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.

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,

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”.

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.

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

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.

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.

The astronaut husband of wounded US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said that she wants to be at his shuttle launch next month.

Prosecutors asked a US judge to commit the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords to a federal facility where he can be evaluated by psychologists to determine whether he suffers from a mental defect that makes him incompetent to stand trial.

A US Congresswoman seriously injured in a shooting spree wished her husband and brother-in-law a happy birthday – and also thanked the Houston hospital where she is undergoing intensive rehabilitation for a cake that featured the likeness of her astronaut husband.

Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, David Crosby and Graham Nash are to perform in a concert in Tucson, Arizona, to raise funds for a charitable fund established after the shooting there which killed six people and wounded 13 others.

The astronaut husband of shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said she would embrace his decision to rocket into space in two months – and he expects her to be well enough to attend the launch.

THE astronaut husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has decided to go ahead with his shuttle space flight in April.

The astronaut husband of wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has decided to go ahead with his shuttle space flight in April.

A REVITALISED President Barack Obama bluntly told America to reinvent itself and unite to survive in a fast-changing global economy powered by rising giants like India and China.

The Houston hospital treating Representative Gabrielle Giffords said the US congresswoman’s condition has been upgraded from serious to good and she will be moved to a rehabilitation hospital today.

President Barack Obama called for unity with newly empowered Republicans in a State of the Union policy speech that laid the foundation for the second half of his presidential term and next year’s fight for re-election.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama last night tried to convince the American people and a divided Congress that he has a vision for speeding up job creation, promoting spending on the core of his agenda but promising to rein in a growing, staggering debt.

US President Barack Obama will tonight try to convince the American people that he has a vision for creating jobs while reining in the nation’s growing debt.

The suspect in the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords pleaded not guilty in court, the 22-year-old’s first response to the charges.

THE man accused of carrying out the mass shooting in Arizona has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to kill politician Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides.

Shot politician Gabrielle Giffords was “even more alert” and progressing well, her chief doctor said, a day after beginning intensive rehabilitation in Houston, Texas.

Gabrielle Giffords is under intensive care at Texas Medical Centre after a flawless trip from Arizona, where throngs of well-wishers gave her a farewell that brought a tearful smile from the congresswoman.

Crowds cheered Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords as she left a Tucson hospital where she stunned doctors with her recovery two weeks after being shot in the head in an assassination bid.

A US congresswoman shot in the head two weeks ago is moving to a Houston rehab centre today where her husband hopes she will continue on the path to a full recovery.

The husband of shot politician Gabrielle Giffords said today he believed for about 20 minutes that his wife was dead after seeing a TV news report that said wrongly that his wife had been fatally wounded.

Doctors have successfully operated on shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ eye socket to remove bone fragments as she continued to show more signs of improvement.

The youngest victim of the mass shooting in Arizona was remembered at her funeral for her love of baseball, animals and swimming with her brother.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama led a national outpouring of grief, while calling for unity at an emotional memorial after a shooting that unleashed fierce debate about inflammatory political rhetoric.

Doctors say Gabrielle Giffords is moving both legs and both arms, has opened both eyes and is responding to friends and family.

President Barack Obama appealed for unity at a memorial service for those attacked in the Arizona shooting rampage and implored a divided America to honour them by becoming a better country.