US Domestic News Roundup: Suspected mail bomber headed to Miami court, Gab.com fights to stay online

A former male stripper and part-time pizza deliveryman suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump's leading critics, including former president Barack Obama, was due in federal court in Miami, Monday.

Suspected mail bomber headed to Miami court on Monday

A former male stripper and part-time pizza deliveryman suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump's leading critics, including former president Barack Obama, was due in federal court in Miami, Monday. The Brooklyn-born Cesar Sayoc, 56, is charged with five felony counts - interstate transportation and illegal mailing of explosives, threatening a former president, making threatening interstate communications and assaulting federal officers.

Gab.com fights to stay online after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

The website where the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman posted anti-Semitic views said on Sunday it was "working around the clock" to stay online after being cut off by payment processors and forced to switch web hosts. The 46-year-old suspect Robert Bowers posted on Gab.com just hours before murdering 11 people on Saturday in the deadliest attack ever on the Jewish community in the United States, saying a non-profit that helps Jewish refugees relocate to the country was helping to kill "my people."

Trump's new tax cut plan probably waits for 2019: lawmaker

The U.S. House of Representatives' leading lawmaker on taxes suggested on Sunday that a new tax cut plan touted by President Donald Trump was unlikely to see action in Congress before 2019, and then only if Republicans keep their majority in Nov. 6 elections. "Really common sense tells you that this (Trump's new tax cut plan) is something, that as the Republicans retain the House and the Senate, that will advance in the new Congress," Representative Kevin Brady said on Fox News.

What the gunman didn't get: In Squirrel Hill, diversity made us strong

In the 1960s, when I was growing up in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill district, we used to take the trolley up cobble-stoned Murray Avenue heading downtown, passing through a tableau of European-American Jewish life. There were Silverman's and Rosenbloom's, the two bakeries where we bought our dark rye bread. There were kosher butcher shops, delicatessens, synagogues and a Hillel academy, small jewellery shops and clothing stores.

Shooting triggers lockdowns then locked arms in the Pittsburgh community

The gunshots that tore through a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday first triggered lockdowns in houses of worship across the city. Then they brought forth an outpouring of unity and support. Following the deadliest attack ever on the Jewish community in the United States, residents rushed to provide comfort, give blood, organize vigils and bring therapy dogs to a Jewish community centre.

Winning numbers for Powerball's $688 million jackpot drawn

Are you a newly minted millionaire? The winning numbers for the estimated $687.8 million Powerball jackpot, the fourth largest in the lottery's history, were drawn Saturday night.

U.S.-bound migrants enter Guatemala, others clash at the border

A new group of migrants bound for the United States set off from El Salvador and crossed into Guatemala on Sunday, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks. The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital San Salvador on Sunday. A larger group of mostly Hondurans, estimated to number between 3,500 and 7,000, who left their country in mid-October and are now in southern Mexico, has become a key issue in U.S. congressional elections.

Charleston church grieves synagogue massacre, angry at Trump rhetoric

Parishioners at the historic black Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday grieved this weekend's Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and recalled a 2015 mass shooting at their church while chiding President Donald Trump's "rhetoric of hate". "Words do matter," Reverend Eric Manning told more than 100 parishioners attending the Sunday service. The church planned a prayer vigil for the Pittsburgh victims later at a Holocaust memorial a block away.

Man charged with Pittsburgh synagogue massacre due in court

The man charged with shooting 11 worshipers to death at a Pittsburgh synagogue, marking the deadliest ever attack America's Jewish community, was due to make his first court appearance on Monday before a federal judge. Robert Bowers, 46, who has a history of posting anti-Semitic material online, has been charged with 29 criminal counts, including the violation of U.S. civil rights laws in what federal prosecutors say was a hate crime.

(With inputs from Reuters)