Astronauts back for next-to-last shuttle flight
The astronauts for NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight are back in Florida for another try at launching into orbit.The six crewmen -- led by the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- arrived at...
View ArticleNASA clears space shuttle for Monday launch
NASA's next-to-last space shuttle flight is set to blast off Monday morning.Mission managers gave the green light Saturday for the final voyage of Endeavour. Forecasters put the odds of acceptable...
View ArticleEndeavour ready to go; Giffords arrives to watch
With wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on hand to watch, the space shuttle Endeavour is poised to give the work week a roaring and historic start Monday morning, overcoming wiring problems that grounded...
View ArticleOut of view Giffords sees husband’s shuttle launch
It was a moment that a few short months ago seemed so improbable: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords watched her husband power into space on the shuttle Endeavour. In person.Still recovering from a devastating...
View ArticleAriz. shooting spree suspect incompetent for trial
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is mentally incompetent to stand trial, putting the criminal case...
View ArticleNext-to-last space shuttle flight lands on Earth
Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth on Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing.Endeavour touched...
View ArticleGiffords’ aide: Congresswoman struggles to speak
An aide says U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords struggles to communicate and it remains unclear whether she will be able to return to work five months after being shot in the head.Chief of Staff Pia Carusone...
View ArticleFirst photos of Gabrielle Giffords released
Two photos of a smiling Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were released early Sunday by her office, her hair shorn short but few other telling signs of her gunshot wound to the head.The Facebook photos, taken...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords heads home from Houston hospital
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has returned home to continue her recovery from a devastating head wound, but will make daily trips to the Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords has deal for a memoir
The world has only begun to learn about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.The Arizona Democrat and her husband, astronaut and Navy captain Mark Kelly, are working on a memoir that Scribner will publish at a date...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords makes first public appearance
An aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says she appeared in front of a crowd of hundreds at a NASA awards ceremony in Houston.ABC News reported on its website Monday night that Giffords stood up from her...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords returns to Capitol Hill
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sent out a powerful message Monday in choosing the vote on the debt deal to mark her return to the House of Representatives for the first time since being shot in the...
View ArticleGabby Giffords’ inspiring first interview
It's been 10 months since the fatal Tucson shooting that left 6 people dead and Congresswoman Gabby Giffords just barely hanging on. In the intervening time, Giffords has undergone what her doctors...
View ArticleArizona, meet yourself
When folklorist James "Big Jim" Griffith launched Tucson Meet Yourself, a folk traditions festival in 1974, he sought to gather the loose ends of the burgeoning southwestern city in a celebration of...
View ArticleGabby’s seat up for grabs
Another week, another special election imbued with tremendous national importance. This one is in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, where Democrats are hoping to salve the wound of their bitter...
View ArticleDems hold Giffords seat
Super Tuesday Part 2: Voters went to polls in seven states yesterday, here's what you need to know:* Ron Barber, the shot former aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, won the special election to keep...
View ArticleMust-see morning clip
Nearly a year and a half after Jared Lee Loughner shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people in a parking lot near Tucson, Ariz., three survivors have started a campaign demanding a plan to...
View ArticleTwitter weighs in on DNC Night 3
What a wonderful, touching moment when the indomitable Gabby Giffords led the pledge at the DNC. She is a great inspiration! — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 7, 2012 Watching Gabby Giffords...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords’ inspiring comeback
Of all the memorable, lump-in-the-throat moments of the Democratic National Convention -- Bill Clinton's "We're all in this together," Michelle Obama's "When you walk through that door of opportunity,...
View ArticleGabby Giffords? Yes. Gun control? No
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Despite a recent string of tragic mass shootings, both parties’ national conventions steered completely clear of gun policy. Guns only got passing references at both conventions, but...
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