Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. PARADISE LOST
In a matter of hours last week, the town of 27,000 in California disappeared — it literally went up in smoke in the deadliest, most destructive wildfire in state history. Memories are all that's left for many of the survivors.
U.S. Border Patrol agents stand on the U.S. side of the border, seen through the concertina wire where the border meets the Pacific Ocean, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, from Tijuana, Mexico. More buses of exhausted Central Americans in a caravan of asylum seekers have reached the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where they're coming to grips with the likelihood they may be on this side of the frontier for an extended stay. (AP PhotoMarco Ugarte)
2. THE DEATH TOLL KEEPS RISING
At least 63 are now dead from a Northern California wildfire, and officials say they have a missing persons list with 631 names on it in an ever-evolving accounting of the missing.
3. WHICH FORMER HACKER MAY FACE U.S. INDICTMENT
Possible charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may help clarify whether Russia coordinated with the Trump campaign to sway the 2016 presidential election.
4. HAND RECOUNT COMING IN FLORIDA SENATE CONTEST
An initial review by ballot-counting machines showed Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson separated by less than 13,000 votes.
5. WHITHER GOES BREXIT?
Prime Minister Theresa May is battling to save her Brexit plan, and her job, after the draft withdrawal agreement between Britain and the EU sparked fierce opposition from some politicians in her Conservative Party.
6. A LONG AND WINDING ROAD
Nearly 2,000 caravan migrants have reached the U.S. border in Mexico's northwestern corner, with prospects growing that they would be stuck waiting in Tijuana for months.
7. NORTH KOREA TO DEPORT AMERICAN
Pyongyang said that it will deport an American citizen it detained for illegally entering the country recently as it boasted of a new unspecified "ultramodern" weapon.
8. GENOCIDE VERDICT FOR "THE KILLING FIELDS"
The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s have been convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by an international tribunal.
9. NEW CHAPTER IN TOY STORY
Three years after it closed its beloved store on Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwarz is making a return to New York.
10. YOU PAID HOW MUCH?
A painting by the British artist David Hockney fetched $90.3 million at Christie's, easily breaking the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.