The Newspaper Guild, a union that represents hundreds of editorial employees at Time Inc., says that contract negotiations with the company have broken down after the company stood firm on its demands for the right to outsource union jobs.

A peacekeeping meeting between New York's finest and a few of the city's most hardened criminals took place this week, not in a shadowy alley or the smoky back room of a bar, but out in the open, in Times Square. On one side: the police, trying to talk sense into the monsters. On the other: Spider-Man, Papa Smurf, and Captain America, looking bored as hell.

In 2010, a teacher's aide and the assistant principal at Sparkman Middle School in Huntsville, Alabama carried out a plan to use a special needs student—a 14-year-old girl—as "bait" to catch another special needs student who was sexually violent. The plan failed, and the 14-year-old girl was raped in the school's bathroom. Earlier this year, that assistant principal got promoted.

Although to you the idea of buying a home may seem like a fuzzy, faraway dream, the numbers show that thousands of young people just like you are in fact doing just that. What is their secret?

Jack thought he was living every dork's dream. After sleeping outside of an Apple Store in Perth, Australia, he was the first to purchase an iPhone 6, landing him an unboxing interview on Today. The dream turned to nightmare, though, when poor old Jack pretty much immediately dropped that thing on the ground.

If you've felt a bit sweaty lately, it may be because our planet officially just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history. We must end global warming. But not before it reaches New York City for a while, because the summer here was cold as hell.

With 55.3 percent of the vote, Scots have voted against a referendum to declare the country's independence from the United Kingdom. The Guardian reports unprecedented voter turnout, with some councils reporting 90 percent of their residents having voted. In total, more than 3.6 million people—or 84.6 percent of eligible voters—cast ballots.

Police officers gather at the funeral for Pennsylvania State Trooper Cpl. Bryon Dickson in Scranton, Pa., Thursday. Dickson was shot and killed last Friday walking to his car outside the state police barracks. His alleged killer, Eric Matthew Frein, remains at large. [Photo by Matt Slocum via AP]

Svitlana Sangary is in danger of having her California State Bar license suspended following accusations that she posted a series of fake photos of herself posing with celebrities and public officials—including Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian, the Clintons, George Clooney, and Donald Trump—to her professional website. The photos were apparently Photoshopped, and they're pretty good!

Two adults and six children were killed in a shooting in Bell, Fla. this evening, Gilchrist County police confirm. The town, about 30 miles west of Gainesville, Fox Orlando reports, is home to about 350 people.

Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix told Hit the Floor magazine a bunch of his "firsts": his first pet (Banooch, who ran out into the road and was hit by a car and died), when he first felt his band had "made it," and most importantly, his first kiss.

Police in Grand Prairie, Texas are currently in a standoff with an allegedly armed man who is sending live updates to Whisper, the anonymous secret sharing app. In one message, the user claims, "I am going to die today."

Rob Ford released an audio statement from the hospital today where he is prepared to undergo chemotherapy for a "rare" malignant tumor in his abdomen. He doesn't sound great. Ford urges the people of Toronto, however, to vote for his brother Doug for mayor.

Eight Ebola health officials in Guinea—five health workers and three journalists—were found dead this afternoon in a village latrine in the Nzerekore region. Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, told Reuters, "Three of them had their throats slit." The health team went missing Tuesday after villagers threw rocks at them.

If your lock gets cut and your bike disappears in midtown Manhattan, you should call the cops. Not because you need to report the crime—because there's a good chance the cops stole the bike themselves.

The six young Iranians arrested for dancing to Pharrell's "Happy" in a viral video were sentenced today to six months in prison. They will each receive 91 lashes while there, according to CNN.

I've never been particularly good a having a "traditional" job—a byproduct, perhaps, of a lenient upbringing, attendance at a magnet high school for the arts, my birth as an American, and then a variety of other luck and circumstance that has permitted me to be at times fickle, but more often or at least most simply stated: Unlikely to keep a job.

Police are searching for a man who was seen putting his arm around Hannah Graham—the missing University of Virginia student—on the night of her disappearance. Surveillance footage released this morning shows a different man who appears to be following her as she walks around Charlottesville. That man has come forward to police.

With help from anonymous Twitter users, Philadelphia law enforcement is closing in on the group of young people who beat up a gay couple on the street last Thursday. One of the suspects, an assistant coach at the Archbishop Wood Catholic school, quit his job today. The diocese announced the news, adding that "violence against anyone" is "inexcusable."

Lots going on in Miley Cyrus' life right now. She's become a visual artist (gluing weed to vibrators). She's got these unicorn pajamas. And she's being investigated by the Mexican interior ministry after her dancers whipped her fake ass with the country's flag during a concert in Monterrey.