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3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 3/12/2018

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BLACK LIVES MATTER CALLS THE NRA A ‘TERRORIST ORGANIZATION’ FOR FILING LAWSUIT TO RAISE THE AGE TO BUY GUNS

“When the NRA issues a public call to their constituents, inciting violence against people who are constitutionally fighting for their lives, we don’t take that lightly,” says BLM LA member Funmilola Fagbamila in the response video.

BLM activists also slammed the NRA for not responding to the death of Philando Castile, a black gun owner, who was shot on July 6, 2016, in St. Anthony Minnesota after Officer Jeronimo Yanez shot him. The association eventually commented on Castile’s death a few days later on CNN.

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Conservatives hated it when Obama said he’d meet with North Korea. Guess what they say now.

After President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement on Thursday that he had agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, some conservatives wondered why they were abandoning the position they took with President Barack Obama.

Obama’s comments in 2008 and 2009 about talking to strong men “without preconditions,” and his efforts to work with both North Korea and Cuba’s communist governments were greeted by conservatives with scorn. So it seemed odd to some on the right that Trump doing the same was being fêted as a victory for American foreign policy.

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Melania Knew

At the very same time that the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have given voice to women, and led to men being held accountable, particularly in the private sector, Trump has almost single-handedly aided in the numbing of America’s sympathies for women who speak up about the sexual exploits, misdeeds and assaults of elected officials.

At the very same time that the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have given voice to women, and led to men being held accountable, particularly in the private sector, Trump has almost single-handedly aided in the numbing of America’s sympathies for women who speak up about the sexual exploits, misdeeds and assaults of elected officials.

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