CHIEFS WIN: The Kansas City Chiefs and Taylor Swift came from 10 points behind last night to beat San Francisco and win the Super Bowl 25-22 in overtime. It’s the third win for the Chiefs, establishing the team as a dynasty.

  This was the first win for pop-star Swift as the girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

  The game was a grinding battle in which both teams had trouble moving the ball. The Chiefs trailed 19-16 with less than two minutes to go when they drove 75 yards in 11 plays and Harrison Butker kicked a 29-yard field goal to tie it up. 

  In their first overtime possession, the 49ers kicked a 27-yard field goal to move ahead 22-19, but the Chiefs responded with a 13-play, 75-yard drive and won it on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Patrick Mahomes to Mecole Hardman.

  Mahomes won his third Superbowl MVP and Taylor Swift wildly celebrated up there in the celebrity seats.

SPECIAL OPS: Israeli special operations forces covered by “waves of attacks” overnight freed two hostages held in a building in the southern Gazan city of Rafah early today. The Gaza Health Ministry said Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Rafah. 

  It’s only the second time Israeli forces have rescued captives in Gaza since the war began in October.  The rescue came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to send ground forces into Rafah, which he says is the last holdout of Hamas militants. The prospect of ground battles in Rafah has struck terror in the crowded city which is hosting a million or more residents and refugees from northern Gaza. 

ORANGE ALERT: Donald Trump bragged on Saturday that when he was president he told leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid money they owed to the military alliance.

  He has said this sort of thing before and at a campaign event in South Carolina he told the story to illustrate what he believes to be his great negotiating skills. Last year he claimed during a campaign speech that “hundreds of billions of dollars came flowing in” to NATO after he made that threat.

  With Russia attempting to overrun Ukraine, some NATO leaders are worried about the prospect of a second Trump presidency.

  White House spokesman Andrew Bates in a statement called Trump’s comments “appalling and unhinged.” He said, “Rather than calling for wars and promoting deranged chaos, President Biden will continue to bolster American leadership and stand up for our national security interests — not against them.”

  Also in South Carolina, Trump suggested that Nikki Haley’s husband, who’s a member of the National Guard, deployed to get away from her. “What happened to her husband? Where is he?” Mr. Trump said to a crowd in Conway, South Carolina. “He’s gone.”

  Michael Haley us serving a yearlong deployment in Africa that ends in June.

THE WAR ROOM: Russian forces launched 45 drones over Ukraine Sunday in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage. 

  The Ukrainian air force claimed to have shot down 40 of the Iranian-made Shahed drones over nine different regions, including on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Kyiv.

  The five-and-a-half-hour attack targeted agricultural facilities and coastal infrastructure, Ukraine’s defense forces wrote on Telegram. They said that a strike in the Mykolaiv region had injured one person, sparking a fire, and damaging nearby residential buildings.

THE SHOOTING GALLERY: A woman opened fire yesterday at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Houston and was shot dead by off duty police officers working security. A four or five year old boy who accompanied the woman was seriously wounded in the exchange, but it’s unknown whose bullets hit him.

  The woman entered the Church just before 2 pm holding a rifle, wearing a trench coat, and carrying a backpack. Spanish language services were just about to begin.

  Lakewood is attended by as many as 45,000 congregants a week. Osteen is a leader in the prosperity gospel movement, which teaches that God materially rewards people who are faithful to him. 

OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR: An Oklahoma judge who exchanged 500 text messages with her bailiff while presiding over the trial of a man accused of murdering a toddler resigned last Friday admitting that her behavior was “inappropriate. Traci Soderstrom was facing removal for gross neglect of duty, gross partiality in office, and other judicial misconduct. 

THE OBIT PAGE: Kelvin Kiptum, who shattered the world marathon record in Chicago last year, was killed in a car accident in Kenya yesterday, according to his family and the international track federation World Athletics. He was 24 years old.

  Kiptum’s coach Gervais Hakizimana also died in the accident on the Eldoret-Kaptagat road in western Kenya, where Kiptum was from.

  Last October, at age 23, Kiptum finished the Chicago Marathon at 2:00:35, becoming the first man to run under 2:01 in a record-eligible marathon. 

THE SPIN RACK: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is back in the hospital in critical care with “an emergent bladder issue” according to his doctors. Austin has had complications following prostate surgery and originally created a mild scandal when he kept it a secret. — A helicopter carrying six people, including the CEO of a Nigerian bank, crashed in California’s Mojave Desert, killing all on board.  The passengers were Access Bank CEO Herbert Wigwe, his wife, and son. — The five Marines who went down in a helicopter last Tuesday in a remote area of Southern California were found dead. Bad weather had prevented responders from getting to the wreckage for several days.

BELOW THE FOLD:  Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce disappointed right wing conspiracy theorists last night by failing to use the Super Bowl win as a platform for endorsing Joe Biden for re-election. The theory was that the game would be fixed for Kansas City to win. If that game was fixed, so was the 2020 election.  

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