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Kerry said the coalition against ISIS was working to strangle the group’s finances and to ensure that people who fled would someday be able to return.

Salih Muslim, the co-president of the PYD, said the only way forward was a decentralized Syria—any formula for that would be acceptable to the Kurds.

He argues Biden’s positions on abortion and same-sex marriage should make him ineligible to receive the award.

President Obama held up Merrick as diligent public servant, highlighting his work leading the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing.

Each was charged with conspiracy and child endangerment. Prosecutors said the three have been given until Friday to surrender.

Spanish Msgr. Lucio Vallejo Balda cited a Whatsapp conversation in which Francesca Chaouqui told him: “I will destroy you in all the newspapers and you know that I can do it.”

Father Elizondo was widely recognized as “the father of U.S. Latino religious thought.”

The coalition has used demonstrations and sometimes consumer boycotts to pressure the five largest fast-food companies—Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell—into joining its “fair food program.”

“The very future of the ancient Christian presence in the Middle East is at stake,” Archbishop Kurtz said.

“The fact is that Sunday can be seen as a watershed moment, which frightens the government [and] pressures Congress.”