A naked man with "superhuman strength" was shot to death Tuesday night after assaulting a former police officer and biting part of a teenager's face off.

Three more Washington Post staffers—Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff, and Max Fisher—are leaving the paper for Ezra Klein’s forthcoming news website at Vox Media. The trio join former Post staffers Dylan Matthews and Melissa Bell, who followed Klein to Vox in January.

Those creepy Facebook "Look Back" ads that were going around yesterday, where the data-mining concern auto-generated moving short films of your life on Facebook? This is Rob Ford's, probably.

New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson, who is in the midst of re-imagining the newspaper he runs for the digital era, has apologized for the "failure of an expensive digital project" that cost his prior employer, the BBC, $160 million. At least he didn't lie to Parliament about it!

If it happens, this will be a shitshow: Noted child killer George Zimmerman is reportedly set to fight America's number one wedding rapper DMX in a celebrity boxing match later this year.

For reasons unfathomable to mortal man, the United States is unable to secure a supply of drugs to use to lethally inject into its own citizens. Therefore, one of our states may now bring back the electric chair as a mandatory punishment. The year is 2014.

Life is maddening and dull. People are treacherous. It is impossible to have any peace without being lonesome. Our species fell into a trap of words and routines. William S. Burroughs was born a century ago today, made many detailed complaints to the Management, and died in 1997.

In December The Daily Mail reported that News Corp billionaire Rupert Murdoch had divorced his third wife, Wendi Deng, over some kind of “intimate note” indicating Deng’s crush on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Today Vanity Fair published a portion of the impassioned letter:

Today, the New York Post ran a short item about Ashanti's Twitter stalker. As ridiculous as that sentence is, it's not the most ridiculous aspect of the piece. No, it's that in the headline, Ashanti was misidentified as "RiRi," which is Rihanna's nickname. Apparently, the New York Post thinks all black male R&B singers are rappers, and all black female R&B singers are Rihanna.

Between the ice storm and the Super Bowl, this week will go down in history as the worst week for tri-state commuters of all time. Early this morning, a wintry mix the likes of which has not been seen since last year hit New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island.

The good news: underwater homeowners are getting $1.5 billion in debt relief. The bad news: the government is taxing that money as income. "Happy debt relief. Here's some more debt."

According to an official report obtained by NBC News, there was so much marijuana smoke in Justin Bieber's Super Bowl-bound plane that pilots were forced to wear oxygen masks. The report also states that Bieber and his father were "extremely abusive" to a flight attendant.

Are you single? Searching for love? Do not look in America, whatever you do, unless you like watching Netflix while eating fast food and not getting laid.

American Idol maven and auburn-haired Broadway crooner Clay Aiken thinks "Washington is dysfunctional." So he'd like to be a congressman and fix all that now, please, thank you very much.

Late Tuesday night, the NYPD raided an apartment in Manhattan in connection with Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday. Police arrested two suspected heroin dealers and two others who happened to be at the apartment.

As many as 800,000 customers are without power from Maryland to Connecticut as a major ice storm bears down on the mid-Atlantic.

Vivek Murthy has three Ivy degrees and teaches at Harvard Medical School. He's likely the next surgeon general of the United States. He's an Indian-American. And in this video from his confirmation hearing yesterday, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) wants him to know that his people are just wonderful!

Last night, Bill "The Science Guy" Nye debated Ken Ham, a noted creationist, over the question: "How did we get here?" The debate, which took place at Ham's Creation Museum in Kentucky, lasted nearly two and a half hours and went about exactly as you'd expect.

Finally ending its quest to be the "cool" pharmacy, CVS announced on Wednesday that its stores will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products by October 1. The move will cost the chain an estimated $2 billion per year, though, in the long term, the company stands to make more by banning tobacco sales.

After retiring from writing novels in 2012, Philip Roth has felt "no desire to write fiction," he says in a new interview. Having taken up swimming, music, and appreciating nature, he has "barely time left for a continuing preoccupation with aging, writing, sex, and death." It's difficult to make room for all your hobbies.