Nancy Pelosi

US Capitol Police officers stand at the base of the steps to the House Chambers as the House votes on a $1.7 trillion spending package on December 23, 2022 in Washington. The House of Representatives voted to pass the spending bill that will fund the government through 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)

December 24, 2022, 6:47 am

US Congress greenlights $1.7 trillion spending bill with $45 billion in Ukraine aid

Massive measure, passed mostly along party lines, boosts funding for defense, domestic initiatives such as disaster relief, substance abuse prevention and treatment programs

By KEVIN FREKING

US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, in Washington, December 21, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

December 22, 2022, 2:15 pm

Zelensky’s surprise visit to the US was months in the making

Idea was floated by Washington in the past, and in October House Speaker Pelosi took it up with Ukrainian counterpart; December 11 phone call from Biden finalized sensitive trip

By Seung Min Kim

House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries arrives for leadership elections at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, November 30, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

November 30, 2022, 11:04 pm

Pro-Israel Democrat Jeffries elected first-ever Black House minority leader

NYC lawmaker who rejects BDS, conditioning aid to Israel, likely to toe line set by his predecessor Pelosi and others in party leadership who oppose harsher stance on Jewish state

By Jacob Magid and AP

United States House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, left, drinks a toast with Speaker of the Knesset, Dalia Itzik, during a ceremony at the Knesset on April 1, 2007. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

November 18, 2022, 2:34 am

From Baltimore bat mitzvahs to pushing Israeli poetry, Pelosi’s Jewish ties ran deep

Politician stepping down as leader of House Democrats found common cause with Dalia Itzik and promoted Jewish colleagues in Congress, but also broke with Israel on Iran

By Ron Kampeas

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, acknowledges applause from lawmakers after speaking on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, November 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

November 17, 2022, 8:26 pm

Nancy Pelosi to step down as Democrats’ House leader, plans to stay in Congress

First woman to wield the US speaker’s gavel says she’ll step aside in new Republican-controlled chamber

By LISA MASCARO

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is escorted to a vehicle outside of her home in San Francisco, November 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

November 5, 2022, 2:31 pm

Nancy Pelosi quotes Israeli poem in first appearance since husband assaulted

As Paul Pelosi released from the hospital, US House speaker reads portion of Ehud Manor’s ‘I Have No Other Land,’ which she has cited publicly on other occasions

By ToI Staff and AP

Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi, and her husband, Paul Pelosi, arrive at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors State Department Dinner, December 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

November 1, 2022, 7:40 am

Pelosi suspect tells police he wanted to hold speaker hostage, break her knees

David DePape, a Canadian citizen illegally staying in the US, tells investigators he saw speaker as the ‘leader of the pack of lies told by the Democratic Party’

By LISA MASCARO, STEFANIE DAZIO and TERRY CHEA

A police car blocks the street below the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi in San Francisco, October 28, 2022. (AP/Eric Risberg)

October 31, 2022, 3:11 am

Pelosi home invader carried zip ties, in troubling echo of January 6 threats

Attack serves as reminder of possibility of violence amid toxic political atmosphere ahead of mid-term election, with lawmakers told to seek extra security

By LISA MASCARO

Elon Musk, arriving for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on May 2, 2022. (Angela Weiss / AFP / File)

October 30, 2022, 8:48 pm

Musk tweets conspiracy theory about Pelosi attack, raising concerns about platform

Suspect in violent assault, David DePape, has spread theory online that Jews are to blame for the war in Ukraine

By Sarah TITTERTON

October 30, 2022, 6:01 am

In 1st comment, Pelosi says she’s ‘heartbroken, traumatized’ over attack on husband

‘His condition continues to improve,’ says US House speaker about Paul Pelosi, 82, who suffered fractured skull in an attack by a home intruder, 2 weeks ahead of midterm elections

By AFP

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, left, talk to reporters October 25, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Mariam Zuhaib)

October 29, 2022, 8:38 pm

Israel’s president denounces ‘vicious’ assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband

‘Attacks on elected officials and their families are attacks on democracy itself,’ Herzog says after Paul Pelosi targeted at home

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (R) and husband Paul Pelosi arrive for the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center in New York, April 23, 2019. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

October 29, 2022, 1:36 pm

Biden condemns ‘despicable’ attack that left Pelosi’s husband with fractured skull

US president: ‘Enough is enough is enough’; suspect allegedly spread antisemitic conspiracy theories online; some Republican lawmakers condemn attack

By Agencies

David DePape, right, records the nude wedding of Gypsy Taub outside City Hall on Dec. 19, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

October 29, 2022, 4:19 am

Suspect in Pelosi home attack: From pro-nudity activist to QAnon conspiracy theorist

David DePape moved from Canada to California where he made hemp jewelry, protested naked, later embraced pro-Trump and antisemitic conspiracies

By Michael Biesecker and Bernard Condon

David Depape is shown in Berkeley, California, December 13, 2013. (Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

October 28, 2022, 11:40 pm

Man accused of attacking Pelosi’s husband has spread antisemitic conspiracy theories

David DePape allegedly propagates online both Holocaust denial and the claim that Jews are to blame for the war in Ukraine

By Ron Kampeas

October 28, 2022, 5:38 pm

Pelosi’s husband beaten with hammer in home by attacker shouting ‘Where is Nancy’

Paul Pelosi, 82, suffers blunt force trauma to head and body but expected to make full recovery; assailant, who is in custody, deliberately targeted their house

By KEVIN FREKING, MICHAEL BALSAMO and Colleen Long