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Gabrielle Giffords Speaking, Lip-Syncing Songs

Gabrielle Giffords is rapidly regaining her ability to speak, mouthing the words to song lyrics and beginning to talk in complete sentences, according to her family and staff. Just a month after being shot in the head at point-blank range in an assassination attempt, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was even able to speak...

NASA Names Backup Commander for Mark Kelly's Shuttle Mission

NASA today named a backup commander for an upcoming space shuttle mission due to be helmed by Mark Kelly so he can attend to his wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, as she recovers from last weekend's shooting rampage in Tucson. Kelly remains commander of the STS-134 mission, which is due to blast off in April...

Stocks Hit Highest Level Since Lehman Bros. Bankruptcy

(Nov. 4) -- Are the bulls back? The Dow Jones industrial average today rose to its highest level since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in 2008, at the height of the U.S. financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports. U.S. stocks rose by 219 points, or 2 percent of total volume, in trading at the...

Obama Seeks Small Biz Aid as Recovery Inches Along

(Oct. 29) -- American economic growth picked up over the summer but not enough to substantially improve the jobs market, and President Barack Obama used the news to push a program aimed at getting small businesses to hire and invest. U.S. gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced within...

Why Hasn't the Economy Recovered Yet?

(Sept. 13) -- In the current issue of the New York Review of Books, there's a good primer on the roots of the 2008 economic crises and explanations for its lingering impact by Robin Wells and Paul Krugman. While the United States and Europe have, for now, avoided a Great Depression-like crash and GDP is rising again,...