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The bystander who was struck by gunfire after a man fired on a checkpoint outside the White House and was fatally shot by U.S. Secret Service officers remains in serious condition. The Secret Service on Sunday said the bystander, who has not been identified, suffered a gunshot wound described as not life-threatening. Authorities have released few additional details about the...

A bystander was also wounded in the shooting at a checkpoint near 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, and the White House was briefly placed on lockdown. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Julie Tsirkin was preparing to report from the White House when multiple shots could be heard being fired nearby. Watch as she recorded the press being moved inside the White House by Secret Service.

The suspect, Nesire Best, had a documented history with local law enforcement and had a history of mental health concerns. 

According to NBC News reporter Julie Tsirkin at the White House, she heard at around 20 to 30 gunshots.

President Donald Trump is defending the White House ballroom he’s building. He showed off the construction site to a group of reporters on Tuesday. The surprise visit comes days after the Senate parliamentarian said a proposal to pay for $1 billion in security additions to the White House campus could not be included in a bill currently before Congress. Raising...

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that his anti-fraud task force is looking into whether Democratic Govs. Gavin Newsom of California and Tim Walz of Minnesota were complicit in Medicare fraud. “We’ve certainly seen reports … that there were fraudulent activities happening in their states and they’re looking the other way.”

President Donald Trump spoke from the Rose Garden in honor of Police Week on Monday night, where he discussed ongoing renovations to the White House.

A California man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner while armed with guns and knives has pleaded not guilty to charges he attempted to kill President Donald Trump and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer. Cole Tomas Allen was handcuffed and shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform when he appeared in federal court for...

Virginia Rep. James Walkinshaw reacted to news that President Donald Trump was seeking $1 billion in taxpayer funds to build the White House ballroom. “[It’s] insulting to hardworking American families struggling to make ends meet.”

Senate Republicans are pushing $1 billion in White House security upgrades for President Donald Trump’s ballroom project.

The man charged with trying to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and kill President Donald Trump took a picture of himself in his hotel room just minutes earlier, outfitted with an ammunition bag, a shoulder gun holster and a sheathed knife. The details are in a new court filing Wednesday. Authorities say Cole Allen, of Torrance, California, was...

Spectators have questioned whether President Donald Trump broke protocol during King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s visit to the White House by walking ahead of and touching the monarch. Here’s what you need to know.

Despite renewed GOP calls for funding the ballroom after a shooting at a dinner attended by the president, the project still faces an uphill climb in Congress.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed conspiracy theories about the shooting at the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner as “crazy nonsense.”

Trump and his allies said the incident shows the necessity of his $400 million ballroom, even though it’s far from certain that the annual dinner honoring the media would be held there.

Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities.

A Torrance neighborhood was the center of an investigation after a man was accused of shooting near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C. 

Donald Trump is expected to make his first appearance as president at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington.

Trump’s planned attendance gives him a new venue to air his grievances with the journalists who cover him.