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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a Colorado man who touched and berated then-Vice President Dick Cheney can sue the Secret Service for arresting him. An appeals court said Steven Howards of Golden, Colo., could proceed with his suit that his arrest violated his free speech rights. The incident occurred during a chance encounter with Cheney at a Beaver Creek shopping center in 2006. Read full article > >

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Herman Cain is the first of the current presidential contenders to receive protection from the Secret Service.

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The search for the man suspected of firing shots in Northwest Washington last week has intensified after bullets were found on White House grounds Tuesday, the Secret Service said. According to the Associated Press, a bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass. An additional round of ammunition was found outside the White House. Read full article > >

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Shots apparently were fired near the White House on Friday night, possibly in a confrontation between occupants of two vehicles on Constitution Avenue, according to the accounts of federal law enforcement officials. After a broadcast alarm was issued about the incident, a vehicle was found abandoned in the District, near the Roosevelt Bridge a few blocks away, and a weapon believed to be an assault rifle, possibly an AK-47, was found inside, according to a Secret Service spokesman. Read full article > >

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Shots were fired from at least one car about a block away from the White House Friday night, and a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was recovered from the scene, the Secret Service said.

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First lady Michelle Obama has been to many agencies to support federal workers, but her midday visit to one on Wednesday was special. Obama went to the Secret Service headquarters to thank employees for protecting her family. “And one thing that the president and I always say about our work with this agency is that it is always 100 percent on point — truly,” she told the employees. “I mean, not just in terms of how you all do your job, but how you all make us feel. And that is important when you’re trying to live a normal life and raise a couple of girls in the White House. You all have really made us feel at home and safe, and there is no amount of thanks that I could convey that would give you a sense of how important you all are to us. Read full article > >

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A man who climbed the White House fence Tuesday evening was arrested on the grounds, authorities said. The man had a backpack with him when he was arrested by members of the uniformed division of the Secret Service, a spokesman for the service said. The backpack was inspected and nothing harmful was found in it, said spokesman Max Milien. Read full article > >

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The U.S. Secret Service faces the daunting task of providing security on the presidential campaign trail and for at least six major national security events in the coming year, its director said Wednesday. Director Mark Sullivan told House members that 2012 will be “a very demanding and challenging year” as the agency provides protection for President Obama, Vice President Biden, their families, former presidents, visiting foreign dignitaries, GOP candidates and the Republican Party’s eventual presidential nominee. Read full article > >

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Secret Service preparing for a busy 2012

It shouldn’t be hard to elect a foreman on this jury: Vice President Joe Biden reported to jury duty in New Castle County, Delaware on Monday. He showed up at the courthouse with several secret service agents and, during a break, made several phone…

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Former secret service agent Clint Hill describes the moment JFK was assassinated

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JFK assassination ‘was easily done’

The Secret Service must have been in a panic: During a pick-up basketball game with friends on Friday, President Obama was elbowed on the lip, forcing him to get 12 stitches. He received care at the doctor’s office in the White House. No worries,…

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A nurse at a Veterans Affairs clinic tipped off authorities that Michael Stephen Bowden, 78, of Woodruff, South Carolina, told her he was thinking of killing the president. Secret Service agents found three handguns and a rifle under his bed and over a…

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How’s this one going to play out with the conspiracy theorists? A new book by retired Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine claims he almost shot President Lyndon Johnson, just hours after President John Kennedy was assassinated. Assigned to protect…

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