Stories for 4/20

Today is April 20, or 4/20.  This date has become known as a day for smoking marijuana, is the birthday of an infamous Austrian who became the leader of Germany, and is the anniversary of the high school shootings in Columbine, Colorado.  This year, it's also the date of the latest gun-control protests.  Starting with such anti-civil-rights protests, here are some things going on:

From Vox, students kick off "the next wave of gun control activism", thus marching against the civil right of gun ownership.

From CBS News, the DNC can't stop being sore losers.

From Fox News, "Barbara Bush's passion for education and family lives on".

From Politico, President Trump will not attend Barbara Bush's funeral.

From Philly(dot)com, in Philadelphia's Center City, blacks are disproportionately stopped indoors by police.

From The Federalist, memos from former FBI director James Comey indicate that a briefing in early 2017 was a set-up.

From RFI, the French parliament votes on President Macron's proposed immigration laws.

From WestMonster, 56,000 people have signed a petition for a referendum on abolishing the U.K. House of Lords.

From UAWire, Germany gives Ukraine €9 million to help house displaced persons.

From Turkish Minute, Turkey accuses Greece of protecting alleged coup plotters.

From ANSA Med, the number of migrants arriving in Italy has decreased since last year.

From the International Organization For Migration, a look at this year's statistics.

From Deutsche Welle, Bavaria plans to bring back its border police.

From Voice Of Europe, Hungary leads the world in wage growth.

From Sputnik International, how much the U.K. will have to pay the E.U. is still not settled.

From The Intercept, an Italian court decision could stop rescue boats from picking up migrants in the Mediterranean.

From Handelsblatt, in a plan to thwart smugglers, Germany will accept 10,200 new refugees.

From Reuters, an outpost leader of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is under investigation for allegedly wrongly approving asylum requests.

From the Express, a pedophile rape grooming gang treated their victims "like trophies".

From Ekathimerini, Cyprus granted asylum to 1,300 people last year.

From Euractiv, Turkey's ambassador to the E.U. wants cooperation to bring refugees back to Afrin.  (This is the part of Syria now being invaded by Turkey.)

From The Sun, in Indonesia's Aceh province, unmarried couples are publicly whipped for "flirtatious behavior".

From the Prague Daily Monitor, bishops criticize a play in which Jesus commits rape.

From France24, France deports a controversial Salafist imam.

From National Review, "today's sad feminism - and two breaths of fresh air".

From FrontpageMag, if you're white and own a gun, the left hates you.

From Townhall, another anti-Semitic rant from Louis Farrakhan has been unearthed.

From the New York Post, MS-13 tells its members to "take out a cop".

From BBC News, a woman on trial for allegedly killing her mother read "weird stuff" online.

From The Spoon, some "weird & wonderful" Instagram feeds.

And from Edgy Labs, five "weird and wonderful stoner inventions" for 4/20.