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The horrified wife of a Navy veteran accused of viciously beating the elderly owner of the San Diego-area "Trump House" described her husband's dark past -- and revealed that she now plans to divorce the "nerdy gamer". Breanna Butler, 32, told The California Post that her husband Thomas Caleb Butler, also 32, acted violently toward his family and dangerously mixed alcohol with his medication "frequently." Breanna had been separated from Thomas for two years due to his violent nature, which...

Matt Mahan's floundering campaign for California governor has been hit with a new bombshell complaint accusing the San Jose mayor of illegally coordinating with a billionaire-funded PAC -- and the allegations could warrant penalties up to $5 million. The Post exclusively obtained the complaint, which accuses Mahan and an independent expenditure committee called Back to Basics of violating state election law on coordination by using same polling company, Impact Research, and each paying the...

Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she is stepping down as director of national intelligence. READ MORE: Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Trump's national intelligence director In a letter to President Donald Trump that she posted on social media, Gabbard wrote that she is resigning, effective June 30, to be with her husband after he was diagnosed "with an extremely rare form of bone cancer." Read the full letter by clicking on the document below. "At this time, I must step away from public...

A stranded motorist assisted by a LaPorte County Sheriff's deputy with a ride to Franciscan Health Michigan City is accused of shooting that same deputy three times at the hospital's emergency room Friday morning, authorities say. Deputy Jon Samuelson, 33, is in critical condition at South Bend Memorial Hospital. Where he was shot was not being released. The 22-year-old suspect from Chicago ran west to a wooded nature preserve on the hospital grounds, said Sgt. Glen Fifield, public...

Democrats are pushing to shut down a new Medicare pilot program using artificial intelligence to approve or deny certain medical services under a new prior authorization model. The pilot initiative, known as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) model, uses AI-assisted prior authorization in traditional Medicare, but lawmakers say it could delay or deny care for seniors. In the new resolution, Democrats are asking Congress to disband the WISeR model, which launched this ...

'Fox News @ Night' panelists Gianno Caldwell and James Klüg discuss California Gov. Gavin Newsom's response to President Donald Trump's relocation of the U.S. Space Command and a potential federal crime crackdown in Chicago. A California man who brutally murdered his aunt amid tensions over a clogged toilet in their home, and then said the killing reminded him of carving Play-Doh, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison this week following a courtroom outburst directed at his ...

The Trump administration has said foreign nationals who enter the US on temporary visas should return to their home countries if they want to apply for permanent residency, arguing that the move is aimed at reinforcing the existing legal immigration system. Officials said the policy is intended to ensure Green Card applications follow standard immigration procedures, rather than allowing people to remain in the US while seeking permanent status through what the administration describes as ...

A senior Senate Republican says President Trump, who abruptly changed his weekend travel plans, must "finish what we started" by striking Iran instead of trying to secure a deal with the regime. Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Mr. Trump faces a moment that will define his legacy as Pakistani mediators work on a peace deal. "Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran's Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness. We must ...

STAROBILSK, Russian-controlled Ukraine, May 22 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his military to prepare options to retaliate against Ukraine for what he described as a drone attack on a student dorm that killed six people and wounded dozens, with 15 still unaccounted for. Putin said the attack had struck the dorm in Starobilsk in Luhansk, a Russian-controlled region in eastern Ukraine. He said Kyiv's military must have known what it was targeting. Ukraine's military ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has struck a final sweetheart pensions deal with public service unions -- and Albany is only footing a fraction of the $557 million bill. The state's seemingly endless budget negotiations have taken place alongside talks between Hochul and AFL-CIO Prez Mario Cilento over the massive deal to sweeten pensions covering critical public employees like teachers, public health workers, and state cops. But according to sources, only $118 million of the funding will be directly ...

From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Wednesday: After spending 37 days in jail for nothing more than posting a meme, retired Tennessee law enforcement officer Larry Bushart has won a substantial settlement from the county and sheriff behind his arrest. Represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and Phillips & Phillips, PLLC, Larry Bushart filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last December against Sheriff Nick Weems, Investigator Jason Morrow, and...

The White House's official public schedule had originally said that Trump would spend the holiday weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. As of Friday, the White House updated his schedule to say he would spend the weekend in D.C. Trump was heading to Suffern, New York, on Friday to speak at Rockland Community College alongside New York Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican who is running for for a third term. According to official guidance, Trump will return to the White House...

A barnburner case next term at the Supreme Court is going to be Suncor v. Boulder County. It's the first climate-lawfare case the Court will meet squarely, with Boulder trying to hold ExxonMobil accountable, through state tort law, for alleged contributions to global warming. The goal is to bankrupt the fossil fuel industry. Amicus briefs in support of the petitioners were due yesterday, and there is a lot of lead being trained on target. Apart from the standard array of great work from trade...

Wounded combat veteran Teddy Daniels and a Purple Heart recipient responds to Graham Platner's resurfaced Reddit post mocking a U.S. wounded soldier on 'The Bottom Line.' Sen. Elizabeth Warren's vocal support for her controversial New England neighbor Graham Platner's Democratic Senate campaign is raising eyebrows in light of his Nazi-linked tattoo and a slew of resurfaced remarks, including an admission of getting aroused by smelling biocide in Port-a-Johns. Most recently, Platner was ...

Move comes after federal appeals court upholds ruling that opens door for government to detain and deport Khalil Attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who last year became the face of the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestine speech, will ask the US supreme court to intervene after a federal appeals court opened the door for the government to once again detain and ultimately deport him. On Friday, the third circuit court of appeals upheld a January...

Sara Tenenbaum is the Senior Digital Producer for CBS News Chicago, overseeing editorial operations and social media, and covering breaking, local and community news. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has fired former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenberg from her role as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee following allegations of prosecutorial misconduct with the grand jury in the Broadview Six case. U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros dismissed all charges against the defendants in the case ...

The partner of a Scot detained in Israel after taking part in a pro-Palestinian flotilla of boats attempting to reach Gaza has told of her relief that he is alive. Hughie Stirling, 68, from Ullapool, was on a boat intercepted by Israeli naval forces in international waters earlier this week. His partner Caroline Williams said she heard nothing more of him for two days. She has since been able to speak to him after he and others were deported to Turkey, where he ended up in a hospital in ...

Donald Trump urged the incoming Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to be "totally independent" at a White House swearing in ceremony on Friday. The US president, who repeatedly and publicly clashed with Warsh's predecessor Jerome Powell, said he wants his latest pick to ignore outside opinions. "I really mean this, I want Kevin to be totally independent. Don't look at me, don't look at anybody, just do your own thing and do a great job, okay," he said. Critics of Warsh's appointment, ...

Why it matters: Republican leaders have long discouraged their members from signing onto Democratic-led petitions, but those pleas are increasingly falling on deaf ears. * Johnson briefly floated changes to House rules last year to make it harder for discharge petitions to succeed. * He said at the time the tactic was "too common," with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) saying he would "like to see a higher threshold for a lot of these motions." Driving the news: A discharge petition ...

Leo Technologies operates under Elliott Broidy, who has spent the better part of the last decade building public safety and national security technology companies. Broidy is a former Republican National Convention Finance Chair and has been a well-known figure in business and politics for decades. Broidy's legal history is well known. In 2019, he pled guilty to Foreign Agent Registration Act violations and was subsequently pardon by President Donald Trump. Broidy has spent years investing in...

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis attorney who gained national notoriety in 2020 when he and his wife Patricia brandished firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters marching past their home, abruptly reversed course this month and announced he is resuming legal representation of clients who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot -- a reversal that arrived with conspicuous timing, just days after the Trump administration announced a $1.8 billion government fund potentially available to those...

A former assistant for Jeffrey Epstein alleged that she was victimized by three men while working for the late financier, reportedly including a Florida mayor who ran for governor in 2018. Sarah Kellen, who worked for Epstein for 15 years, reportedly told lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door session Thursday that she had been assaulted by former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai. She also accused late fashion photographer ...

For nearly 60 years Sen. Lamar Alexander dedicated his life to public service. He joins Inside Politics to reflect on all he's seen, and how much has changed -- the subject of his new book, "The Education of a Senator." He says the arrival of "digital democracy" in 2008 "drove all politics to the extremes and left people who are center-left and center-right without anyone to vote for." His prescription: use social media to get more people involved in primary season to get better nominees.

The U.S. Department of Education has released its 2027 budget request, and it's largely a repeat of the Trump administration's unsuccessful 2026 proposal to cut roughly $4.5 billion in spending while turning other programs into a $2 billion block grant program. The 2027 proposal includes $2 billion for a new Make Education Great Again program. At least 25% of the grants would be reserved by the state for "literacy activities that advance, increase, expand, or focus on evidence-based literacy...

Markwayne Mullin will now serve as the secretary of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin raised the possibility again of halting customs and immigration processing at major airports in so-called sanctuary cities, according to reports from The Atlantic and Reuters. According to reports, Mullin privately warned travel executives last week that the Department of Homeland Security could stop processing international travelers and cargo at airports...

For the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent, news this week the government will commit to a £120m support package to protect the industry is long overdue, but it has been welcomed. Firms are struggling with rising energy costs and a challenging market - something that spurred on pottery worker and GMB union member Sharon Yates to, as she puts it, "fight for the pots". "It is a long road to get to where we want, but this news of £120m, it will protect jobs and it will also protect the city," ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. A process has begun to place greater oversight of ferry costs to Mackinac Island within the Michigan city council's authority. While the bill has been moving through the legislative process for almost a year, it includes a clause that requires a majority of voters in ...

Washington -- Tulsi Gabbard said Friday that she is resigning as the director of national intelligence, stepping aside after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. In a letter to President Trump, Gabbard said her resignation would be effective June 30. "My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and...

You could practically hear progressives gasping when Bezos claimed that "the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving." As we've seen, billionaires are far better at dispensing capital to productive sectors of society than charity or government. The United States is better off when Bezos keeps his wealth away from Congress or Zohran Mamdani. Amazon and other similar mega-corporations create more...

During the 2024 Democratic primary, in which Biden was incapable of stringing together competent sentences without a teleprompter, Gaza was the only hiccup in the primary process. Some 700,000 Democratic voters joined the "uncommitted" movement as a protest against Biden's being too sympathetic toward Israel -- no, really -- after Palestinian terrorists murdered, raped, or took hostage 1,200 Israeli civilians. That uncommitted fever peaked in Michigan, where over 100,000, or 13% of the ...