Updated at 3:46 p.m. ET
Nancy Pelosi is again speaker of the House, as Democrats retook control of the chamber for the first time in eight years, bringing divided government back to Washington.
The first woman to hold the position, Pelosi is now the first person to reclaim the speaker’s gavel in more than six decades.
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