Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. U.S. judge faults ex-Trump adviser Stone's book that may violate gag order

A federal judge said Tuesday that the publication of a book last month by President Donald Trump's former political adviser Roger Stone which criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller may violate a media gag order - a transgression that could land the self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" behind bars. Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Stone and his lawyers to provide her with a report by Monday explaining how he plans to comply with the order, and also demanded that he turn over certain records detailing everything he knew about the book's release. At least seven missing in Alabama after deadly weekend tornadoes

Alabama search and rescue teams on Tuesday were combing through the wreckage of houses flatted by weekend tornadoes, looking for seven or eight people who remained unaccounted for in the wake of the deadliest U.S. twister outbreak since 2013. The tiny community of Beauregard, near the Alabama-Georgia border, was beginning to mourn the 23 people confirmed killed by the storms, which included four children and seven people from one family, officials said on Tuesday. T-Mobile spent $195,000 at Trump Hotel in D.C. since merger announcement

T-Mobile Us Inc's chief executive, John Legere, and other company leaders have spent $195,000 on hotel stays and other expenses at the Trump International Hotel in Washington since the company sought approval for a $26 billion merger with Sprint last April, documents released on Tuesday show. The company disclosed the expenses in a letter after Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Pramila Jayapal, both Democrats, sent letters to leaders of the Trump Organization and T-Mobile last month after reports that T-Mobile executives started regularly using the Trump hotel. Photos of Legere, who regularly stays at the hotel, began appearing on social media sites, with him wearing his customary pink T-Mobile-themed attire. Trump administration warns of record illegal border crossings ahead of vote by Congress

The Trump administration warned Republican lawmakers Tuesday about record numbers of illegal crossings at the southern border with Mexico as Congress appeared to be on the verge of terminating President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency there. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited the U.S. Capitol as the White House sought to discourage more Republican defections on the measure rebuking the president. Republican senators had a "spirited discussion" on the matter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. Ex-Chinese construction executive faces U.S. trial for forced labor

A former executive for the U.S. arm of a Chinese construction conglomerate went on trial Tuesday on American charges that he forced Chinese laborers to work on New York area construction sites under a form of "debt bondage." Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Heeren in his opening statement in federal court in Brooklyn told jurors that Dan Zhong was "a leader of the U.S. arm of a criminal enterprise that exploited forced labor for personal gain." Judge says Trump administration improperly blocked sex, race pay data rule

A U.S. judge has revived an Obama-era rule that requires larger companies to report workers' pay data broken down by gender and race, which business groups have said would be burdensome and would not address pay discrimination as intended. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington D.C. late on Monday said the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) failed to explain what was wrong with the rule when it blocked it from taking effect in 2017, and ordered the agency to put the requirements back in place. Uber not criminally liable in fatal 2018 Arizona self-driving crash: prosecutors

Uber Technologies Inc is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Yavapai County Attorney said in a letter made public that there was "no basis" for criminal liability for Uber, but that the conduct of the back-up driver, Rafael Vasquez, should be referred to the Tempe police for additional investigation. Some 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as LGBT: study

An estimated 4.5 percent of U.S. adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and they tend to be younger and poorer than the population at large, according to an analysis of polling data released on Tuesday. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law examined previously released results from the Gallup Daily Tracking survey and went deeper into the data, enabling a more detailed demographic picture of the adult U.S. LGBT population of roughly 11.3 million people. California AG sees no grounds for charging police in black man's killing

California's top law enforcement official said on Tuesday an independent investigation by his office found no grounds to criminally charge two Sacramento policemen who shot an unarmed black man to death in his grandparents' backyard last year. The findings announced by Attorney General Xavier Becerra agreed with the Sacramento County prosecutor's own conclusion that the two officers had legitimate reason to believe the man, Stephon Clark, 22, posed a lethal threat to them. Chelsea Manning loses bid to quash subpoena in Virginia

Chelsea Manning on Tuesday lost a bid to quash a subpoena compelling her to testify in front of a grand jury, according to media reports and a group supporting her. Manning is a transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data while she was working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. She was granted clemency by former U.S. President Barack Obama.