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RSN: Andy Borowitz | Jared Kushner Calls Kim Jong-un "Totally Unqualified Person" Who Got Job Only Through Nepotism




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Andy Borowitz | Jared Kushner Calls Kim Jong-un "Totally Unqualified Person" Who Got Job Only Through Nepotism 
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Offering a stunningly blunt appraisal of the North Korean leader, Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un was a 'totally unqualified person' who attained his position of power only through nepotism." 
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Fox News Has Decided Bill O'Reilly Has to Go 
Gabriel Sherman, New York Magazine 
Sherman writes: "The Murdochs have decided Bill O'Reilly's 21-year run at Fox News will come to an end. According to sources briefed on the discussions, network executives are preparing to announce O'Reilly's departure before he returns from an Italian vacation on April 24. Now the big questions are how the exit will look and who will replace him." 
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Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz Will Not Seek Reelection 
Eric Levitz, New York Magazine 
Levitz writes: "The Republican whose indifference to President Trump's myriad conflicts of interest put the oversight in House Oversight Chair will leave Congress in 2018. On Wednesday morning, Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz announced his decision not to run for reelection, in a Facebook post." 
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Tillerson: Trump Administration Orders Review of Iran Nuclear Deal Sanctions 
Andrea Mitchell and Phil Helsel, NBC News 
Excerpt: "The Trump administration is weighing whether to effectively break the terms of a landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said late Tuesday." 
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Margaret Atwood: Once Preposterous, Now 'Handmaid's Tale' Is Immediate 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "Atwood, 77, calls it one of her 'speculative fiction' novels but said every scenario was drawn from real events - from Puritan society to environmental pollution, infertility, the fight for women's rights, the Cold War, book burnings and slavery." 
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UN: 17 Mass Graves Found in the Democratic Republic of Congo 
Al Jazeera 
Excerpt: "The findings mean that the UN has now documented 40 mass grave sites and killings of more than 400 people in Kasai Central and Kasai Oriental provinces since last August." 
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Widely-Opposed Pipeline 'Confirms Worst Fears' After Two Spills Into Ohio Wetlands 
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch 
Chow writes: "Energy Transfer Partners' new Rover Pipeline has spilled millions of gallons of drilling fluids into Ohio's wetlands. Construction of the $4.2 billion project only began last month." 
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