Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Guns and corsets: Firearms industry strikes gold marketing to women

Entrepreneur and fashion designer Anna Taylor is trying to bring back the corset -- not to revive Victorian lingerie but to give women a place to carry their handguns. "I don't know that the corset's ever been out of fashion, but it's never been so useful," Taylor said in Las Vegas at this year's SHOT Show, the largest trade show for the firearms industry. U.S. lawmakers search for remedies as government shutdown rolls on

The U.S. Senate, after rejecting two shutdown-ending bills, was searching for a way to end a government closure entering its 35th day and threatening the economy, as hundreds of thousands of federal workers missed a second paycheck on Friday. Republican President Donald Trump was dug in at the White House, continuing to insist on funding for a wall he wants to build on the U.S.-Mexico border, while the Democratic-led House of Representatives, which opposes the wall, had left Washington for the weekend. U.S. Coast Guard searches for missing cruise crew member

The U.S. Coast Guard was searching for a missing crew member from a Royal Caribbean ship early Friday after witnesses reported seeing the 26-year-old man fall overboard Thursday morning off the southern coast of Florida, multiple media accounts reported. Exactly a month ago, another Royal Caribbean crew member went overboard in the Atlantic, off Puerto Rico, and was never found. U.S. judge to sentence three men over plot to bomb Somalis in Kansas

Three white men convicted of a 2016 plot to bomb an apartment complex in Kansas that is home to Somali immigrants and their mosque were due to be sentenced in federal court on Friday. The trio, described by prosecutors as members of a right-wing militia group, were found guilty in April of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiring to violate the civil rights of their intended victims. Trump longtime ally Stone charged in U.S. Special Counsel probe

Roger Stone, U.S. President Donald Trump's longtime ally and presidential campaign adviser, was arrested on Friday, charged with obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements, according to a grand jury indictment made public by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office. Stone, who has repeatedly said in interviews that he was likely to be indicted, is scheduled to appear at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, later on Friday, Mueller's office said. Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen subpoenaed by Senate panel: adviser

President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and self-described "fixer" Michael Cohen has been subpoenaed to testify by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Cohen's adviser Lanny Davis said on Thursday. Coming one day after he postponed an appearance before a House of Representatives investigative panel, the subpoena thrust Cohen back into the spotlight, with MSNBC and CNN saying he will appear before the intelligence panel in mid-February. Trump campaign ex-chief Manafort to dispute breach of plea deal

Lawyers for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will try to convince a U.S. judge on Friday their client did not breach his plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a hearing that could lead to a longer prison sentence. Mueller's office in November accused Manafort of violating his agreement to cooperate with the special counsel's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Manhunt on for man accused of killing four near Atlanta

Police were hunting for a man early Friday who was accused of shooting and killing four people and wounding a fifth at two different homes in a small Georgia city near Atlanta. The suspect was identified as Daylon Delon Gamble, 27, Keith Sorrells, the police chief of Rockmart, Ga., told a local CBS affiliate. NBA: Warriors meet Obama in D.C. before beating Wizards

The Golden State Warriors shared a private visit with former U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday before beating the Washington Wizards 126-118 in D.C. A photo of the meeting was posted on Instagram by a team security guard who later deleted the image. San Jose Mercury News reporter Logan Murdock captured the photo and tweeted it. Florida's secretary of state resigns after blackface photo surfaces

Florida's newly appointed secretary of state resigned on Thursday after the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper published photos showing him cross-dressed and in blackface with a T-shirt reading "Katrina Victim" at a Halloween party 14 years ago. Michael Ertel said in a two-line letter to Governor Ron DeSantis, a fellow Republican, that he was resigning effective immediately. The letter was provided to Reuters by Sarah Revell, communications director for the Florida Department of State.