Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 10-05-15, Om, St. Faustina, Bl. Xavier Seelos

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is calling for DNC delegates to consider how the Democratic Party’s infrastructure can support a “war machine” to lead attacks against Republicans, Politico reports. Said Whitehouse: “We in Congress customarily say we’re ‘fighting’ for things when we really mean working or toiling. A fight means a defined adversary, a battle strategy, and actual punches thrown.

“The U. S. House Ethics Committee on Monday closed its investigations into allegations that Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt misused campaign funds, clearing the Texas Republicans of wrongdoing,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

New York Times: “Mr. Musk has been using one of the cottages available for rent on Mr. Trump’s property at Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post home in Florida that Mr. Trump converted into a members-only club and hotel in the 1990s… The cottage where he has been staying, named Banyan, is several hundred feet away from the main house.” “Staying right on the grounds has helped provide Mr.

“A state-sponsored actor in China hacked the U. S. Treasury Department, gaining access to the workstations of government employees and unclassified documents,” the New York Times reports. “The announcement comes after revelations in recent months that China had penetrated deep into U. S. telecommunications systems, gaining access to the phone conversations and text messages of U.

The adult son of the Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has been sentenced to serve 28 years in prison in connection with a wild chase in which he fled from a hospital and drove into a deputy’s vehicle, killing the deputy, the Guardian reports.

On Monday, a federal appeals court tossed out Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the verdict against him in the 2023 civil suit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll. “We conclude that Mr. Trump has not demonstrated that the district court erred in any of the challenged rulings,” the ruling said. “Further, he has not carried his burden to show that any claimed error or combination of claimed errors affected his substantial rights as required to warrant a new trial.” In March of last year, a federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse after Carroll alleged that he had raped her at Bergdorf Goodman in 1996.