For all of our imperfections, this country celebrates diversity. E Pluribus Unum: Out of many, one.
Posted 03.15.2012
Following in the footsteps of celebrities and politicos before her, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) will headline a cruise this summer. G...
Tristine Skyler | Posted 04.11.2012
Until we fix our legislation surrounding background checks for purchasing firearms, and update the national database, we are still living in this alien world.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Two days before resigning from Congress, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday announced her final piece of legislation aimed at ...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.08.2012
-- Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: "Those of us who survived were forever changed by that moment. For the ...
AP | Posted 01.08.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has called Gabrielle Giffords on the anniversary of the Arizona congresswoman's shooting and noted her "incredibl...
AP | Posted 01.09.2012
PHOENIX -- Staffers of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and hundreds of others are gathering to remember those killed a year ago, including a slain colleague. ...
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 03.09.2012
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led a crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, her words ringing out across a cold Tucson night in a rare publ...
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 02.28.2012
TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, other survivors of the Tucson shooting rampage and numerous others will come together in the close-knit...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011
Survivors and family members of victims of the January shooting in Tucson, Ariz. that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) asked Sen. ...
Posted 11.16.2011
Mark Kelly, husband of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, appeared Tuesday night on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to discu...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.15.2011
A message recorded by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) to her Southern Arizona constituents was released Tuesday, with the wounded congresswoman sayi...
AP/The Huffington Post | By KEVIN FREKING | Posted 01.14.2012
By KEVIN FREKING, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post)-- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, struggling to form the words in her first ext...
Paul Heroux | Posted 10.12.2011
On Monday night last week, when the U.S. House Of Representatives voted to raise the debt ceiling, for a moment, Democrats and Republicans wholehearte...
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 08.17.2011
PHOENIX — Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was back in her hometown Friday, visiting Tucson for Father's Day weekend in her first time b...
AP | Posted 08.08.2011
HOUSTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords turned 41 Wednesday, five months to the day after she was shot in the head in a Tucson shooting rampage that killed...
Diana Butler Bass | Posted 05.25.2011
Opening our eyes is a sign of life, one of the first things tiny babies do when after they make their way into the world. But opening our eyes also symbolizes our common humanity.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If you were a member of the 24-hour cable teevee media, all that can be said about the Way We Mourn Now is that it was such an awful inconvenience!
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011
Times like these, when innocent lives are snuffed out by a tragic, senseless act of violence, make me question the purpose for which I've dedicated my life for nearly 40 years. Is it all for naught?
Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011
Last March I posted a column "America's Year of Living Dangerously," in reaction to the deterioration of our political debate "from rancorous to poiso...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Mary Rose Wilcox, a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona, was sitting in her car on Saturday when her husband c...
Posted 05.25.2011
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips described Jared Loughner -- the suspected perpetrator of a fatal shooting in Arizona on Saturday -- as a "lib...
AP/The Huffington Post | TERRY TANG | Posted 05.25.2011
TUCSON, Ariz. -- A 911 caller witnessing the mass shooting outside a grocery store in Tucson describes a frantic scene and says, "I do believe Gabby G...
AP/The Huffington Post | PAULINE ARRILLAGA and AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.25.2011
TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted assassination and four other charges...
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS and JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 05.25.2011
TUCSON, Ariz. — Authorities on Sunday charged a 22-year-old man described as a pot-smoking loner with trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffo...
Gabriel Frankel | Posted 05.23.2012