Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library on May 5, 2013. She was recognized for the courage she has shown through her public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence.

Despite being supported by 90 percent of Americans, the recent amendment proposing background checks for gun-buyers came up short against the 60-vote threshold needed to carry through the legislation and caused much upset among its supporters.

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a shooting rampage in Tucson Arizona, has been named this year’s recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Former Congresswoman and victim of gun violence Gabrielle Giffords delivered short but stirring opening remarks on Wednesday in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Vice President Joe Biden, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Arizona Senator Gabrielle Giffords are on the cover of this week’s TIME Magazine stamped over as ‘The Gunfighters.’

It's been two years since former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords miraculously survived the attack by crazed gunman Jared Loughner.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly met with family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting on Friday.

Jared Lee Loughner, 24, the man who went on a 2011 Arizona shooting rampage that left six people dead and wounded former US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been sentenced to seven life terms, plus 140 years in prison.

The accused Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, was shocked and disappointed that he had not killed, the since retired, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband of Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head last year, has said publicly that he will not look to fill his wife’s seat in Congress in the wake of her departure. Giffords announced earlier this week in a YouTube video that she would be vacating her post as Arizona Congresswoman to focus on her recovery for the time being.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords announced on Sunday that she will resign from her congressional seat this week.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly attended the one year anniversary vigil for those wounded and killed in the Tucson shootings last year at the hands of Jared Lee Loughner.

Sarah Palin's disturbing decision to place crosshairs on a map of Gabrielle Giffords congressional district may have been the decision that fatally undermined Palin's chances of ever becoming a presidential candidate.

Astronaut Mark Kelly may run for his wife’s seat in Arizona if she is too unwell to run herself.

Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly appear on the latest copy of People magazine.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly will be sitting down for a much anticipated interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. The promo for the interview, which will air on November 14th, pegs Giffords’ experience as the “most extraordinary story.”

The memoir of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly is due out on November 15.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made her first public appearance at an award ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Giffords rose from her wheelchair and kissed her husband which was greeted by cheers, tears and applause in the audience.

Just five months after Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in Tucson, Arizona, she has been released from hospital to recover in Mark Kelly’s suburban Houston, Texas home.