Clarence Thomas makes rare break with Scalia

OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...

Man held for 42 years finally freed

Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

NBC News - An Arizona man who has maintained for 42 years that he had nothing to do with a horrific hotel fire that killed more than two dozen people pleaded no contest Tuesday in a deal that sets aside his original conviction and frees him from prison.

White House says Obama to meet with Gabrielle Giffords

Nedra Pickler, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -— Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is following up her dramatic appeal for gun control on Capitol Hill with a visit to the White House...

Jan Brewer opts for federal Medicaid expansion

Bob Christie, Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday she plans to push for an expansion of the state's Medicaid program under the federal health care law...

10 states raise minimum wage in 2013

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - African-Americans make up about 15.1 percent of the 73.9 million minimum wage earners in America...

Rick Ross on Young Jeezy: 'I tried to choke him'

Marquise Francis

theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Rick Ross returned home to Miami and gave an on-air interview with 99 Jamz Felisha Monet to clear up rumors and straighten facts about his cancelled tour dates...

Arizona gun store ad: Obama voters 'not welcome'

Adam Howard

theGRIO REPORT - Throughout his presidency Barack Obama has been viewed as an enemy of the gun industry. Yet one Arizona gun store is taking that supposed animus to a new extreme...

Gabrielle Giffords' shooter gets life sentence

Brian Skoloff and Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, partially blind, her right arm paralyzed and limp, came face to face Thursday with the man who tried to kill her last year, standing beside her husband as he spoke of her struggles to recover from being shot in the head...