A distraught woman, with her one-year-old daughter in the car, tried to ram the White House gates on Thursday at approximately 2:12 pm.

Officers cornered Miriam Carey's vehicle and yelled at her with guns drawn, but she put her black Infiniti in reverse and sped off, leading officers on a high speed chase to 2^nd Street and Constitution Avenue NW, police said.

Carey circled monuments in front of Capitol Hill twice, then headed toward the Capitol, where Capitol Hill police and Secret Servi...