WhatsApp users will no longer have to share phone numbers to exchange messages as part of the latest update to the service. Instead, people will be able to pick unique usernames to chat with others.

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A maniac charged with shoving a 64-year-old painter onto the subway tracks at a Queens station was sent to jail Saturday as prosecutors revealed the victim suffered a head wound that required four ...