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January 24, 2011 Jared Lee Loughner pleaded "not guilty" in a Phoenix courthouse Monday to federal charges that he attempted to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides on Jan. 8 in Tucson.

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January 21, 2011 Critically injured in the Jan. 8 shooting rampage that left six people dead, the congresswoman will continue her recovery at a rehabilitation center in Houston.

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January 21, 2011 She's being transferred from University Medical Center in Tucson to The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston.

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January 20, 2011 "I'm extremely confident that she's going to be ... back at work soon," Kelly told reporters in Tucson today.

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January 20, 2011 The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research in Houston, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) is headed on Friday, is "renowned for its care of survivors of brain and spinal cord injuries," the Houston Chronicle reports.

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January 19, 2011 "At times I'm 100 percent confident that she's going to make a 100 percent recovery," he tells ABC-TV. "And, you know, at other times I don't know."

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January 18, 2011 If Giffords were incapacitated she could stay in Congress as long as she or her family wanted. While Arizona has a law, it doesn't apply to federal lawmakers. That's governed by the Constitution and Congress, and Congress has no rules for such times.

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January 18, 2011 She and other conservatives have been "falsely accused of being [an] accessory to murder" in the wake of the Arizona shooting rampage, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said on Fox News Channel's Hannity.

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January 18, 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives; political confusion in Tunisia; Giffords' husband speaks; Michelle Obama birthday; zodiac wrong?

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January 17, 2011 The Democratic congresswoman hasn't yet tried to speak, but has reached out to give her husband a neck rub. That, her doctors say, is a high cognitive level of functioning.

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January 16, 2011 The Arizona congresswoman remains in critical condition, but continues to show good progress, doctors have said.

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January 14, 2011 James Reston Jr. theorizes that Texas Gov. John Connally, rather than President Kennedy, was Lee Harvey Oswald's principal target of assassination in Dallas. Oswald was aggrieved about his dishonorable discharge from the Marines Corps.

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January 14, 2011 Management at University Medical Center fired three employees and let go a nurse working for a contractor because they accessed confidential computerized medical files of patients injured in the Tuscon, Ariz., shooting rampage.

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