The Secret Service has detained a man who has jumped the White House fence on Wednesday evening, according to multiple reports.

South Carolina House Speaker Bobby Harrell (R) will plead guilty to the ethics and corruption charges he was indicted with in September, the Post and Courier reported.

Harrell was indicted on nine charges, including misusing campaign funds. The Post and Courier was unclear on how many of the charges Harrell plans to plead guilty to during his Thursday hearing.

Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) said he didn't read the Senate version of a Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, and that was why he voted against it.

Sen. Jeff Merkley says he plans to vote for a ballot measure on Election Day to legalize marijuana in Oregon.

"I lean in support of it," the Democratic senator told TPM in an interview on Wednesday.

Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

The FBI confirmed Wednesday that its investigation into the South Dakota immigration-visa program that has ensnared Republican Senate nominee Mike Rounds remains "active," the Argus Leader reported.

"We have an active investigation," Kyle Loven, chief division counsel for the FBI's Minneapolis division, told the newspaper. "As it is an active investigation, I'm not in a position to provide any details."

President Obama on Wednesday expressed concern about the shootings in Ottawa, Canada and said that the U.S. is working with Canada to determine whether the shootings were a terrorist attack.

"Just two days ago, a Canadian soldier had been killed in an attack. We now know that another young man was killed today. And I expressed on the behalf of the American people, our condolences to the family and to the Canadian people as a whole," Obama said during brief remarks at the White House.

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Multiple media outlets reported on Wednesday that a suspect involved in multiple shootings at and near the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa was named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

Fox News anchor Shep Smith opened his program Wednesday by quoting a member of Canadian parliament who said that the morning shooting in Ottawa "changes everything" in the largely tranquil nation.

A little bit later on his show, Smith offered a powerful rejoinder to that very sentiment, saying "we don't have to change everything about our lives" in the wake of such incidents.