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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she's not sure whether she will watch soon-to-be released body camera video from an officer who responded to the brutal attack on her husband last year at their home in San Francisco. The police video is scheduled for release Friday, according to an advisory from San Francisco Superior Court following a judge's order. Asked whether she would watch the video, Pelosi, D-Calif., said she doesn’t know. “I mean, it would be a very hard thing to see an assault on my husband’s life,” she told reporters on Capitol Hill. A judge this week...

San Francisco’s top prosecutor confirmed Wednesday her office will not release police body camera footage or 911 calls from the alleged Paul Pelosi attack late last week. Authorities said that David DePape, 42, allegedly broke into the San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her husband Paul during the early morning hours of Oct. 28, according to court documents, before he allegedly struck Pelosi with a hammer. No security camera footage, police body camera footage, or 911 calls have been released. When pressed about releasing more evidence in the case, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told...

A man arrested in the home invasion beating of Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is an illegal immigrant ... Fox News journalist Bill Melugin, citing a source with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tweeted that David DePape is in the country illegally. The source described DePape as a “longtime” visa overstay, Melugin said. ... In interviews with CNN, relatives of DePape said he grew up in British Columbia before moving from Canada to California decades ago. ... KRON-TV in San Francisco reported that DePape is part of a nudist activist group in the city’s...

The attacker of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has been named by sources close to the investigation. The sources identified the suspect as Berkeley resident David Depape. San Francisco police said that at approximately 2:27 a.m. on Friday morning, officers responded to the 2600 block of Broadway in the Pacific Heights neighborhood for a reported home break-in. The suspect was taken into custody. According to the Associated Press, Mr. Pelosi was attacked with a hammer but was taken to a hospital for treatment and is expected to make a full recovery, according to Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi....

A man with a penchant for getting naked turned heads when he showed up at a courthouse in the buff. Alejandro Colomar, 29, has racked up an eye-watering €3,000 (£2,700) in fines for walking around the streets of Valencia, Spain, without clothes on multiple occasions. And the self-proclaimed nudist, who claims his naughty hobby is not illegal, even showed up at the courthouse totally disrobed to contest his many fines on Tuesday (September 27).

If you think you’ve seen enough of Chris Cuomo after his much-publicized contraction of coronavirus and nightly TV reminders of “you know who my brother is,” think again. The CNN anchor was apparently caught in the nude in the garden of his Hamptons mansion during a social media yoga session filmed by his wife, Cristina Greeven Cuomo. The younger brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is seemingly seen in a screengrab strutting his stuff in the buff outside his home in Southampton, where he had been broadcasting from his basement while under quarantine. The 49-year-old super-fit newsman was allegedly...

Face masks aren't mandatory everywhere, but strict rules on wearing them have been enforced in the Czech Republic -- even for nudists. The European country has begun to relax restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus, but at the height of concerns late last month, police were called in to remind people that while it was OK to get naked in designated public places, mouths needed to be covered. Czech law enforcers issued a warning after officers were called out on March 27 in the small town of Lázně Bohdaneč, east of Prague, because of complaints about maskless naturists basking in...

Local travel guru Rick Steves will host a fundraiser for the American Civil Liberties Union on Inauguration Day through his website, saying that the group will probably be busy during the coming Donald Trump administration. All day Friday, for every dollar you spend at his online travel store, Steves will donate $1 to the ACLU ---SNIP--- Steves also said in the blog post that he canceled his planned trip to the inauguration after it became clear Trump would become president. He endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016.

It is only a matter of time before notorious Canadian nudist Emil Kaminski arrives in the clutches of police after four of his accomplices, including two women, were today served with four-day remand orders in the Kota Kinabalu Magistrates Court following their arrests yesterday. The quartet - two Candian brothers aged 22 and 23, a Dutch national and a British woman - were detained separately, three surrendered at the Kota Kinabalu District police headquarters and the other was arrested before boarding a flight at the Tawau Airport.

Going bare on the streets of San Francisco could legally become taboo, if a city official's proposal to ban public nudity gains support. Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents a district in the city and county of San Francisco, introduced the ordinance Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Wiener's coverage area includes the Castro District, which is notorious for nudity. "We've always had some public nudity in the Castro," Wiener told NBC on Thursday. But Wiener said there has recently been a significant increase in the neighborhood's Jane Warner Plaza. "Our town square [is] becoming an ad-hoc nudist colony," Wiener said,...

The co-owner of a Palm Springs nudist resort today defended the facility's policy banning children, saying it is not discriminatory -- despite claims to the contrary by an anonymous group of detractors. Desert Sun Resort owners John and Elizabeth Young, who live in Orange County, filed a lawsuit March 16 in Orange County Superior Court against 500 unnamed defendants, asking a judge to rule that the clothing-optional resort's policy against children does not violate state law. According to Elizabeth Young, the lawsuit was filed in response to a letter she received Feb. 17 from Palm Springs attorney David Baron. The...

The naked truth, it seems, is that San Francisco is once again going to emerge as a city ripe for ridicule -- or a beacon of free expression -- depending on your point of view. The latest issue? Public nudity. Supervisor Scott Wiener will introduce legislation today intended to get to the bottom of the gross-out factor when it comes to public nudity. His proposal would require people who bare all for all to see to at the very least place a towel or like item underneath them when they sit down. The proposed restrictions also would require nudists to...

A STRUGGLING gym in northern Spain hopes to entice new customers by offering nudist workout sessions, making it the first in the country to target naturists looking to get into shape. Liberal-minded customers in the northern town of Arrigorriaga are invited to burn calories in the buff at Easy Gym, which provides towels for comfort and to "prevent slippage on the equipment." "We knew we had to innovate because we were losing clients," said Easy Gym owner Merche Laseca. "Times are hard. There is a crisis. I need the money. I am not a nudist myself, but I don't mind...

SULTAN, Wash. (AP) - A Sultan nudist club is suing to stop a public shooting range from being built near the park it runs for nude outdoor enthusiasts. Lake Bronson Club sued the state Board of Natural Resources and Snohomish County last week, saying the state can't transfer 150 acres of forestland to the county for a gun range. The lawsuit alleges state law requires the land be used for a public park. Club secretary Jodi Halfhill says it's not a good idea to have a shooting range a mile from a social camping club. The club has about 320...

LOXAHATCHEE GROVES — Sunsport Gardens could be stripped of some home sites. The nudist camp, well known in naturist circles nationwide, has been humming along with the same number of tent and trailer pads for at least nine years — well before Loxahatchee Groves incorporated in 2006. The count stands at 133, according to the resort. It's unclear how Sunsport Gardens grew beyond the 48 permissible recreational vehicle sites while under the county's rules. Laura Wiist, who moved from Texas, finds living at Sunsport Gardens is a great antidote to a generally uptight world. "I feel so safe here," she...

249 people showed up at Whispering Pines Nudist Resort and Campground near Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., to take part in the American Association for Nude Recreation World Record Skinny Dip for the Guinness World Record in conjunction with AANR resorts nationwide at 3 p.m. on Saturday afternoon

Patrons of a German nude beach on the Polish border say beachgoers on the other side of the border come to stare at the exposed skin. Ines Muller, a German naturist, said Poles come fully clothed to the beach on their side of the border and stare at the nude swimmers and sunbathers, The Sun reported Monday. You feel like an ape in the zoo. The Poles come with their binoculars, stare and swear, Muller said. Beach patrons said there used to be a fence separating the German and Polish beaches, but it was torn down as part of a...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm. Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town of Erfurt to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom, planned for July 5 and costing 499 euros ($735). "It's expensive, I know," managing director Enrico Hess told Reuters by phone. "It's because the plane's very small. There's no real reason why a flight in which...

A swimming pool in northern Sweden has said it will allow women to bathe topless, following a campaign by feminists. A spokesman for the pool, part of Sundsvall's municipal leisure centre, said that employees there had decided they would not act if women tried to bathe semi-naked. "We're used to naked people. Nobody cares," Per-Erik Ulander told local paper Dagbladet, adding that women could still be asked to cover up if other bathers take offence. The Bara Bröst network - which translates both as 'bare breasts' and 'just breasts' - last year started its campaign for women to be allowed...

An investigation by the Wayne County prosecutor is rocking a Catholic parish in Garden City. Among the revelations: a secretary stole $100,000, the church owes $1 million in taxes, and the former priest not only has a gambling problem but also took trips to a nudist resort in the Carribean.