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Friday, January 21, 2011

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Update: Rep. Giffords Arrives In Houston

Gloria Giffords (center), Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's mother, talks with her daughter on the flight to Houston. Capt. Mark Kelly (far left), the representative's husband, talks with Tracy Culbert (center right), a nurse.

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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Giffords Heading To Houston

In this photo provided by the office of Rep Gabrielle Giffords, Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, stands with his wife as she looks from her bed at the Santa Catalina Mountains while on an outdoor deck at University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011.

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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Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Giffords Headed To Houston Center That Has 'Outstanding Reputation'

A makeshift memorial outside the University Medical Center in Tucson includes candles and this photo of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with supporters.

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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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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Mark Kelly: Rep. Giffords' Progress Is 'Great'; But Road To Recovery Is Long

Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) on ABC-TV's '20/20'.

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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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Palin: 'They're Not Going To Shut Me Up'

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Fox News Channel's 'Hannity', Jan. 17, 2011.

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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Monday, January 17, 2011

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'Miraculous' Is Still Word To Use About Giffords' Condition, Doctor Says

Sunday: Flowers, candles, stuffed toys and cards are left at a makeshift memorial outside the Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. where the Jan. 8 mass shooting took place,

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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Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Rep. Giffords' Next Major Test: Speaking

The hands of Mark Kelly and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

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

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Friday, January 14, 2011

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Rep. Giffords Making 'Right Moves In The Right Direction,' Doctor Says

January 14, 2011 "We couldn't have hoped for any better improvement than we're seeing right now," says Dr. G. Michael Lemole, section chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson.

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Officials: Loughner Took Photos Of Himself With Gun

January 14, 2011 Law enforcement officials tell NPR that the suspect in Saturday's Arizona shooting rampage went to a store that morning to get prints made of photographs he had taken of himself posing with a gun.

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Sharpton: He, And Others, Should Not Be Defensive About Rhetoric

Al Sharpton at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Jan.14, 2011.

January 14, 2011 The civil rights leader, who concedes he has said things in the past that may have contributed to a poisonous political climate, says public figures should learn from events such as Saturday's shootings in Arizona that they have to watch their words.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

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Don't Call Killer's Actions 'American,' Gibbs Tells Russian Reporter

January 13, 2011 When the correspondent asked today if "freedom of a deranged mind to react in a violent way" is part of what it means to be an American, the White House spokesman firmly rejected such talk.

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Arizona Hero Daniel Hernandez: I 'Shut Off My Emotions To Get Stuff Done'

President Obama shakes hands with Daniel Hernandez Jr., during the memorial event, "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America," at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday (Jan. 12, 2011).

January 13, 2011 "I thrive when I'm under stress," he says, though before Saturday's shooting rampage that was only of use "for big homework assignments ... not anything of real consequence."

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Giffords Makes 'Major Move Forward,' Doctors Say

January 13, 2011 Dr. G. Michael Lemole, section chief of neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson, says the Arizona congresswoman is beginning to be aware of her surroundings but remains in critical condition.

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VIDEO: The Memorial Service In Tucson

President Obama speaks during the memorial event, “Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Arizona, on January 12, 2011.

January 13, 2011 Courtesy of C-SPAN.org's library, you can see all of last night's memorial service in Tucson for the victims of Saturday's shooting rampage, their friends and families.

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'Open Your Eyes, Gabby'

January 13, 2011 President Obama had just left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hospital room when the wounded congresswoman from Arizona briefly opened her eyes. For New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was still in the room, it was an "an extraordinary moment."

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