"The international community must respond to the outrages systematically committed by Daesh with a rock-solid resolve to prevent similar future abominations from recurring."

The student charged in his death now awaits trial, but police are not calling the attack a hate crime.

Chief justice: the ruling "confuses maintenance of a highway median and monument in a state park with excessive religious entanglement.”

Cardinal Wuerl: the legal agreement provides a "level of assurance as we move into the future."

Religious groups that had opposed the mandate were pleased with the administration's action.

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said that IS militants began committing genocide against Yezidis and Christians in Iraq in 2014, and "three years later, they are still not receiving the assistance they need from the United States and so their survival in their ancient homelands is in jeopardy."