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Doctors treating Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Monday the congresswoman was responding to verbal commands by raising two fingers of her left hand and even managed to give a thumbs-up....

A sheriff's deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a trailer park was shot dead Saturday, and the shooting suspect was killed after a gun battle with police, authorities said. A police officer was wounded....

The son of former Taiwanese Vice-President Lien Chan was shot and wounded at a rally on Friday on the eve of local elections, but the shooting appeared not to be politically motivated. Sean Lien, 40, a member of the ruling ...

An Atlanta man has been charged with gunning down a young man he thought threw eggs at his Mercedes in a Halloween prank.Police spokesman Carlos Campos says officers arrested 20-year-old Michael Hunnicutt around 1:35 p.m. Friday and charged him with murder in the death of 18-year-old Tavarus Erving on Oct. 31.

Top Mexican drug lord Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas died in a shootout with security forces on Friday in the border city of Matamoros across from Brownsville, Texas, Mexico's navy said.

One person is in custody after two people were shot in the New Hampshire town of Pittsburg, authorities say. New Hampshire State Police say one suspect is in custody following the shootings, which occurred around 11 a.m. and left one person dead and two others wounded.

Fourteen people were shot and killed at a soccer field in northern Honduras, a police spokesman said Saturday.

Police say a gunman is holed up at a Walmart in Reno after he allegedly shot three employees who have been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

A gunman fired shots at the Pentagon early on Tuesday but there were no injuries or significant damage, a Pentagon spokesman said.

Four people died and a policeman was seriously wounded in a town in southwestern Germany on Sunday, after an explosion in an apartment building and a shooting in the neighboring hospital that authorities believe are linked, a prosecutor said.