Nancy Pelosi

July 23, 2021, 1:45 am

Pelosi vows to push ahead with Capitol riot probe even without Republicans

House speaker says committee will take on the ‘deadly serious’ investigation, even as GOP’s Kevin McCarthy calls probe a ‘sham process’ and threatens party members who participate

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Rioters loyal to US President Donald Trump storm the US Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

June 23, 2021, 4:33 am

Pelosi signals new Democrat-led panel to investigate Capitol riot

Move comes after Senate blocks legislation to form a bipartisan, independent commission investigating attack by Trump’s supporters

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid at the Knesset on January 23, 2020. (Yair Lapid/Twitter)

June 22, 2021, 11:20 pm

Lapid, Pelosi discuss bipartisan US support for Israel in first phone call

Conversation between foreign minister and US House speaker is described as ‘warm and positive’

By Jacob Magid and TOI staff

US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) greets House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ahead of US President Joe Biden addressing a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2021. (Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP)

April 29, 2021, 5:19 am

Seated behind Biden during Congress speech, Harris and Pelosi make history

For first time, two women flank president during address; ‘It’s about time,’ says House speaker

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Dr. Anthony Fauci, left, speaks with author David Rubenstein. (Courtesy)

April 9, 2021, 10:52 pm

What makes a leader? Billionaire author grills Fauci, Bezos, Oprah to find out

David Rubenstein loves talking to pros about what makes them tick, so when Bloomberg TV gave him his own interview show, he jumped at the chance. Now he’s written a book about it

By Rich Tenorio

Authorities investigate at the scene where a car crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

April 3, 2021, 3:06 am

Suspect in deadly US Capitol attack was Farrakhan follower, raged against gov’t

US media reports identify attacker as Noah Green of Indiana; posted online about ‘mind control,’ called US government the ‘#1 enemy of Black people’

By TOI staff and Agencies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leads the vote to approve a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

March 10, 2021, 11:31 pm

US Congress passes $1.9 trillion COVID relief package

‘Help is here,’ Biden declares after House of Representatives approves landmark bill, which president says he’ll sign into law on Friday

By Alan Fram

A demonstrator raises his fist during a protest of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in downtown Los Angeles, May 27, 2020. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

March 4, 2021, 8:55 am

US House passes police racial profiling reform, days ahead of Floyd murder trial

Measure banning chokeholds, as well as separate bill expanding voting rights, face uncertain future in divided Senate

By Michael Mathes

Nancy Pelosi with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May 2009 (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

February 24, 2021, 11:23 pm

Netanyahu speaks with Pelosi about 2-state solution, pandemic

Speaker of US House says she spoke to premier to ‘reaffirm the unbreakable bond between our nations’

By Luke Tress

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with House impeachment managers, speaks to the press after the Senate voted to acquit former US President Donald Trump, in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2021 (Alex Edelman / AFP)

February 14, 2021, 1:47 am

Pelosi rips into ‘cowardly’ Republican senators after Trump acquitted

US House speaker criticizes Mitch McConnell, who voted to acquit former US president even as he held him accountable for deadly US Capitol riot, for ‘disingenuous’ speech

By Agencies and TOI staff

In this image from video, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Democrat-Vermont, the president pro tempore of the Senate, who is presiding over the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump, swears in members of the Senate for the trial at the US Capitol in Washington, January 26, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

February 9, 2021, 10:36 am

What to expect as Trump’s impeachment trial begins

Senate to hear up to eight hours of prosecution and defense arguments each day; no witnesses to be called and the final vote will likely not be before next week

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Then-opposition leader Isaac Herzog greets Nancy Pelosi in Tel Aviv on March 26, 2018. (Isaac Herzog's Twitter feed via JTA)

January 26, 2021, 4:48 am

How an Israeli poem sustained and inspired Nancy Pelosi through the Trump years

Introduced to Ehud Manor’s ‘I have no other country’ by former Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog, the Democrat quoted the verses in urging Congress to impeach Trump again

By Ron Kampeas

On the first full day of Democratic control, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, walks to the chamber after meeting with new senators from his caucus, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

January 22, 2021, 6:17 pm

‘There will be a trial’: US House to send Trump impeachment article Monday

Schumer announces speedy impeachment, rejecting Senate Republican leader’s proposal to push back start of trial to February to give former president time to prepare

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and LISA MASCARO

January 19, 2021, 4:21 am

FBI says Capitol rioter stole Pelosi’s laptop, hoped to sell it to Russia

Arrest warrant for Riley June Williams of Pennsylvania quotes her former partner as saying she tried to sell computer to the SVR foreign intelligence agency, but plan fell through

By AFP

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., left, walks with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

January 18, 2021, 5:46 am

Prosecutor: Trump’s incitement ‘most dangerous crime’ committed by US president

Rep. Jamie Raskin, who is leading impeachment effort, says Pelosi will soon send the single article against Trump — for ‘incitement of insurrection’ — to Senate

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK