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A federal judge agreed Monday to let a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners rehire his attorneys until a verdict is reached, but to remain his own lawyer if he is found guilty and the trial moves ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to use steep tariffs to punish companies that move overseas is running into an obstacle: Congressional Republicans. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy warned Monday that such an approach could cause a trade war. A better way ...

The University of Missouri says the search firm that helped the system find a new president also will lead the search for a permanent chancellor for the Columbia campus. University officials announced in a news release Monday that the firm ...

Protesters celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from a tribal water source but pledged to remain camped on federal land in North Dakota anyway, despite Monday’s government deadline to leave. Hundreds ...

A fake news story prompted a man to fire a rifle at a popular Washington, D.C., pizza place as he attempted to “self-investigate” a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from there, police said. Edgar ...

Presidents of eight private colleges in the U.S. were paid more than $2 million in 2014, the most ever to hit that mark, according to a new study. They join a total of 39 chiefs who made more than $1 ...

The Missouri Democratic Party on Saturday elected Stephen Webber as its new chairman. Webber, of Columbia, was elected at the state party elections at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, the party said in an emailed statement. Webber replaces Roy Temple, ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether some of the nation’s largest health providers can rely on their church affiliations to avoid complying with federal laws covering pension benefits for workers. The justices agreed Friday to take up cases involving three ...

U.S. employers added a solid 178,000 jobs in November, reflecting the steady economy President-elect Donald Trump will inherit. The unemployment rate hit a nine-year low of 4.6 percent, though mainly because many people stopped looking for jobs and were no ...

Supporters of Republican Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit trying to halt Wisconsin’s ongoing presidential recount, and Michigan’s attorney general on Friday sued to stop a recount from happening in his state. The Wisconsin lawsuit and motion for a temporary ...

Defense attorneys dismissed by Charleston church shooting defendant Dylann Roof strongly condemned his decision to represent himself and filed a motion Friday to get back on the case. The lawyers are worried Roof may not present evidence that could sway ...