News Wrap: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will retire next year
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | As other headlines, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will not run for |
| 0:05.6 | re-election next year. |
| 0:07.3 | The 85-year-old became the first woman to serve as House Speaker in 2007. |
| 0:12.1 | She was elected to the role for a second time in January of 2019. |
| 0:16.4 | In a video message, Pelosi spoke directly to her constituents in San Francisco, the city she's represented |
| 0:22.0 | for nearly four decades in Congress. |
| 0:24.1 | I say to my colleagues in the House all the time, no matter what title they have bestowed |
| 0:29.1 | upon me, speaker, leader, whip, there has been no greater honor for me than to stand |
| 0:36.8 | on the House floor and say, |
| 0:38.3 | I speak for the people of San Francisco. |
| 0:41.3 | Pelosi gave up her leadership post three years ago, but remains a powerful force in her party as Speaker |
| 0:48.3 | Emerita. She's also been a frequent target of Republicans, including President Trump. |
| 0:53.3 | The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration |
| 0:56.0 | block transgender and non-binary people |
| 0:59.0 | from choosing their own gender identity on passports for now. |
| 1:03.0 | The decision pauses a lower court order |
| 1:05.0 | that required the government to let people choose |
| 1:08.0 | male, female, or X on their passports as a lawsuit on the matter plays |
| 1:12.6 | out. In an unsigned ruling, the court's majority wrote that, quote, displaying passport |
| 1:17.6 | holders sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth. |
| 1:23.6 | The ACLU called the decision a heartbreaking setback for the freedom of all people to be themselves. |
| 1:30.3 | In Texas, officials say a defensive player for the Dallas Cowboys, 24-year-old Marshawn Neeland, was found dead today of an apparent suicide. |
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