The Secret Service has a new problem: More threats, more drones, more lone actors

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Unbiased updates off script Thursdays at Straight Arrow. The Secret Service says it is dealing with the most challenging threat environment in modern history

And the numbers help explain why. The Secret Service says it has opened about 10,000 threat cases since January, up 40 percent from a year ago

Director Sean Curran says the surge includes more online threats, lone actors, foreign threats, and mental health-related cases

Curran called the current security environment the most volatile he's seen in his 24 years with the Secret Service

It's no secret. There are things happening around the globe that are always going to impact how we move

and that how we evaluate what our security plan is going to be We do base that off of what happening The warning comes as the agency prepares for Friday rescheduled White House Correspondents

Dinner, moved to the Waldorf Astoria after April's shooting outside the original venue

at the Washington Hilton. Curran defended the security plan used that night, saying officers

stopped the armed suspect exactly where he was supposed to be, at the security checkpoint

more than a football field from the dinner itself. He said the Secret Service expects

dangerous people to reach screening areas, which is why those layers of security exist in the first

place. We will always evaluate every site and right now we have an advanced team there and they will

take back and they will set up a plan to set that site up for success, just like we did at the White

House Correspondent Center at the Hilton. That is a success. That is why we set up checkpoints. That

is why we have our teams, our special teams in place, because we do plan for that. Officials

also said Iran continues to factor into President Trump's security, while warning that drones are

quickly becoming one of the agency's biggest concerns. The Secret Service says it has expanded

its counter-drone capabilities since the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler

Pennsylvania, and now deploys those systems with the president calling it only a matter of time

before the U.S. faces a major drone threat