Rep. Giffords still critical after deadly shooting spree

9-year-old Ariz. victim related to TV star
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Actress Sophia Bush says Christina Green, the 9-year-old shot and killed in Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona, was her second cousin. Christina was one of six people killed in the shootings at a political event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. Also killed was Federal Judge John Roll. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Fourteen people -- including Giffords, who was shot in the head and critically injured -- were hurt in the shoo...

McCain to return from overseas trip to attend memorial service
Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) will return from a congressional delegation trip to attend a memorial service for the Victims of a Shooting Spree in his home state that resulted in the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D).  Brooke Buchanan, a spokeswoman for McCain, told The Hill he is cutting his trip short to go to the memorial in Tucson, Ariz., where the shooting took place. McCain is traveling in South America with his Senate GOP colleague Tom Barrasso (Wyo.) The two were scheduled to vi...

Giffords breathing on her own, doctor says
TUCSON | Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:30pm EST TUCSON (Reuters) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gravely wounded in a shooting rampage, is able to breath on her own although she remains in critical condition, a doctor treating her said on Tuesday. Giffords was shot through the head by a gunman who sprayed a meeting with pistol fire in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people including a Federal Judge, a nine-year-old girl and one of Giffords' aides. "She's able to generate her own breaths. She's breat...

Jared Loughner's Parents Said to be 'Devastated' by Shootings
A neighbor says the parents of accused murderer Jared Loughner are devastated by their son's alleged actions, leaving the father in tears and the mother unable to rise from her bed. "They're in there [their home] now," Wayne Smith told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. "They're both crying. He's crying and hanging onto me, and she's not even out of bed." Randy and Amy Loughner's 22-year-old son is being held without bail in Phoenix, charged with two counts of Murder and three other federal counts...

The Note: 2012 Politics Gets Tangled In Arizona Shooting Aftermath
By MICHAEL FALCONE and AMY WALTER The place that Sarah Palin has occupied in the debate about civility in politics in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona that left six people dead has inevitably dragged other potential 2012 contenders into the discussion. One of the first to join the fray is former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, whose long-planned book tour kicks off this week. Pawlenty weighed in on the swirling Controversy about the appropriateness of Palin’s use of rifle cro...

Obama, Michelle, to Tucson on Wednesday for Memorial Service
President Obama and First Lady Michelle head to Tucson on Wednesday for a memorial service at the University of Arizona for the Victims of Saturday's Shooting Spree. The Obama White House has been making an effort to show how engaged Obama is over the massacre. ...

Holder calls shootings unspeakably tragic (AP)
WASHINGTON – The killing of a Federal Judge and attempted Assassination of an Arizona congresswoman are an "unspeakable tragedy" that serve as a reminder that violence and cruelty persist more than 40 years after the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Attorney General Holder said Tuesday. Threats against public officials "continue to be cause for concern and vigilance," Holder told a Justice Department memorial for the slain Civil Rights leader in advance of the holiday commemorati...

Lawyers: Insanity Defense Wont Work
CNN reports: The alleged shooter in Saturday’s deadly Tucson massacre may have difficulty making the case for a successful insanity plea, experts said Tuesday. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, who authorities say shot up a gathering held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, outside a Supermarket, has been anecdotally regarded as very troubled and perhaps mentally unbalanced because of his ramblings spotted on the Internet and the ways he has been described by acquaintances. But Paul Callan...

Doctor: Rep. Giffords breathing on her own after being shot
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson Grocery Store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a three-term Dem...

Doctor: Giffords breathing on her own after attack
(01-11) 09:40 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson grocery store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a ...

Politician Safety and Protection
TACTICAL EXTRACTIONS Counterterrorism PAPER 01-2011 SPECIAL By R. J. Godlewski The January 8, 2011 shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Federal Judge John Roll and several others in Tucson has sparked a national outcry of support for the Victims and strong condemnation for the alleged gunman, Jared Loughner, 22. These actions are necessarily part of the human condition. So, too, are reactions taken on the part of the U.S. Congress, the Presidency, and the public regarding...

AZ Congresswoman Assassination Scenario Has MKULTRA Profile, Drug & Space Target
© unknown The mass political Assassination attack in Tucson, AZ on Saturday January 8, 2011 that as of 2:44 pm pst had left six people dead and eighteen shot were shot during the attack has a marked MKULTRA profile, and of suppression of Drug Cartel investigation and of expansion the U.S. space program as one of its effects. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was reported in grave condition and in surgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, after the shooting in a Safeway Supermarket parking lo...

Neighbor Says Arizona Suspect's Parents Blame Selves
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press Phoenix (AP) - A neighbor says the parents of the suspect in Saturday's Shooting Spree in Tucson are devastated and guilt-ridden. Jared Loughner appeared in court Monday on federal charges that he tried to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed a Federal Judge. He is also accused of killing five others and wounding or injuring 13 others. Wayne Smith, who lives across the street from the family, said Randy and Amy Loughner bla...

Giffords breathing on her own: doctor
TUCSON | Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:32pm EST TUCSON (Reuters) - A doctor treating Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, gravely wounded in a shooting rampage, said on Tuesday she is now breathing on her own. Giffords was shot through the head by a gunman who sprayed a meeting with pistol fire in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people including a Federal Judge, a nine-year-old girl and one of Giffords' aides. "She's able to generate her own breaths. She's breathing on her own," Dr. Michael Lemole told a ...

Huff Po Caught Scrubbing Site of Post Describing a Drone Airstrike on Palins House
Suppose that Sarah Palin lived in Pakistan. Suppose that Jared Loughner, the alleged killer of Federal Judge John Roll and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ Staffer Gabe Zimmerman, had once traveled to Pakistan. Suppose that a “credible source” told a U.S. intelligence official that Loughner, while he was in Pakistan, had met with Sarah Palin. And suppose that Sarah Palin had published a map showing Gabrielle Giffords’ Congressional District under the cross hairs of a gun sight (o...

How low can Wikileaks go? Julian Assanges sick attempt to exploit the Arizona shootings
In a Press Release late last night, Wikileaks made a sick attempt to link in the public mind the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to widespread outrage in America over its recent leaking of hundreds of thousands of US government documents. Even for Julian Assange this is surely a low point IN Media manipulation, and here he is clearly mimicking the Far Left’s ludicrous attempts to blame the Right for the Arizona shootings. Here’s what the release, entitled “WikiLeak

Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's doctor said the congresswoman was "holding her own" at a Hospital in Tucson early Monday morning, with CT scans showing that the swelling in her brain is not getting any worse. This Story Christina-Taylor Green, 9-year-old killed in Tucson, remembered, mourned Obama calls for national moment of silence for Tucson Victims Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting Giffords able to communicate, respond Gabrielle Giffords, congresswoman from A...

Shot US lawmaker 'breathing on her own': doctor
The Arizona lawmaker shot in the head in an attack that killed six in Tucson remains in critical condition but is now capable of breathing on her own, doctors said Tuesday. "She's holding her own," said Michael Lemole, the head neurosurgeon who operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, adding that she was still responding to simple commands, a key sign for her recovery prospects. "She's breathing on her own," added the doctor at University Medical Center, saying they had reduced the sedati...

Democrats that are politicizing Arizona tragedy have ulterior motives
The tragic shootings in Arizona on Saturday that left a nine-year-old girl dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords severely wounded should have been a time to put politics aside and honor the Victims. Instead, many people on the left are capitalizing on this opportunity to blame Conservatives and the lack of Gun Control as contributing the tragedy. Let’s take Democratic Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for example. Instead of giving a fact-based Press Conference Sa...

Sen. McCain cutting trip short to attend Memorial service in Tucson
According to ABC News’, Matthew Jaffe, Sen. John McCain is cutting short a Congressional trip to Latin America to return to his home state of Arizona for Wednesday’s memorial service for the Victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. McCain and his wife Cindy will both attend the memorial service, according to the senator’s spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan. McCain left last Friday with Sen. John Barrasso on a week-long trip to Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico, but no...

Rep. Giffords can breathe on her own
Published: Jan. 11, 2011 at 1:18 PM Flowers for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her staff are left on the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol Jan.y 11, 2011. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Ariz. shooting followed history of tension TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is being kept on a ventilator at a Tucson Hospital even though she is able to breathe on her own, doctors said. Dr. G. Michael Lemole Jr., the neurosurgeon who operated on Giffords, D-Ariz., after she was shot Saturday, said the b...

Giffords Breathing on Her Own, Doctors Say
Like this Story? Share it: Last Friday Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition, expressed the need to tone down Rhetoric and Partisanship in Congress in an e-mail. Katie Couric reports from Tucson. Only On The Web: CBS News digital Journalist Arden Farhi spoke to Tucson-area residents as they reflect on Saturday's shooting and the impact it's had on their community. In light of the recent shooting rampage which critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, concerns have...

House Resolution to Reaffirm Democratic Principles
With all of Capitol Hill’s legislative business postponed in response to the shooting rampage in Arizona, the House will reconvene on Wednesday to approve a resolution honoring the dead and the wounded, praising the Bravery of those who responded to the attack and reaffirming “the bedrock principal of American Democracy and representative government” - the right to peaceable assembly enshrined in the First Amendment. The resolution is being offered by the House Speaker, John A. Boeh

The Giffords Resolution
House Republicans have unveiled the text of their resolution addressing the shooting in Tuscon, AZ over the weekend that left six people dead and wounded many others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [D, AZ-8] who remains in critical condition. The resolution, which is offered by Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner [R, OH-8], will be voted on by the House Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. The full text of the resolution is below. Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect t...

Religiously-Themed Conspiracy Theories About Giffords Shooting Emerge
Pastor Carl Gallups of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida, has produced two videos about the attempted Assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that glorify Gun Owners of America, claim that Giffords knew her assailant, assert that owning guns is a "God-given right," and that Gun Control leads to Genocide. One of Gallups' claims, that Giffords subscribed to Loughner's YouTube channel, is now being touted by Jerome Corsi, the conspiratory theorist and contributor to World Net Daily...