NBC News Suspends Reporter Over Retracted Story On Paul Pelosi

Guest after guest at the Kennedy Center Honors told reporters of the spirit of bipartisanship at the ceremony, what with the presence of President Joe Biden, Chief Justice John Roberts and congressional leaders of both parties.

Director Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was following her mother when she was escorted out of Congress during the January 6 insurrection.

President Barack Obama was a guest on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah tonight, following a busy post-midterms week in politics that saw the Democrats retain control of the Senate, the Republicans seize a majority in the House, Donald Trump announce a third White House run and Speaker Nancy Pelosi announcing that she won’t seek a leadership role in the next Congress.

, Nancy Pelosi is stepping down from leadership after this term, she said in a speech on the House floor Thursday, November 17. She will seek to remain in Congress, however.“With great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,” Pelosi said.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that she will not seek a leadership post in the next Congress but instead will assist in the transition to the next generation of Democrats in top positions.

Linda Yaccarino, head of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, says despite the intense backlash over his two-plus weeks operating Twitter, Elon Musk deserves patience from the company’s advertisers and business partners.

Months of punditry, analysis and polling will give way tonight to actual midterm results, as Republicans seek to regain control of the House and the Senate, Democratic gubernatorial candidates seek to defeat Donald Trump-endorsed election deniers and Los Angeles decides a hotly contested mayor’s race.

In her first interview since the attack on her husband, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday that it was the result of “a flame fueled by misinformation,” as evidence shows the suspect embraced far-right conspiracy theories.

With the upheaval continuing at Twitter, the emerging alternative social network Mastodon has attracted a lot of former Twitter users.

Surprising almost no one except perhaps Kyrie Irving’s Crisis PR team, Saturday Night Live voted tonight for the midterm election in its last Cold Open before Tuesday’s balloting.

This evening on a Democratic fundraising Zoom call, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her first comments about her husband Paul’s condition since he came home from the hospital after being violently assaulted in their San Francisco residence.

NBC News retracted a report on Today that aired on Friday about Paul Pelosi, explaining that it did not meet the network’s journalistic standards.

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was released from the hospital on Thursday, but his wife said that he still faces a “long recovery.”

President Joe Biden once again gave a speech warning of the future of democracy, keying in on some GOP candidates’ refusal to commit to accepting the election results.

Whoa. This act of negligence could have cost Paul Pelosi his life.

Travis Bickle. Rupert Pupkin. Gil Renard.  David DePape? 

2ND UPDATE: David DePape, the suspect arrested in the attack of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in their San Francisco home, pleaded not guilty to state charges Tuesday.

Elon Musk confirmed that Twitter has plans to charge verified users for their blue checkmarks, amid vows by a series of prominent users that they won’t pay for the status.

Into the Woods star James Corden isn’t out of the woods after all!

Well, for all the right wingnuts spreading conspiracy theories about the attack on Paul Pelosi… we have bad news for y’all. It’s pretty much what all the reasonable folks assumed it was — a deranged political statement made with violence.