IPhone5s with I.O.S 8.1 won't update or install apps.

I have googled and looked around for hours. My apps won't update or in stall. Everything just freezes!
I did a reset about 15 times, turned off auto update, don't have the WSJ app, I went through the purchases tab, i deleted half the apps (20 of 60) and still nothing.
Any thoughts?

This is frustrating. I deleted the WSJ app and now everything is working again. Great! Except it doesn't make sense and makes troubleshooting in the future difficult, especially for those that don't even have the WSJ (Newsstand) app installed. For those that come to this thread, here are the issues I was experiencing in case it helps: iPhone 6, iOS 8.1
1) I don't know of any changes, new installations, etc., but during the day yesterday while out and about, I noticed my Paper app (made by Facebook) stopped loading correctly. It would freeze on the last screen that was working a few minutes before, crash (go back to home screen), then upon reloading be blank and forever loading data/syncing animation.
2) Newly purchased apps on my iPad Air 2 had downloaded fine there, but my iPhone 6 with the issue in question (which has auto-download turned on for new apps) had the icons but wasn't downloading.
3) This is when I started noticing that no updates would start downloading in the App Store, and a number of apps wouldn't load anymore (either would hang at their respective startup screens or crash and go back to home screen): Paper (by Facebook, but the normal Facebook app worked fine), Evernote, Evernote's extension when trying to save to Evernote from other apps, Yelp. I don't know if there were others (I have over 200 apps installed), but plenty others worked fine. It was bizarre.
Solutions tried:
1) Restarting phone: issues persisted.
2) 2-button forced restart: issues persisted.
3) Force quitting all apps (double click home button then swipe up every open/running app), power cycled phone (held down sleep/wake button then slid red slider/X): issues persisted.
4) Signing out of iTunes/App Store account, restarting, then signing back in.
5) Signing out of iTunes/App Store account,, 2-button forced reset of iPhone 6, then signing back in. Same issues persisted.
6) Sliding down the for top for notification center, slid to the side for Today view, and removed all widget extensions (hoping maybe something would reset): issues persisted.
7) Cleared all notifications from Notification Center: issues persisted.
8) Deleted Evernote app (one of the apps that wasn't loading anymore and would only crash and go back to home screen), stopped all other apps in App Store trying to update or download, restarted phone, then tried downloading Evernote: wouldn't download just like the rest.
8) I gave up and was about to restore from backup next, when I decided to check Google and found this forum. I deleted the WSJ (Newsstand) app, power cycled (restarted) phone, and voila! Everything now works fine (app purchases download, app updates download, Yelp now works, Paper (Facebook) now works, Evernote now works). What gives?!?

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