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Gabrielle Giffords calls Santa Monica shooting 'eerily reminiscent'
On the six-month anniversary of the school shooting that rocked Newtown, Conn., former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords – who was the victim of a shooting in 2011 – called last week’s Santa Monica rampage "eerily reminiscent.&...
Tags: John Zawahri, Colleges and Universities
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Giffords accepts Kennedy 'Profile in Courage' award
Courage comes in many guises. In Boston on Sunday, Gabrielle Giffords was praised for having the courage just to carry on. "It’s been a hard two years for me, but I want to make the world a better place," said Giffords in receiving the 2013...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control
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Dog belonging to Gabby Giffords' relative kills sea lion in Laguna
A dog that belongs to a relative of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords attacked and killed a sea lion along the Laguna Beach shoreline, police said Monday. A video of the violent encounter shows Giffords’ stepdaughter and husband trying to pull the...
Tags: Mark Kelly
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Obama: Senate gun vote marks 'shameful day in Washington'
WASHINGTON -- President Obama declared it a “shameful day for Washington” on Wednesday after the Senate defeated an effort to expand background checks for people trying to purchase guns. Standing in the White House's Rose Garden with...
Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, White House, U.S. Senate, Lamar Alexander
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Boston: News organizations' race to be first leads to stumbles
Sports radio personality Dan Patrick often jokes that the motto of his news team is, "Fast and wrong is still fast." Too often these days that slogan could be used to describe real news organizations. The latest example came Wednesday when false reports...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Fox News Channel (tv network), Radio, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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Cowardly Senate runs away from gun background checks
Polls indicate that 80% to 90% of Americans support expanded background checks for firearms sales, but on Wednesday such a plan could not get 60 votes in the United States Senate. In the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by families of children gunned...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, White House, Max Baucus
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Obama arrives in Boston on a mission of healing and commemoration
BOSTON -- In a gesture of healing and commemoration, President Obama arrived on Thursday in Boston, a city still reeling from the shock of a bombing that turned a holiday into a terrorist attack. Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, the president landed...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House, First Aid, Religion and Belief, FBI
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Tucson shooting: 3,000 pages of sought-after records made public
TUCSON -- More than two years after a gunman opened fire in Tucson killing six and seriously wounding former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, authorities on Wednesday released thousands of pages of records about the case that had previously been kept private....
Tags: Ron Barber, Jared Lee Loughner, Justice System, National Rifle Association of America, Judges
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Jared Loughner's friend described 'hostile' home environment
TUCSON -- Jared Lee Loughner, convicted in a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, grew up in what was described as a “kind of a hostile environment,” a high school friend told law enforcement officials,...
Tags: Jared Lee Loughner, FBI
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Mother of Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner took away his shotgun
TUCSON -- The mother of Jared Lee Loughner, the man who went on a shooting rampage that killed six and wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said she took away his shotgun after school officials warned her about his increasingly odd and angry behavior,...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Jared Lee Loughner
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Taggants: Still a better way to track a bomber
A number of commenters on the online version of our April 28 Op-Ed, "A better way to track a bomber," argue against the use of taggants to trace explosives because the suspects in the Boston bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers, were identified through...
Tags: Safeway Inc., Emergency Incidents, Explosions, FBI
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein, Kay Hagan, Gun Control
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