Democrats on Defense: 2024 Senate Race Ratings  —  Staring down what should have been a historically bad midterm and aided by a weak economy and an unpopular president, Senate Democrats defied the odds and actually added a seat to their roster in the 2022 midterm cycle.

Principals  —  with Steve Clemons  —  I was recounting at a reception last night how Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's lavish Davos parties, now suspended, seemed like a great opportunity to gather kompromat.  Walls of Dom Perignon magnums, buckets of caviar, Enrique Iglesias singing for a hundred people …

Half Moon Bay mass shooting: 7 dead and one injured  —  Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A man opened fire on people at two separate locations in Half Moon Bay on Monday afternoon, killing seven and injuring one, as children witnessed the tragedy unfold, according to law enforcement.

7 dead as California mourns 3rd mass killing in 8 days  —  Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at agricultural facilities in a California coastal community south of San Francisco, marking the state's third mass killing in eight days, including Saturday's attack at a dance hall …