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Cops: Woman used $1.2M forged check to try to buy house

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

(AP) — Police say a Pennsylvania woman tried to buy a house by forging a $1.2 million check from a credit union. Police Sgt. David Smith says the credit union's fraud department first raised red flags, prompting police to investigate.

Parole hearing set for NY woman who helped 2 killers escape

TheRepublic.com 

ALBANY, N.Y. — The woman who helped two killers escape from a maximum-security prison in northern New York in 2015 is scheduled for a parole hearing. State prison officials say Joyce Mitchell’s hearing before a parole board will take place this week at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County. The board doesn’t release

No, President Trump, negative polls are not ‘fake news’

GantDaily.com 

President Trump is encouraging his 24 million Twitter followers to ignore accurate polls. On Monday he tweeted — inaccurately — that “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.” Professional polling is scientific, not political, in nature. Polls by TV networks during the election were not “fake […]

In Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology, the gods are tragic and petty

Vox 

The first time Neil Gaiman wrote about the Norse gods, they were the con men at the heart of American Gods, subsisting off petty grifts in belief-starved America. Now, with Starz’s anticipated TV adaptation of American Gods set to debut later this year, Gaiman has returned to the Norse myth cycle in Norse Mythology, a kind of D'Aulaires-style book of Norse myths that gives them the structure of a story.

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Farm Living Songs

Behind the News 

Aimee and her Dad have found a fun way to teach people about what it's like to live on a farm. They've been recording parody songs and uploading them to YouTube.

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Remote Schooling

Behind the News 

For most kids going back to school is an exciting or maybe nervous time. But for the kids in this next story, it's not a big deal they're only going a few metres from home. Here's Elke, Riley and Livia with their report on what it's like going back to school of the air.

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Social Media Agreements

Behind the News 

A new survey has found 53% of kids aged between 8 and 13 use Instagram even though you are not actually allowed to until after you turn 13. That rule is just one of many written in most social media sites' terms and conditions - that huge document that you have to say you've read before you can sign up. But what else is in there? Well, experts say most terms and conditions pages are way too complex for kids to understand, so they're campaigning for a change.

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Hijab Day

Behind the News 

In the lead up to Australia Day this year there was a fair bit of controversy around a billboard featuring two young girls in hijabs. Recently it was World Hijab Day so we asked Rookie Reporter, Itrat to tell us what a hijab actually is and why she wears one.

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Executive Orders

Behind the News 

In the weeks since Donald Trump's inauguration, many of his decisions have made headlines around the world. But how has he been able to change so much so quickly? Doesn't he have to get the approval of a parliament like our leader does? Well as it turns out he's got a power that our PM doesn't have.

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Overtime? Game Day ads are still in play on YouTube

YouTube Blog 

The confetti has hit the field. We all went Gaga. The Pats have come out victorious.

While you may not have seen that coming, we’ve seen our highest ever watch time during the game, with more than 350K hours spent watching Big Game ads, marking over 15 percent year-over year-growth. If your Game Day party was anything like ours, mobile also played a huge role - 70 percent of this watch time came from mobile devices. And this is just the beginning.

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Review: 'The Marches' by Rory Stewart

JournalStar.com 

“The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland” by Rory Stewart, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 344 pages, $27

Husker Extra live chat with Steven M. Sipple, 1:30 p.m.

JournalStar.com 

We're to the maw that is February for Husker football. But there's hoops, offseason recruiting and coaching vacancies to talk so bring your questions to Steve Sipple's weekly chat, 1:30 p.m. Monday.

Today in Korean history

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

Feb. 7 1964 -- South Korea and Kenya forge diplomatic ties. 1992 -- South Korea and Turkmenistan forge diplomatic ties. 1999 -- South Korea inks investment treaty with Israel. 2009 -- South Korea's Kim Yu-na wins the women's s





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