At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.
Police Sunday saw little disruption prior to a Republican National Convention greatly scaled back due to Hurricane Gustav.
An amateur diplomat alarmed British officials during World War II by proposing that Germany and Britain divide the world between them, according to records released Sunday.
With $100 million in federal taxpayer funds, the U.S. Secret Service has transformed the two cities playing host to the national political conventions into high-tech fortresses.
A man who prosecutors said threatened to assassinate presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama pleaded not guilty Wednesday before a federal magistrate, officials said.
Eleven people were indicted Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
Eleven people, including three U.S. citizens, were indicted Tuesday on a number of charges in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
Hundreds of people across the country have been arrested by law enforcement officials targeting crooked mortgage brokers, real estate agents, and other industry officials, the head of the FBI and a top Justice Department official said Thursday.
A Marine accused of killing an unarmed detainee in Iraq is heading to court to answer charges of unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.
Police Sunday saw little disruption prior to a Republican National Convention greatly scaled back due to Hurricane Gustav.
An amateur diplomat alarmed British officials during World War II by proposing that Germany and Britain divide the world between them, according to records released Sunday.
With $100 million in federal taxpayer funds, the U.S. Secret Service has transformed the two cities playing host to the national political conventions into high-tech fortresses.
A man who prosecutors said threatened to assassinate presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama pleaded not guilty Wednesday before a federal magistrate, officials said.
Eleven people were indicted Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
Eleven people, including three U.S. citizens, were indicted Tuesday on a number of charges in connection with the hacking of nine major U.S. retailers and the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, federal authorities said.
Hundreds of people across the country have been arrested by law enforcement officials targeting crooked mortgage brokers, real estate agents, and other industry officials, the head of the FBI and a top Justice Department official said Thursday.
A Marine accused of killing an unarmed detainee in Iraq is heading to court to answer charges of unpremeditated murder and dereliction of duty
Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.
Jenna Bush and Henry Hager celebrate at a rehearsal dinner Friday
The Secret Service is investigating whether the racially charged symbol of a noose was displayed in its Maryland training facility.
A smiling Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States on Tuesday afternoon to start the six-day, two-city journey that will take him from the White House to the halls of the United Nations.
Sen. John McCain has made it very clear he doesn't want Secret Service protection, but Friday bowed to reality and said he will take it.
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When disaster strikes, it can be catastrophic, but the President's official home has a relatively good record of preventing conflagrations
The White House must release its visitor logs and cannot hide behind a shield of privilege, a federal judge ruled Monday. The Bush administration has resisted public disclosure while it fights a lawsuit over alleged political influence by conservative Christian leaders.
Honest Abe will become Colorful Abe with splashes of purple and gray livening up the $5 bill.
A small fleet of foreign planes and helicopters is buzzing around Greece to try to battle dozens of wildfires that have killed at least 64 people.
With wildfires raging across the countryside, Greece's government says it has enlisted intelligence and counterterrorism agents to foil what it sees as a deliberate plan by arsonists to destroy Greek forests.
Fidelity National Information Services Inc., an electronic payment processor, said Tuesday a database administrator stole and sold customer data, exposing as many as 2.3 million bank and credit card records, and that the worker has been fired.
It's day two and we are literally on the run.
Her plane is called Bright Star. When I settle into my seat in the back of the 757, I can tell immediately this is going to be different from traveling with the president.
Don Coyer is trained to take a bullet and quick to make a joke.
The SUV pulls up to the building entrance and is immediately surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents. It is an arrival without incident. The presidential candidate is escorted inside for the next event and heads down a hallway in what could be any hotel in any town in America.
The vice-president goes to court to keep his list of visitors a secret
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, has been placed under the protection of the Secret Service, the agency said Thursday.
The amount of counterfeiting is on the rise, according to a published report, helped by the use of digital scanners and printers.
Jesse Jackson says that as he shares fond memories of his 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns with Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, he also passes along memories of the ugly side.
Since former President Gerald Ford's death on December 26 at the age of 93, CNN.com has received hundreds of e-mails from readers sharing their memories and personal experiences with the nation's 38th president.
Since former President Gerald Ford died Tuesday at the age of 93, CNN.com has received hundreds of e-mails from readers sharing their memories and personal experiences with the nation's 38th president.
First daughter Barbara Bush's purse was stolen while she was in Argentina with her twin sister, Jenna, a law enforcement source who was briefed on the incident said Tuesday.
Hackers have been ringing up big losses at America's top online brokerage houses this year after infiltrating company systems and illegally trading millions of dollars, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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A Secret Service officer arrested a former NBA player after gunshots were reported just blocks from the White House early Wednesday morning.
A 32-year-old woman wielding a machete was arrested Sunday outside the White House, the Secret Service said.
CNN's Larry King has interviewed every president since Richard Nixon. Tonight at 9 p.m. ET he conducts his second interview with President George W. Bush since his election in 2000.
The Secret Service arrested a man who was trying to jump the White House fence carrying a suspicious package on Sunday.
The U.S. State Department Sunday confirmed three Americans arrested over a week ago by authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been released.
Newly released visitor logs show disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was signed in to the White House complex on two occasions since President Bush took office in 2001, including once when the president was out of town.
Despite repeated White House objections to the release of documents related to Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House, the Secret Service has agreed to produce all logs detailing the disgraced lobbyist's meetings, according to a court filing released Monday.
This is a sampling of comments received during the past week.
A New Mexico man arrested for jumping the White House fence Sunday has been arrested for the same thing three times before, a Secret Service spokesman said.
The new $10 bill starts to circulate Thursday, as the third more colorful bill designed to thwart counterfeiters is rolled out.
A Republic of Georgia court has sentenced a man to life in prison for attempting to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush by lobbing a hand grenade towards a podium during a rally in the capital last year, according to Georgia's interior minister.
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In a hesitant step toward normality, private planes will return to Reagan National Airport on Tuesday morning, more than four years after being banished because they were deemed to be a threat to nearby government buildings and landmarks.
A redesigned $10 bill with new background colors meant to thwart counterfeiters was unveiled Wednesday at a ceremony on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
A new $10 bill featuring color, new art and enhanced security will be unveiled Wednesday, and the government hopes it will take hold quickly as other new designs.
A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service contractor at a Washington hotel was the "suspicious package" that prompted a building evacuation Sunday afternoon, law enforcement sources said.
First lady Laura Bush, on a political fence-mending tour of the Middle East, found herself the target of a tense protest in Jerusalem at one of Islam's holiest sites.
First lady Laura Bush, on a political fence-mending tour of the Middle East, found herself the target of a tense protest in Jerusalem at one of Islam's holiest sites.
Authorities will investigate decisions made by officials when a small airplane strayed into restricted airspace over Washington, the White House said Thursday, including why President Bush was not informed about the incident until it was over.
Two men who flew a single-engine plane into restricted airspace around Washington were released without charges Wednesday after the Secret Service ruled their intrusion an accident.
The pilot whose intrusion into restricted airspace prompted brief evacuations in the District of Columbia Wednesday is likely to face civil penalties after being released without criminal charges, federal officials said.
The alert level at the White House was raised three levels to "red" at midday Wednesday as an unidentified Cessna aircraft came within three miles of the executive mansion, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said..
A pilot and a student pilot were released without criminal charges Wednesday after their plane flew within three miles of the White House, prompting evacuations throughout the capital, officials said.
A grenade reportedly found near the site where U.S. President George W. Bush made a speech in Tblisi was an inactive Soviet-era device, Georgian officials said Wednesday.
U.S. officials are investigating a report that an apparent hand grenade landed about 100 feet from where President Bush was speaking Tuesday in Tblisi, the capital of Georgia, a Secret Service spokesman said.
Time Warner Inc. said Monday that data on 600,000 current and former employees stored on computer backup tapes was lost by an outside storage company and that the Secret Service is now investigating.
A mallard and her nine ducklings -- a small tourist attraction nesting outside the U.S. Treasury building -- were moved Sunday to a nearby park.
More than 10,000 fugitives from justice have been captured in a nationwide, weeklong dragnet involving federal, state and local authorities, said the U.S. Marshals Service, which led the effort.
Federal agent Dean Hunter was en route to help secure an inaugural event attended by President Bush when his pager went off -- a man had parked his van a block from the White House and was threatening to ignite a homemade bomb.
President Bush takes the oath of office for his second term Thursday in the first presidential inauguration since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the resulting increases in security.
A man in a van, who held authorities at bay for more than four hours near the White House after threatening to ignite a substance inside the vehicle, will be arraigned in U.S. District Court Wednesday morning, metropolitan police said.
A man in a suspicious van parked near the White House was arrested late Tuesday, more than four hours after authorities said he threatened to ignite a substance inside the vehicle.
Supporters of President Bush will be bringing their own fanfare and enthusiasm when they flock to Washington in January for inaugural festivities, but they'll also be generating much excitement for D.C. hoteliers, who promise to pamper anyone willing to pay.
U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the city of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday.
It was a rare moment of role reversal -- U.S. President George W. Bush coming to the aid of a man paid to protect him.
A man set himself on fire about 2 p.m. Monday on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House.
The presidential inauguration on January 20 has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Department of Homeland Security, government officials said Monday.
Larry Stewart, a government witness who testified against Martha Stewart, was found not guilty Tuesday on all counts of perjury.
Here are highlights of some of the rules laid out in the 32-page agreement on the three presidential debates ahead of the November election.
The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was arrested Thursday after interrupting a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush. As police hauled her away, she shouted, "Police brutality."
Eleven protesters from the AIDS activist group ACT UP were arrested Wednesday on the floor of Madison Square Garden after interrupting a Republican convention speech by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, the Secret Service told CNN.
The Secret Service is investigating an Internet posting of some Republican delegates' phone numbers, e-mail addresses and the hotels where they would stay during the party's national convention, federal law enforcement officials said Monday.
Anarchist, terrorist. Train, truck or bus. Whatever the threat, New York's finest say they are prepared.
Colored by the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the four-day convention nominating John Kerry as the Democratic standard-bearer is unfolding under extraordinary security.
Judge Miriam Cedarbaum has delayed the sentencing for Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic until July 16, one of the Judge's law clerks told CNNfn.
Martha Stewart's attorney, Robert Morvillo, criticized federal prosecutors Wednesday night in a speech before the New York City Lawyers Association, said attorneys who attended.
The nation's capital will have a huge security presence for the state funeral services of former President Ronald Reagan.
While the world refocuses its attention to the G8 summit a few miles from here, the beaches are nearly empty, and the only people boating offshore are the police and Coast Guard.
Several federal and local security agencies are preparing for the events surrounding the state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan in Washington this week.
Security will be at unprecedented levels for a National Mall event Saturday during the dedication of the National World War II Memorial, officials say.
Security preparations for political party conventions in New York and Boston will affect each city's residents very differently.
Underscoring the tighter Democratic race for the White House, the Secret Service began providing protection Friday to presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, and Sen. John Edwards also has applied for the protection, a spokesman for the Secret Service said.
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