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Nancy Pelosi Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Alongside Al Gore, Michelle Yeoh

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi is receiving the highest civilian honor from President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Nancy Pelosi to Get Added Security In Congressional Spending Bill After Leaving Speakership

A provision in the government funding package working its way through Congress ahead of a December 23 deadline would provide added security to former Speakers of the House — just in time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from the speakership.

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Nancy Pelosi Announces She Will Not Seek Reelection to House Leadership, Will Remain a Rank-and File Member

In relatively brief remarks, but with some fanfare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to announce her retirement from leadership — but not from the House.

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Nancy Pelosi Gives First Interview Since Hammer Attack on Husband, Gets Choked Up

Speaker Pelosi gave some hints about her future in her first interview since the attack on her husband, particularly on running for leadership again, saying, “I have to say my decision will be affected [by] what happened the last week or two.”

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Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Was In the US Illegally, Still Managed to Become Obsessed With MAGA Crap

It's funny how even a non-U.S. citizen who can't vote can be caught up in the thrall of right-wing rhetoric, imaginary conspiracy plots and election lies, and obsessed with saving the country from "tyranny."

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DePape Spoke of 'Fighting Tyranny' As He Held Paul Pelosi Hostage, and More Details From FBI Investigation

A clearer picture has emerged of what transpired inside the Pelosi home in Pacific Heights Friday morning, and according to what David DePape himself told investigators, he sure sounds like one of the right-wing rioters at the Capitol on January 6th.

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[Update] Pelosi Attacker David DePape Now Facing Federal Kidnapping and Assault Charges, Said He Would 'Break Her Kneecaps'

In addition to being charged locally with the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi, alleged assailant David DePape was charged Monday by federal prosecutors with the attempted kidnapping of Nancy Pelosi, as well as the assault of an immediate relative of a U.S. official.

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Gypsy Taub Speaks Out About Ex-Boyfriend David DePape, Confirms He Wasn't a Trumper, But Had Mental Illness

It's both a surprising twist in the long narrative of Bay Area kooks and political dramas and an inevitable "of course" that an incident involving an unhinged attack on a national political figure in SF should somehow circle back to Gypsy Taub, but it has.

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Reactions and Condemnations Flow In From National, State, and Local Leaders Following Attack at Pelosi Home

The toxic and vitriolic energy of our body politic erupted into the city of San Francisco once again Friday morning with an attack by a conspiracy-obsessed loon on the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband seriously injured.

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Paul Pelosi Attacked With Hammer In Home Invasion, Suspect Was Reportedly Looking for Nancy

The hammer-wielding suspect was reportedly shouting “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” when he broke into the House Speaker’s Pac Heights home early Friday morning, and spouse Paul Pelosi is hospitalized with blunt force trauma wounds.

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Pelosi’s Trips Abroad Have Tea-Leaf Readers Speculating She’s Ready to Call it Quits

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent trips to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Armenia are being seen as a “swan song” among prognosticators, potentially capping a historic four congressional terms as Speaker of the House.

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Even if Dems Retain House Majority, They’re Privately Discussing Dumping Pelosi as Speaker

Nancy Pelosi had agreed to step down as Speaker of the House in 2022, a promise she’s since backed off from. But some top Democrats say she doesn’t have the votes to stay on, even if Democrats manage to keep the House.

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Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Toured the Central Subway, Said It Looks Great

On Thursday, the man formerly known as Mayor Pete joined Mayor London Breed, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to tour the much delayed and still not quite operational Central Subway in SF.

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Pelosi Announces She Will Seek Reelection For a 19th (!) Term In Congress

The House Speaker announced she’s running for yet another term in Congress, but did not address whether she would run for Speaker again, and that’s a moot point anyway if Republicans win the chamber back.

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Pink Triangle Lighting Ceremony Was Shrouded In Fog, But Pelosi Showed Up

Tuesday night's ceremonial lighting of the newly electrified pink triangle on Twin Peaks was — sort of predictably — inundated by Karla the Fog. But it was attended by activists and dignitaries alike, and an LGBTQ marching band.

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Nancy Pelosi Intends to Be House Speaker For Another Two Years

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking another two-year term as the head of the Democratic caucus — and she's laid out what her Day One priorities will be for the new Congress.

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Following Op-Ed Pushing to Reopen Churches, Pelosi Tells SF Archbishop to Settle Down and Listen to Science

San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone continues doing his level best to prove his conservative credentials and alienate the majority of people in the city he represents.

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There Is an Election Scenario In Which the House Will Choose the President, and One In Which Pelosi Becomes President

A LOT has been written in recent weeks about nightmare scenarios with this sitting president as we approach this nightmare election in a year rife with nightmares. But there are a few positive details enshrined in the Constitution for crises like this that might provide some comfort.

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Hairstylist Backs Up Nancy's Story, Claims Salon Owner Has Been Operating Indoors Illegally for Months

The drama escalated after the stylist who had taken the appointment with the speaker issued a statement — through a lawyer — laying out a few claims of his own about Erica Kious, the salon owner who sent surveillance video of Pelosi to Fox News.

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Fresno-Based Salon Owner Behind Leak Of Maskless Pelosi Photo At SF Hair Salon

A Fresno-based hair stylist and salon owner says she was "outraged" when one of her freelance stylists told her she would be accepting a blowout appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Union Street salon she owns. And that's why she released surveillance footage of Pelosi to Fox News.

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Recalling Trump's Bizarre Behavior In 2016, Pelosi Says Biden Should Boycott Debates

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave some unprompted remarks during her weekly Thursday news conference suggesting that Joe Biden should skip all the scheduled debates with President Trump, saying that any event where Trump is included will be "an exercise in skulduggery."

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Speaker Pelosi Calls Back House From Recess To Deal With Postal Service Crisis

Yet again this year we will be seeing a standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump, as the House begins making the case that Trump and his new postmaster general have been deliberately sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election.

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Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago

In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.

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Pelosi Pushes Veritas Investments To Return $3.6M PPP Loan; They'll Now Repay Amount

Veritas Investments, SF's largest corporate landlord, was recently granted a $3.6M Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan by the U.S. government's Small Business Administration (SBA) — funds they plan on repaying, which will help bolster some of the city's most vulnerable small businesses.

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Likely Infected NY Congresswoman Stood Near Nancy Pelosi at Stimulus Package Bill Signing Friday

I'm sure we're not alone here at SFist among Bay Area residents hoping and praying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who just turned 80 last week — hasn't been exposed to the coronavirus. But now it sounds like she might have been on Friday.

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