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Death penalty expert joins Boston suspect defense team
(Reuters) - Prominent criminal defense lawyer Judy Clarke, who has represented defendants in some of the most high-profile de...
In blow to Obama, Senate blocks gun-control plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's campaign to curb gun violence after the Newtown school massacre was dealt...
Senate backers of background checks scramble for votes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers appeared on Tuesday to be short of th...
Gabby Giffords takes gun control message to scene of Tucson shooting
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, returning to the site of the sho...
Amid questions, Senate begins hearings on gun control
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six weeks after the massacre of 26 people at a Connecticut school ignited new calls to fight gun-relat...
New York enacts gun-control law, first since Newtown attack
By Barbara GoldbergNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's tou...
Giffords seeks $20 million for gun control effort
WASHINGTON/PHOENIX (Reuters) - A new gun control group led by Gabrielle Giffords, the former U.S. congresswoman wounded in a ...
Obama wants to target gun violence, but how?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - His words have been eloquent and sympathetic, as they typically are when he is the voice of a nation i...
Gabby Giffords faces Tucson assailant as he is sentenced to life
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords stood in federal court to face her would-be assas...
Gunman who shot Gabrielle Giffords gets seven life terms
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - Convicted Tucson gunman Jared Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms plus 140 yea...
Space shuttle Endeavour lands piggyback in California
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, carried piggyback atop a jumbo jet, landed at Edw...
Tucson gunman Loughner pleads guilty to rampage
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13 others, includi...
Seven dead in shooting at Wisconsin Sikh temple
OAK CREEK, Wisconsin (Reuters) - A gunman killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple on Sunday before po...
Obama pledges to tackle gun violence after Colorado killing
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pledged on Wednesday to work with leaders of all political stripes to "ar...
Special military unit hunts Mexico border drug flights
DOUGLAS, Ariz (Reuters) - A highly specialized U.S. military task force is using battlefield technology to help federal polic...
Judge grants more time for accused Tucson shooter
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A federal judge has agreed that the man charged with a deadly shooting spree last year that gravely wou...
Giffords quits Congress to focus on recovery
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amid tears, salutes and standing ovations, Representative Gabrielle Giffords submitted her resignation...
Obama urges taxing the rich, reining in Wall Street
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint h...
LIVE VIDEO: Obama's State of the Union
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State...
Giffords leaving Congress to recover from shooting
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head during a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, last year...
Rep. Giffords leads Tucson shooting remembrance
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - Bells tolled, girls in white dresses danced and Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords led a recit...
FBI data shows spike in gun purchases in 2011
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The FBI performed a record number of instant background checks on would-be firearm buyers in 2011 as Amer...
Rep. Giffords says she feels 'pretty good'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speaking on camera for the first time since she was shot in the head in January, U.S. Representative G...
Accused Tucson shooter seeks end to medication
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court panel wrestled on Tuesday with whether Tucson shooting rampage suspect Jared L...
Giffords awards medal to astronaut husband
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords gave her astronaut husband a medal at his retirement ceremony on Thu...
Judge orders more psychiatric care for Loughner
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner to undergo four more mon...
Tucson shooter must attend competency hearing
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Accused Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner must attend a court hearing to determine whether doctors w...
NTSB probes plane's tail in Reno air race crash
RENO, Nevada (Reuters) - Federal investigators trying to determine why a World War II-era fighter crashed at a Nevada air rac...
Giffords to share story with ABC's Diane Sawyer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman who survived an assassination attempt in January, will ...
Judge orders new hearing on Loughner subpoenas
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered a hearing in the case of accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner ...
Loughner attorneys again challenge medication
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner on Monday again filed court papers challenging ...
Shuttle Discovery ends flying career, museum next
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship Wednesday, returning from orbit fo...