FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: GOP Is Slight Favorite in Race for Senate Control  —  When FiveThirtyEight last issued a U.S. Senate forecast — way back in July — we concluded the race for Senate control was a toss-up.  That was a little ahead of the conventional wisdom at the time …

The Geography of Fame  —  WHERE do the most successful Americans come from?  I was curious.  So I downloaded Wikipedia.  (You can do that sort of thing nowadays.)  —  With a little coding, I had a data set of more than 150,000 Americans deemed by Wikipedia's editors to be notable.

Carter fears NSA is spying on his emails  —  Former President Jimmy Carter (D) says he thinks the National Security Agency might be monitoring his emails.  —  In an interview on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Carter said he sends messages to foreign leaders via snail mail instead.

Police hunt mystery woman who made final phone call to doomed jet captain as first picture emerges of his estranged wife and family  —  The captain of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 received a two-minute call shortly before take-off from a mystery woman using a mobile phone number obtained under a false identity.

Egyptian court sentences 529 Muslim Brotherhood members to death: lawyer  —  (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges including murder, a defense lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement.

Deep underground, federal employees process paperwork by hand in a long-outdated, inefficient system  —  In BOYERS, Pa. — The trucks full of paperwork come every day, turning off a country road north of Pittsburgh and descending through a gateway into the earth.

U.S. sends Osprey aircraft, more Special Operations forces to hunt Ugandan warlord  —  President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Operations forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.

EXCLUSIVE - STUDY: OBAMA MOST WELL-TRAVELED, EXPENSIVE PRESIDENT IN HISTORY THROUGH FIVE YEARS  —  President Barack Obama has spent more time traveling abroad than other U.S. president in history at this point in their presidencies, according to a forthcoming study from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation …

Au Revoir, Entrepreneurs  —  Guillaume Santacruz, an aspiring French entrepreneur, brushed the rain from his black sweater and skinny jeans and headed down to a cavernous basement inside Campus London, a seven-story hive run by Google in the city's East End.

Death toll rises to 8 in Wash. mudslide  —  ARLINGTON, Wash. — Eight people are now confirmed dead after a massive landslide slammed into homes Saturday near Oso, Wash., authorities said Sunday.  —  Snohomish County sheriff's Lt. Rob Palmer said four more bodies were discovered late Sunday.

US Treasury Secretary Lew to Undergo Surgery  —  The Treasury Department says Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will undergo surgery Tuesday to treat a benign enlarged prostate.  —  Treasury says the surgical procedure will be performed on an outpatient basis in New York.

Obama aide: US sanctions effectively weakening Russia  —  White House deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken argued Sunday the United States' sanctions are effectively hurting Russia's economy even though they haven't deterred Russian President Vladimir Putin.