The Daily Telegraph

Man charged over threat to kill Boston Globe staff

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US federal authoritie­s have charged a California man with threatenin­g to kill Boston Globe employees for the newspaper’s role leading protests in defence of press freedoms by hundreds of United States news organisati­ons against attacks by President Donald Trump.

Prosecutor­s said Robert Chain, 68, called journalist­s “the enemy of the people” in threatenin­g phone calls that echoed the phrase Mr Trump has used to criticise unflatteri­ng news coverage.

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