ARIZONA SHOOTING

People who came to the aid of Arizona shooting victims earlier this month and the family of a girl killed in the incident are expected to appear at President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address on Tuesday night in Washington.

Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner had been known for using drugs according to friends, including marijuana and a little known, but increasingly popular hallucinogenic drug, salvia.

A debate rages on over the role that educational institutions could play in preventing individuals like Loughner from causing a threat to public safety.

While nearly half of the U.S. public said in a recent poll that accused Arizona shooter Jared Loughner's political views were a factor in the Tucson Massacre, the accused gunman was apolitical, a former friend said.

Doctors treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' upgraded her condition to serious from critical on Sunday because she is no longer on a ventilator.

Arizona shooting victim James Eric Fuller was arrested on disorderly conduct and threat charges on Saturday after an incident at a television taping.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona has started aggressive physical therapy after opening her eyes and becoming more and more alert, according to the medical team treating her.

Jared Lee Loughner's interactions with instructors at his Tucson, Arizona community college were strained throughout 2010, with administrators and instructors reporting disturbing out of context comments, inappropriate expressions, and very hostile behavior which culminated in a suspension, according to school documents.

Sarah Palin, Republican known for fiery statements, has landed in another controversy for using blood libel while defending herself against allegations on the Tuscon shooting. The row has shed light on the increasingly caustic political rhetoric.

Federal law enforcement arrested a California man today and charged him with making death threats to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-WA, according to federal authorities.

Arizona enacted a law on Tuesday that will forbid picketers to come within 300 feet of a funeral or burial service, a move meant to reduce the impact of planned protests of Arizona shooting victims by members of a Kansas-based church known for protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers.

Sarah Palin has broken her silence on the Arizona shootings, striking back at critics who have implied, or said outright, that Palin was to some degree culpable for inspiring the assassin Jared Lee Loughner due to shooting metaphors Palin has used in political campaigns.

President Barack Obama is set to deliver remarks in prime time at a memorial in Arizona on Wednesday for the victims of a shooting which left six people dead and 14 injured, including critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are calling for new gun-control legislation in the wake of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona last Saturday that left six people dead and 15 injured, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, who remains in critical condition, as do five other victims.

The attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, and the murder of six innocent bystanders, at a “meet and greet” with constituents on Jan. 8, was a shocking and tragic event nationwide. Unfortunately, trying to kill American politicians is neither unique nor new.

The presidents of the United States and the United States’ oldest ally, France, met today in Washington, and offered condolences to each other for recent violent tragedies suffered by each nation.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are displaying a symbolic show of unity and will hold meetings about security this week, with no votes on legislation expected in the wake of the Arizona shooting over the weekend which killed six people and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ.

One of Jared Loughner’s favorite books, according to the 22-year-old Arizona assassin’s YouTube profile, is Gulliver’s Travels. So, my theory is that Irish satirists put him up to it.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, continues to follow basic commands from physicians and there has been no progression on the swelling in her brain on Tuesday, the third day after surgery following a point-blank shooting incident on Saturday.

The biggest risk to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ, is brain swelling, as she remains in critical condition on Monday, after a Saturday shooting.

The “Congress on Your Corner” event on Saturday morning, Jan. 8 in Tucson, Arizona was at least the second such constituent event hosted by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that was attended by Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old Tucson resident who is charged by federal authorities with shooting Giffords, and killing U.S. District Judge John Roll and Gabriel Zimmerman, a Giffords’ aide, according to the FBI.