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  • This image taken from Facebook.com on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, shows the Facebook page of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. A nearly eight-minute video was posted on her page early Wednesday, accusing journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded a U.S. congresswoman. (AP Photo/Facebook.com)

    In politics, Palin has her own rules

    With her video defending herself against critics — in which she accused them of "blood libel" — former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin again showed she is weighing a presidential bid in unprecedented and even daring ways.


  • FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2011 file photo, Dr. Peter Rhee, Trauma and Critical Care Emergency Surgery doctor at University Medical Center, describes in more detail the gunshot wound Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.,received on Saturday, during a news briefing at UMC in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords remains in critical condition, but doctors have reported steady progress each day since she was wounded last weekend. If all goes well, she may be "out of the woods" on Friday, said Rhee. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

    At congresswoman's bedside, good news keeps coming

    Gabrielle Giffords has made a "major leap forward" in her recovery progress, opening both eyes and moving her legs and arms, her doctors said Thursday.


  • Petty Officer 3rd class Robert Hampton of Newport News, Va., gets a goodbye hug from his wife, Rebecca, as he prepares to deploy on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. The USS Enterprise is deploying without its former commander as Navy brass investigates bawdy, sexually themed videos he showed to thousands of crew members. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

    Navy carrier deploys without former commander

    The new commander of the USS Enterprise on Thursday promised karaoke and video games to boost crew morale instead of the raunchy videos that cost one officer his command and forced another to delay his retirement.


  • Many factors key to Giffords' survival, docs say

    It looks like Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is one of the lucky ones.


  • Several hundred people, many dressed in white T-shirts, stood silently along a road near St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, the site of Christina Taylor Green's funeral, in Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday. (Associated Press)

    Mourners remember girl killed in shooting at funeral

    The family of the youngest victim of the mass shooting in Arizona held hands and paused in a moment of silence Thursday under the large American flag recovered from ground zero after the 9/11 attacks, and later escorted the 9-year-old's small brown casket into the church as little girls about her age cried.


  • Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted a video statement on her Facebook page Wednesday, criticizing media pundits for blaming her in the Arizona shooting. (AP photo)

    Palin denounces 'blood libel' in Tucson debate

    Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she is heartbroken over the shootings in Arizona in which Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gravely wounded, but accused some in the news media and others of "blood libel" for saying heated political rhetoric from her and others are to blame.


  • HONORED: President Obama joins the audience Wednesday during a memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., in applauding Daniel Hernandez, an intern for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who helped her immediately after she was wounded Saturday during the shopping center shooting spree. (Associated Press)

    Obama: May good come of Ariz. tragedy

    Invoking the memory of a slain 9-year-old girl, a solemn President Obama on Wednesday night urged Americans to "live up to her expectations" and shelve bitter politics as the nation grieves for the victims of Saturday's attack in Tucson, Ariz.


  • **FILE** Former Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell (Associated Press)

    Some Democrats seek to dial back overheated rhetoric on shootings

    ANALYSIS: Some Democrats are calling for a cease-fire in a heated liberal campaign to pin blame for the Tucson, Ariz., massacre on conservative speech and specifically on former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.


  • President Obama hugs Daniel Hernandez, an intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a memorial service Wednesday for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

    Obama visits Giffords at Arizona hospital

    Thrust into the role of consoler, President Obama on Wednesday stood at the bedside of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and spent private moments with others who were shot in an assassination attempt against her that has unnerved the nation.


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