Missouri man charged with threatening Sen. Josh Hawley

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man has been arrested after authorities say he threated Republican Sen. Josh Hawley in a social media message.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jeremy Cawthon appeared in federal court Friday in St. Louis for a brief hearing on a charge of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.
An arrest affidavit says the FBI was contacted on April 1 about the Facebook threat, in which Cawthon is accused of writing to the senator from Missouri tha