WASHINGTON — The 23-year-old Maryland man who climbed over the White House fence Wednesday night has been charged with felonies for assaulting two police dogs and making threats, the Secret Service said Thursday. Dominic Adesanya of Bel Air, Maryland, is in custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for previous outstanding warrants, Secret Service spokesman Brian […]
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Secret Service chief resigns
WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson has resigned amid security lapses at the White House. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday that Pierson offered her resignation, and he accepted it. The move came one day after her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a congressional hearing focused on recent […]
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to resign
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general. The White House said that President Barack Obama would announce Holder’s departure later […]
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Man climbs White House fence, gets through doors
WASHINGTON — A man climbed over the White House fence and raced across the lawn and through the north portico doors Friday night, apparently only minutes after President Barack Obama went out the south entrance on his way to Camp David, authorities said. The man, who was not armed, was arrested just inside the doors, […]
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Obama welcomes Red Sox to White House
What an honor! Thanks for the #selfie, @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/y5Ww74sEID — David Ortiz (@davidortiz) April 1, 2014 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed the World Series champion Red Sox to the White House Tuesday, praising their triumph on the field while hailing them as a symbol of their city’s “grit and resilience” in the wake of last […]
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Fact Check: Do President Obama’s claims add up?
WASHINGTON — It seems to be something of an occupational hazard for President Barack Obama: When he talks about his health care law, he’s bound to hit a fact bump sooner or later. So it went Tuesday night, when he declared Medicare premiums have stayed flat thanks to the law, when they’ve gone up. As […]
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Maine veteran honored at White House ceremony
SANFORD — Adam Cote of Sanford, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. Army and CEO of Thermal Energy Storage of Maine, was honored at the White House Tuesday as one of 12 Veterans Advancing Clean Energy and Climate Security. Cote, who is currently deployed as a company commander in Afghanistan with the Maine Army National […]
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Manning sentenced to 35 years for leaks
A military judge on Wednesday sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison, bringing to a close the government’s determined pursuit of the Army intelligence analyst who leaked the largest cache of classified documents in U.S. history. The long prison term is likely to hearten national security officials who have been rattled by the […]
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U.S. to send two Gitmo detainees back to Algeria
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced Friday its intention to repatriate two prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to Algeria, the first such transfers in nearly a year. White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement that the Defense Department notified Congress of the transfers, which will be done “in a responsible […]