Democratic Rep. Giffords to resign from Congress

This is a loss for House Democrats… Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago that shook the country.

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The intern who saved Gabby Giffords’ life

This is the definition of courage under fire… Daniel Hernandez had only been Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ intern for five days, and on Saturday, he may have saved her life. The University of Arizona junior was standing 30 feet away from the Democratic congresswoman when she was shot in the head…

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Gabrielle Giffords talks about being put in Palin’s “crosshairs”

Watch as Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Gifford, among those shot yesterday by a gunman in Tuscon, Arizona, discusses her district office being vandalized after her vote in favor of health care reform, the heated rhetoric of many on the right in 2010, and her being targeted in “crosshairs” by former half-term…

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