Former White House executive chef Walter Scheib was found dead in New Mexico on Sunday, the Taos News reports. According to authorities, Scheib had gone hiking in an unfamiliar area in the Taos Ski Valley last Saturday when he apparently vanished.
Earlier today, the President of the United States and the holder of the highest office in the land, Barack Obama, debuted the first, official Twitter account run by the President and the President alone. Because of how the internet works, hundreds of people immediately asked the President to please sit on my face,…
One imagines that the mind of the president is constantly occupied by the fate of the free world. This probably explains, for instance, why George W. Bush could barely read. Lyndon B. Johnson, though, was not your average president, for various reasons, but quite prominently that he was very concerned about the state…
Longtime White House florist Laura Dowling was mysteriously fired last month, the Washington Post's Reliable Source reports. Were her "fussy" floral arrangements too "French" for the newly "modern" first lady? Sounds like it!
The Secret Service says a letter sent to the White House this week has tested positive for cyanide, confirming an earlier report by The Intercept. According to that story, the letter's return address matches that of a man who previously mailed the White House "a package covered in urine and feces."
The two allegedly drunk Secret Service agents who reportedly crashed their car into a White House barrier last week interfered with an active bomb investigation and, in their alleged drunken stupor, may have driven over the suspected bomb, according to a report in the Washington Post.
They may not be very good at their jobs, but at least they're not boring? Yet another pair of Secret Service agents had to be pulled off the rotation this week after they allegedly got drunk and crashed their government vehicle into a White House barricade.
At around 10 a.m. this morning, there was "a loud noise" heard outside the White House. Shortly afterward, the White House went on lockdown. Additionally, at around the same time, a nearby food truck caught on fire and a bomb-sniffing dog detected "something" on a suspicious vehicle. Which, if any, of these events are…
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency employee who reportedly flew a small drone over the White House fence Sunday morning was drunk as hell, according to a report in the New York Times.
The drone that crashed inside the White House complex early Monday morning was flown by a government employee, according to a report in the New York Times.
A two-foot long "quad-copter" drone crashed into a tree inside the White House grounds early Monday morning, triggering a two-hour lockdown of the complex's perimeter. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed the crash this morning, though he claimed the drone is probably nothing to worry about.
During an interview on ABC Sunday, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough apparently dropped the first name of the last American hostage held by ISIS—a woman whose name was kept secret for almost a year-and-a-half.
The Secret Service demoted four execs this week, but according to the New York Times, the agency still hasn't gotten around to securing the White House fence, which the Department of Homeland Security has deemed "one of the biggest dangers to the president's security."
It's been a year since Miriam Carey was shot dead by Secret Service agents outside the Capitol, and as the Washington Post points out in a new investigation into the incident, many aspects of her death still make no sense.
A new Homeland Security report cites nearly a dozen "factors" that allowed intruder Omar Jose Gonzalez to break into the White House this September, ranging from malfunctioning radios to a mistaken belief by Secret Service agents that White House bushes "were an impassable barrier."
Today Jeffrey Goldberg published an essay at The Atlantic about rising tensions between the governments of the United States and Israel. Things do not seem to be going very well. Goldberg opens his piece by quoting an unnamed “senior Obama administration official” who recently told him: “The thing about Bibi is, he’s…
Another day, another security breach at the White House.
According to the Washington Post, Secret Service agents weren't the only ones hiring hookers in Cartagena—a fact the White House reportedly tried to keep quiet.
The Secret Service agent who eventually stopped Omar Jose Gonzalez, the man arrested earlier this month for running into the East Room of the White House with a knife, was off-duty and just happened to be leaving as Gonzalez was running through the building, the Washington Post reports.
Omar Jose Gonzalez, the man arrested earlier this month for charging into the White House after hopping its front fence, made it farther into the building than previously reported, according to the Washington Post.
