Turkey is attacking Kurds in northeastern Syria just days after US President Donald Trump announced he was pulling American soldiers out of the region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of military operations via Twitter, writing Turkey intends to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across its southern border. The Kurds in Syria were a key US ally in the fight against Daesh, and Trump's decision to withdraw troops was met with harsh criticism by leaders of both parties in Congress, who claimed the US was abandoning the Kurds.
The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled last year that an FBI surveillance program aimed at foreign suspects had violated American citizens' constitutional privacy rights, as the program collected personal information of both Americans and foreign suspects, such as email addresses and telephone numbers. The partially redacted ruling, which was revealed Tuesday and first reported by the Wall Street Journal, said that tens of thousands of searches the FBI conducted from 2017 to 2018 on raw intelligence databases were illegal.
Montgomery, Alabama, has elected its first black mayor in the city's 200-year history. Montgomery County Probate Judge Steven Reed defeated TV station owner David Woods in the city's runoff election on Tuesday and is scheduled to be sworn into office next month. Unofficial results show Reed tallied about twice as many votes as his opponent. Are the tides changing, and what does this mean for other cities?
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