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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann Roof, a white supremacist from the Columbia area, pleaded guilty on Monday to nine murder charges in state court for the slayings of nine victims at an African-American church in Charleston. Under the plea agreement, he was sentenced to nine sentences of life in prison, to be spent in a federal […]

WASHINGTON — The swearing-in of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on Monday restores the Supreme Court to full strength for the first time in nearly 14 months and sets the stage for further conservative victories that could start accumulating quickly. A Second Amendment challenge out of California, a religious liberty test from Missouri and a voter

LOS ANGELES — In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo & Co. pinned the blame for its unauthorized-accounts scandal on weak corporate oversight, an unwatchful former CEO and the executive who led the bank’s community banking division. The San Francisco bank also said it would take back more than $47 million in pay from

Honoring a campaign pledge to place conservative justices on the Supreme Court, President Trump called on new Justice Neil Gorsuch Monday to defend the Constitution instead of engaging in judicial activism. At a sunny swearing-in ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Trump praised Justice Gorsuch as a conservative in the mold of the

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting outside the judge’s South Side home Monday morning, a police source said. Associate Judge Raymond Myles, 66, and a 52-year-old woman were found outside the home around 4:50 a.m., police said. Myles suffered several gunshot wounds and was pronounced

Ford Motor Co. has unveiled the world’s first “pursuit-rated” hybrid police car and says the Los Angeles Police Department will be among the first agencies to have one. Chief Charlie Beck and LAPD officers were expected to help introduce the vehicle at a Monday morning ceremony in Los Angeles. The Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan