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The Secret Service does more than protect the president — and presidential candidates

by Kimberly Adams
Jul 16, 2024
Agency's failure to prevent the attack on Donald Trump is drawing scrutiny. It shields officials and families, but also probes financial crimes.
Secret Service agents surround Donald Trump after the shooting Saturday. Although the service is famous for protecting presidents, it protects other officials and their families and investigates allegations of financial crime.
Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images
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Will Capitol attack hike security costs for Biden inauguration?

by Samantha Fields
Jan 11, 2021
The pandemic likely saved money for the Secret Service budget during the 2020 campaign.
Workers reinforce a crowd-control fence around Capitol Hill with concrete barriers Thursday, after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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By The Numbers

Tallying the Secret Service's 'comedy of errors'

by Tony Wagner
Nov 14, 2014
Here are the stories we're reading and numbers we're watching Friday.
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The numbers for September 30, 2014

by Tony Wagner
Sep 30, 2014
Secret Service slipups, solar power and the death of Saturday morning cartoons.
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Final Note

The Secret Service wants sarcasm detection software

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 3, 2014
The Secret Service wants someone to create software that will detect sarcasm.
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President Obama isn't allowed to get a new iPhone for Christmas

by Molly Wood
Dec 6, 2013
President Obama revealed this week that he isn't allowed to have an iPhone. The Secret Service makes him stick to a BlackBerry.
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Codebreaker

People staring at computers, person maybe getting arrested

by John Moe
Jul 11, 2011
New York artist Kyle McDonald had this art project going where he installed software on computers in an Apple store that took photos of people...
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