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Who knew, and when did they know it?

There’s a lot of unsolved mysteries in the Trump administration. Late Monday night, national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned after misleading top White House officials about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador on U.S. sanctions. Flynn didn't last a month on the job. The White House said President Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation because he no longer trusted him. Democratic lawmakers want an investigation into Flynn. Republicans won’t commit. Russian lawmakers claim Flynn is being made a scapegoat. The real problem may stem from the top (looking at you Trump). Questions that still need answers: When did the president know about Flynn’s ‘misinformation?’ Who else knew about the talks? Stay tuned.

Bye-bye, PewDiePie

YouTube's biggest star — with 53 million subscribers and counting — is known for his edginess, but PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, may have taken it too far. After a series of videos appeared on his channel depicting anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery, Disney's Maker Studios — a distribution network partnering with several YouTube channels — confirmed it cut ties with the video maker it first worked with in 2014. YouTube says it canceled the second season of his reality TV show and pulled him from its premium ad program.

Fashion stores to Ivanka Trump: It’s you not us

Several major retailers are breaking up with Ivanka Trump. Her father, you know, the president, is not OK with this. First, Nordstrom announced it will no longer be the place for Ivanka’s fashion line because of poor sales, then it was Marshall’s and T.J. Maxx. Now add Burlington Coat Factory. Burlington removed Ivanka’s products from its website because of an online boycott campaign, #grabyourwallet. The boycott campaign still plans to target the company’s brick-and-mortar locations. Could other companies be a target to feel the ire of Trump's Twitter tantrums?

When your brother is the dictator of North Korea, bad things can happen

Kim Jong Nam, the older half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, is dead after apparently being assassinated by a woman at the airport in Malaysia. Kim Jong Nam, who fell out of favor in 2001 over a trip to Tokyo Disneyland, had been living elsewhere in Asia and was critical of the North Korean regime. If his assassination is confirmed, it would be the highest-profile North Korean death since Kim Jong Un's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was executed by anti-aircraft fire in December 2013 for what the North alleged was treason. Since taking power in late 2011, Kim Jong Un has reportedly executed or purged a slew of high-level government officials.

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