News of the day from around the nation, Aug. 15

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Newspaper protest: The call to arms came in the form of a memo. Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of The Boston Globe, reached out to editorial boards at other newspapers last week. “We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on the dangers of the administration’s assault on the press and ask others to commit to publishing their own editorials on the same date,” the memo said. As of Tuesday, more than 200 newspapers had signed on. The Globe’s effort to rally editorial writers across the country came in reaction to President Trump’s stepped-up attacks on the media. The Chronicle is not joining the campaign.