• Investigators are searching for clues to what started the deadly Camp Fire that razed Paradise, California, above. One possibility: a fallen power line. [The New York Times]

• As lawsuits flew and chaos reigned, Florida officials ordered a manual recount in the narrowly contested race for a Senate seat. Meanwhile, another recount, for governor, neared its conclusion, with the Republican candidate, Ron DeSantis, set to seal his victory. [The New York Times]

• Representative Nancy Pelosi insisted she had enough support to become speaker of the incoming House, but opposition to her appeared to be growing, as Democrats debated the importance of keeping a woman in the job. [The New York Times]

• The European Court of Human Rights determined that the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny had been the victim of a governmental campaign to silence him through multiple arrests. [The New York Times]

• An orderly “invasion”: About 80 L.G.B.T. people from a migrant caravan — which President Trump has called an invading force — came to a California border crossing to make appointments for asylum interviews. [The New York Times]

• Women in Papua New Guinea face high-sky rates of domestic abuse, and more than half the men surveyed in some parts of the country said they had participated in gang rape. [The New York Times]

• Japan’s cybersecurity minister shocked Parliament by admitting he had never used a computer. He also didn’t seem to understand what USB drives are. [The New York Times]