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• Suspect charged with attempted assassination of Giffords (Reuters)
• Arizona shooting suspect charged with murder (Reuters)
• Police clear "person of interest" in Tucson rampage (Reuters)
• Gov. Makes Exotic Animals Non Grata in Ohio (Time.com)
• Oops: Man's Dream Home Accidentally Demolished (Time.com)
• Shoppers to spend more, stay thrifty: Deloitte (Reuters)
• Face time with lawmakers in peril after shooting (AP)
• Sudanese refugees in the US vote on independence (AP)
• Flights canceled, roads icy as storm hits South (AP)
• Probe examines possible link between shooter (AP)
• 9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician (AP)
• Shooting suspect's nihilism rose with isolation (AP)
• 3 helped subdue man who killed 6 at Arizona store (AP)
• 'Get down! Get down!' as gunfire erupts in Arizona (AP)
• Arizona tragedy gives Congress a moment to pause (AP)
• Authorities: 2nd man cleared in Giffords shooting (AP)
• Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges (AP)
• Congresswoman's intern stanched blood from gunshot (AP)
• 911 call: "I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit." (AP)

Suspect charged with attempted assassination of Giffords (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:12 PM PST Reuters - The government charged a 22-year-old man with attempted assassination of a congresswoman on Sunday while doctors expressed optimism that the wounded lawmaker, Gabrielle Giffords, would recover.

Arizona shooting suspect charged with murder (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:30 PM PST Reuters - The United States on Sunday charged Jared Lee Loughner, the man suspected of killing six people and wounding a congresswoman in Arizona, with five criminal counts, including attempted assassination.

Police clear "person of interest" in Tucson rampage (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:26 PM PST Reuters - Authorities cleared a man they had sought in connection with Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson in which a U.S. congresswoman was seriously wounded and six people were slain, the FBI said on Sunday.

Gov. Makes Exotic Animals Non Grata in Ohio (Time.com) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:35 AM PST Time.com - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is instead leaving his constituents with a message: Dangerous wild animals pose a threat to Ohio's citizens.

Oops: Man's Dream Home Accidentally Demolished (Time.com) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 11:35 AM PST Time.com - When 40-year old Andre Hall came home to Pittsburgh after the holidays, he noticed something was missing. His house.

Shoppers to spend more, stay thrifty: Deloitte (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:15 PM PST Reuters - Shoppers will continue to spend more this year, spurred by a slowly improving job market and an uptick in income, but enough shoppers are still struggling with their finances that any increase will be modest, a retail industry expert said.

Face time with lawmakers in peril after shooting (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:23 PM PST AP - If the hostile town hall meetings over health care reform proved anything, it is this: face-to-face democracy still matters, even in the era of Facebook and Twitter.

Sudanese refugees in the US vote on independence (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:18 PM PST AP - Thousands of jubilant Sudanese refugees living in the United States turned polling places into victory parties Sunday with chanting, singing and flag-waving as they voted on a historic referendum that could separate their homeland, Southern Sudan, from the north and create the world's newest country.

Flights canceled, roads icy as storm hits South (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:19 PM PST AP - A blast of winter weather pushed across the South on Sunday, coating bridges and roads with snow, sleet and freezing rain and causing hundreds of flight cancelations.

Probe examines possible link between shooter (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:20 PM PST AP - An official familiar with the Arizona shooting investigation said Sunday that local authorities are looking at a possible connection between accused gunman Jared Loughner and an online group known for white supremacist, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:58 PM PST AP - At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league baseball.

Shooting suspect's nihilism rose with isolation (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST AP - At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his high school friends the question was essentially this: "What is government if words have no meaning?"

3 helped subdue man who killed 6 at Arizona store (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:59 PM PST AP - Three people helped subdue a gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona.

'Get down! Get down!' as gunfire erupts in Arizona (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:10 PM PST AP - She arrived right on time — smiling, as Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords so often did, as she made her way through the small crowd that had assembled for her first "Congress on Your Corner" gathering of the new year.

Arizona tragedy gives Congress a moment to pause (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 04:49 PM PST AP - The shooting rampage in Arizona seems to have created a reset moment for confrontational politics, as lawmakers reflect on the repercussions of the overheated rhetoric traded on the airwaves and on the campaign trail.

Authorities: 2nd man cleared in Giffords shooting (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 12:22 PM PST AP - Arizona authorities say a second man has been cleared of any involvement in an attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 12:40 PM PST AP - Federal prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted assassination and four other charges.

Congresswoman's intern stanched blood from gunshot (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 03:38 PM PST AP - A 20-year-old intern to an Arizona congresswoman says he used his hands to apply pressure to a gunshot wound while holding her head in his lap.

911 call: "I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit." (AP) Posted: 09 Jan 2011 01:38 PM PST AP - A 911 caller witnessing the mass shooting outside a grocery store in Tucson describes a frantic scene and says, "I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit."

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