecutors plan to seek at least a year in prison.

The School on the Bus

In Tijuana, there’s a passenger bus full of children, but they’re not heading to school. Instead, they’re in school. The unusual classroom is run by the Yes We Can World Foundation, a nonprofit formed to support migrant children trapped on Mexico’s northern border while they wait for U.S. authorities to accept or deny their asylum applications. The effort was brought to life by Estefania Rebellón, an L.A. actor who knows firsthand the pain and uncertainty of being an asylum seeker.

A New L.A. Mixtape

Over the years, a lot of songs have been written about Los Angeles. Through a combination of gumshoe research, interviews with noted songwriters, conferences with colleagues and calls to social media, we generated a spreadsheet identifying thousands of L.A.-set tunes. But which ones really speak to the 21st century? See and hear which 50 songs made the cut and tell us what contemporary songs we missed. Plus, here are 25 sure-fire classics.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

On this date in 1986, Clara Clements, a 40-year-old Glendale woman and longtime diabetic, left UCLA Medical Center with a new pancreas — the first such transplant performed successfully on the West Coast. It was one of the most difficult types of transplant to perform, Clements’ surgeon told reporter Sue Horton, now The Times’ op-ed and Sunday opinion editor, at the time.

That surgeon was Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. More than three decades later, he would buy the Los Angeles Times. Read Horton’s full 1986 story and interview with him here.

CALIFORNIA

— Nury Martinez was elected president of the Los Angeles City Council, becoming the first Latina to hold the powerful position.

— L.A.’s elected leaders are on the brink of passing a law to limit campaign money from developers. But first, more fundraising.

— The complexity of building a bullet train through Southern California’s urban maze is leading state officials to consider two major additions, including a tunnel under the Burbank airport.

— A veteran Los Angeles police officer is under investigation after his body-worn camera captured him allegedly fondling a dead woman’s breasts.

— Parts of L.A. County got more rain last month than they’d seen in any November in nearly a decade. Now there’s more on the way.

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ARTS

— At the Grammys next month, the key rivalry is between Billie Eilish and Lizzo. We have some predictions for who will win what.

— Tanya Tucker had her first hit at 13. Now, at 61, could the country outlaw win her first Grammy?

— “The Irishman” just won its first major best picture prize.

— Baby Yoda is the breakout star of “The Mandalorian,” but we have questions — 28 of them, actually. And while there’s no official doll yet, there are some creepy knockoffs.

NATION-WORLD

— With global carbon emissions about to hit a record high, we spoke with one climate scientist about why next year might be worse and what keeps him hopeful.

— In Mississippi, thousands of people convicted of felonies have permanently lost their voting rights. A lawsuit aims to change that.

— Background checks on gun purchases in the U.S. are nearing a record high, amid what the industry says is a gun-buying rush motivated by fears of restrictions by Democrats.

— The North Dakota building company that made an on-air pitch to Trump on Fox News just won a $400-million border-wall contract, despite having scant experience and a checkered record.

BUSINESS

— Sundar Pichai is becoming CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down.

— A California college student is suing TikTok, saying the viral video service secretly funneled her personal data to China.

— As his defamation trial began in L.A. federal court, Elon Musk testified that he was just trading insults with a cave rescue diver when he called him a “pedo guy.”

SPORTS

— Dodgers officials recently met with two of the top free agents on the market.

— So long as football thrives, players like Kevin Ellison — who died at 31 with CTE, a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head trauma — will pay the toll, columnist Dylan Hernandez writes.

OPINION

— Drug-addicted pregnant women need help, not jail, writes Robin Abcarian.

— Social Security payouts disproportionately favor the rich, a new study finds. Blame interest rates and rising life expectancy, columnist Michael Hiltzik writes.

WHAT OUR EDITORS ARE READING

— Why everyone else’s morning routines seem more productive than yours. (The Atlantic)

— “He seems to be incapable of being gracious.” Fresh off his own ill-fated campaign, Bill de Blasio, New York City’s current mayor, is furious his predecessor is running for president. (Politico)

ONLY IN L.A.

Koreatown is one of the most uniquely urban parts of L.A., packed with shops, hotels, bars and restaurants serving almost any kind of Korean food you could want. In this week’s episode of “Off Menu,” host Lucas Kwan Peterson heads to the neighborhood with two special guests: comedian Margaret Cho, with whom he visited the Prince, a classic 1940s-era bar reborn as a Korean bar food haven, and also Matthew Kang, the former host of online food series “K-Town,” who took him to a favorite barbecue spot.

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Jacques Villeneuve says Ferrari was hurt this year by the wrong chemistry and balance of power between its drivers, with Charles Leclerc given too much of a free rein by the Scuderia.

In his maiden season with the House of Maranello, his second in F1, Leclerc outscored teammate Sebastian Vettel in the world championship, and delivered two wins versus one victory for the German.

The ambitious Monegasque staked his claim at the outset in 2019 and ruffled Vettel’s feathers, with the results a series of flash points emerged between the two drivers.

Hamilton not denying Ferrari contact, dismisses ‘quick decision’

In hindsight, Villeneuve believes the rivalry wreaked havoc on Ferrari’s prospects, a problem the Scuderia could have prevented by keeping Leclerc in a clearly defined number two role.

“Ferrari fell apart this year,” the 1997 world champion wrote in a column for Dutch website Formule1.nl.

“A lot depends on your two drivers and the chemistry in the team was just not in balance.

“Ferrari never said to Leclerc: ‘It’s your first year with us, your second year in F1. Relax, learn from Vettel’. Then the team would have moved further than it did.

“Instead, from the first race, Leclerc had that look: ‘I’m going to show that I’m the boss and that Vettel is the past. I am the future’.

“And there was a wave among the fans, ‘Leclerc is coming to save us’, and the media went along with it.”

“I think that hurt Vettel,” added the Canadian. “A similar situation with Ricciardo at the time at Red Bull. That didn’t help Vettel.”

As far as Villeneuve is concerned, Ferrari should not have allowed Leclerc to position himself as the de facto leader of the Scuderia.

“Leclerc simply wasn’t ready for that role,” said the former F1 driver. “This year he drove for pole positions and sometimes for victories but not for the championship. So this whole situation has damaged Ferrari.

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“I don’t know what Mattia Binotto could do about that. I do not know the agreements, in the days of Irvine and Barrichello this was simply established from the start.”

Leclerc fans will be grateful that the good Mr. Newtown isn’t in charge of running the Scuderia.

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“Tanguy”, la suite est officiellement lancée ! André Dussollier a annoncé que le tournage aurait lieu l’année prochaine, avec le casting d’origine.

Mise à jour du 28/02/2018 : Une date de tournage pour Tanguy 2 ! Les premières prises de vue de la suite du film d’Etienne Chatiliez commenceront en mai prochain. André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma et Éric Berger seront de retour au casting, c’est officiel.

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Article initialement publié : 17 ans après, l’équipe de Tanguy va se reformer pour donner une suite à la comédie d’Etienne Chatiliez ! Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier et Eric Berger retrouveront le tandem de scénaristes Etienne Chatiliez et Laurent Chouchan pour Tanguy 2.

Le comédien André Dussollier a annoncé officiellement cette suite au micro de nos confrères d’Europe 1 ce matin. 

Avec plus de 4 millions d’entrées enregistrées (soit le 2e plus gros succès d’Etienne Chatiliez après Le Bonheur est dans le pré, et avant La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille, tous trois au-dessus des 4 millions d’entrées*), la comédie mettant en scène un fils ne voulant pas quitter le domicile parental avait rencontré un vif succès en 2001 et illustré un vrai phénomène de société, Tanguy étant par là-même devenu une façon de qualifier ce fait de société.

Que se passera-t-il dans cette suite, 17 ans après le premier volet sorti en 2001 ? “Si vous vous souvenez, à la fin du premier film, Tanguy est parti en Chine. Là-bas, il s’est marié, a eu des enfants. Et puis un jour, on est tranquilles avec Sabine Azéma, à la maison, et on sonne à la porte, révèle André Dussollier au micro d’Europe 1. C’est Tanguy, (…) il a 44-45 ans. Sa Chinoise l’a quitté alors il revient. Quand on est Tanguy, on est toujours Tanguy, pour la vie. (…) Il y a des surprises, c’est complètement délirant“, résume le comédien, visiblement enthousiaste à l’idée de retrouver ce personnage.

Le tournage de Tanguy 2 devrait commencer l’année prochaine. 

De Tanguy à Adopte un veuf : retour sur quelques première fois de la carrière d’André Dussollier

Bérengère Krief – André Dussollier : interview "première fois" pour Adopte un veuf

*source : CBO Box-office 

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