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.

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 …

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 …

Scott Walker Riding With Joni Ernst in Iowa as Rivals Give Chase  —  When Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin throws his leg across his beloved Harley-Davidson Road King for a celebration of motorcycles and Iowa pork on Saturday, the political symbolism will be as thick as the smoke from the roasting pits.

A Manhattan Fortuneteller Cost Him Fortune After Fortune  —  Everyone knows that when a man loves a woman, he can't keep his mind on nothing else.  He'll spend his very last dime.  Give up all his comfort, sleep out in the rain.  —  But for a 32-year-old man from Brooklyn …

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 …

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.

‘A man of character’: Obama delivers emotional eulogy for Beau Biden  —  Wilmington, Delaware (CNN)President Barack Obama eulogized Beau Biden Saturday as a good man of character “who loved deeply and was loved in return,” hailing the compassion and public service of his family …

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 …

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.