FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's in-laws and carried away several bags.

A lawyer wounded in a shooting at an Arizona office building has died.

A man who shot dead a call-centre chief and critically wounded a lawyer at an Arizona office building where they were meeting to discuss a contract dispute has been found dead.

Police launched a manhunt for an “armed and dangerous” pensioner suspected of carrying out an office shooting in Arizona that left one man dead and two wounded.

A gunman in the US has shot dead a school bus driver, taken a six-year-old boy hostage and gone to ground surrounded by armed police.

Former US congresswoman and shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords has launched her own campaign for more gun control.

Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords met families of victims of the Connecticut school massacre that left 26 people dead, nearly two years after she was critically wounded in a mass shooting.

The man who pleaded guilty to the deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been sentenced to life in prison.

The space shuttle Endeavour has landed in California where it will spend its retirement in a Los Angeles museum.

Victims of the Colorado theatre shooting and their families have questioned whether the focus of the trial will be on the alleged gunman’s mental health rather than the killings themselves.

A US college dropout has been spared the death penalty following a mass killing spree which left a congresswoman wounded.

The suspect in a mass shooting that left a US congresswoman wounded has pleaded guilty to going on the rampage that killed six other people.

Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court tomorrow, a person familiar with the case said.

A university psychiatrist was so alarmed by cinema massacre suspect James Holmes’ behaviour that she tried to bring him to the attention of the school’s threat assessment team, reports said.

Gun sales have surged after the Batman cinema massacre amid fears that politicians may use the shootings to seek new restrictions on owning weapons.

The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan more than 30 years ago said he would like to be known as something other than a would-be assassin.

US President Barack Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to paint himself as the champion of the middle class, by demanding higher taxes for millionaires and tight reins on Wall Street.

The husband of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said he has ruled out running for her seat in 2012.

Gabrielle Giffords is to step down from the US Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago that shocked America.

Representative Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head in a shooting spree in Tucson a year ago, said yesterday she will step down this week from the US Congress to focus on her recovery,

FACED with a barrage of criticism when it chose a panda as one of it’s 12 female “faces of the year 2011”, a haughty BBC spokesperson wondered what all the fuss was about.

An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror. Ross Schneiderman reports

A US gun club is offering children a chance to pose for photos with Santa while holding pistols and assault rifles.

US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, struggling to form the words in her first extended interview since being shot in the head in a January rampage, said she will not return to Congress until she is “better”.

IT is disturbing to think that, although we enjoy relative peace these days, dozens of terrorist attacks are being planned in Ireland at any one time.

A deal that heads off an unprecedented US financial default and begins the process of curbing the country’s spiralling debt was expected to clear a final legislative hurdle in the Senate today, just hours before the deadline.

America’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives has approved a bitterly-fought compromise to prevent a US debt default – with a price tag of deep spending cuts.

US Representative Gabrielle Giffords returned to Houston after spending the weekend with her family in Tucson.

US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has returned home to her astronaut husband, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.

THE first photos of US politician Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot in the head in a mass shooting five months ago were released yesterday.

The first photos of US politician Gabrielle Giffords since she was shot in the head in a mass shooting five months ago were released early today.

The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six landed at Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, early today.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama is pivoting from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief to a devastated community.

THE man accused of gunning down US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six is mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge ruled yesterday.

The man accused of shooting US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a shooting spree in Arizona has been ruled incompetent to stand trial.

The 12 astronauts circling the Earth received a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI in the first ever papal call to space.

Space Shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts arrived at the International Space Station today with the most expensive payload ever carried by a shuttle, a $2bn magnetic device scientists hope will unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.

A space shuttle took flight for the next-to-last time as US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from a gunshot wound and hidden from public view, watched her astronaut husband rocket through the clouds in a deafening roar.

ENDEAVOUR blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight, thundering through clouds into orbit as the mission commander’s wounded wife, Gabrielle Giffords, watched along with an exhilarated crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

Space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off on the next-to-last flight fo the programme under the command of Mark Kelly, the husband of shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords.

NASA has approved a launch attempt this morning for the space shuttle Endeavour after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last flight two weeks ago.

Nasa has approved a Monday morning launch attempt for the space shuttle Endeavour after reviewing all the repairs for an electrical problem that grounded the next-to-last flight two weeks ago.

In a remarkable 36 hours of his presidency, Barack Obama carried a momentous secret but gave no hint of it as he consoled tornado victims, delivered a college commencement address and cracked jokes at a black-tie dinner.

NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour’s final launch yesterday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff.