The Shooting Gallery: California Gov. Gavin Newsom was meeting yesterday with families of victims in the Monterey Park ballroom dancing massacre when he was pulled aside and told of a shooting in the small coastal town of Halfmoon Bay that left …

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 …

The War Room: Germany is still resisting pressure to give Leopard tanks to Ukraine unless the US also sends its M-1 main battle tanks.  Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania issued a joint appeal, urging the Berlin government to provide tanks “now,” saying “Germany …

Gunplay: Prosecutors in New Mexico say they are filing felony charges of involuntary manslaughter against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of the low-budget Western “Rust.”   Also to be charged is the production’s armorer, Hannah …

New Rules: Supporters of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the  2020 election and even some who tried to stop Kevin McCarthy from being elected Speaker have been appointed to the House’s most powerful committees. It’s clear that McCarthy surrendered to the Republican conspiracy …

Ukraine Disaster: Ukraine’s minister for interior affairs, several other senior officials, and three children were among the 16 dead in the crash of a helicopter into a kindergarten in a town outside of Kyiv.   No cause for the crash has been …

China Syndrome: More people died than were born in China last year for the first time in 60 years, the government announced yesterday in what may be an irreversible trend for the world’s most populous country … a shrinking population.    What …

Open Secrets: Lawyers for President Joe Biden last Thursday found more classified documents at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Saturday. They found five more pages marked classified in Biden’s library, bringing the total to six.   White House lawyer Richard Sauber said in a statement that …

In Deep: The federal government will reach its debt limit on January 19th, risking default on the nation’s debt unless Congress raises the bar, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin. Treasury’s ability to skirt default on the national debt would run …

Not Secret: Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday appointed a special counsel to examine the matter of President Biden’s storage of secret documents in non-secure private locations.   Garland named Robert Hur,  the former US Attorney for the District of Maryland, who was appointed by …