The US Secret Service said two agents were under investigation after an incident last week in which they were reported to have driven a government car into White House barricades after drinking at a late-night party.

A man has come forward to say he was responsible for the drone that crashed In the White House grounds.

The Secret Service response to an armed intruder at the White House was complicated by muted alarms, thick bushes on the lawn, unlocked doors, and an officer physically too small to tackle the intruder.

The 23-year-old Maryland man who climbed over the White House fence on Wednesday night has been charged with assaulting two police dogs and making threats, the Secret Service said.

A 23-year-old man is in custody after climbing over the White House fence and attacking Secret Service guard dogs unleashed by agents.

JPMorgan Chase Bank has said a data breach has affected 76 million households and seven million small businesses.

The US Secret Service director has told lawmakers she takes full responsibility for the serious breach of White House security when an Army veteran with a knife climbed the fence and made his way into the executive mansion before he was tackled.

An intruder who jumped a fence at the White House made it further inside the building than the US Secret Service has publicly acknowledged, according to reports.

Security at the White House has been stepped up after a man with a knife jumped the fence and made it into the presidential residence before being tackled.

A man jumped over the fence of the White House and made it through the front door before officers managed to apprehend him, just minutes after President Barack Obama had departed.

The FBI is working with the Secret Service to determine the extent of cyber attacks against several US financial institutions.

There was a brief moment of panic as the little tyke squeezed throught the fence - the Secret Service had a brilliant response.

THE date most closely associated with the Secret Service isn’t its founding, in 1865. It’s not 1902, when it assumed full-time protection of the president, following William McKinley’s assassination.

A Bitcoin trade group will meet today with the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and an array of law-enforcement officials and regulators to discuss oversight of the digital currency.

US first lady Michelle Obama and vice president Joe Biden are among the latest public figures to have their private information posted on a mysterious website.

The US Secret Service is investigating whether former president George HW Bush’s email was hacked along with other family members and friends, the agency said.

Is the Colorado shooter delusional, depressed, or psychotic? And why does this type of tragedy keep happening? Dave Cullen, author of ‘Columbine’, searches for clues in the latest research on mass murderers

The head of the US Secret Service — in his first public appearance since a Colombian prostitution scandal involving his staff surfaced last month — issued an apology for the misconduct, as lawmakers expressed doubt it was an isolated incident.

Several groups of American Secret Service employees visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia and engaged in "morally repugnant" behaviour before a visit by President Barack Obama, a US senator has alleged.

Rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent has pleaded guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska, saying he was sorry for unwittingly violating the law.

About 20 women were brought back to a hotel in Colombia by US Secret Service and military personnel in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes, US Senator Susan Collins said yesterday.

The sex scandal involving US Secret Service agents and prostitutes in a hotel in Colombia involved at least 20 foreign women, congressional officials say.

US president Barack Obama broke his silence over claims that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes and said “of course I’ll be angry” if the accusations were true.

A man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into a shooting near the White House, the US Secret Service said.

A man climbed over the White House fence near its western entrance gate and ran towards the presidential residence before he was apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers, US authorities said.

A TROVE of John F Kennedy pictures by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, including a rare image of Marilyn Monroe with the president and Robert Kennedy at a Democratic fund-raiser, fetched $151,000 (€114,000) at auction.

YES, the publishing industry is reeling these days, but surely authors can find less disruptive ways to promote their works than hauling off and throwing a copy at the president of the United States.

MI6 HAS lifted somewhat the veil of secrecy that has surrounded its operations for the past century with the publication of the first authorised history of the service.

A THIRD uninvited guest made his way into the White House state dinner for India’s prime minister, it emerged yesterday.

The couple who gatecrashed a White House state dinner were being filmed by a reality TV show camera crew, the network said today.

The US Secret Service launched an urgent investigation into its own security procedures after a couple gatecrashed a glittering White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister and posted the pictures on Facebook.

HE wasn’t in good humour.

A Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford was freed from prison today after 34 years behind bars.

North Korea was today blamed for sophisticated cyber attacks that paralysed major US government websites.

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began on July 4 knocked out the websites of several US government agencies - including some responsible for fighting cyber crime, it emerged today.

Turkish police arrested a man who claims to have plotted to kill US President Barack Obama when he visited Turkey.

A US man charged with threatening to kill President George Bush professed his innocence in court, then started sobbing after a federal magistrate ordered him to be jailed.

A man said to have been keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in a Florida court accused of threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

One of US President George Bush’s 24-year-old twin daughters had her handbag stolen from under a Buenos Aires restaurant table while being guarded by the Secret Service, US and Argentine media have reported today.

The Secret Service called off an alert at the White House, Washington DC, an hour after a man tossed a suspicious package onto the compound’s North Lawn, officials said.

The windows from which President John F Kennedy is said to have been assassinated are to go up for auction in the United States, it emerged today.

High school yearbooks have been recalled so that administrators could black out a joke caption under one student’s picture: “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”

BURGERS and chips for stakeouts, pay-offs for snitches and wages for our man in Moscow are just a few of the potential destinations of taxpayers’ money allocated to the Secret Service.

A hacker broke into an American wireless carrier network over at least seven months and read emails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers - including the Secret Service agent investigating him.