CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing nine black church members during Bible study in a racially motivated attack, the first person to face execution for federal hate crime convictions.

Republicans are torn about what to do on taxes.

The party is having internal discussions right now about whether Obamacare taxes should be repealed immediately or whether keeping some or all of them in place until an Obamacare replacement is ready would give them the revenue necessary to pay for their own replacement bill.

It is a key question (among many) that Republican leaders are working through right now, but it's significant because it pits two pillars of Republican orthodoxy against each other.

One the one hand, Republicans want to scrap as much of Obamacare as they can and as fast as they can do it. Obamacare taxes are part of what they've been railing against for these last six years. But, on the other hand, Republicans want to ensure their plans for replacing Obamacare are paid for and taking away taxes now only to raise them later on could lead to major backlash. Not to mention scrapping taxes could leave a big whole in the federal budget as Republicans move to transition away from Obamacare.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling ordering North Carolina legislators to redraw state legislative districts by March 15 and hold special elections within the altered districts this fall.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that Republicans should aim to "repair" Obamacare and return power back to the states so that Americans have a better chance at accessing insurance coverage at an affordable price.

The majority of American voters believe that President-elect Donald Trump should delete his Twitter account, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell showed no signs of slowing down the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act despite some concerns in his conference that there isn't yet a clear replacement for health care.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Federal authorities have arrested a Fargo man suspected of making threats against U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, of North Dakota.

A Donald Trump spokesman said Tuesday that he made a “mistake” in announcing that former Kansas senator Bob Dole would join the transition team as a senior adviser, and that Dole would actually be granted no official position.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof threw away one last chance to plead for his life in front of the jurors who convicted him of killing nine black churchgoers, telling them Tuesday: "I still feel like I had to do it."