Pelosis

It can be an odd thing having Nancy Pelosi as your next-door neighbor.Especially when the House minority leader and her husband open up their bucolic Northern California estate and vineyard on the banks of the Napa River to the likes of Google’s Eric Schmidt, wealthy environmental activist Tom Steyer and Gov. Jerry Brown.“When all the black SUVs are circling around the property — like planes gathering over O’Hare Airport — that is when you know they are here,” Susanna Kelham, who owns a winery next to the Pelosi property…

Last Friday morning, as news about the attack on Paul Pelosi was still seeping out, I pulled up in front of a run-down Victorian on Woolsey Street in southwest Berkeley. Two short school buses were parked out front, in various states of conversion into God knows what; a weather-beaten banner hanging over the garage touted a “Natural addiction treatment” with an “over 90% success rate.”Houses like this one aren’t exactly rare in Berkeley. They evoke a decades-long history of degradation, as the city’s youthful idealism has…

The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked and severely beaten with a hammer by an assailant who broke into the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday searching for the Democratic leader and shouting: “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” The assault on the 82-year-old Paul Pelosi injected new uneasiness into the nation’s already toxic political climate, just 11 days before the midterm elections. It carried chilling echoes of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol when rioters chanted…

Elections have consequences, as the saying goes. So, too, does the rhetoric surrounding elections.To say our politics have coarsened over the past few decades is like noting that temperatures drop and daylight shortens as we settle into autumn.It’s so obvious, it seems the natural order of things.But it’s a choice we’ve made and grown to accept, and even embrace. The most strident among us are lavished with attention — book contracts, TV ratings, millions of followers on social media. Those who provoke and outrage win…

WASHINGTON —  Political leaders from both parties condemned Friday’s attack against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, the latest in a string of incidents affecting members of Congress and their families this year.Though the assailant’s motive is still under investigation, several lawmakers have blamed hyper partisanship and divisive political rhetoric for an increase in political violence and security incidents in recent years. Those factors also contributed to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Capitol…

Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was “violently” attacked in the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday morning, according to a statement from the speaker’s office. Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the Democratic speaker’s office, said in the statement that an assailant broke into the couple’s home and “violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi.” Paul Pelosi was taken to a hospital, where he is receiving care and is expected to make a full recovery, Hammill said.A suspect is in custody, and the motive for…

A lot has happened this past week. Thousands of people from across the globe tracked Nancy Pelosi's plane ✈️ ahead of its touchdown in Taiwan 🇹🇼, making it one of the most tracked flights of all time. Though some from those thousands were likely Chinese government officials whose "overreaction" led to the start of military exercises ⛈️ and other rebukes on a state-to-state level with the U.S. 🌎 But despite so much going on, all the HackerNoon team has been talking about is one thing this past week. A personal milestone…

The news: A new system called OrganEx stopped the deterioration of cells in pig organs one hour after the animal’s death, a finding that suggests cells don’t die as quickly as previously understood. The technology successfully restored blood circulation and repaired damaged cells in the pigs.Why it matters: Experts have called the research “truly remarkable,” adding that if scientists are able to intervene and prevent permanent cell failure, it raises serious questions over how we define a biological death. The study…

The global outbreak of monkeypox has so far led to more than 24,000 cases in over 80 countries, and the World Health Organization has warned that the window of opportunity to contain the disease and prevent it from becoming endemic outside Africa is rapidly closing. Vaccines represent a potentially crucial measure. Monkeypox vaccines are already being deployed around the world, and news reports have described a “scramble” as countries desperately try to secure some of the limited number of available doses. There are…

As more than 300,000 people anxiously watched the flight path of , the US Air Force plane carrying Nancy Pelosi on her tour of Asia, Taiwan’s presidential website went down to an apparent cyberattack, reports . In a spotted by , Taiwanese presidential spokesperson Chang Tun-Han said a distributed denial-of-service attack took down the website early Tuesday evening. According to Tun-Han, the attack originated outside of Taiwan and saw the website bombarded with more than 200 times the amount of traffic it normally sees.…