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Gun control forces struggle to keep issue alive
Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive ...
Giffords receives Profile in Courage award
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library on Sunday in recognition of the ...
Boston suspect's defense team gets major boost
The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke, a San Diego lawyer who ...
Newtown families: We'll keep fighting for gun law
Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair. That's how some families who lost loved ones in December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school view ...
Obama, victims' families overcome by gun owners
Four months ago, President Barack Obama promised a grieving nation he would do everything in his power to change gun laws after 26 students and staff ...
For gun control, now what? A look at the issue
The impassioned push for new gun laws, born from the slaughter of schoolchildren, has collided with the marble-hard realities of Congress.
What now for gun control? A look at the issue
The impassioned push for new gun laws, born from the slaughter of schoolchildren, has collided with the marble-hard realities of Congress.
Gun control backers: Senate defeat won't stop us
One day after the demise of gun control legislation, Senate supporters of the measure vowed to try again, while a leading opponent accused President ...
Mark Kelly vows to go on with gun control effort
The husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says their gun control advocacy group will target an ad campaign at senators who failed to support ...
Is it 'terrorism'? Anatomy of a very murky word
The word is almost a cold comfort in post-9/11 America — a way to describe the inconceivable, to somehow explain the twisted urge to commit mass ...
Gun control loses: No expanded background checks
Senate Republicans backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats scuttled the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades Wednesday, ...
Obama lambasts Senate gun vote as 'shameful day'
A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama surrounded himself with tear-stained parents of Connecticut school shooting victims Wednesday and declared ...
Senate plans background check vote Wednesday
The Senate set a long-awaited vote for Wednesday on a bipartisan plan for expanding background checks to more firearms buyers, with supporters facing ...
Capitol room dedicated to slain Giffords staffer
Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker John Boehner and former Rep. Gabby Giffords were on hand Tuesday to dedicate a room in the Capitol Visitor Center ...
Giffords meets with senators on gun buyer checks
Wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly met Tuesday with the two senators sponsoring a compromise on expanding background checks ...
Gun background check deal in jeopardy in Senate
A bipartisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed ...
Close vote seen on background checks on gun buyers
A bipartisan Senate proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers gained the backing of one Republican and the potential support of a second ...
US arms control advocates must show they like guns
Lobbying for gun control in the United States often means proving how much you like firearms. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state recently passed ...
Scientists find possible hint of dark matter
It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but ...
Caroline Kennedy returns to poetry for 10th book
Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her ...
Kelly: Gun checks need mental health component
Gun control activist Mark Kelly says a proposed national gun background bill under discussion in the Senate should include better access to mental ...
Arizona gun proponents launch free gun program
A campaign promising free shotguns for people in Tucson's most troubled neighborhoods has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a ...
Obama: 'Shame on us' if Congress forgets Newtown
President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on ...
Obama: 'Shame on us' if Newtown is forgotten
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers Thursday to remember the children gunned down in America and not "get squishy" in the face of powerful forces ...
Records provide new look at Ariz. shooting spree
An erratic Jared Loughner walked into a convenience store with an urgent message for the clerk: "I need a ride to Safeway." It was Saturday morning, ...