America sent its manufacturing to China, but the pollution is "coming back to haunt us," according to a new study. The jobs and economic growth remain on the other side of the Pacific. This seems like a pretty bad deal, overall.

[A pedestrian walks through a snow storm on Tuesday in south Philadelphia. The National Weather Service said the storm could bring 8 to 12 inches of snow to Philadelphia and New York City, and more than a foot in Boston. Image via AP/Matt Slocum.]

Are you a renter? This means, in a technical sense, that you give someone else money in order to stay in their apartment. Feel like you want to do some expensive renovations? Stop right there!

During Sunday's NFC Championship game, a man and his brother argued over who could drink the last can of Pepsi. One thing led to another, and one brother repeatedly stabbed the other and struck him in the head with a metal pipe.

Yesterday, Esquire's culture blog posted a review of the new HBO show that is just like your life or your friend's life or the life of that guy in your office whose shoes are always just a little nicer than they have to be, Looking. In "A Straight Man's Guide to HBO's Looking," writer Mick Stingley determines that the show about a handful of weed-paced gay friends in San Francisco "commits the heinous sin of being gay and boring." Stingley's bio that follows his piece states that he "loves Tom Wolfe and rock and roll and lives with his fiancée in Queens." He seems to have a lot in common with those gay guys on the show with the exception of the gay thing. Boring is the universal human experience.

"Shapewear" makes you look shapely. Allegedly. It definitely makes you feel shapely, because it squeezes the bejeezus out of your vital organs. Science now says that this pressure is potentially hazardous to your health. But hey, you'll leave a svelte-looking corpse, right?

A DNA test on human remains found in Queens confirms that they are Avonte Oquendo's. The autistic teenager went missing from his school in October.

Godspeed, Senator. Huggies from all the staff here. You're gonna have to press a lot of flesh, but we all believe in your quest to pamper the hard-working citizens of Louisiana. Oh and don't forget to stay away from hookers.

One person was killed today during a shooting at the electrical engineering building at Purdue University. Police arrested a suspect at the scene.

A man fishing on the beach alone at Point Reyes National Seashore was swept out to sea and killed on Monday. Witnesses said the fisherman was trying to retrieve his ice chest, which was pulled off the beach by the surf.

Pictured above is Dasha Zhukova, the 32-year-old wife of a Russian oil billionaire and BFF of Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng, lounging on a “fetish chair” featuring a contorted dummy made to look like a half-naked black woman. A Russian fashion magazine posted the photo on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but quickly deleted it from its website and Instagram.

When your government goes medieval on you, it's time to get medieval back.

Meet Didga, a cat from Australia (do not hold that against him) who is also an expert skateboarder. Watch as Didga rides his skateboard—which has a name (Ollie) for some reason—all around his hometown, jumping over and onto things like: a bench, a sidewalk, a tree, and even a Rottweiler! Not bad (for a cat).

Texting, women's lib, a culture of "hook-ups"... it can be hard to navigate the dating world these days. A new survey of singles shows that almost 70% "are at least somewhat confused about whether an outing with someone they're interested in is a date or not." I think we can help provide clarity.

Nobody dunks like the First Lady. Not even the Miami Heat, who visited the White House recently to talk about how to eat right and stay fit. Don't you talk about the best, or I'm going to shut it for you real quick.

College is a time for exposure to different cultures, tastes, points of view. It's a great opportunity to put yourself in another's shoes. Let's go back to college now, and try to understand where Arizona State's Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter was coming from when it threw this "MLK Black Party."

[An elderly woman walks from police officers as they block a street during unrest in central Kiev, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Image via AP/Sergei Chuzavkov.]

The past year brought seemingly endless revelations about the mind-blowing extent of the NSA's spying on all of us. Last week, the president finally gave a speech about reforming the NSA. Nobody listened to it.

Joshua Black is a Republican ex-street preacher running for a Tampa Bay-area seat in the Florida House. He loves to tweet and Facebook about his fantasy of executing the president for treason. With a noose, of course.

A police chief accidentally shot himself in the leg at a gun store on Saturday. Somewhat amazingly, this is the second time the chief has suffered an inadvertent self-inflicted gunshot wound; 15 years ago he shot himself in the hand while cleaning his service weapon.