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The White House's top counterterrorism adviser says the Secret Service scandal did not expose weak spots in the president's security.

A man wanted in an investigation of shots fired near the White House was arrested Wednesday in Pennsylvania, a day after agents discovered two bullets had struck the executive mansion while President Barack Obama was away, the U.S. Secret Service said. The Secret Service said it discovered Tuesday that the two bullets had hit the White House, one of them apparently cracking a window on the level of the president's living quarters, while Obama and his wife Michelle were on a trip to California and Hawaii. The president has since traveled on to Australia, his second stop on a nine-day tour of the Asia-Pacific region.

An unidentified man was in Secret Service custody Tuesday night after he climbed over the White House fence.

A third uninvited guest made it into a White House state dinner in honor of the Indian prime minister, but there is no evidence the person had contact with the president or first lady, the Secret Service said on Monday.

The group Judicial Watch has sued the Secret Service for access to the list of visitors to the Obama White House.

The Secret Service director and the couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner have been called to testify ...

The Secret Service says it's 'deeply concerned and embarrassed.' The agency is looking into how such a security breach happened at the White House and whether Michaele and Tareq Salahi broke any laws.

President Obama met face to face with the Virginia couple who crashed this week's state dinner at the White House, officials acknowledged Friday, as the Secret Service said that it was "deeply concerned and embarrassed" by the breach of security.

Two Secret Service agents visited a Virginia winery Friday intending to question a couple whose appearance at a White House state dinner raised eyebrows this week, the winery manager told CNN.