The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was violently assaulted with a hammer during an early-morning break-in Friday at the couple’s San Francisco home, a chilling escalation in a string of violence and threats directed at political leaders across the country.
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Assailant shouted ‘Where is Nancy?’ in break-in at speaker’s home, attack on Paul Pelosi
Paul Pelosi was taken to a hospital and underwent surgery to repair a skull fracture and ‘serious injuries to his right arm and hands’
By Eugene Scott
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Updated October 28, 2022 at 9:41 p.m. EDT|Published October 28, 2022 at 9:01 a.m. EDT