For the first time since she was shot in the head last January, we’re hearing the voice of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Giffords, 41, talks about her long, and difficult road to recovery.

"It's difficult,"  Giffords tells Sawyer in an interview for a special edition of ABC's 20/20, scheduled to air Monday, November 14. (ABC previewed the story on Friday’s Good Morning America.)

In the special, Sawyer also talks with Giffords' husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, and reveals he shot hours of home video footage following her slow and painful recovery.

Just nine months after the horrific shootings in Tucson, Arizona, the local branch of the Republican party are planning to raise money by raffling off a Glock handgun, the exact same model that was used that fateful day.

The shootings on January 8 left six people dead, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl, and Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords battling for her life.

The Arizona Republic reports that the choice of raffle prize has enraged some locals, who have been slamming the idea as being “insensitive and stupid.”

Almost seven months after being shot in the head Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House of Representatives to vote on the debt ceiling bill and RadarOnline.com has video of her triumphant return.

Monday evening Giffords was given a standing ovation and a huge showing of support by her colleagues on the House floor.  Wearing glasses and with very short dark hair the Democrat voted in support of the debt deal.  She was smiling as she was greeted warmly by her fellow representatives, returning to work for the first time since she was shot.

Giffords was critically wounded in a horrifying rampage on January 8 when Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire on an event she was hosting in a Tucson grocery store parking lot.  Fourteen people were wounded in the shooting spree and six people died, including a nine-year-old girl, a federal judge and one of Giffords' staffers.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been making a miraculous recovery after being shot in the head five months ago, but her team says she still has a long road ahead of her.

"She's living. She's alive. But if she were to plateau today, and this was as far as she gets, it would not be nearly the quality of life she had before," Chief of Staff Pia Carusone told an Arizona website on Thursday.

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"There's no comparison. All that we can hope for is that she won't plateau today and that she'll keep going and that when she does plateau, it will be at a place far away from here."

Newly released documents from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department reveal new insight into the life of the Arizona shooting suspect, Jared Loughner.

RadarOnline.com can exclusively report that Loughner was arrested twice as a juvenile, for marijuana possession and for possession of alcohol.

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In addition, according to the police reports, Loughner was the victim of bullying on two occasions – once when he was assaulted with a sharp needle and once when he claims an ex-friend posted a mock profile of him on the internet.

Loughner’s first arrest occurred May 23, 2006 after his Mountain View High School principal contacted cops at 9am to inform them that Loughner had been taken to the North West Hospital emergency room apparently under the influence.