The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday it was following up after a California man used Facebook to make a profane threat against President Barack Obama.
An Idaho man wanted in connection with a White House shooting incident was arrested Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, police and the U.S. Secret Service announced.
A uniformed officer of the U.S. Secret Service accidentally discharged his firearm early Wednesday while sitting in a patrol car near the Russian consulate in Washington, an agency spokesman said.
"George Washington slept here."
A male suspect wearing a backpack scaled the White House fence Tuesday and "took off at a full sprint," but was chased down and arrested, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said.
The suspect charged with breaching White House security by jumping over its security gate has been released from police custody, a court official said Wednesday.
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Are James V. McVay's statements the shocking confessions of a man who planned to kill the president? The exaggerated claims of someone seeking attention? The rantings of a lunatic?
Ronald Reagan and his secret service agent describe how close the president came to dying 30 years ago on March 30.
It might be one of the most intense rivalries in sports.
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Politics is serious business -- but not all of the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail to the international stage, there's always something that gets a laugh or a second glance.
Authorities detained a person near the home of former President George W. Bush on Wednesday night after an incident in his Dallas-area neighborhood, a U.S. Secret Service spokesman said.
Brian Todd reports on new details of JFK's Secret Service detail and the assassination.
A suburban Rochester, New York, man described as potentially "the next Oklahoma City bomber" has been arrested and charged with planning to kill former President George W. Bush, according to federal authorities.
A package left outside a mailbox apparently because it wouldn't fit in the box caused a security scare Monday near the location of a scheduled appearance by President Barack Obama in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, state police and the Secret Service said.
White House "gate-crashers" Michaele and Tareq Salahi are to be featured in the upcoming series "Real Housewives of DC," according to their media representative.
Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez earned $75,000 a year working undercover for the U.S. Secret Service, informing on bank card thieves before he was arrested in 2008 for running his own multimillion-dollar card-hacking operation.
Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.
A Washington attorney late Tuesday identified his client as the third "party crasher" at a White House state dinner held in November.
The Salahis weren't the only unauthorized guests at President Obama's first White House state dinner.
Casey Johnson The 30-year-old heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune was found dead at a house in Los Angeles on Monday, People magazine reported.
The Virginia couple who slipped through White House security and shook hands with President Obama will invoke the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-incrimination, if subpoenaed to testify to Congress, according to a letter from the couple's lawyer.
The media spotlight has focused on the brash couple who recently managed to attend a White House state dinner, but a U.S. Secret Service training document details 91 breaches of security between 1980 and 2003.
The Secret Service director testifies before a committee investigating last week's White House party-crashing incident.
White House social secretary Desiree Rogers will not be testifying at Thursday's congressional hearing about the recent White House security breach, Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.
The latest news on the White House party crashers from Showbiz Tonight's A.J. Hammer.
Tareq Salahi said Tuesday he and his wife "did not party-crash" a White House state dinner last week.
Erica Hill and panelists discuss the latest on the White House "party crashers."
The gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi want to be famous as stars of reality television. I am all for that. Give them a reality television series and call it "Trial and Jailtime" in the D.C. criminal justice system. This despicable, desperate, duplicitous couple disgraced the Secret Service and embarrassed the president in his home.
A couple who allegedly crashed this week's state dinner at the White House met President Obama in a reception line at the event, a White House official told CNN on Friday.
A Virginia couple conned their way into the Obamas' first state dinner
The Virginia couple accused of crashing President Obama's first White House state dinner on Tuesday are named in at least 16 different civil suits in Fauquier County, sometimes as plaintiffs, sometimes as defendants.
Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
Most guys pull them on every morning when they step out of the shower. In fact, at this very moment, there's probably nothing closer to you than your underwear.
A security guard at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport is under arrest for allegedly making threatening remarks about President Obama, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Obama should be killed.
During the presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Joe Biden loved to remind us all of his working-class roots -- born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, son of a car dealership manager.
U.S. officials have taken "very seriously" a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama involving a Syrian man who was arrested late last week in Turkey, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Jenna Hager's security detail racks up too many parking tickets
As we mentioned earlier, today President Obama announced he is appointing a former Secret Service agent and top government investigator to be a kind of watchdog over the stimulus money.
From land, water and air, tens of thousands of police officers, federal agents and National Guardsmen are being deployed in an unprecedented effort to make sure the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is safe.
Look up at any presidential event and you're likely to see them: men dressed in black, armed to the teeth, looking back.
President-elect Barack Obama's January 17 train trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington is intended to make the inauguration the most open and accessible in history.
Joe Funk, a retired Secret Service agent, recounts his time driving President Clinton.
As a candidate, Barack Obama promoted hybrid cars.
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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.
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.
The Denver Sheriff's Department has set up a temporary jail for the Democratic convention. KUSA's Kyle Clark reports.
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.
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.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a Secret Service agent react to an incident possibly involving a noose.
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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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.
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.
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.
16 ways hackers can break in
A Secret Service officer arrested a former NBA player after gunshots were reported just blocks from the White House early Wednesday morning.
The Secret Service arrested a man who was trying to jump the White House fence carrying a suspicious package on Sunday.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Several federal and local security agencies are preparing for the events surrounding the state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan in Washington this week.
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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Fortune: [Big If]updated: Mon Jun 10 2002 00:01:00
The big question in Mark Costello's novel Big If (Norton) is which of two siblings, a videogame programmer and a Secret Service agent, raised by a father who scratches out the "God" on dollar bills...
The so-called Nigerian 4-1-9 scam deserves a place in the record books. Despite the sheer audacity of the pitch--Make money by helping launder ours!--the scheme has been separating the greedy and g...
If the devil himself were to throw a bash honoring the most accomplished sloths, hedonists, and gluttons among us, he couldn't do a better hosting job than the new Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barb...
Money Magazine: Tracking The Moneyupdated: Sat Jul 01 2000 00:01:00
Have you ever wondered where your money had been before it landed in your wallet? Boston computer consultant Hank Eskin did, so he started a website that tracks bills by their serial numbers: www.w...
IN THE FIRST MAJOR PAPER CURRENCY REdesign since 1929, the Treasury Department created the new C-note pictured below, which could begin circulating as early as next month, to thwart counterfeiters....
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