Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs. Virginia trio carries Cavaliers to first national championship

Given the road to their one shining moment Monday, the Virginia Cavaliers plan to appreciate the national championship glow. "This is just everything you dream as a kid. This is a dream come true," Virginia guard Ty Jerome said. Ohio man ordered detained after claim to be missing boy Timmothy Pitzen

A 23-year-old former convict charged in Ohio with making false statements after he claimed to be long-missing Illinois teen Timmothy Pitzen was ordered on Tuesday to be held in detention. A federal judge, after a hearing in Cincinnati, found Brian Michael Rini, 23, posed a flight risk if released before trial. Texas medical school agrees to stop using race in admissions

A Texas medical school will no longer consider race in its admissions decisions under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, the first of its kind as the Trump administration seeks to roll back affirmative-action practices. The education department said in an email on Tuesday that its civil rights office reached the deal in February with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, ending a 14-year investigation into its admission practices. U.S. judge halts Trump policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico

A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration's policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to expand to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco. The preliminary injunction will apply nationwide. U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to protect Native American site from drilling

New Mexico lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill to protect federal lands around the Chaco Canyon from drilling and mining, attempting to permanently shield the Native American cultural site from recurring attempts at oil and gas leasing. U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Deb Haaland introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, which would bar any future leasing or development of minerals owned by the U.S. government located within a 10-mile protected radius of the area. U.S. slaps more charges on parents in college admissions cheating scandal

U.S. prosecutors filed fresh conspiracy and money laundering charges on Tuesday against 16 parents charged with paying bribes to secure their children seats in elite universities in the largest college admissions scam uncovered in U.S. history. Parents including "Full House" actor Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli had already been charged with racketeering conspiracy for their alleged role in the scheme, in which parents paid some $25 million in bribes to secure their offspring places at universities including Yale, Georgetown and the University of Southern California. New York declares measles emergency, blasts misinformation fueling outbreak

A measles outbreak in Brooklyn, primarily among Orthodox Jewish children, prompted New York City on Tuesday to declare a public health emergency, requiring unvaccinated people in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines The city's largest outbreak since 1991 of the once virtually eradicated disease has mainly been confined to the Orthodox Jewish community in the borough's Williamsburg neighborhood, with 285 cases confirmed since October, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. That's up sharply from only two reported cases in all of 2017. In New York, confusion reigns in the emerging CBD edibles business

New York state officials told food growers and processors in mid-December that they had the state's blessing to produce and sell tea and chocolates laced with CBD, the cannabis derivative reputed to ease anxiety and other ills without marijuana's high. But since then, New York City health inspectors have seized thousands of dollars worth of CBD-infused food and drinks at the Fat Cat Kitchen and other local cafes and restaurants, and warned owners to stop selling them or face penalties. The crackdown came just weeks after federal law explicitly made CBD legal across the country. Justine Damond's fiance breaks down in tears at ex-U.S. police officer's murder trial

The former fiance of Australian Justine Ruszczyk Damond broke down in tears on Tuesday while testifying at the trial of an ex-police officer accused of murdering her, as he recalled the shock of learning a U.S. cop was the killer. Mohamed Noor, 33, is charged with murdering the 40-year-old Damond when he shot her through his patrol car window in July 2017 while responding to her 911 call to report a possible sexual assault near her Minneapolis home. More than 100,000 migrants encountered at U.S. southern border in March: data

U.S. officers arrested or denied entry to over 103,000 people along the border with Mexico in March, a 35 percent increase over the prior month and more than twice as many as the same period last year, according to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday. The steady increase in migrant arrivals, which has been building over the past several months, is driven by a growing number of children and families, especially from Central America.