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Nigerian authorities have changed their story about the Boko Haram attack on a girl's school in Yobe state now saying that 50 to 111 students are still unaccounted for after the attack.  It was reported that teachers helped the girls get to safety while the banned Islamist militia sacked the Government Girls' Science Technical College (GGSTC) and nearby Dapchi town for food and supplies.  The local governor issued a statement claiming all was being done to "ensure that all the missing girls are found and returned to their school and families and that security is improved in the area".  In 2014, Boko Haram sparked worldwide outrage and disgust over the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls from Chibok town, many of whom have yet to be freed.

Thousands of high school students from across America staged walk-outs in protest of lawmakers who refuse to pass meaningful gun control legislation.  About a hundred teen survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida traveled to the state capital Tallahassee to confront these lawmakers, and they got just a little support:
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At one point a group of Parkland kids held a raucous chant in Governor Rick Scott's office.  The republican notoriously eased gun control laws as one of his first acts in office, but the teens are undeterred.  "We know this is a long struggle and we have to do everything we can to influence policy to fix this," sand Brandon Abzug, a senior who notes that most of his classmates will be eligible to vote within months.  "If nothing happens we have midterm elections in November, the 2020 presidential election and beyond," he added.

One Florida Republican political aide had to be fired for spreading the vile and false rumor that the Parkland teens are secret "crisis actors".  Benjamin Kelly was district secretary for a state lawmaker who sent an email to a reporter: "Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen."  Apparently, one of the students denouncing gun violence in Florida was once interviewed about something else altogether while on vacation in California a while ago.  The Parkland students also labeled Donald Trump Jr. "disgusting" for liking tweets that linked to articles barfing up the sick, sad conspiracy theory.  Apparently, the far right believes in Schrodinger's Soros, a billionaire controlling the world with his wealth but somehow too poor to afford new "crisis actors" to travel from event to event.

US preacher Billy Graham is dead at age 99.  For some reason known as "God's Ambassador" or "America's Minister", he had the ears of several US presidents, met the Queen, and was allowed to preach in the officially-Atheist USSR way back when.  He once claimed that AIDS was a "judgment from god" on homosexuality, advised then-US President Richard Nixon to use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War, and was an anti-Semite.  But at least he apologized for saying gays should be castrated. 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is demanding an immediate end to fighting in the Eastern Ghouta in Syria, where government forces backed by Russia have killed hundreds of civilians in a bombing campaign on a supposedly rebel-held area.  The German government says, "This is not a fight against terrorists, this is a campaign against their own people", according to government spokesman Steffen Seibert.  Western diplomats are urging Iran and Russia to put pressure on their ally Syria to stop the bombing and allowed emergency aid to get in provide food and medical assistance to broken, over-burdened hospitals.