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Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S, hitch a ride from a truck driver to Mapastepec, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018,. Thousands of Central American migrants renewed their hoped-for march to the United States on Wednesday, setting out before dawn with plans to travel another 45 miles (75 kilometers) of the more than 1,000 miles that still lie before them. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Mexico says migrant caravan is 3,630 people

Mexico said Wednesday that there are about 3,630 people traveling in the migrant caravan making its way through Mexican territory and headed for the U.S.

October 24, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is also confident that Democrats will prevail in the midterm elections. "If the election were held today, the Democrats would handily win the House," she said. (Associated Press/File)

Stop Pelosi website raises $50,000 in first hours

A website set up to solicit and dole out campaign donations to key races that could stop House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi from becoming House speaker raised more than $50,000 in its first hours Wednesday morning, organizers said.

October 24, 2018
A group of immigrants from Honduras and Guatemala seeking asylum arrive at the bus station after they were processed and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end family separations at the border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Family separations began before zero tolerance: GAO study

Separation of illegal immigrant families nabbed at the border began to increase around the start of the Trump administration, the government's chief watchdog reported Wednesday -- meaning it was happening well before the Justice Department's zero-tolerance border policy.

October 24, 2018
Central American migrants making their way to the U.S. in a large caravan fill the truck of a driver who offered them the free ride, as they arrive to Tapachula, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the Guatemala-Mexico border, about 5,000 Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border Sunday in southern Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Mike Pence: Migrant caravan is Venezuelan plot

Venezuela is funding the illegal immigrant caravan, Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday, backing up President Trump's claims that there are bad elements within the thousands of people.

October 23, 2018
Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who is running against Republican Rep. Martha McSally for the open Arizona Senate seat Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is vacating, talks to campaign volunteers, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, in Tempe, Ariz. Arizona's Senate race pits Sinema, a careful politician running as a centrist in a Republican-leaning state, against McSally, a onetime Trump critic turned fan. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kyrsten Sinema pulls even with Martha McSally in Arizona Senate race despite left-wing activism

In any normal year, and with any normal candidate, Arizona's Senate race between a Republican former fighter pilot and a Democrat with a history of left-wing activism wouldn't even be a contest. But this isn't any year, and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat, isn't any candidate. Instead she's one of her party's best chances to capture a Republican-held Senate seat.

October 22, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 to attend a campaign rally in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says MS-13, terrorists are part of caravan

President Trump lashed out Monday afternoon at Central American countries he said "did nothing" to stop the migrant caravan heading north toward the U.S., saying it was a betrayal of the money the U.S. has sent them.

October 22, 2018
Honduras migrants wait to be attended by Mexican migration authorities on a bridge that stretches over the Suchiate River, connecting Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, about 5,000 Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Caravan grows to 14,000 people: Report

Members of the illegal immigrant caravan chanted "si se pudo!" as they made their way north through Mexico Monday, having defied the will of one country and vowing to test the spine of another, the U.S., very soon.

October 22, 2018
Central American migrants overwhelmed authorities at the Mexican border and prepared for the long journey across the country toward the U.S., where they plan to test the Trump administration's resolve. (Associated Press)

Migrant caravan pushes into Mexico

The combined efforts of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and the U.S. were not enough to deter thousands of migrants who broke through barricades or swam into Mexico over the weekend, defying their home government's calls for them to return and America's warnings that their journey is futile.

October 21, 2018