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Erica Kious, a single mother of two and owner of eSalon, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair done on Monday is now being forced to shut down and relocate her business and family due to outrage and threats she is receiving. A maskless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited eSalon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. San Francisco's coronavirus guidelines allowed hair salons to reopen their businesses for outdoor services starting Tuesday, with clients seen one at a time. Haircuts are permitted, according to the guidance, but...

“Let me assure you,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assured her constituents this weekend. “There will be a health care reform bill passed.” Mrs. Pelosi said that she is devoting all of her time during the August recess to drumming up support for the planned $3.5 trillion overhaul of the country’s health care system. “It's just bringing everybody to the table," Pelosi said of her mediations. "I don't know how many times I've been in meetings where I say, 'It's up to you. You're not leaving until this is resolved.' They are all decisions, you can talk about them forever, you...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a person familiar with the situation said Monday.

For Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it’s a new week of old questions: What did she know about harsh Bush administration interrogation techniques, and when did she know it? Usually a master of message discipline, Pelosi has been thrown off balance by a mounting firestorm over whether she or her staff learned six years ago that intelligence officials were using extreme tactics such as waterboarding. For weeks, the Speaker has insisted she didn’t, though a declassified report last week suggested otherwise. And Republicans, sensing a rare opportunity, are moving to keep the heat on the discrepancy over competing versions of what...

Somewhere, beneath the tinkling of champagne glasses and the crooning of Tony Bennett at the new year “inauguration” of Nancy Pelosi, will be heard the sound of knives being sharpened.The four days of celebrations surrounding her swearing-in as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives on January 4 have been carefully designed to introduce her properly to the American people. Republican strategists are in little doubt that the scale of these events, perhaps more usually associated with the arrival of a new president, will help them to paint Ms Pelosi and the victorious Congressional Democrats as arrogant. One...