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A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A Speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former Speaker of the House ...

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Delaware Sen. Chris Coons agreed with CNN host Michael Smerconish that funding a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq could be a good use of taxpayer funding to teach "values" to Iraqi children.

sen. ANDY KIM: Well, when you look at the polling that's out there, the American people actually see diplomacy and development as critical to our foreign policy.