END OF SEASON:  One woman was killed and at least 21 wounded or injured when shooting broke out yesterday at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory celebration. Nine of the injured were children and 15 of the wounded were said to have life-threatening injuries.

  The rally at the city’s Union Station broke up in what has become an American routine, a mass shooting. Video from the scene captured rapid-fire gunshots that sounded like they could have come from a fully automatic weapon. The crowd scattered. 

  Another video showed rally-goers tackling a man with a gun who was running away. One man said the gun appeared to be an AK-47 assault rifle.

  Chiefs Coach Andy Reid, a tough man, was seen hugging and comforting a frightened high school sophomore. Brittany Mahomes, the wife of the Kansas City quarterback, posted on Instagram that, “Super Bowl wins will never be the same because of this.”

  The police detained three people, at least two of them armed, but they are still sorting out what happened. The woman who was killed has been identified as Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a popular Kansas City disc jockey who was married with two adult children. 

  No team members were reported to be among the injured. The governors of both Kansas and Missouri were present and quickly whisked away.

  While some officials said they never expected something like this during such a celebration, of course they did. That’s why there were 800 police and security officers on duty for the parade and rally.

THE WAR ROOM: Ukraine says that its naval drones yesterday sank a large Russian landing ship in the Black Sea, dealing another big blow to the Russian fleet.

  The Ukrainian military released footage of the strike reported to have sunk the 360-foot-long ship Caesar Kunikov, further hindering Russia’s military logistics in southern Ukraine. It’s the second landing ship the Ukrainians have taken out as well as a frigate with a crew of 40.

  Ukraine’s success at sea has not been matched on the ground. The Russians are advancing and the defenders are having trouble holding the line. Ukraine’s new top military commander, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, told a German news organization, “The enemy is now advancing along almost the entire front line, and we have moved from offensive operations to conducting a defensive operation.” 

IT’S POLITICAL: Political analysts say Democrat Tom Suozzi’s win in the Long Island congressional race drew a roadmap for his party next fall.

  Suozzi switched the district from Republican to Democrat, soundly beating Mazi Pilip with 54 percent of the vote and narrowing the Republican majority in the House to just six seats.

  Suozzi challenged his opponent on what has become Republican ground: crime, taxes and, and importantly, immigration. He took a more moderate stand for a Democrat, talking about controlling the southern border.

  Trump credited Pilip’s loss to her failure to endorse him for president. He posted on his Truth Social website: “I have an almost 99% Endorsement Success Rate in Primaries, and a very good number in the General Elections, as well, but just watched this very foolish woman, Mazi Melesa Pilip, running in a race where she didn’t endorse me and tried to ‘straddle the fence,’ when she would have easily WON if she understood anything about MODERN DAY politics in America.”

NUKE ‘EM: A cryptic statement by Ohio Republican Rep. Michael Turner set Washington abuzz about hot new intelligence involving Russian military capabilities.  Turner had urged lawmakers to review classified information about what he called a “serious national security threat.”

  It’s a complicated story, but it seems that Turner was leveraging the unidentified threat to support an electronic surveillance law being debated in Congress.  

  It turns out that the perceived threat is Russia’s attempts to develop a space-based antisatellite nuclear weapon that would knock out the satellites US forces depend on. The weapons, whatever stage of development they’re in, have not been deployed, according to the Pentagon.

  “It is a serious national security issue in the medium-to-long term that the Congress and the administration need to focus on,” said Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut. “But no need to buy gold.”

ORANGE ALERT: Special Counsel Jack Smith yesterday asked the Supreme Court not to delay Donald Trump’s federal election interference case while he pursues appeals.

  Smith wrote in his filing, “Delay in the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interest in a speedy and fair verdict” in a case that charges “a former president for alleged criminal efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election, including through the use of official power.” 

  Trump is expected to be in a New York Court today for the Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case.

THE OBIT PAGE: William Post, a businessman credited with playing a significant part in the creation of what became Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts, the toaster-heated breakfast food, died last Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was 96.

  Post ran the bakery plant that developed the first Pop-Tarts in 1964. His children were the first taste testers. Kellogg’s says it now sells billions of Pop-Tarts a year. 

THE SPIN RACK: Israel says its special forces have entered the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza hunting for Hamas militants. — Six plaintiffs have sued Match, the company that operates the popular dating apps Tinder, Hinge, and the League, claiming they make love addicts of users with promises of endless romantic matches in order to get people to pay money to continue their compulsive behavior. 

BELOW THE FOLD: Russian President Vladimir Putin told a state television interviewer that he thought ousted Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson would ask him tougher questions in his recent interview.

  “To be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions,” Putin said. “I was not just prepared for this, I wanted it, because it would give me the opportunity to respond in the same way.” 

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