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  • Bush spokesman says ex-president's fever rising

    RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press

    HOUSTON (AP) — A "stubborn" fever that kept former President George H.W. Bush in a hospital over Christmas has gotten worse, and doctors have put him on a liquids-only diet, his spokesman said Wednesday. Jim McGrath, Bush's spokesman in Houston, had said earlier in the day that the fever had gone away, but he later corrected himself. AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File Former President George H.W. Bush arrives on June 12, for the premiere of HBO's new documentary on his life near the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. "It's a...

  • Houston hospital: Giffords can attend launch

    Ramit Plushnick-Masti , Associated Press

    HOUSTON — Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can fly to Florida this week to watch her astronaut husband rocket into space as commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, but she will return shortly after the launch to resume rehabilitation, her doctors in Houston confirmed Monday. The doctors at TIRR Memorial Hermann said Giffords is "medically able" to travel and that they view the trip to Cape Canaveral as part of her rehabilitation from a gunshot wound to the head. AP Photo/Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, File This unda...

  • U.S. Rep. Giffords released from Houston hospital

    RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press

    HOUSTON— Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was released from a Houston hospital on Wednesday, five months after being shot in the head during a Tucson political event. Giffords will move to League City, a town 26 miles south of Houston, to a home owned by her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly. She will continue outpatient therapy at a facility that is part of the TIRR Memorial Hermann system, the Houston hospital where she has been undergoing intensive rehabilitation since late January. AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File In this Jan. 5, f...