Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say

The man, Billy J. Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.

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Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29

He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

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White House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom

The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.

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James Comey’s Lawyers Move to Dismiss Case Brought by Trump’s Justice Dept.

Motions by lawyers for the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sought to dismiss the case in a two-front assault.

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Man Who Fled to Europe Gets at Least 5 Years for Rape, Prosecutors Say

A judge in Utah said that statements from women indicated that Nicholas Rossi, 38, was a “serial abuser of women.” He faces sentencing in another rape case next month.

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Your November Election Guide (Yes, This November)

It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration.

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Justice Department Scrutinizes a Trip Fani Willis Took to the Bahamas

President Trump has said that Ms. Willis, the prosecutor who brought election interference charges against him two years ago in Georgia, “should be prosecuted.”

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Air Traffic Controllers Could Soon Be Getting No Pay

Controllers have already received one reduced check, because the shutdown began in the middle of a pay period. The next pay date, Oct. 28, will be the first fully missed paycheck.

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All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding

One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations.

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Congressional Democrats Investigate Arrests of Americans During Raids

Representative Robert Garcia and Senator Richard Blumenthal started an inquiry to examine reports of misconduct by immigration agents, focusing on the arrests of citizens.

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