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Terrifying? Inevitable? Harbinger? In any case, it’s a first: Police in Long Island, New York, have arrested a man for not using Twitter. Someone named Justin Bieber, who apparently is a teenage singer, was supposed to appear at the Roosevelt Field mall on Friday, but stayed away because the crowd had become too unruly. Police asked a record label executive to help disperse the horde using the messaging service, and claim he didn’t cooperate.

A high-level U.S. executive who was kidnapped after crossing the border managed to escape yesterday after grabbing a revolver while two kidnappers were dozing. Yong Hak Kim, a U.S. citizen who was born in South Korea, locked his abductors in a bathroom of the house where he was being held and ran outside for help, Mexican authorities said. Kim was picked up by police after a resident called authorities to report a street disturbance. Hours later, as he was en route to the United States, Mexican authorities announced the detention of five suspects in connection with the Thursday morning kidnapping....