Jared Loughner's Family Issues Statement, Giffords Remains Critical (LIVE UPDATES)

Obama visits shot lawmaker in hospital (AFP)
TUCSON, Arizona (AFP) – US President Barack Obama was Wednesday visiting injured congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Hospital shortly after arriving in Arizona to address a poignant memorial service. "The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recover," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The president would also meet with the families of the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage...

Obama arrives in Tucson for memorial
US President Barack Obama was Wednesday visiting injured congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Hospital shortly after arriving in Arizona to address a poignant memorial service. "The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recover," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. The president would also meet with the families of the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona, before leading the memori...

House pays emotional tribute to Arizona victims
(01-12) 12:37 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- Grief-stricken members of Congress paid tribute Wednesday to the Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage amid consultations with security advisers on how they can protect themselves and their aides against such savage attacks. Still deeply shaken from Saturday's violence half a continent away, House Speaker John Boehner fought tears as he spoke of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' battle to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. "Our hearts are broken, but our...

Obama to Visit Giffords in Hospital
President Obama landed in Tucson on Wednesday afternoon, and immediately headed to the Hospital to see Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other people injured in the shooting on Saturday. Mr. Obama and the First Lady Michelle Obama are in Tucson to attend the memorial service for the Victims of the shooting rampage, in which six people were killed and 14 injured. “The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where Congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recu...

Loughner Case Will Be Heard By California Judge
What is this? "All Federal Judges in Arizona have recused themselves from the case against the man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and three other federal employees," the AP reports. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver says that the impartiality of the judges could be affected by the fact that U.S. District Judge John Roll was killed when, police say, Jared Loughner went on a shooting rampage outside an Arizona Supermarket. NPR ...

Loughner Case Will Be Heard By California Judge
What is this? "All Federal Judges in Arizona have recused themselves from the case against the man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a federal judge and three other federal employees," the AP reports. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver says that the impartiality of the judges could be affected by the fact that U.S. District Judge John Roll was killed when, police say, Jared Loughner went on a shooting rampage outside an Arizona Supermarket. NPR ...

Obama to visit Rep. Giffords before speech
Reporting from Tucson and Los Angeles — President Obama headed to visit critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Wednesday after arriving in Tucson to deliver a Speech designed to heal the nation while paying tribute to the 19 Victims of a weekend Shooting Spree. "The president wanted to begin this solemn trip by stopping first at the Hospital where congresswoman Giffords and others continue to recuperate," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. With his wife and a bipartis...

Liberals Seek Ban on Metaphors in Wake of Arizona Shooting
After the monstrous shooting in Arizona last week, surely we can all agree that we've got to pass Obama's agenda immediately and stop using metaphors. At least I think that's what the Mainstream Media are trying to tell me. Liberals instantly leapt on the sickening massacre at a Tucson political event over the weekend to accuse tea partiers, Sarah Palin and all Conservatives who talk out loud of being complicit in Murder by inspiring the shooter, Jared Loughner. You must login to comment. The Fo...

House pays emotional tribute to Arizona victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grief-stricken members of Congress paid tribute Wednesday to the Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage amid consultations with security advisers on how they can protect themselves and their aides against such savage attacks. Still deeply shaken from Saturday's violence half a continent away, House Speaker John A. Boehner fought tears as he spoke of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' battle to recover from a gunshot wound to the head. "Our hearts are broken, but our spirit is not,"...

Officials: Frenetic morning for rampage suspect
(01-12) 14:26 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- For Jared Loughner, the morning of the deadly shooting rampage was a blur of activity. He hustled to Walmart twice. He ran a red light, with the officer letting him off with a warning. Back home, he grabbed a black bag from the trunk of a family car and fled into the desert on foot, his suspicious father giving chase. Later, Loughner took a cab to a Safeway Supermarket and began squeezing off round after round into the crowd. The new details of the Walma...

Jared Loughner Didn't Watch TV, Listen to Political Radio, Says Friend
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. A High School friend of Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner says that when the two were in touch a couple of years ago, Loughner "did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right." In a discussion apparently started by Mr Loughner last July about currencies, a common theme in his online trail, a member using the name...

A U.S. marshal's first impressions of prisoner Jared Loughner
Liberals and Conservatives who were hoping that Jared Loughner would speak out from captivity confirming or refuting suspicions about his motives in Saturday's massacre are going to have to wait a little longer. So far Loughner has been a man of few words, according to U.S. Marshal David Gonzales, who was interviewed by The Daily Beast. "I was with him Tuesday," Gonzales said. "He doesn't say much, he just sits in his cell with a smirk on his face, nothing else." Not a smile, just a smirk. ...

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton on Jared Loughner's 'Extremism'
ABC's Luis Martinez Reports: In a sit-down interview with CNN’s Jill Dougherty, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked to explain comments she made on an overseas trip about Extremists and Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting of Rep. Giffords and 18 others in Tucson over the weekend.    Read more about her initial comments, in which she called Loughner an extremist, HERE . Clinton explained on CNN that pursuing criminal activity connected to politica...

Obama to attend Arizona memorial
President Barack Obama has arrived in Arizona to pay tribute to six people killed in a shooting and to honour US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in the attack. The president is due to speak at a memorial service for Victims of the shooting in Tucson later on Wednesday. Suspected gunman Jared Loughner has been charged with several offences and could face the death penalty if guilty. Ms Giffords was shot in the head and remains in a critical condition. Thousands have gathered thr...

Due To Arizona Conflicts, California Judge Takes Over Loughner Case
U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of California Larry A. Burns will handle the case against Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged gunman behind the Mass Shooting on Saturday, according to documents filed with the court on Wednesday. All Federal Judges in Arizona have been conflicted out because U.S. District Judge John M. Roll was one of the six Victims of the shooting. "Based upon the circumstances occurring on January 8, 2011 in Tucson and the initiation of proceedings in conjunc...

Westboro Baptist Church Agrees to Be Slightly Less Obnoxious
Photo: Monika Graff/Getty Images Faced with an expedited Arizona law forbidding demonstrations within 300 feet of a Funeral, and with the threat of being physically shrouded by counterprotesters wearing enormous angel wings, the monsters of the Westboro Baptist Church have decided not to picket the funeral of 9-year-old Tucson massacre Victim Christina Taylor Green. It's not because they've looked deep within their hearts and discovered the error of their ways though, since their hearts long a...

Minnesota Rep. to Honor Giffords
(NewsCore) - Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) announced Wednesday that he will hold a special “Congress on your Corner" meeting in his district in honor of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who survived an Assassination attempt at her political event Saturday. The event will be similar to other meetings hosted by the Minnesota Democrat -- who is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress -- in which constituents are able to speak directly with the congressman. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, killed s...

Giffords making spontaneous movements, doctor says
Stumble This! TUCSON (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gravely injured in a shooting rampage, is "making more spontaneous movements" and is able to feel her bullet wounds with her hands, a doctor treating her said on Wednesday. Giffords was shot through the head by a gunman who raked a meeting with semi-automatic pistol fire in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people including a Federal Judge, a 9 year-old girl and one of Giffords' aides. "She is making more and more spontaneous move...

Christie Tells Palin to go off Script
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey says it's way too early to handicap the field of his fellow Republicans who might run for president in 2012, but on Wednesday he voiced a few sharp words about the most famous one. He argued that unscripted, even adversarial exchanges with reporters and the public are essential to judging a Candidate, and that if Sarah Palin continues to avoid them, "she'll never be president." You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excess...

Colleagues Pay Tribute to Rep. Giffords
Yahoo! Buzz Rep. Gabrielle Giffords likes chocolate, especially peanut M&Ms and those little Hershey’s nuggets with almonds and toffee. That might be the most personal detail House members have shared about the Arizona Democrat during the nearly four-hour tribute to Ms. Giffords and the other Victims of the weekend shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. And it came from a Republican. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert , who’s known for his occasionally outlandish partisan barbs, told the chamber...

Hillary: Tucson shootings "a form of extremism"
SecState Hillary Clinton, who has been traveling in the Middle East this week, has reiterated her comments that the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of six others were carried out by an "Extremist." In an interview with CNN while in Oman (full transcript available here), Clinton said that "when you cross the line from expressing opinions that are of conflicting differences in our political environment into taking action that’s violent action,...

Louie Gohmert hits the trifecta: violent rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and guns
While it would be impossible to top the self-centered offensiveness of today's Sarah Palin video -- where she used the attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords to peddle her message of victimhood -- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) gave it his best shot, but could only manage a trifecta of stupidity. First, his thoughts on the public comments by Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik on today's political climate: I hope the sheriff tones his Rhetoric down. Well, sure. Sheriff Dupnik needs to tone d...

Sheriff Releases Loughner's Arrest Records
Like this Story? Share it: Doctors at Tucson's University Medical Center are increasingly optimistic about Ariz. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's chance of survival from a bullet wound to her brain. John Blackstone reports. With all the evidence against the suspected Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, a Guilty verdict could still prove very difficult. Jan Crawford reports on the latest details of the case. Though Jared Lee Loughner's parents were "completely surprised" by the news of the Tucson s...

California federal judge appointed in Arizona shooting case
A Federal Judge from California has been appointed to preside over upcoming hearings in the case of Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in Saturday's Killing Spree in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Larry Burns is a 2003 Bush Appointee serving in the U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego. The next federal hearing in the case is scheduled for January 24 in Phoenix. All federal judges in Arizona have recused themselves from hearing the case after Judge John Roll, the chief federa...

Obama arrives in Tucson for memorial
US President Barack Obama arrived here Wednesday to address a poignant memorial service for six people killed in a shooting tragedy, which left a lawmaker fighting for her life in Hospital. His party, including First Lady Michelle Obama and Democratic and Republican congressmen, was met at the airport by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Obama was to lead Americans in mourning after Saturday's Assassination attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords that has unleashed a debate about the violent r...