U.S. Secret Service agents—and not members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement—visited an elementary school in Chicago on Friday to investigate a threat, the agency said, after the visit sparked concerns of an immigration raid on the majority-Latino school. Chicago Public School officials said the agents only identified themselves as belonging to the Department of Homeland Security, which encompasses both the Secret Service and ICE. “It...

President Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton said the president ended his Secret Service protection shortly after his return to the White House this week. “I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has decided to terminate the protection previously provided by the United States Secret Service,” Bolton said in an emailed statement to The Hill on Tuesday. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to extend that protection to me in 2021.”

President Donald Trump has chosen Sean Curran, the agent in charge of his security detail during the 2024 campaign, to be the new director of the US Secret Service, an organization under intense scrutiny following two failed assassination attempts against the then-Republican candidate.

President Donald Trump not only stripped one-time national security adviser John Bolton of his security clearance -- he also stripped him of a Secret Service detail that had been guarding him. CNN reports that Trump removed the security detail guarding Bolton within hours of taking office. "“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton told CNN. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President Biden’s national-security policies, he nonetheless made the decision to once again extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”