Brewer led lawmakers in a standing ovation for Daniel Hernandez, the intern on Giffords' staff whose quick action to fashion makeshift bandages and apply pressure to her head wound has been credited with possibly saving her life.
Cautious optimism Doctors said Monday that Giffords' brain remains swollen, but the pressure hasn't increased. Michael Lemole Jr. A single bullet traveled the length of her brain on the left side, hitting an area that controls speech. She has been put into an induced coma but is being awakened frequently to check her progress. The day before she was wounded, Giffords sent an e-mail to a friend in Kentucky discussing how to "tone our rhetoric and partisanship down.
She wrote him: "After you get settled, I would love to talk about what we can do to promote centrism and moderation. I am one of only 12 Dems left in a GOP district the only woman and think that we need to figure out how to tone our rhetoric and partisanship down. Space station commander Scott Kelly, whose identical twin brother Mark Kelly is married to Giffords and is also an astronaut, led NASA in a moment of silence Monday as part of the national observance for all the victims of Saturday's shooting.
Flight controllers in Houston fell silent as Scott Kelly spoke via radio from space. Unfortunately, it is not. We must do better. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Monday said the shootings will prompt a review of safety precautions for members of Congress.
Of those injured in the shooting spree, eight were still hospitalized. Aside from Giffords, five were in serious condition and two in good condition. Meanwhile, the leader of Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay Kansas-based church best known for picketing the funerals of slain U.
This is ultimatum time with God. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U. News World Opinion Business. How many movies have you seen when the hair gets shaved off as the young men go into battle? Whatever battle Loughner thought he was fighting, he arrived prepared. His shaved head and multitude of weapons evoked Travis Bickle, as did his mind, littered with conspiracy theories and sickness.
Evidence suggests he felt renounced: rejected by school, women, his country. Even the army, whose look he ultimately borrowed, didn't accept him. He made himself look as physically mad as he must have felt, and his renouncing of the world has become mutual. With his head shining, he is apart. To do what Loughner is accused of doing, one assumes that he had reached a place of total detachment, and detachment - of a different sort - motivates religious baldness. In the monk's tonsure or the nun's veil, the hairless head signals separation from the secular world, a renunciation of vanity.
For Miss Delaware, the renunciation is more confusing or perhaps extremely clever: Her baldness rejects the most restrictive definition of female beauty, even as she consents to the swimsuit competition.
Follow us on Twitter: globeandmail Opens in a new window. Report an error. Editorial code of conduct. Skip to main content. At the Tucson airport Monday, travelers were invited to share in the moment of silence, a ticketing agent saying, "Miss Giffords travels with us all the time.
We will miss her for a while. Loughner is scheduled to appear in court today, but so far officials say he is refusing to cooperate or speak with investigators. Loughner has invoked his right to remain silent for the last 48 hours, saying "not a word," Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said.
I'm not aware of any ties he had to any group. Giffords was hosting a "Congress on your Corner" event outside a Tucson Safeway grocery store Saturday when Loughner allegedly went on a shooting spree. The court hearing will take place in Phoenix because several Tucson judges recused themselves from the case because of the Tucson victims was Federal Judge John Roll. A criminal complaint filed in federal court Sunday charges Loughner with one count of attempted assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the United States and two counts of intent to kill employees of the United States.
During a search of Loughner's home, authorities found an envelope with handwriting that read "I planned ahead," and "My assassination" and the name "Giffords," as well as Loughner's signature. There was also a letter from Giffords indicating the two had met before. Giffords' spokesperson said that the congresswoman often writes thank you notes to constituents she meets at her "Congress on your Corner" events. If Giffords had met Laughner and written him a note, the office would have a record of that, staffers said.
It's unclear if he bought the extended clips used with the gun during the mass shooting. An extended clip holds 30 rounds, officials said. Facing suspension, Loughner withdrew from Pima Community College. He'd gotten in trouble at the school for mockinig students' poems in his poetry class and for posting a video on YouTube that called the school "unconstitutional.
One classmate was so terrified of him, she emailed the school: "We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whos picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon.
This morning a massive effort is underway to dissect every aspect of Loughner's life. Investigators are looking at all threats and rants against Giffords in recent days to see if any of those people might have been in contact with Loughner, sources told ABC News.
Investigators are also searching for any ties to radical and anti-semitic groups. One name that's come up is a group that's called the American Renaissance, a white supremacist group.
Giffords, 40, was shot in the back of her head, the bullet crossing the left side of her brain and exiting just above her left eye. That's to say she is still following those simple commands for us," Dr. Lemole said that Giffords is responding to simple commands like squeezing someone's hand or raising a finger. Not only are those areas working, but communicating with one another," Lemole said.
Lemole said that Giffords still faces a tough battle to recovery. Doctors worry about infection and they want to remove her breathing tube as soon as they can to reduce the rise of pneumonia, Lemole said.
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