Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court on Tuesday, a person familiar with the case said. The source confirmed that the federal government believed Loughner was now competent to stand trial and will argue that in…
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded in an assassination attempt last year, announced Sunday she is resigning her seat in Congress. Citing her long recovery, Giffords said she would officially step down this week. “I have more work to do on my recovery, so to do what is best for Arizona I will step…
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) bravely led the pledge of allegiance at a emotional vigil that drew thousands on the first anniversary of the shooting rampage that wounded her and killed six others. The still-recovering lawmaker needed help from her astronaut husband Mark Kelly to lift her right arm to her heart. But she spoke clearly…
It looks highly unlikely that we will ever chance upon Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, having a friendly beer with Speaker of the House John Boehner. Gawker noticed that The Hill published excerpts from Kelly’s new book, “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” that clearly showed that Kelly is more than a…
The astronaut husband of Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) slammed House Speaker John Boehner, suggesting that the GOP leader did not make any effort visit her in the hospital after she was nearly killed in an assassination attempt, CNN reported. Mark Kelly blasted Boehner for shunning the wounded congresswoman in a new book, “Gabby – A Story…
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, speaking haltingly in her first interview since she was critically wounded by a gunman?s bullet, said her political future was contingent on getting ?better.? The Arizona Democrat?s road to recovery was the focus of a television special, which aired Sunday night on ABC. It featured excerpts from hours of video taken as…
In the months before she was shot in the head and critically wounded, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, had been undergoing fertility treatment with hopes of becoming pregnant via in vitro fertilization. That’s one of the revelations in “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” the new memoir that the…
The previously announced memoir by Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, will be out November 15 according to its publisher, Scribner. The memoir will be titled “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.” The book is said to focus on Giffords and Kelly’s relationship, from their courtship until after the January 8 shooting…
100% of profits support our journalism
