A bizarrely dressed suspect is suspected of killing a 92-year-old millionaire developer inside his Southern California beachfront home, then barricading inside for hours during a SWAT standoff, according to authorities.

Police in Hermosa Beach say officers were called to a residence in the 500 block of The Strand just after 12:30 p.m. Saturday for a welfare check after the elderly resident had not been seen for several days.

What began as a routine call quickly escalated when officers entered the home with a property manager and encountered an uncooperative individual inside who claimed to be armed and barricaded themselves, according to the Hermosa Beach Police Department.

SWAT teams from multiple agencies, along with crisis negotiators, responded to the scene and worked for hours to secure a peaceful surrender. The suspect was taken into custody roughly seven hours after the initial call.

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After obtaining a search warrant, officers located an adult male dead inside the home. 

The victim was identified as 92-year-old Demetrius Doukoullos, a longtime developer who lived alone at the beachfront property, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. The office lists the cause of death as deferred, pending further investigation. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau has taken over the investigation.

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Law enforcement sources told NBC4 Los Angeles that the victim’s body showed signs of decomposition when it was discovered inside the residence.

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Los Angeles County jail records identify the suspect as Elanor Beaulieu, 39, who is listed as male. The suspect is being held on suspicion of murder with bail set at just over $2 million. Records also show prior bookings under the name Robert Phillip Simmons.

Beaulieu was arrested while wearing a black suit and tie, a black fedora and black sunglasses.

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The relationship between the suspect and the victim remains unclear, and investigators have not publicly identified a motive.

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In a neighborhood Facebook group, a person claiming to live in the building said concerns were raised after the resident had not been seen for about a week and a strong odor was coming from the home. Those claims have not been independently verified.

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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner for additional details, including the victim’s official identification, cause of death and any known connection between the suspect and the victim.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.

Senate Republicans blocked yet another bid by Senate Democrats to handcuff President Donald Trump’s war authorities in Iran, in what could be an avalanche of similar moves to break through the GOP’s floor takeover.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., triggered one of several war powers resolutions Senate Democrats have tucked away in their bid to compel Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to testify publicly on Trump’s war in Iran.

Booker told Fox News Digital before the vote that he was not thinking “about this in politics” or breaking through the GOP’s floor tactics, but instead to refocus on issues that Trump promised to deal with on the campaign trail.

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“We need to focus on what the issues of the people are, and put before them a president who promised to bring your prices down and keep us out of wars, who is now bringing us into more wars and driving up our prices as a result,” Booker said. “The question is, what should Congress do as a result?”

But, like Sen. Tim Kaine’s, D-Va., attempt earlier this month, Republicans rallied behind the president to block the bill.

Still, Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and nearly every Senate Democrat to curtail Trump’s use of the military in the Middle East. Only Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke from Democrats to kill the resolution.

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It likely won’t be the last war powers resolution to hit the floor this week, given that a cohort of Senate Democrats have four others teed up. Their resolutions would direct an immediate end to fighting with Iran and removal of forces in the region.

Republicans have pushed back against Democrats’ demands that Rubio and Hegseth appear on the Hill for hearings and argued that they have consistently briefed lawmakers in classified settings and spoken with the media about the war.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has lauded the administration’s continued strikes in Iran, told Fox News Digital that he believed Democrats’ continued use of war powers resolutions was “an abuse of the process, and I’m tired of it.”

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“I think they’re impeding the war effort. We’ve spoken on this,” Graham said. “I find it to be cheap politics.”

Still, Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as a flashpoint in the conflict, with concerns over oil prices and possible ground troop involvement rising.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that the nation’s war planners were doing a “masterful job” and kneecapping Iran’s offensive capabilities, and that Trump was well within his authority as president to carry out Operation Epic Fury.

“The Strait of Hormuz, obviously, is an issue that we’re all paying a lot of attention to,” Thune said. “But I feel confident that the administration and those who are leading our military efforts there ultimately will be successful in getting things open up there.”

Four Michigan police officers were injured Wednesday while heroically saving five people trapped inside a car that crashed into a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in Michigan.

The crash happened just after noon near an intersection in Canton Township, a suburban area between Detroit and Ann Arbor, in southeast Michigan.

Police officers rushed to the scene, rescuing five people through flames and thick, black smoke.

Four officers and five victims were taken to the hospital.

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Their injuries vary from minor to critical, according to the Canton Township Police Department.

Traffic lights hanging above the intersection were also damaged by the flames, according to a report from affiliate FOX 2 Detroit.

Cameron Martin, an eyewitness, told the outlet he heard a series of loud “booms,” and ran outside to find 30-foot flames coming from the tractor-trailer.

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“Everyone was freaking out because it [happened] right in the middle of two gas stations,” Martin said. “There were police officers running on both sides saying, ‘hey, you guys need to stop pumping gas right now. You guys need to evacuate.’”

He added that half a dozen ambulances responded to the scene, along with five trucks.

“Everybody was losing their minds,” Martin said. “It was just a lot of chaos.”

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It is unclear what led to the crash, which remains under investigation.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., denounced President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) nominee Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., on Wednesday, accusing him of justifying violence.

Paul accused Mullin of justifying an attack he experienced in 2017, when a neighbor assaulted him, leaving him with six broken ribs and lung damage.

“If I wished violence on his family, that wouldn’t be acceptable. And if he says the violence that happened to me where I had six ribs broken, my lung damaged, part of my lung removed, two pneumonias — if he thinks that’s justifiable, and he can readily understand it, I think that makes him unacceptable and unfit to hold office,” he said Wednesday on “America Reports.” 

Paul’s comments come after a heated exchange between the two GOP senators during a hearing Wednesday on Mullin’s nomination to replace Kristi Noem as DHS secretary.

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“Tell it to my face if that’s what you believe. Tell it to me today,” Paul said during the hearing. “Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung.”

“I said I could understand because of the behavior you were having, that I could understand why your neighbor… did what he did,” Mullin responded in part.

“I had an infection that had a 25% death rate… I went through hell,” Paul said on Fox News. “And anybody who thinks that that’s something that’s commendable is an unfit person to lead law enforcement.”

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“He’s actually very proud of endorsing the violence against me,” Paul added.

Paul repeatedly asserted that Mullin is unfit to run the Department of Homeland Security, citing what he called his “bizarre” obsession with and justification of violence.

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Paul warned that his GOP colleague’s temperament would be dangerous in a position to lead federal law enforcement.

“This is a guy who is justifying his fighting behavior by referring to dueling and caning in the Senate. So, that to me is an anomaly,” he said.

“‘Men will settle their differences by you punching them in the mouth.’ That is his quote,” Paul told Fox News. “And he doesn’t reject any of that, he doesn’t say he wants to change, he doesn’t say it was in the heat of battle. This is who he is.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday that despite the senators’ “personal history,” Mullin is the “right person” for the job.

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Paul told Fox News he expects Mullin will secure the votes to lead DHS, but promised Mullin wouldn’t get his vote.

“No. I mean, an apology might have had a chance, but he’s had several chances,” the Kentucky senator said. “I talked to him privately, and he referred to it that we had political differences.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Mullin’s office for comment. 

Causes and effects of debt growth
The Government Accountability Office has outlined the effects of rising government debt on American citizens. These include higher costs of borrowing for goods such as mortgages and cars, lower wages as businesses have less money available to invest, and goods and services becoming more expensive. Advocates of balanced budgets also warn that a long-term trend of borrowing more and paying interest will force Americans to face tough financial compromises in the future.

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Peter G. “We must recognize this alarming rate of growth and the significant financial burden it will place on the next generation,” Michael Peterson, president and CEO of the Peterson Foundation, said in a statement. He further said that at the current growth rate, we will reach an astonishing $40 trillion in national debt before this autumn’s elections. Borrowing trillions at this rapid pace without any planning is the definition of unsustainability.

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has estimated that more than $12 billion has been spent so far on the war in Iran. It is unclear when the war will end.

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It’s worth noting that the federal debt has increased under both Republican and Democratic presidents and has recently been fueled by wars, massive pandemic spending, and tax cuts. The US national debt was $38 trillion five months ago and $37 trillion two months before that.

Iran’s potentially most dangerous nuclear site is buried as deep as 100 meters under a granite mountain, according to new assessments, with one nonproliferation expert warning it must be “neutralized” before the U.S war with Iran ends.

This came as new figures released Wednesday by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) show that U.S. and Israeli forces launched Operation Epic Fury in late February, and have since struck more than 7,800 targets in Iran as the conflict enters Day 18.

“Before the United States and Israel end major combat operations against Iran, they must complete two urgent tasks,” Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Nonproliferation Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said in a policy briefing.

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“First, they must neutralize Pickaxe Mountain. Second, they must recover or eliminate highly enriched uranium stocks to prevent them from falling into the hands of surviving regime elements, other adversarial states or terrorist proxies.”

High-resolution satellite imagery taken in mid-February shows Iran’s accelerated efforts to reinforce the site at Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La — dubbed “Pickaxe Mountain” — against potential airstrikes, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.

“At one of the eastern tunnel entrances, rock and soil can be seen pushed back and leveled on top of the tunnel portal,” the institute’s report said.

“Additionally, over the last month, a concrete-reinforced headworks for the tunnel entrance extension was added. This allows for additional overburden in the form of rock, soil or concrete.”

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The report added that “these efforts strengthen the tunnel portals and provide additional protection against an airstrike,” noting visible piles of construction materials near the entrances.

Preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon is one of President Donald Trump’s stated war aims. In June 2025, U.S. forces already carried out strikes against nuclear facilities including Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Iran had roughly 441 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% as of June 2025 — enough material, if further enriched to weapons-grade levels, for multiple nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Rafael Grossi, its director general, also said March 9 that the U.N. watchdog believes roughly 200 kilograms of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile are still stored in deep tunnels at a nuclear complex outside Isfahan.

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Grossi added that additional quantities of highly enriched uranium are believed to be at another nuclear center in Natanz, where Iran has constructed a new fortified underground facility at Pickaxe Mountain.

Meanwhile on March 9, Trump pointed to Iran’s efforts to resume nuclear activity at a deeper site and said Tehran has continued pursuing a nuclear weapon “even after we obliterated their key nuclear sites.”

“They were starting work at another site, a different site … that was protected by granite … they wanted to go a lot deeper, and they started the process,” Trump said, according to reports.

According to Stricker, the “different site” referenced by Trump is Pickaxe Mountain, where Iran has said it has been building a centrifuge assembly plant at the site since 2021. The site is a mile from its Natanz enrichment plant.

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“The size of the facility, as well as the protection provided by the tall mountain, raised immediate concerns about whether additional sensitive activities are planned, such as uranium enrichment,” The Institute for Science and International Security also noted in its report.

At the beginning of March, a vehicle was struck outside the site, presumably by Israel, the Wall Street Journal said, before suggesting that the vehicle strike was evidence the U.S. and Israel are watching the mountain carefully.