A Secret Service police officer walks outside the White House in Washington, Oct. 23, 2014, as a maintenance worker performs fence repairs as part of a previous fence restoration project.

The wrought-iron fence that surrounds the White House hasn’t changed since 1965, but that may be about to change after a Texas man jumped over it on Sept. 19 and made it all the way through the ...

The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and ...

After the fence jumper managed to make his way into the White House, one of the first things the Secret Service did was to put up another fence, sort of. It's actually a line of bike racks strung ...

Security officials have long attested the White House fence needed an upgrade for security reasons. “The overall height will be 13 feet, 1 inch including the stone base.

It may be the first successful intrusion onto the complex since the White House fence was doubled in height to roughly 13 feet (3.96-meters) in recent years after a series of security breaches.

The fear of being tackled by secret service officers or worse usually keeps people from breaching the roughly 13-foot fence that surrounds the White House. But on Tuesday morning, it didn't stop a ...

A toddler briefly entered the White House grounds through the fence on Tuesday. After security systems were triggered, Secret Service members reunited the child with its parents.

It isn't only the White House bracing for Election Day mayhem. Local news reported some businesses downtown with boarded up doors and windows, and a high fence was also erected around the Naval ...

U.S. Secret Service uniformed division police officers carry a young child who crawled through the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

This may have been the first successful intrusion of the White House grounds since the fence was heightened, but this is not the first time a toddler has made their way into the complex. In 2014 ...