President Trump surprised everyone in Washington - including the Pentagon - by announcing he's taking US troops out of Northern Syria, where they fought ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. Politicians from both sides are slamming the decision, accusing the president of abandoning allies and creating a vacuum that ISIS could fill again. The president also suffered a setback, followed by an immediate (albeit temporary) reprieve, regarding eight years of his tax returns. And the wife of an American diplomat flees Britain, claiming diplomatic immunity, after being involved in a crash that killed a 19-year-old boy.

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