U.S. doesn’t know where migrant children go — Trump administration officials acknowledged Thursday they have no system for tracking the tens of thousands of migrant children who are released from federal custody each year after traveling to the United States alone. Facing heated questions from a Senate subcommittee, officials from the Health and Human Services Department, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the federal immigration courts each said they were not responsible for following up after the children are handed over to sponsors, arguing that the children then become the responsibility of local child welfare agencies. Senators pushed back, pointing out that the federal government does not alert those authorities when migrant children are placed in their jurisdictions.

Vatican calls abuse ‘morally reprehensible’ — The Vatican responded Thursday to the horrors of a Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sex abuse, saying it felt shame and sorrow over the findings that more than 1,000 children had been abused by hundreds of priests over decades while bishops covered up their crimes. “The church must learn hard lessons from its past, and there should be accountability for both abusers and those who permitted abuse to occur,” the Vatican statement said of the report, which was released Tuesday. It was one of the strongest mea culpas to date on an issue Pope Francis has tried to address head-on in recent months.

Yosemite reopens — Nearly three weeks after a wildfire closed Yosemite Valley to the public, park officials welcomed back visitors. This was great news for tourists who drove into a park still hazy from the diminished but still active Ferguson Fire. But the reopening Tuesday was most likely a disappointment for some of the park’s wildlife that had taken advantage of the park’s closing to ramble more freely across the valley floor. The closing came at the busiest time of year for the park, when visitors typically number around 15,000 to 18,000 people a day, a park official said, estimating that the park lost between $2.5 million and $3 million in admission fees.

Colorado cake baker’s new lawsuit — The baker who won a Supreme Court case this year after refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding has sued the governor of Colorado, alleging the state discriminated against him when he declined to make a blue and pink cake for a transgender woman. The lawsuit sets up a public battle involving Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop over whether claims of religious freedoms can be used to refuse services to gay and transgender people. Autumn Scardina had asked Phillips to make a cake to mark her birthday and the seventh anniversary of her gender transition. Phillips refused because the celebration ran contrary to his belief that gender is “given by God,” his lawyers said, and “not determined by perceptions or feelings.”

Military parade price tag: $92 million — The military parade ordered by President Donald Trump could cost more than $90 million, a Defense Department official said Thursday — a financial mandate that would come as the Pentagon emerges from years of required budget caps. Department officials said the plans for the parade have not been finalized. But one official put the new potential price tag, first reported by CNBC, for the scheduled Nov. 10 event as high as $92 million, depending on how many troops are included. The Defense Department said Thursday a Veterans Day military parade won’t happen until 2019 at the earliest.

Manafort jury has questions — The jury in the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its first day of deliberations with a series of questions to the judge, including a request to “redefine” reasonable doubt. The questions came after roughly seven hours of deliberation, delivered in a handwritten note to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis. Ellis read the questions aloud to lawyers for both sides as well as Manafort before he called the jury in to give his answers. Along with the question on reasonable doubt, the jury asked about the list of exhibits, rules for reporting foreign bank accounts and the definition of “shelf companies,” a term used during the trial to describe some of the foreign companies used by Manafort.