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Jared Lee Loughner and 6 other mass shooters: How the cases were resolved
Jared Lee Loughner was found competent Tuesday to stand trial and pled guilty to 19 counts, including murder, for the January 2011 shooting in Tucson in which six people were killed and 13 wounded – including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) of Arizona. In mass shootings like this where the perpetrator was not killed during the rampage, here’s how the cases have been resolved.
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Border bunglers: 10 odd smuggling attempts foiled by US agents
Drugs are just a few of the illegal products – from the exotic to the mundane – that people attempt to sneak across the US-Mexico border everyday. Here are 10 examples of creative ways people tried to sneak something past Customs.
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In Pictures Gabrielle Giffords, political survivor
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In Pictures Coming back to Earth
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In Pictures Space photos of the day: Looking deeper
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Olympics medal count: China edges back out in front of US Wednesday
The US scored big Tuesday at the London Olympics when Michael Phelps and the women's gymnastics team brought home historic wins. But the Chinese climbed back on top of the medal chart Wednesday.
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Suspected Aurora, Colo. shooter James Holmes gets 24 murder charges (+video)
After the charges were read, prosecutors and defense attorneys sparred over whether a notebook that news reports said Holmes sent to his psychiatrist and had descriptions of the attack was privileged information.
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Foster care: Overall population drops, states have mixed results
Foster care populations dropped for the sixth straight year, reports the Department of Health and Human Services, due to state policies shifting toward shortening foster care stays, expediting adoptions, and increasing prevention support.
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Chapter & Verse 'Columbine' author Dave Cullen examines the Aurora tragedy
'Columbine' author Dave Cullen on how best to understand the Aurora shootings and the lessons that such catastrophes have taught us.
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Opinion A letter to Aurora, from Virginia Tech: James Holmes does not define your city
You and I are bound together by the ties of similar tragedy and survival. It is easy to dwell on the horrendous events in our towns and to blame or hate. But such dwelling keeps us looking backward and can prevent our moving forward – as we must. I offer these suggestions.
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Obama calls for better background checks on gun buyers
President Obama made a statement in favor of gun control, saying large-scale shootings, as well as every-day crime, need to be combatted.
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Why gun sales spike after mass shootings: It's not what you might think
After the Colorado shooting, gun sales have risen around the country. For some, it's because they want to buy a gun for self-protection. But there's a bigger reason, gun-shop owners say.
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Gabrielle Giffords visits CERN atom smasher
Former Arizona lawmaker Gaby Giffords, the victim of a 2011 Arizona shooting that left six dead, visited the CERN and the French Alps with her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly.
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Campaigns resume attacks after pause for Colorado shooting
Both campaigns were keeping their largely negative television advertisements off the air in Colorado, a key battleground state in the November election.
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Colorado shooting: a day of prayerful memorials and a presidential visit (+video)
In the Colorado shooting, more information emerged Sunday about the attack and alleged shooter James Holmes. But mainly it was a day for remembering those who died early Friday during a theater's première showing of 'The Dark Knight Rises,' the latest in the Batman series.
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Decoder Wire Will Colorado shootings inject gun control into 2012 race?
Gun control activists say the Colorado shootings should be a wake-up call, but Americans' views on guns aren't swayed by individual tragedies, polls show. The candidates know that.
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Savannah Guthrie: Can she rescue 'Today' show?
Savannah Guthrie replaced Ann Curry as co-host of the Today show Friday. Can Savannah Guthrie, NBC's chief legal analyst and former White House correspondent, bring the ratings up?
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Condors threatened by 'epidemic' lead poisoning from hunters' bullets (+video)
A review of more than 1,154 blood samples taken from wild California condors and tested from 1997 to 2010 found that 48 percent of the birds had lead levels so high, they could have died without treatment.
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Bachelor's degree of doubt: Culinary student takes kitchen over cubicle
With the value of a bachelor's degree in doubt, paths around the traditional college degree are multiplying: Turner Jankins chose culinary school over other options.
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Wounded aide wins Giffords' seat in Arizona election
Ron Barber, who was wounded in the shooting, won the special election on Tuesday night.
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Scientists find humongous methane lake on Saturn's moon (+video)
The otherwise dry tropics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hold a massive lake of methane that is thought to be fed by underground channels.
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Ron Barber's win in Arizona House race a lift for dispirited Democrats
Voters in former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' House district elected Ron Barber, the retired congresswoman's aide, to serve out her term. Barber defeated a tea-party-backed candidate in a district where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats.
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Tight race in Arizona for Giffords' former aide
The former Congresswoman has been campaigning for her chosen successor; voters are at the polls today in a special election.
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Will appearances by Gabrielle Giffords save Arizona seat for Dems?
Gabrielle Gifford is helping the former director of her district office, Democrat Ron Barber, in his race to fill her Arizona seat in Congress. His Republican opponent is Jesse Kelly.
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Arizona special election: About Gabrielle Giffords or President Obama? (+video)
The special election Tuesday to fill the House seat vacated by shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is overshadowed by the memory of the tragedy, but the Republican has tried to make it about Obama's policies.
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GOP bid for Giffords's seat to focus on Obama (+video)
Voters are deciding in Tuesday's special election whether Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly lost to Giffordsin 2010, or Democrat Ron Barber, a former Giffords aide asked by the lawmaker to pursue the seat, will complete the remainder of her term.
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At US border, era of fence-building, manpower 'surge' at an end
A strategy shift is under way at the US border patrol, with intelligence and risk to national security taking priority over adding more fences and additional manpower. Why the change?
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NASA mission confirms: Ex-asteroid Vesta is a planet that almost was
Data from the orbiter DAWN confirm theories about the history of Vesta, which dates to the early days of planet formation. The protoplanet is also home to the solar system's second largest mountain.
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"Ten Most Wanted" fugitive claimed kidnapped girls were his daughters
Adam Christopher Mayes is wanted for kidnapping two girls two weeks ago after killing their mother and sister.
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Michelle Obama in Arizona: Could it swing to Democrats?
Michelle Obama campaigned for her husband in Arizona and Colorado Monday. Mrs. Obama will be in Nevada and New Mexico Tuesday.
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