The U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said a man who passed a security checkpoint with a handgun and toured the chamber was arrested and charged.

A Washington, DC man was detained Wednesday after he allegedly tried to slip a machete and three knives into the US Capitol Visitor Center hours before President-elect Donald Trump was due to arrive.

U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said they suspended an officer who let a man with a gun into the Capitol Visitor Center on ...

An armed Massachusetts man was apprehended by Capitol Police near the Library of Congress after taking a tour of the Capitol ...

The U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police found the man in a Washington hotel early Tuesday morning ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... for trying to bring a machete and knives into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, police said. U.S. Capitol police said officers ...

Police said Mel J. Horne, 44, from Washington, D.C. tried to get a machete and three small knives past security at the Capitol Visitor Center. They said it was around 2 p.m. Wednesday when ...

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The USCP noted that when Faber went through the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) checkpoint, the magnetometers sounded and an officer performed a secondary hand search. But the officer missed the ...

Police briefly halted security screening on the north side of the visitor center but it has since reopened. The arrest came as members of the public were streaming into the Capitol to pay their ...

Man Arrested for Trying to Bring a Machete Into the US Capitol Visitor Center WASHINGTON (AP) — A man was arrested Wednesday for trying to bring a machete and knives into the U.S. Capitol ...