Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Suspect formally charged in Nipsey Hussle murder, due in court

A 29-year-old Los Angeles man accused of killing Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle was formally charged with murder and attempted murder on Thursday, prosecutors said. Eric Ronald Holder, who was arrested earlier this week in connection with the fatal shooting, was expected to make his first court appearance in the case later on Thursday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a written statement. FBI head says agency has no desire to move its headquarters

FBI Director Chris Wray on Thursday defended the Trump administration's decision to abandon plans to relocate the bureau's crumbling and outdated headquarters to Virginia or Maryland, saying he prefers to build a new state-of-the-art facility at its current location in downtown Washington, D.C. "It is the FBI's view that the best balance of equities for the men and women of the FBI is to be here downtown, ideally in our current location," Wray said in testimony during a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations hearing. Exclusive: Only 6 percent of those subject to Trump travel ban granted U.S. waivers

The U.S. government granted waivers to just 6 percent of visa applicants subject to its travel ban on a handful of countries during the first 11 months of the ban, new data reviewed by Reuters shows. Trump administration officials have pointed to the waiver process embedded in the travel ban as proof it was not motivated by animus toward Muslims, as critics have charged, but rather serves to protect the United States. Mormon church to allow children of LGBT couples to be baptized

The Mormon church will allow the children of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender parents to be baptized, but will not sanction same-sex marriage, its leadership said on Thursday. The decision, announced on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' website Thursday morning, reverses a 2015 policy that deemed same-sex couples to be apostates of the faith, which made their children ineligible for baptism. DNA test to confirm if teen found in Kentucky is boy who disappeared in 2011: reports

Illinois police on Thursday were running a DNA test to determine if a 14-year-old boy found wandering in Kentucky a day earlier is Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 around the time his mother committed suicide, according to local media reports. The teenager told authorities in Newport, Kentucky that he had been held by two white men he described as "body-builder types" for seven years, and had escaped from them and run across a bridge from Ohio into Kentucky. He said his name was Timmothy. How cannabis is firing up the U.S. supply chain

U.S. companies cannot stop talking about marijuana, hoping in part they can catch investor interest as the booming economy around the drug lifts revenues throughout the supply chain. With the recreational use of cannabis now legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia and medical marijuana legal in 23 states, marijuana is on its way to becoming an $80 billion industry in the United States by 2030, according to estimates by Cowen Inc. U.S. House judiciary chair seeks any Mueller summaries on Trump-Russia probe report

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler called on Attorney General William Barr on Thursday to release any summaries of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report that were prepared by Mueller's team. Nadler, a Democrat who is also demanding release of the full Mueller report to Congress, sent a letter to Barr citing media reports that Mueller's team prepared their own summaries of the special counsel's report. Pope names first African-American to highest U.S. post

Pope Francis named the first African-American to the Catholic Church's most senior U.S. position on Thursday, seeking to end a period of upheaval in a job whose previous two occupants were caught in sexual abuse scandals. Former Atlanta archbishop Wilton Gregory, 71, was made new head of the Church in the U.S. capital Washington, D.C., and is also likely to become a cardinal eligible to vote in a conclave to elect the next pope after Francis. Los Angeles man, 19, accused of being bike-riding slasher

A 19-year-old Los Angeles man suspected of slashing at least nine people with a sharp-edged object as he rode through the city on a bicycle has been booked on suspicion of attempted murder, police said on Thursday. Lenrey Briones was taken into custody shortly after 1 p.m. on Wednesday near a homeless camp where detectives believe he lived, said Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Los Angeles Police Department. Hundreds gather near White House to demand Mueller report release

Several hundred people gathered outside the White House and in New York's Times Square in small rallies organized by liberal advocacy groups demanding the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who received the confidential report last month at the close of Mueller's 22-month investigation, has said he intended to release a redacted version to Congress and the public by mid-April.