UPDATES** BREAKING: US CBP Chopper Down at Texas Border, Fired on from Mexico  —  Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border.

Clinton Support Has Nowhere to Go But Down  —  I've long been bearish on Hillary Clinton.  It isn't that I particularly dislike her; I don't, and there are certainly a number of presidential aspirants that I like less.  I'm simply puzzled at what seems to be the conventional wisdom among Democrats I meet …

Dennis Hastert Hid His Skeletons As He Helped Push GOP's Anti-Gay Agenda  —  WASHINGTON — During the 2004 elections, George W. Bush's campaign, managed by a closeted gay man, pushed a series of anti-gay ballot initiatives across the country.  The House of Representatives …

Woman who killed cyclist can't use cellphone for 2 years  —  ST. JOHNS, Mich. — A woman whose car struck and killed a bicyclist last fall will have to go without a cellphone for more than two years, a judge has ruled.  —  Mitzi Nelson, 23, of DeWitt, Mich. also will serve two years …

LAPD finds officers were justified in fatal shooting of mentally ill man, sources say  —  Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department's independent watchdog have determined that two officers were justified in fatally shooting Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man whose killing …

A Detainee Describes More C.I.A. Torture  —  Anyone who had the time to read the summary of the 6,700-page report by Senate investigators on the federal government's program of torturing detainees captured after the Sept. 11 attacks knew, or at least suspected, that there was more to the sickening story.

Ben Carson's campaign faces turmoil amid staff exits and super PAC rivalry  —  The presidential candidacy of Ben Carson, a tea party star who has catapulted into the top tier of Republican contenders, has been rocked by turmoil with the departures of four senior campaign officials and widespread disarray among his allied super PACs.

2016 field descends on Iowa for Joni Ernst shindig  —  The uncertainty surrounding the Iowa GOP's embattled straw poll means the ‘Roast and Ride’ gathering could end up being one of the state's most important retail politicking events of the year.  —  BOONE, Iowa—It's a newly created political event …

Sepp Blatter named as former lover of Cristiano Ronaldo's ex Irina Shayk by Spanish media  —  Spanish daily El Mundo made the sensational claim about the roving-eyed football chief (left) and Bradley Cooper's girlfriend (pictured, right and with the Oscar-nominated star, inset) …

Carlisle: Air Force intel uses ISIS 'moron's' social media posts to target airstrikes  —  OPSEC isn't the Islamic State group's strong suit.  —  Airmen at Hurlburt Field, Florida, used social media posts by the insurgent group to track the location of an Islamic State group headquarters building.