UPDATED: 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day  —  If the gun advocates behind this year's inaugural Gun Appreciation Day had hoped to use the day's festivities to build support for their anti-regulation platform, they are going to have to wait another year.

Obama to Be Sworn in for 2nd Term at White House  —  Formally embarking on his second term, President Barack Obama will take the oath of office Sunday surrounded by family in an intimate inauguration at the White House, 24 hours before re-enacting the ceremony before an excited crowd of hundreds of thousands outdoors at the Capitol.

Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don't trivialize gun culture  —  Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.  —  “Do not patronize the passionate supporters …

Heartstopping moment would-be assassin aims gun at Bulgarian opposition leader's head and pulls the trigger... but victim survives after weapon misfires  — Dramatic footage shows man storming the stage and attempting to shoot the politician from point blank range

Katy Perry brings ‘Fireworks’ to kids at inauguration concert  —  (CNN) - First lady Michelle Obama, a pop culture icon in her own right, shared the stage Saturday night with some star power that rivaled her.  —  She appeared at the Kids' Inaugural Ball alongside pop stars Katy Perry, Usher and the cast of “Glee.”

Reports: Oklahoma freshman threatened  —  Authorities are investigating death threats against Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), according to an aide to the freshman congressman.  —  Mullin's chief of staff, Karl Ahlgren, said that Mullin and his family are being protected, the Associated Press reported.

Please Take Away My Right to a Gun  —  A FEW years ago, I awoke at 2:30 a.m. to more than a “rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”  It was a full-force pounding of a body trying to break into my little house in Washington, D.C. It was the sound and scenario that, as a single woman living alone, I feared more than spiders in the house.

Inequality Is Holding Back The Recovery  —  The re-election of President Obama was like a Rorschach test, subject to many interpretations.  In this election, each side debated issues that deeply worry me: the long malaise into which the economy seems to be settling, and the growing divide between …

Hostages Dead in Bloody Climax to Siege in Algeria  —  BAMAKO, Mali — The four-day hostage crisis in the Sahara reached a bloody conclusion on Saturday as the Algerian Army carried out a final assault on the gas field taken over by Islamist militants, killing most of the remaining kidnappers …

What the heck?  CNN “journalist” has been writing letters to Obama every day of his first term.  —  This has got to be one of the strangest things I've read in a long time.  One of CNN's political corespondents began writing President Obama letters on his inauguration day and has written …