News-Times – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is making plans to meet in Newtown,, perhaps as early as Friday, with families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings. The exact time and place…

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE for The New York Times – Most states are red or blue. A few are purple. After the November election, New Hampshire turned pink. Women won the state’s two Congressional seats.…

By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES for ABC News – Hillary Clinton’s latest health update — cerebral venous thrombosis — is a rare and potentially “life-threatening” condition, according to medical experts, but one from which the globe-trotting secretary of…

It’s 2012 and close to four years after the Lilly ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law. Surely, the gender wage gap has been closed, right? Wrong. Even with moves toward…

Six Charged With Murder in India After Rape Victim’s Death – Protests Grow By HEATHER TIMMONS, NIHARIKA MANDHANA and SRUTHI GOTTIPATI for The New York Times NEW DELHI — As protests grew…

Debbie Halvorson has opened a campaign office in Steger, IL for her special election in the vacated Congressional seat most recently held by Jesse Jackson, Jr. The office located near the center…