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First female U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces retirement

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: The Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emerita, U.S. House of Representatives, speaks onstage during the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit at Sheraton New York Times Square on September 23, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit)
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Former U.S. House Speaker and Democratic representative Nancy Pelosi announced she will not be running for re-election to congress come next year.

She had been at the forefront of the Democratic party’s fight against the Trump administration’s policies.

Pelosi made the announcement through a love letter to San Francisco, a city she was first elected to represent back in 1987.

The 85-year-old Speaker Emeritus led her party in the house under the leadership two Democratic presidents and the sitting president, Donald Trump.

The announcement Thursday by the California Democrat brings to a close a storied career that saw her become the first woman to hold that job and arguably the most powerful woman in American politics.

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