Acting on information generated by agents in the Secret Service's Pittsburgh field office, a Pennsylvania police officer arrested Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez at a hotel near Indiana, Pennsylvania, the agency said Wednesday.

Ortega-Hernandez was taken into custody around 12:35 p.m. and is currently in the custody of state police. Authorities believe he is the individual who fired two bullets at the White House on Friday night.

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Protestors with the Occupy D.C. movement marched through the nation's capital on Tuesday night to stand up to aggressive police tactics against others in the Occupy movement across the country. But on the local front, they say they don't have much to complain about, as far as the cops go.

While other Occupy protestors from New York to Berkeley have been roughed up by police, activists and law enforcement authorities in the District have been getting along pretty well.

"It's been better than I...

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Promoting lynching as a form of punishment is a sure way to get attention. And Sarah Palin is certainly craving attention these days.

In an interview aired Tuesday night with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, Palin weighed in the pedophilia scandal engulfing former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

"Hang him from the highest tree," she said. "I'll bring the rope."

The subject was first broached when Van Susteren asked Palin to comment about GOP candidate Rick Santorum's recent statement to the Des Moines Register.

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Jon Stewart on Tuesday unloaded on former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who is accused of sexually abusing young boys. NBC's Bob Costas on Monday interviewed Sandusky by phone -- a moment almost tailor-made for The Daily Show.

"I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me when you're accused of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, you might not want to literally phone in your defense on national television," Jon Stewart said.

Costas pressed Sandusky on his actions at Penn State, asking point-blank if he is sexually attracted to young boys. Sandusky stalled, and repeated the question. Then asked about an incident in the shower, where he is accused of raping a young boy, Sandusky said they were just "horsing" around.

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"My life has taken a bit of a turn," lobbyist-turned-felon-turned-reform advocate Jack Abramoff told the crowd assembled in Tucker Carlson's living room in Northwest D.C. on Tuesday night. "I used to be a right-wing guy who sort of disdained the New York Times, 60 Minutes and Michael Moore. Now, I'm happy to be on 60 Minutes, I love the pieces in the New York Times and Michael Moore is my new best friend."

Meet Abramoff 2.

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Late update, Nov. 16, 2:11PM: The Secret Service announced the suspect was taken into custody in Pennsylvania.

The Secret Service searched Occupy D.C. on Monday for a man suspected of firing bullets at the White House on Friday, one of which was stopped by the building's ballistic glass.

Protestor Ralph Wittenberg told TPM on Tuesday evening that authorities came through "searching for a so-called terrorist who shot at the White House, with no warrant, they went into everybody's tents.

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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel used his private Gmail account to communicate with Attorney General Eric Holder during his time in the White House, according to the results of Freedom of Information Act request we filed.

Though the Department of Justice has acknowledged just one email exchange with Holder using Emanuel's unofficial address, the disclosure raises questions about whether Emanuel may have sought to skirt the Presidential Records Act by conducting government business using Gmail rather than his White House address.

Emanuel, you may recall, was one of the many victims of the massive iPad data leak that disclosed the private email addresses of tens of thousands of movers and shakers in June 2010. Having been privy to his Gmail address, last year we filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act with a variety of federal agencies looking to see if he ever used it to talk to Administration officials--a tactic that the Bush White House perfected as a way to keep email communications off the historical record and out of the hands of prying congressional investigators.

And according to the Justice Department, Emanuel did just that--but only once, and allegedly for personal reasons. "We located one document, totaling one page, consisting of a personal record of Attorney General Holder," the DOJ wrote in response to our request for emails from Emanuel's Gmail address.

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Former Alabama state representative Terry Spicer (D) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to accepting cash, campaign services and a ski vacation from Alabama lobbyist caught up in a massive bribery case involving casino interests in the state.

Between 2006 and 2010, Spicer admitted he accepted campaign contributions and gifts like concert tickets from Alabama businessman Ronnie Gilley and Jarrod Massey in exchange for his assistance. Massey and Gilley have pleaded guilty to either offering or paying bribes to Spicer and other state legislators. Massey previously testified that it would be "fair" to say Spicer was on retainer for him.

Spicer admitted that Massey gave him up to $3,000 a month as well as $9,000 to help him buy a ski boat, according to the Birmingham News.

Spicer could face up to 10 years in prison as well as a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.

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Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum explained to the Texas-based King Street Patriots on Monday night that his "Registering The Poor To Vote Is Un-American" article may have been "indelicately worded" but said his larger point stands.

"Why do I hate democracy and the poor?" Vadum joked, clarifying that he "wasn't saying that people shouldn't have the right to vote if they're poor."

He went on to criticize the National Voter Registration Act (also known as the "Motor Voter" act) calling it "an evil thing" that was "created to muck up" the election process.

"How else can you justify a law that mandates that welfare recipients be given -- be encouraged -- to vote when they're there in the cheese line picking up their check?" Vadum said.

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Over 60 survivors and family members of gun violence victims -- including 13 survivors or family members of victims of the shooting at Rep. Gabby Giffords's town hall -- are hitting Capitol Hill on Tuesday to encourage lawmakers to close holes in the gun background check system.

Their visit will be accompanied by a report by Mayors Against Illegal Gun Violence that finds missing records may help put guns in the hands of killers. The report finds that millions of records what would identify individuals as mentally ill or drug abusers are missing from the federal background check database due to lax reporting by state agencies. It also finds that federal agencies are not reporting requirements to the background check system despite the law that all federal agencies report "any record of any person" who is prohibited from purchasing firearms to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is also scheduled to deliver signatures from 350,000 people asking for the gun check system to be fixed.

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