The White House was briefly placed on lockdown due to an “unattended package” that was found along the North Lawn fence. According to the AP, the issue has been resolved.

@WhiteHouse after suspicious package prompted lockdown

— Josh Lederman (@joshledermanAP) July 17, 2014

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Both the president and vice president are away from Washington  today– “the Bear is loose” in Delaware to give a speech or two about infrastructure, do some photo-ops with “the folks”,  and then he’s off to New York City for two fundraisers – because there’s not much happening in the world to be concerned about, right?

Biden in Detroit where he gets to speak this afternoon to a room full of  lefties attending the Netroots Nation convention.