The man who managed to jump the fence and run into the White House Friday night had 800 rounds of ammunition in boxes and magazines, two hatchets, and a machete in his car, a federal prosecutor said today. The prosecutor also noted that the man, 42-year-old veteran Omar Jose Gonzalez, was arrested in July with a…
The man who made it over the fence and through the White House doors on Friday while wielding a knife has been identified as 42-year-old Omar J. Gonzalez, an army veteran who retired in 2012 due to an undisclosed disability.
Tourists and peace protesters barnacled outside the White House on Friday evening caught quite a show when a Texas man scaled the White House fence, raced across the lawn, and through the north portico doors before being nabbed by Secret Service agents.
In a televised speech Wednesday night, President Obama announced plans to ramp up airstrikes, send additional service members to Iraq, and provide more humanitarian aid in an effort to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the terrorist group ISIS.
The potential national security threat that not enough people are talking about? Babies. A toddler squeezed through the fence in front of the White House Thursday night, triggering an alarm and sending the Secret Service into lockdown mode.
In recognition of their brave service, U.S. troops will be invited to a special 4th of July concert on the White House's South lawn featuring Mr. Worldwide himself.
Today Politico Magazine’s Timothy J. Burger looks back at the “gay underground” of the George W. Bush administration, whose leaders famously supported amending the U.S. Constitution to federally ban gay marriage, and even paid off newspaper columnists to defend the amendment. So how big was the Bush White House’s…
Today, a White House intern fainted on LIVE C-SPAN on her first day of work. It’s only up from here.
Guided by Voices superfan Jay Carney has resigned as White House Press Secretary. Josh Earnest, Carney's current deputy, will take over the position.
On Tuesday, just five weeks after the UN published its own damning report on climate change, the White House released its National Climate Assessment. The findings, contributed to by more than 300 climate scientists and technical experts, are terrifying.
Months after Justin Bieber faux-outraged Americans with an adorable little crime spree, the White House has finally responded to a petition to deport the singer back to his native Canada with a polite, "Yeah, no."
Four months after the White House's review panel suggested similar changes, President Obama is finally ready to abandon the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records. According to the White House's proposal, the records would stay with the phone companies for just 18 months; in order to access the data, the…
[The president gives Sunny Obama a belly rub in the White House's Blue Room as Bo and Michelle look on with skepticism. Image via @WhiteHouse/Twitter.]
This strange and savage American winter has produced many oddities, and the appearance of Snowy Owls from the Arctic Circle has been the only delight in a season of ice and gloom. And then a Washington DC bus struck a beloved white owl a block away from the White House Rose Garden.
Now that he's finished with the State of the Union, President Obama can focus on more important tasks, like the petition to deport the alleged Canadian criminal Justin Bieber.
Nobody dunks like the First Lady. Not even the Miami Heat, who visited the White House recently to talk about how to eat right and stay fit. Don't you talk about the best, or I'm going to shut it for you real quick.
The White House released a critical report on the NSA's data collection programs, suggesting increased regulation and urging President Obama to end the government's practice of logging the metadata from Americans' phone calls.
A man was arrested today for throwing an unidentified item over the White House's north fence. Pennsylvania Avenue was closed for about an hour, but no explosives were found.
National Journal's Ron Fournier has smuggled a new dispatch through the censors posted around the Capital Beltway, describing the latest gross abuse of power by Maximum Leader Barack Obama: freezing out the photographic representatives of the free press in favor of "flooding the public with state-run media."
Jofi Joseph, the White House staffer fired last week (and unmasked on Tuesday by The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin) for tweeting disparagingly about Obama administration officials, turns out to have been one of those Internet-based tough guys who make Twitter such a valuable medium. A few highlights from an archive of…
