A Secret Service agent assigned to Barack Obama was breaching security while leading a double life, according to a memoir by ...

In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the federal law enforcement agency is in the spotlight. Here ...

At least one Uniformed Division officer was initially assigned to investigate the cocaine incident. But after he told his ...

“On Sunday evening, the White House complex went into a precautionary closure as officers from the Secret Service Uniformed Division investigated an unknown item found inside a work area,” the ...

A former Secret Service uniformed officer, who was assigned to the White at the time of his arrest in 2015, was sentenced Thursday in Miami federal court to 20 years in prison to be followed by a ...

A Secret Service agent has been accused of sexually ... Early Sunday morning, a Uniformed Division officer shot himself in the foot in a non-life-threatening mistake while in his vehicle outside ...

I just want to go work somewhere else. For example, the guy that is in charge of the uniformed division, one of the biggest parts of the Secret Service, the folks that protect the White House ...

By combining the ceremonial role of a monarch with the responsibilities of a Prime Minister, the Constitution created an ...

News Service Produced externally by an organization we trust to adhere to journalistic standards. An officer of the Uniformed Division of the US Secret Service stands near the White House in ...

He'll likely take the advice of his security detail and wear a bulletproof vest. At the end of the day, when the President is enjoying his Inaugural Ball, the Secret Service will still be close by.

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. History always makes a sharp turn in Washington when a new American President takes the oath of office, and so it will ...