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The U.S. Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the White House fence made it all the way through the front door before being apprehended.

President Barack Obama and his daughters had just departed the White House on Friday evening when an intruder scaled the north fence, darted across the lawn and into the presidential residence, where agents nabbed him

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of a formal House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon, saying "the actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution."

The announcement followed scrutiny of a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump asked Zelensky to look into

With his victory Tuesday in a special election for Congress, Mark Sanford provided the latest evidence that, contrary to F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous dictum, second acts are possible in American life.

That seems especially true in U.S. politics, where voters have proven themselves willing to forgive and, if not forget, at least re-elect politicians who have strayed from the straight and

Five days left: It's looking more and more like Washington may not get a deal done in time to avert the fiscal cliff. What happens to the economy if lawmakers don't cut a deal and the tax hikes and spending cuts become law?

The worst-case scenario is if Congress stands by and lets the fiscal cliff stay in effect all next year. Economists expect the U.S. economy would then fall into a