Simone Biles poses wearing her bronze medal from balance beam competition during artistic gymnastics at the Summer Olympics on Aug. 3, 2021, in Tokyo. President Biden will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Biles and 16 others at the White House next week. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption
Sarah Palin, shown at Politicon 2016 last June in Pasadena, Calif., has accused The New York Times of publishing a statement about her that it "knew to be false." Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP hide caption
An SUV, with a bullet hole in the windshield and a flat tire, sits in the parking lot at the baseball field where Rep. Steve Scalise was shot Wednesday morning. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says lawmakers should "have some courage" and face their constituents at town halls, despite protests. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Mary Reed and her daughter, Emma McMahon, at the Safeway where Mary was shot along with 18 others on Jan. 8, 2011. Courtesy of StoryCorps hide caption
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, accompanied by her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, speaks during a July 2013 news conference in Manchester, N.H. Mary Schwalm/AP hide caption
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, accompanied by her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, speaks during a news conference in Manchester, N.H., in July. They were there to encourage state political leaders to have courage in the fight to expand background checks on gun purchases. Mary Schwalm/AP hide caption
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at a firing range in Nevada earlier this week. Her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, was behind her. Americans for Responsible Solutions hide caption
Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, at an April 16 ceremony naming a Capitol Hill conference room for her aide Gabe Zimmerman. Zimmerman died in the same Tucson, Ariz., shootings that Giffords wounded. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
On Wednesday, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, attended a news conference at the site of the 2011 attack in which she was shot, 12 other people were also wounded and six people were killed. Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., and her husband Mark Kelly at Wednesday's Senate hearing about gun violence. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., during her interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer. ABCNews.com hide caption
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., waves to the delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
One thing so memorable about the 2003 California recall election was the fine caliber of potential governors on the ballot. (And so what if this button misspelled Gary Coleman's name?) Ken Rudin collection hide caption
A PAC supporting Kelly sent this image from his 2010 campaign in a fundraising email. Move America Forward Freedom PAC hide caption
Former Haitian president Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images hide caption