TIME contributor Adam Klawonn and I have a story from Tucson with information on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ condition, the state of the criminal investigation and the new charges against suspect Jared Lee Loughner. You can read it here.
TUCSON–Rep. Gabrielle Giffords remains in critical condition Sunday morning after being shot in the head Saturday during a massacre that claimed the lives of six and wounded at least 12 more. TIME contributor Adam Klawonn has a dispatch from the scene yesterday. Law enforcement and medical authorities are holding press conferences this morning, and we’ll [...]
Much discussion is ensuing about political rhetoric, though there is no knowledge yet of why the shooting took place. I have removed a screen shot of one such an example, at commenter request. For a good discussion, you can follow this link to a Seattle PI, also linked to by a commenter. Regardless of why [...]
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat first elected in 2006, has been shot in the head during a public event at a Tucson grocery store, according to several news reports. According to NPR, at least nine others, including members of her staff, were injured as well. Giffords’ condition is not yet known. From NPR’s report: [...]
Some people worry that Yemen is “the next Afghanistan.” Top Obama administration officials have their hair on fire about the country’s growing international terrorist activity. And while the U.S. has increasingly stepped up support for the Yemeni government’s battle against al Qaeda, it’s clearly not a simple task: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula conducted [...]
Tea Partiers, William Daley and David Plouffe, birthers, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, “the professional left” — all will play marginal roles in deciding who wins the next presidential election. But almost nothing is likely to be as decisive as a single number: the unemployment rate. And so today’s signs of continued economic growth, while superficially [...]
Late last year a Norwegian paper apparently got hold of the trove of U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks and now is focusing attention on Israeli-Palestinian affairs. The Norwegian paper Aftenposten published two U.S. diplomatic cables Wednesday one of which alleged Israeli border forces were bribing American companies supplying goods to the beleaguered enclave, the [...]
Sure, the handing over of power went smoothly and civilly. But Republicans are off to a tough first week and Dems are not letting them forget it – or so say the dozens of press releases in my inbox. Governing is always harder than being in the minority and there’s bound to be some period [...]
