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.

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.

The voyage to Royal Portrush and the 2012 Irish Open began many years ago with a bet struck at Waterville, a bet that launched the experience of a lifetime for Big Break winner Mark Murphy.

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.

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.

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

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.

It has been a long 18 days of Captain Mark Kelly, commander of the final mission in the space shuttle Endeavour, and his wife Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from surgery on her skull. Reunited in her hospital room Giffords said it was “like a first date”.

Congresswoman and U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head at point blank range outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona earlier this year, underwent brain surgery while her Irish-American husband and astronaut Mark Kelly makes his final orbit in space.

Space Shuttle Endeavour, led by commander Mark Kelly made its final descent when it landed at Kennedy Space centre this morning, ending its 16-day mission as well as its 19 year career in space.

A host of Irish Americans have made it on the nominations list for Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards Nominations. Mark Wahlberg is up twice, along with Minka Kelly and  Danny McBride.
 
However, Jennifer Aniston is to receive a special award - The Decade of Hotness Award.

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