US Domestic News Roundup: FedEx leans on special bonuses, Man arrested in Utah, Presidential test alert

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

Judge bars the U.S. from ending protections for immigrants from four countries

A U.S. federal judge in California barred the Trump administration on Wednesday from implementing a plan to end temporary protections for more than 300,000 immigrants in the United States from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan. U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen issued a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by a number of immigrants with temporary protected status, or TPS.

Ahead of holidays, FedEx leans on special bonuses to keep pilots from retiring

Santa's sleigh cannot fly without its pilot. With the peak holiday shipping season fast-approaching, global package delivery giant FedEx Corp is paying retirement-age pilots bonuses of $40,000 - and potentially as much as $110,000 - to keep them flying into next year, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter and a contract seen by Reuters.

Man arrested in Utah over ricin mailed to Pentagon, Trump: report

A man was taken into custody in Logan, Utah on Wednesday as part of an investigation into envelopes filled with ricin, a poison, mailed to Pentagon officials and President Donald Trump, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The man's identity was not released, local police told the newspaper. A Federal Bureau of Investigation official in Salt Lake City referred Reuters to a statement sent to local media saying the FBI was investigating "potentially hazardous chemicals" in Logan, which is about 66 miles (106 km) north of Salt Lake City.

Police called to Turkish cleric's U.S. compound for a suspected intruder

Police was called on Wednesday to the Pennsylvania compound of Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of instigating a failed 2016 coup after a guard saw a suspected armed intruder and fired a warning shot, a Gulen spokesman said. The security guard fired the shot in the air as the person tried to enter the compound's gates at around 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT) and the person fled, Alp Aslandogan, Gulen's media adviser, told Reuters. There are no known injuries or arrests, he said.

Senate panel gets FBI report on misconduct accusations against Kavanaugh

The Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday it has received the FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and lawmakers will review the document later in the day, ahead of a key procedural vote on Friday. White House spokesman Raj Shah said on Twitter the administration also received the Federal Bureau of Investigation's report and was "fully confident" the Senate would approve his nomination.

The fourth victim dies after L.A. attacks on mostly homeless men: media

A fourth man has died after he was struck in the head during a series of attacks on mostly homeless men in the Los Angeles area last month, media said on Wednesday. The man, who has not been identified, was attacked while he slept in the area of 7th Street and Broadway in Santa Monica on Sept. 24. He died on Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing police.

South Carolina shooting spree leaves one officer dead, six wounded

Seven law enforcement officers were shot, one fatally, when a gunman unleashed a hail of fire on police from inside a home on Wednesday near Florence, South Carolina, sparking a two-hour siege that ended with the suspect's arrest, authorities said. Details of the shooting and how it ended remained sketchy. But Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said several of his deputies came under attack as they tried to serve an otherwise routine search warrant in the Vintage Place subdivision on the city's western edge.

Closing arguments begin Thursday in the murder trial of Chicago officer

Closing arguments in the trial of the white Chicago policeman who shot a black teen to death in 2014 are set to take place on Thursday, in a case that has shone a spotlight on race relations and police use of force in the United States' third-largest city. Jason Van Dyke, 40, is accused of shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times and faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and official misconduct. He is the first Chicago police officer to face a murder charge for an on-duty incident in decades and faces life in prison if convicted.

Onetime rap mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight faces a 28-year sentence for manslaughter

Former rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was due in court on Thursday to formally receive a 28-year prison sentence for his manslaughter conviction in the fatal 2015 hit-and-run killing of a man he ran down with his pickup truck. Knight, 53, is known as much for run-ins with the law as for his career as a hip-hop executive during which he promoted the likes of Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre and Tupac Shakur in the 1990s.

Presidential test alert sets American phones buzzing

Millions of U.S. cell phones buzzed and beeped on Wednesday during the first test of a presidential alert system that would warn the public of a national emergency, such as an imminent attack. The test message from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) went out at 2:18 p.m. EDT and triggered a loud tone, a special vibration and a message reading: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed."