News of the Day From Across the Nation, May 19

Commuters into and out of New York’s famed Grand Central Terminal faced crippling delays Wednesday, a day after a raging fire broke out beneath elevated train tracks in the city, officials said.

The blaze Tuesday night at a garden center underneath Metro-North tracks, north of the station in Manhattan’s East Harlem section, halted train service and left thousands of commuters stranded on their way home.

2 Manhattan shooting: A man became belligerent as he tried to buy beer at a grocery store Wednesday morning, pulled out an 8-inch knife that he refused to drop and was shot to death by police on a busy tourist-filled Manhattan street, police officials said.

National security leaker Chelsea Manning is appealing her 2013 court-martial conviction for sending classified material to the antisecrecy website WikiLeaks while serving as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq.

The transgender soldier, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was convicted of espionage and other offenses for sending WikiLeaks more than 700,000 digital files including battlefield logs, diplomatic cables and video clips.

Just 42 percent of adults describe the U.S. economy as good, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in Chicago.

The divide suggests that despite their own financial gains, many people worry about risks beyond their control — from a volatile stock market to another economic downturn.