Man arrested for threatening Boston Globe

Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man in California on Thursday after he made repeated threats of violence against the Boston Globe newspaper this month, which included echoing the catchphrase popularized by President Donald Trump that the news media are “the enemy of the people,” officials said.

Robert Chain, 68, of Encino, a neighborhood in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, was charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, which comes with a potential penalty of as many as five years in prison. Mr. Chain made at least 14 threatening phone calls to the Globe beginning Aug. 10, the FBI said in a statement, after the Globe announced that it was organizing a campaign for newspapers to respond collectively to Mr. Trump’s repeated attempts to demonize the media.

Officials said that Mr. Chain called the Globe “the enemy of the people,” lambasting “fake news” and threatening to kill its employees.

Trump: Sessions ‘safe’

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump said Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ job is safe at least until the midterm elections in November.

“I just would love to have him do a great job,” Mr. Trump said in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News. Asked if he’d keep Mr. Sessions beyond November, he declined to comment.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly attacked Mr. Sessions in private and in public for recusing himself in March 2017 from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein then appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to conduct what has become a wide-ranging probe.