WASHINGTON - He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was offi cially in the East Valley this week to talk to Arizona State University students about federal financial aid.

DAMASCUS, Syria - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Syria's leader Wednesday despite White House objections, saying she pressed President Bashar Assad over his country's support for militant groups and passed him a peace message from Israel.

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bluntly accused the CIA on Thursday of misleading her and other lawmakers about its use of waterboarding during the Bush administration, escalating a controversy grown to include both political parties, the spy agency and the White House.

WASHINGTON - Jubilant Democrats on Thursday elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi as the first woman speaker of the House, the crowning celebration of newfound power the party won in the November electoral sweep.

WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi was unanimously named speaker-elect by House Democrats Thursday, the first woman to be ensured the post that constitutionally is second in line of succession to the presidency.

CHENGDU, China - China accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of stoking Tibetan unrest to sabotage the Beijing Olympics and also berated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying she is ignoring the truth about Tibet.

WASHINGTON - Democrats command the votes needed to pass a sweeping health care bill through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, an unexpected statement that quickly drew a biting response from conservative members of the party's rank-and-file demanding changes in President Barack Obama's trademark legislation. 

Nancy Pelosi’s first act as speaker-elect of the U.S. House was to stumble badly. A child of Baltimore’s machine politics broke an old rule of those politics by picking a fight that she should have known she would lose — and lose big.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi toured the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix Wednesday and promised former military personnel that Congress is taking a “new direction” regarding veterans.

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said newly empowered Democrats will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, hinting they could deny funding if he seeks additional troops.

New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is nothing if not combative. Even as she was being elected speaker, she unsuccessfully tried to oust her No. 2, the current House Democratic floor leader, Steny Hoyer, in favor of her own candidate.

Illegal immigrant students brought to this country as children deserve a path to citizenship and affordable higher education, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a visit to Arizona State University on Monday.