Secret Service Faces Record Threat Surge | Dayton News

Dayton News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 23, 2026 · 1m

The U.S. Secret Service is in overdrive, investigating over ten thousand threats this year — the highest in its history — as mental health interventions spike nearly tenfold. With online threats, foreign interference, lone actors, and ideological motives fueling the surge, the agency faces an unprecedentedly volatile landscape. Just days before a major Washington event, an assassination attempt on a former president marked the third such attack since last July — and they narrowly foiled another plot targeting a White House birthday celebration. Armed with cutting-edge tech to counter drones…