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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the House minority leader, said in an interview that she had been ready to retire had Democrat Hillary Clinton won the presidency, but that Republican Donald Trump’s victory led her to stay to preserve what she can of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Ciara, the singer, who is pregnant with her second child, is doing well after a minor car accident in Los Angeles, according to her husband, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

Traci Lynn Martin, a kayaker from Kansas City, Mo., who has rheumatoid arthritis, set off from Port Huron, Mich., on the first leg of her 8,600-mile quest to set a world record for most miles paddled by a woman in a single year, a trip she hopes will inspire those with chronic illnesses to continue doing what they love.

Juan Carlos Galan Luperon, a U.S. citizen returning from the Dominican Republic, faces charges after he was stopped at New York’s Kennedy Airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers who said they thought his pants looked too tight, prompting them to search him and find 10 pounds of cocaine taped to his legs.

Adrian Turnbow, 25, of Anchorage, Alaska, was charged with bank larceny in the attempted theft of an ATM with a front-end loader, authorities said, after the loader became stuck in a parking lot embankment.

Edward Quinton, 44, of Greenwich, R.I., faces drunken-driving, criminal mischief, burglary and grand theft charges after, police say, he stole and crashed a forklift in Marathon, Fla., then told authorities he had taken the forklift because he lost his car keys and needed a vehicle.

Brittany Gardner, who posted a video on Facebook of her 4-year-old daughter, Madison, clinging to a swinging house door as she’s swept off her feet during a windstorm in Lyndhurst, Ohio, said the girl is “totally OK.”