Gabrielle Giffords

• Former Congresswoman and survivor of shooting Gabrielle Gifford visits US school victims' families

  Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, nearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, on Friday met with families of victims in last month's shooting that left 26 people dead inside an elementary school.

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  US Republican Gabrielle Giffords released from Houston hospital

  Republican Gabrielle Giffords returned home to her astronaut husband on Wednesday, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.Giffords' release marks a new phase in...

• US Republican Gabrielle Giffords released from Houston hospital

  Republican Gabrielle Giffords returned home to her astronaut husband on Wednesday, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.Giffords' release marks a new phase in her recovery. She struggles to speak and walk, and will need daily, intensive therapy. Whether she will ev...

• Shot in the head in Jan, US lawmaker smiles in Facebook photos

  Photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords were posted on her Facebook page Sunday, the first clear public images of her since she began rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain in January. A spokesman said Ms. Giffords and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, released the photographs in an effort to prevent her from being hounded...

• Giffords hears cheers leaving Arizona, smiles

  She heard them, smiled, and tears welled up in her eyes.The caravan carrying Rep. Gabrielle Giffords swept past cheering crowds Friday as she left the hospital in Tucson, Ariz., where she dazzled doctors with her recovery from being shot in the head two weeks ago, and was moved to Houston for rehabilitation.Children sat on their parents' shoulders ...

• Chilling video captured 'calculated' US gunman

  The chief investigator for the sheriff's department here has for the first time publicly described the brief and gory video clip from a store security camera that shows a gunman not only shooting Representative Gabrielle Giffords just above the eyebrow at a range of three feet, but then using his 9-millimeter pistol to gun down others near her at a...

• Arizona shootout: US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on road to recovery

  In yet another sign of significant recovery during a remarkable week, the gravely wounded US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was upgraded from critical to serious condition on Sunday after a procedure to remove her from a ventilator was successful.Doctors have been positive, and at time almost giddy, in describing her progress since she was shot point blan...

• Obama at memorial service for Arizona shooting victims

  Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honour those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other "in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Following a hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Gif...

• Talk radio hosts reject blame in shooting

  During Tucson's first rush hour since a weekend shooting left six people dead and 14 wounded, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, talk radio hosts pushed back against arguments that their heated political rhetoric had played a role in the tragedy.Phone calls poured in to stations across the dial to denounce Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik of Pi...

• US shooting: Arizona gunman appears in court

  The man charged with shooting 20 people, including US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, appeared in a US court for the first time on Monday. He has been charged with five crimes including attempted assassination of a member of Congress and murder of two federal employees.Twenty-two-year-old Jared Loughner was brought to the court with his head shav...

• Shot US Congresswoman responsive after attack

  Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who was gravely wounded in a shooting rampage, remained in critical condition on Sunday but has been able to respond to simple commands, and her doctors described themselves as "cautiously optimistic" about her recovery. At a news conference at University Medical Center, the congresswoman's do...