As Ms. Pelosi announced her retirement, she was celebrated for her long tenure in Washington. But back home, she was remembered for showing up at a terrifying moment when others turned away.

CNN’s Tom Foreman has the details on the wild saga involving Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who admits she “confronted” airport security. But police go further in their incident report,

Asked to react to Democratic powerhouse Nancy Pelosi announcing her retirement, President Trump called her an "evil person" and said he's "glad."

Ms. Pelosi, who broke the House’s glass ceiling after learning rough-and-tumble politics in the D’Alesandro family business in Baltimore, always counseled her troops to “know their why” — their true motivation for entering politics and government.

“Bread lines about to be a real thing in New York. Congrats,” Mace wrote on Tuesday, presumably a reference to Mamdani’s democratic socialist platform that his right-wing critics claim will bring economic ruin to the city.

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Breed has called allies, including Willie Brown, the former mayor and longtime city powerbroker, to vet the idea.

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