The Shooting Gallery: A man believed  to have shot and killed 10 people Saturday night during Lunar New Year celebrations at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California, killed himself inside a van in Torrance after a standoff with police yesterday afternoon.

  The dead suspect was identified as 72-year-year old Huu Can Tran. In addition to the 10 people killed, another 10 were wounded, some critically. Monterey Park is a city east of Los Angeles with a large Asian population. 

  The shooter went to a second dance studio Saturday night, but was disarmed by a 26-year-old computer programmer. Police don’t know the shooter’s motive.

  The Star Ballroom Dance Studio, where the massacre took place, is a popular spot for dance lovers on a Saturday night. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the country since the Uvalde, Texas school massacre last year. 

  Also over the weekend, eight people were shot in a Shreveport, Louisiana home and 12 in a Baton Rouge nightclub. The Gun Violence archive has recorded 36 mass shooting in which four or more people were hit since the first of the year.

 One woman told the NY Times that the shooter in Monterey Park appeared to run out of bullets then reloaded and came back firing. “No one dared to flee, she said, “we all got down to the ground, hiding wherever we could.”

Your Papers, Please: The Justice Department found still more classified documents, some dating to his time in the Senate and others from his years as vice president Friday at President Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware.

  In a 13 hour search done with Biden’s permission, investigators were given full access to the President’s home and possessions including handwritten notes, files, papers, and binders covering decades of his government work. They took six items.

 By contrast, the FBI raided former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after he stalled and refused to cooperate with returning all classified documents in his possession. But this deepens a political hole for Biden, giving Republicans an opening to claim he’s done the same thing as Trump and been treated differently. 

Racial Agenda: Florida’s Department of Education has rejected an Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, claiming the class indoctrinates students with a “a political agenda.”

  The course, which is still a pilot program at 60 schools across the country, covers slavery, culture, and literature as well as political and social movements, like Black Lives Matter and the push for reparations.

  “As submitted, the course is a vehicle for a political agenda and leaves large, ambiguous gaps that can be filled with additional ideological material, which we will not allow,” said Bryan Griffin, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary. Florida’s education commissioner said on Twitter, “We do not accept woke indoctrination masquerading as education.”

  The scholars who designed the curriculum say it is merely a broad review of the Black American experience. “There’s nothing particularly ideological about the course except that we value the experiences of African people in the United States,” Christopher Tinson, the chair of the African American Studies department at Saint Louis University, told National Public Radio.

  Florida officials are also concerned that the course will include critical race theory, the notion that racism is not just the product of individual bias, but is embedded in legal systems and government policies — you know, like not being able to teach a course in African American studies.

From the Gridiron: The National Football League is down to its final four. Next weekend Philadelphia plays San Francisco, and Cincinnati goes against Kansas City to determine which two teams play in the Super Bowl.

  Kansas City’s quarterback Patrick Mahomes played out three quarters of his team’s 27-20 win over Jacksonville with a sprained ankle. In California, San Francisco beat Dallas 19-12 with a dramatic one-handed catch by 49ers receiver George Kittle. 

The Obit Page: Carl Hahn, the German automobile executive whose “Think Small” campaign made the Volkswagen Beetle a fixture on American roads and in pop culture, has died at age 96.  It was one of the most widely produced cars in the world. 

  Ignoring the size and annual design and model changes of American cars, Hahn promoted “our philosophy of a car that doesn’t change for the reason of change, only for the benefit of the consumer.”

  In an amazing feat of marketing, Hahn converted the low-cost car that Adolph Hitler commissioned as “the people’s car” in the 1930s into the American counterculture’s adorable “Love Bug,” a symbol of peace, love, and economy.

The Spin Rack: Lisa Marie Presley was buried yesterday at her father’s Graceland estate with thousands of fans in attendance. — A federal program providing free lunch to school children during the pandemic has expired, leaving thousands of low-income families in a pinch. Some legislators are pushing for universal free lunch for school children. — White House chief of staff Ron Klain is leaving in a few weeks after two years in which the White House and Democrats pushed through major bills involving infrastructure, climate, health care, and taxes. His departure would be the first major turnover in the Biden administration. Klain is expected to be replaced by Jeffrey Zients, who steered the administration’s response to the Covid pandemic. 

Below the Fold: Japan’s prime minister says a falling birth rate puts his country on the brink of not being able to function as a society.  In the 1970s Japan had two million births a year and last year it was about 800,000.

  Prime minister Fumio Kishida said it was a case of “now or never,” which is bound to become a pickup line in Japanese bars.

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