Topic: Kimberly Schneider

Authorities locked down the U.S. Capitol and Visitor Center for a couple hours Saturday after a man shot himself to death there, investigators said.

Capitol Police arrested the press secretary of a Republican congressman Friday when he entered a House-side office building carrying a handgun.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., said he was unharmed in an apparent assault by "a random individual" on Capitol Hill.

Josh Fox, director of the documentary "Gasland," was arrested Wednesday trying to film a U.S. congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, police said.

The north side of the U.S. Capitol was closed off Thursday morning after a police officer discovered a suspicious package.

U.S. Capitol Police arrested 22 protesters Monday for disrupting the House of Representatives' debt-ceiling debate.

The U.S. House gallery was cleared Thursday and 14 people protesting prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay were arrested after they disrupted a House session.

Police in Washington said they shot and injured a man who allegedly pointed a weapon at officers near the U.S. House of Representatives office buildings.

The U.S. Capitol Police say a Capitol police officer was shot and wounded while exchanging gunfire with a suspect in Greenbelt, Md.

A man carrying a shotgun was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, a report said.