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Oklahoma’s new Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to ask the state’s Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday to recommend sparing the life of death row inmate Richard Glossip, a highly unusual move for the state’s top prosecutor’s office that typically urges the board to reject clemency. Glossip was almost executed …

Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin to testify about ethics rules governing the Supreme Court.  “Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the chief justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of …

Customers of First Republic Bank pulled more than $100 billion in deposits out of the bank during last month’s crisis, as fears swirled that it could be the third bank to fail a fter the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. San Francisco-based First Republic said Monday that …