Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Trump asks U.S. Congress to prohibit late-term abortion

U.S. President Donald Trump called for curbs on late-term abortion in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, citing controversies over the issue in New York and Virginia. Using emotive language, Trump waded into what has long been a divisive issue in American politics, even though the procedure was legalized in a Supreme Court ruling more than 40 years ago. Wisconsin man due in court on charges of kidnapping Jayme Closs and murdering her parents

The Wisconsin man charged with kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and murdering her parents, sparking a three-months-long search that ended only after Jayme Closs escaped captivity, is due in court on Wednesday. Authorities have charged Jake Patterson, 21, with murder for shooting Closs' parents to death with a shotgun before kidnapping the girl he had targeted seemingly at random after spotting her boarding a school bus. Fans pack Boston streets for Patriots' Super Bowl parade

Hundreds of thousands of football fans packed into Boston's streets on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of the New England Patriots after their record-tying sixth Super Bowl win. A parade of World War Two-era amphibious duck boats blasted confetti into the sky, while players including quarterback Tom Brady, linebacker Dont'a Hightower and famously taciturn head coach Bill Belichick, celebrated the team's 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. 'El Chapo' U.S. drug trial jury ends second day without verdict

Jurors in the U.S. trial of accused Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman ended their second day of deliberations on Tuesday without reaching a verdict. The 12 jurors in federal court in Brooklyn began their deliberations shortly after 9 a.m. (1300 GMT), and were sent home at 4:15 p.m. They are expected to resume at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. A year after high school shooting, Florida town still struggling

Signs that read "Parkland Strong" and "MSD Strong" still dot the well-manicured Florida town where a young gunman carried out the deadliest U.S. high school shooting on Valentine's Day in 2018. But as the Feb. 14 anniversary of the massacre that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland approaches, students, teachers, parents and community leaders continue struggling to cope with the trauma. Chicago mayor condemns anti-Muslim emails written by Cubs family head

Chicago's mayor on Tuesday condemned the "ignorance and intolerance" in emails written by Joe Ricketts, head of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team, in which he expresses anti-Muslim sentiment. The emails dated from 2009 to 2013 and published on Monday by the Splinter news website, include one in which Ricketts says Americans should never let Islam become a "large part" of society. Virginia lawmakers focus on budget as embattled governor hunkers down

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, facing nearly universal calls from fellow Democrats for his resignation over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, stayed hunkered down in the state capital while lawmakers pressed ahead with efforts to pass a budget. As the scandal surrounding Northam dragged into a sixth day on Wednesday, the political future of the former U.S. Army physician and his next move remained open questions, despite formidable opposition mounting against him. Sandusky to be resentenced on child sex conviction

A Pennsylvania court on Friday ordered former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky to be resentenced for his child sex abuse conviction, saying the mandatory minimum sentence of 30-60 years had become illegal since the trial judge imposed it. In its ruling on Friday, the Pennsylvania Superior Court denied Sandusky, now 75, a new trial on charges of raping boys left in his care, even as it said a resentencing was warranted. U.S. judge dismisses Stormy Daniels' claim against ex-Trump lawyer Cohen

A federal judge has granted adult film actress Stormy Daniels' request to dismiss a defamation claim against U.S. President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, while letting her pursue her lawsuit against Trump and Cohen to end a hush money settlement. In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Otero in Los Angeles said federal rules permitted Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, to amend her lawsuit, and there was "nothing wrong" with her request to drop the defamation claim. Cheers, jeers on border as Trump pushes wall in State of Union

In San Diego, California, locals threw flip-flops at television images of U.S. President Donald Trump as he used his Tuesday State of the Union speech to demand a wall to defend a "dangerous southern border." More than 400 miles (644 km) east, along the U.S.-Mexico line, the crowd at the Republican headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, cheered and one man yelled "yeah!" as Trump promised a wall would make "illegal crossings go way, way down."

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