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Around 270 firefighters and emergency medical services personnel were working to contain a seven-alarm fire on the New York City waterfront Saturday.
The blaze, which engulfed a storage building in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, cast thick, black smoke across the New York City skyline.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Police in San Francisco have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the case of a suitcase discovered earlier this week containing a headless human torso, plus other body parts in surrounding blocks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The White House said on Friday that parents should be “listening to our public health officials,” who urge vaccinations against measles, as it emerged the disease has now infected more than 100 people in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

More than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles are being recalled for faulty air bags that may inflate while the car is running.
The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Avalon models made in the early 2000s.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Remember checking in to places on Foursquare? Of course you do. At the peak of its hype around 2012, the app boasted more than 20 million users and billions of check-ins.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Departing defense secretary Chuck Hagel said it’s possible the United States may need to send non-combat ground troops to Iraq to help deter the Islamic State.
Hagel, who resigned as Pentagon chief on Nov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

They come in all varieties. There are micromanagers and bloviators. There are delegators and relegators and benevolent despots. Kiss-ups and kick-downs. There are authentic leaders and natural born chiefs. Name a workforce and, almost by definition, there is a boss.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Italian lawmakers elected Sergio Mattarella, a Constitutional Court justice widely considered to be above the political fray, as the nation’s new president on the third day of voting Saturday.
Mattarella’s election as head of state was clinched when he amassed 505 votes — a simple majority.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Stacy Krantiz’s photographic series From the Study on Post-Pubescent Manhood is an intense, visceral and unglamorized engagement with a raw and elementary, almost primeval, world of adolescence—where young testosterone, adrenaline, and substance-fueled males partake in the recreational rituals of coming of age, while living life on the edge.

People have been talking about Bruce Jenner’s changing appearance for months, and now PEOPLE reports that the former Olympian will soon be living life as a female.
“Bruce is transitioning to a woman,” says a source close to the family.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share