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- The FDNY is getting criticized for sending a cadet who couldn't pass her fitness tests out into the field.
- Investigators say they've found the culprit who was leaving creepy porcelain dolls outside young girls' houses in California.
- Another day, another New York landlord accused of trying to push out rent-stabilized tenants.
- Here is an interview with the CEO behind everybody's favorite embattled ride-share app, Lyft.
- Huh, Hoboken is apparently one of the 10 snobbiest cities in the country.
- Someone in Congress described Donald Rumsfeld as an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies” on his Wikipedia page.
- Americans are one step closer to getting unlocked cell phones.
- A reddit user’s 96-year-old grandfather is telling World War 2 stories in an AMA thread.
- And finally, a baby elephant meets a cat:

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