Secret Service

Two mothers say uniformed U.S. Secret Service officers held them at gunpoint and separated them from their infant children for almost an hour last week. India Johnson and Yasmeen Winston decided to take their infant sons to the World War II Memorial to splash around in the fountain July 30. Johnson parked her car on Constitution Avenue near the White…

Two mothers say uniformed U.S. Secret Service officers held them at gunpoint and separated them from their infant children for almost an hour last week. They shared their story with News4’s Cory Smith.

The U.S. Secret Service says Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is receiving its protection beginning this week.

A 15-year-old boy from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was arrested weeks after two other teens were shot near the National Zoo during ZooLights. The suspect was arrested Saturday and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, D.C. police say. The arrest comes weeks after a chaotic night during the opening weekend of the National Zoo’s popular winter event. Around 7:30 p.m....

The National Zoo announced it has increased security measures for ZooLights after two teenage boys were shot near the event on Nov. 30. News4’s Darcy Spencer has more details.

Two teenagers were shot near the Smithsonian National Zoo in Northwest D.C. Saturday night as hundreds of people were in the area for ZooLights, authorities say.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Chinese businesswoman to eight months in prison for trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents. Judge Roy Altman also ordered that 33-year-old Yujing Zhang be turned over to immigration officials for deportation upon her release. Because she received nearly eight months’ credit for being jailed since...

Former President Jimmy Carter taught a Bible lesson on life after death Sunday less than two weeks after breaking his pelvis in a fall. Using a walker, the 95-year-old Democrat slowly entered the crowded sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church in the southwest Georgia town of Plains. “Morning, everybody,” he said cheerfully.

The Secret Service is purchasing Jet Skis, in part to protect President Donald Trump’s family as they participate in water sports.

A Chinese businesswoman has been convicted of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents.

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House will be closed until March 2020 due to fence construction, the National Park Service said Tuesday.

A woman upset over rapper A$AP Rocky’s detention in Sweden showed up at the Embassy of Sweden complex in D.C. and threatened to “blow this motherf—– up,” screamed obscenities at staff and kicked over furniture before she was arrested by the Secret Service, an affidavit obtained by the News4 I-Team shows.

Two protesters were arrested near the White House for burning the American flag Thursday as attendees of President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July “Salute to America” were waiting for the event to start. One protester was arrested for felony assault on a police officer and malicious burning, and the other for obstructing a police investigation and resisting arrest, Secret Service...

Secret Service officers jumped on the hood of a car and pulled a man blocking traffic out through the sun roof near the White House Thursday afternoon.

A man blocked traffic near the White House and started shouting from his sun roof until Secret Service officers forced him out.

During the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Trump International Hotel in Washington charged the Secret Service more than $200,000 in taxpayer money, including a bill topping $30,000 for two days of use, according to expense documents obtained by NBC News. The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request covering Secret Service expenditures, detail money the agency...

A person was arrested Friday night after trying to get onto the White House grounds near the historic Treasury Building, the U.S. Secret Service said, as reported by NBC News. The trespassing attempt occurred about 9:10 p.m., the service said in a statement. “An individual attempted to cross a security barrier on the northwest side of the Treasury Building fence...

A Montgomery County mother is crying foul after law enforcement was called because her 10-year-old son was playing with toy money purchased off of Amazon on a school bus.

Chris Gordon reports on a boy in Montgomery County who was questioned by police for having play money, which authorities mistakenly believed may have been counterfeit.