Nancy Pelosi

The former House speaker's husband was attacked in their San Fransisco home in October.
American politics facing more embarrassment as ultra-conservative Republicans stand in the way of their own man taking powerful role.
The US House speaker's husband, Paul Pelosi, was hospitalised but is expected to recover. The motive for the attack is under investigation.
"I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says in the clip.
West "held its breath", even though the visit lasted less than 24 hours.
HuffPost explains why Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is straining relations between the White House and the Chinese government.
"Ireland's sorrow and pain, is now the Ukraine. And St Patrick's name now Zelenskyy,” the speaker of the US house of representatives recited.
"We broke into the Capitol," said a selfie confiscated by the FBI. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her.”
President Trump is impeached for the second time in his one-term presidency. The House of Representatives voted 232-197 in favour of a single article of impeachment, which charges Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in fomenting the riot at the US Capitol on January 6. Now the case moves to the Senate to decide if Trump will be impeached in the last days of his presidency.
Reports claim Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell had suggested to colleagues that he supported impeachment of Donald Trump. Senior Republican Liz Cheney, alongside other Republican representatives, said they would support an impeachment vote. The calls for impeachment come after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. If removed from office, Trump would lose his post-presidential benefits including pension, secret service protection and funding for staff. He would also not be eligible to run in 2024.