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In this March 7, 1918 file photo, men of U.S. Battery E, 5th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, load horses onto freight cars in Toul, eastern France, en route to the French front. They were messengers, spies, sentinels and the heavy haulers of World War I, carrying supplies, munitions and food and leading cavalry charges. The horses, mules, dogs and pigeons were a vital part of the Allied war machine, saving countless lives, and dying by the millions. (AP Photo, File)

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The walls of a scorched antique shop stand on Skyway after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day

Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever.

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks in during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Pelosi says she's confident she will win enough support to be elected speaker of the House next year and that she is the best person for the job. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

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Democrats promise congressional action on gun control

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President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing for France on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Future seems uncertain for Trump’s acting attorney general

Matthew Whitaker's future at the Justice Department appears uncertain as President Donald Trump denies even knowing the man he's just named acting attorney general.

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Attendees stand during a moment of silence during the Rally for Peace and Tree of Life Victims, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Victims of synagogue shooting remembered in Pittsburgh park

Nearly 2 weeks after a gunman shot to death 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, their lives were remembered Friday with a moment of silence and rally for peace in a park.

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A group of Central American migrants, representing the thousands participating in a caravan trying to reach the U.S. border, undertake an hours-long march to the office of the United Nations' humans rights body in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Members of the caravan which has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it is too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Trump limits asylum, says migrants must ‘come legally’

Trump issued an order Friday to deny asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally, tightening the border as caravans of Central Americans slowly approach the U.S.

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