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This video image provided by the Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shows Giffords announcing her plans to resign, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Giffords announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Office of Gabrielle Giffords)

Giffords' decision to resign sets up Ariz. race

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 11:19am

PHOENIX -- The race to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords begins in earnest Monday as the Arizona congresswoman's planned resignation sets up a free-for-all in a competitive district.

The three-term Democrat announced Sunday that she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from a gunshot wound to the head just over a year ago in an assassination attempt that shook the country.

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In this photo provided by the office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Giffords, second from left, and fellow shooting survivor Ron Barber unveil a memorial plaque in honor of slain staffer Gabe Zimmerman, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. At left is Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly. (AP Photo/Office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords)

Giffords will soon face decision about future

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 7, 2012 - 5:40pm

WASHINGTON — The signals are strong. One year after being shot in the head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is on a mission to return to the job she so clearly loved.

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In this undated photo provided by ABC, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly are interviewed by Diane Sawyer on ABC's 20/20. The show, featuring the first public interview Giffords has given since she was shot in the head in Tucson last winter, will air Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)

Giffords shows great progress, but still struggles

Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 11:43am

WASHINGTON — Smiling and cheerful, fussing with her interviewer’s hair and nestled in the arms of her husband, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords displayed remarkable progress from the shocking images of her the day after she was shot in the forehead outside a Tucson supermarket.

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(The Associated Press) In this Jan. 8, 2011 photo released by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office shows shooting suspect Jared Loughner. A judge in Tucson hears arguments Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011 over whether Jared Lee Loughner should spend eight more months in psychological treatment in a bid to make him competent to stand trial. Loughner has been at a Missouri prison facility since U.S. District Judge Larry Burns found him mentally unfit four months ago.

Judge to mull an extension of Loughner’s treatment

Amanda Lee Myers, Jacques Billeaud The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 8:39am

TUCSON, Ariz. — The man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly shooting rampage is scheduled Wednesday to make his first court appearance since an angry outburst got him kicked out of a May competency hearing.

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Tucson shooting spree suspect incompetent for trial

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 1:54pm

PHOENIX -- 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 against him on hold indefinitely.

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Astronaut twins reunited after 5 months apart

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:55pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Scott Kelly is back home reunited with his twin astronaut brother, after a five-month space station mission that was marred by the shooting of his congresswoman sister-in-law.

Kelly hurried back to Houston on Thursday, just a day after landing in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian capsule. He was immediately reunited with identical twin Mark, who's married to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Giffords is recuperating in Houston from a gunshot wound to the head. She was shot Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. The tragedy occurred three months into Scott Kelly's stay at the International Space Station.

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Dr. Gerard Francisco (left) listens as Dr. Dong Kim speaks while giving a medical update on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., during a news conference Friday, March 11, 2011, in Houston.

Giffords was told by husband she was shot

Ramit Plushnick-Masti, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 11, 2011 - 12:59pm

HOUSTON — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been told that she was shot. Her ability to walk and talk is improving. And doctors say there’s a good chance she’ll be able to attend her husband’s space shuttle launch next month.

Doctors provided the new details about Giffords’ condition Friday, their first official updates she began intensive rehabilitation in Houston on Jan. 26.

They described several milestones in her recovery. The developments include the removal of her breathing tube last week and her improving ability to walk with assistance and talk in complete sentences such as “I’m tired. I want to go to bed.”

Dr. Imoigele Aisiku, her neurosurgeon, called the breathing tube removal a “fist-pump” moment.

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Giffords moved from Houston hospital to rehabilitation center

Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 4:25pm

LOS ANGELES -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head during a mass shooting outside a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., continues her remarkable recovery and was moved Wednesday from a Houston hospital to a nearby rehabilitation facility.

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Suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Ariz. shooting

Jacques Billeaud, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 24, 2011 - 3:26pm

The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.

The plea by Jared Lee Loughner marked his second court appearance since he allegedly shot the congresswoman and 18 others at Giffords’ meet-and-greet event on Jan. 8 outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people died, including U.S. District Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl. Thirteen others were wounded.

Loughner, 22, faces federal charges of trying to assassinate Giffords and attempting to murder two of her aides. He will later face state charges dealing with other victims.

At least eight U.S. Marshals were present at the hearing in the Phoenix courthouse, where Loughner entered Monday afternoon smiling and wearing an orange prison suit and glasses.

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The ambulance carrying Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is escorted from University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. Giffords is being moved Houston for further rehabilitation. (David Wallace/Associated Press)

Rep. Giffords is moved to Houston - January 21, 2011

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 12:26pm

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Rep. Giffords leaves Tucson for rehab in Houston

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 21, 2011 - 4:45pm

HOUSTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords smiled inside an ambulance as she heard applause during a dramatic send-off from her hometown Friday, and doctors say her transfer by jet and helicopter to a hospital in Houston went flawlessly.

Throngs of sign-carrying well-wishers lined the streets in Tucson to wave and cheer.

"She responded very well to that -- smiling and even tearing a little bit," said Dr. Randall Friese, a surgeon at the University Medical Center trauma center in Tucson. "It was very emotional and very special."

Friese and Giffords' doctors in Houston spoke Friday afternoon at a news conference at Texas Medical Center. Doctors say Giffords has a drain in her brain because of a fluid buildup, so she will stay for now in the ICU. She will be moved later to the center's TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital.

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Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, talks about his life with Gabby Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 at the University Medical Center in Tucson, Az.

Giffords husband 'extremely hopeful' for recovery

Marilynn Marchione, Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 12:11pm

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can stand with assistance, the latest milestone in her recovery as her family prepares to move her to Houston for extensive mental and physical rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain.

Her swift transition from an intensive care unit to a rehab center is based on the latest research, which shows the sooner rehab starts, the better patients recover.

Giffords' family hopes to move the Arizona congresswoman on Friday to TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, where her husband lives and works as an astronaut.

"I'm extremely hopeful that Gabrielle is going to make a full recovery," Mark Kelly said at a news conference at University Medical Center. "She is a fighter like nobody else that I know."

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Giffords will move to Houston rehab center

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 2:16pm

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says they plan to move the wounded congresswoman to a rehabilitation hospital in Houston to begin the next phase of her recovery from a gunshot wound.

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Husband broke down after incorrect Giffords report

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 10:33am

TUCSON, Ariz. -- For about 20 minutes, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband broke down in a plane's bathroom after believing incorrect media reports that his wife had been fatally shot at a political event outside a supermarket.

Mark Kelly said he had rushed aboard a friend's plane to fly to Arizona after hearing of the shooting in Tucson, and that he saw the television report while enroute.

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Lawmaker receives threatening e-mail after Ariz. shootings

Jim Turner, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Tuesday, January 18, 2011 - 3:17pm

STUART, Fla. -- An investigation is under way into a threat e-mailed to a Republican Florida lawmaker an hour after the mass fatal shooting in Arizona that wounded Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

State Rep. William Snyder, of Stuart, Fla., who is working on a high profile immigration bill, said he received a message that that harm would come to him or his family members if he didn't drop his immigration effort that mirrors a controversial bill approved last year in Arizona.

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