Secret Service avoids hearings for now on press gala attack

WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service has held a series of private meetings this week with members of Congress defending his agency’s handling of the thwarted attack at Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner, assuring lawmakers that his agency handled the incident well. So far, the Secret Service’s efforts seem to have headed off the possibility of wide-ranging hearings on Capitol Hill like those that took place after another lone gunman nearly took President Donald Trump’s life in...