AXIOS (Rebecca Falconer) - Secret Service threat cases soar 40%
Threats against people the U.S. Secret Service protects are up about 40% from a year ago, the agency says, as it prepares for Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner . Why it matters: The increase is stretching Secret Service resources as agents devote more time to investigating threats against senior government officials. Driving the news: "We are seeing a roughly 40% increase from this time compared to last year," Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi tells Axios. - "This is roughly 10,000 so far this year and we are a little over halfway through the year," he says. - Mental health interventions have increased tenfold from the same period last year, including referrals and both voluntary and involuntary…