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On Oct. 28 (UPI) — Her office sent a statement on Friday saying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, had been attacked by a home invader.

At a press conference held by the San Francisco Police Department, the suspect, 42-year-old David Depape, was named as the attacker. According to Sgt. William Scott, when police arrived, they saw Depape with a hammer and Paul Pelosi, 82, holding onto it.

Then, Depape took the hammer from Paul Pelosi and started hitting him with it until police arrived and took him into custody.

According to reports from CNN, NBC, and the New York Times, citing unnamed law enforcement officials, the assailant entered the couple’s San Francisco home early on Friday morning looking for the Speaker.

After being arrested, Depape was taken into custody and lodged in the San Francisco County Jail on “many other felony” counts, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, burglary, and more.

“Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy,” the assailant asked Paul Pelosi, according to the sources.

Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was “violently assaulted,” according to a statement released by Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., through spokesman Drew Hammill.

“The attacker is currently in police custody, and the circumstances surrounding the attack are being probed. Mr. Pelosi has been hospitalized and is receiving top-notch care; he is anticipated to make a full recovery “the report indicated.

According to Hammill, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was not in the Bay Area at the time.

The Speaker and her family “request privacy at this time” and “express gratitude to the first responders and medical personnel involved.”

Forensics in San Francisco At 2:27 a.m. PDT, according to Sergeant Adam Lobsinger, police were called to the Pelosi home. Paul Pelosi was rushed to the hospital, and the suspect was taken into jail.

Vice President Joe Biden issued the following statement through White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:

“The president is praying for Paul Pelosi and for Speaker Pelosi’s whole family. This morning he called Speaker Pelosi to express his support after this horrible attack. He is also very glad that a full recovery is expected. The president continues to condemn all violence and asks that the family’s desire for privacy be respected.”

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If she loses to Democrat Katie Hobbs in Arizona on November 8, Republican gubernatorial contender Kari Lake has declined to declare if she will accept defeat.

Lake refused to accept the election results many times when asked by CNN’s “State of the Union” moderator Dana Bash on Sunday. Lake insisted that she was going to win the election.

Lake declared,  “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that result,” simultaneously saying that Hobbs was a racist.

Bash questioned Lake, “If you lose, will you accept that?” throughout the conversation.

Lake repeated, “I’m going to win the election, and I will accept that results.”

Originally, on October 12, Arizona PBS was going to have a televised discussion between Lake and Hobbs, but Hobbs bowed out, claiming that Lake was “just interested in making a spectacle” and labeling Lake a “conspiracy theorist.”

“Kari Lake has made it clear time and time again that she’s not interested in having substantive, in depth conversations about the issues that matter to Arizonians,” Hobbs told Bash on Sunday’s CNN broadcast. “She only wants a scenario where she can control the dialogue, and she’s refused to sit down in a one-on-one lengthy conversation to really clarify with Arizonians where she is on the issues.”

After the Arizona Citizens Clean Election Commission, which had collaborated with PBS to host the debate, backed out, Arizona PBS had planned to interview Lake this Wednesday instead of holding the debate.

Lake has worked with Fox News before. At present, Hobbs is Arizona’s Secretary of State. On Thursday, a Fox 10 Phoenix/InsiderAdvantage survey showed that Lake had a four-point lead over Hobbs in the campaign for governor.

In addition to having the endorsement of the former president, Trump ally and Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga), Lake also has the backing of MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.

She also helps promote Trump’s false allegations that significant voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election, despite the fact that the Justice Department has found no evidence to support such accusations.

According to Lake, both Trump and Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, have “BDE,” or “big dick energy.”

DeSantis, she continued, “has BDE;” she didn’t know if the audience was familiar with the term. Does anyone have any idea what that means? Ask your kids about it later.”

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On Thursday, a Florida judge ruled against a measure supported by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would have limited racial discussion and analysis in the workplace and classroom.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker of Tallahassee ruled in a 44-page opinion that the “Stop WOKE” act is unconstitutionally vague and a violation of the First Amendment. In addition, Walker did not order a stay that would have allowed the law to remain in place while the state appealed.

According to DeSantis, the law is meant to counter what he calls a “pernicious” mindset represented by critical race theory, which holds that racism is systematic in U.S. institutions and helps to maintain white domination.

Walker argued that the state’s prohibition on discussing specific topics in training programs violates the First Amendment as applied to diversity, inclusion, and bias training in the workplace.

The judge said, “If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,” “But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.”

A message sent to the governor’s office was not immediately answered. DeSantis has warned repeatedly that conservative appeals courts are likely to overturn any setbacks at the lower court level on his priorities.

Teaching or operating a company on the basis that members of one racial group are fundamentally racist and should feel guilt for the acts of other groups is illegal. It also disallows the view that a person’s privileged or oppressed status is inherently tied to their race or gender, or that discrimination is permissible in order to create diversity.

It was one of three lawsuits contesting the Stop Woke act that resulted in Thursday’s verdict. Clearwater-based Honeyfund.com and others have filed suit against the state, arguing that the statute violates their right to free speech by prohibiting them from discussing topics such as diversity, inclusiveness, bias elimination, and the avoidance of workplace harassment in company training programs. It is possible for employees to file a civil case against businesses with 15 or more workers if certain conditions exist.

According to the complaint, Honeyfund, a company that facilitates wedding registries, is fighting to ensure that private companies can “engage in open and free exchange of information with employees to detect and begin to rectify discrimination and injury” inside their own ranks.

“Diversity in the workplace is good for business,” Honeyfund CEO Sara Margulis said on Twitter after the ruling. “Diversity training often addresses concepts like systemic racism, unconscious bias, and privilege. This is why @Honeyfund challenged this illegal restriction on free speech.”

College professors and students filed a lawsuit against the state on Thursday, claiming the law constitutes “racially motivated censorship” that will “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study, and address systemic inequalities” that have been brought to light by the national conversation about race following the May 2020 police killing of Black man George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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