This plastic shopping bag is filled with weed. Not just any weed: North Korean weed.

The most widely circulated anti-shutdown tweet to date got a "dramatic reading" on the House floor late last week, courtesy of Congressman Mike Doyle (D-PA).

Last week, California criminalized revenge porn. Now, New York state legislators are proposing a bill that would also target people who distribute nude photos of others without their consent. Unlike California's law, which can only be used to prosecute individuals who personally took naked photos of someone else and then disseminated the images against the subjects' will, New York's proposition would theoretically apply to making sexually explicit self-portraits public.

During last night's episode of Once Upon a Time, ABC picked a very curious time to remind its viewers of the show's upcoming spin-off, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.

It's a question that has plagued the minds of young children since time immemorial: Who is quieter — a Navy SEAL or a Ninja?

Two Americans and a German-born researcher won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. James Rothman, Randy Schenkman and Thomas Suedhof, all of whom work at U.S. universities, were awarded the prize for their discoveries on how hormones, enzymes, and other substances move within cells.

Two bikers who allegedly attacked an SUV driver last week were arraigned over the weekend as new information – including a report that as many as six NYPD officers were among the group of motorcyclists – emerged about the incident.

This past Saturday, residents of Newtown, Connecticut voted overwhelmingly in favor of accepting a $49.25 million state appropriation that will allow the city to demolish Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of last December's horrific mass shooting, and build a new school on the same grounds.

On ABC's This Week, House Speaker John Boehner warned that the nation is headed for default if President Obama doesn't start negotiating with Republicans soon. And if Obama does want to negotiate? “He knows what my phone number is," said Boehner. "All he has to do is call.”

After the giant wooden pink pony he built was stolen from a public park near his house, artist Thomas Dambo of Denmark embarked on an extensive, civilized journey to track it down. Which is refreshing considering the fact that in the United States, we just shoot people who steal stuff.

In an interview with New York magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sat down with Jennifer Senior and shared his feelings about words, women, homosexuals, the Devil, Jesus, and Claire Danes.

The season’s grossest drink continues to torment its faithful consumers. Not only is the Pumpkin Spice Latte not vegan, it’s also a big fat liar: your 400-calorie no-whip Venti PSL doesn’t actually contain any pumpkin.

It might be the number one movie this weekend, but the Gravity is full of crap. Or so says Neil de Grasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist and Reddit deity.

A 69-year-old pantsless masturbating Florida man couldn’t keep his hands to himself as he went through a McDonald’s drive-thru in Wildwood, Florida.

The destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal officially began on Sunday. A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons oversaw Syrian personnel use cutting torches and disc saws to “destroy and disable a range of items, including missile warheads, aerial bombs, and mixing and filling equipment.”

Gravity took in $55.6 million this weekend, making the film's first weekend the highest October haul of all time, and the biggest opening ever for co-stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

With a good amount of its staff furloughed, the Transportation Security Agency wasn't able to catch a 9-year-old boy who boarded a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas without a ticket.

When New York's favorite prostitute-and-black-sock-loving former governor struck out in his bid for comptroller, there were any number of reasons (see: prostitute-and-black-sock-loving) to blame for his loss. Turns out, it involved Terry Richardson, Lena Dunham, and a sleeveless white Dior dress.

A grandfather in the United Kingdom picked up a child from a Kent school and took her to a doctor's appointment, then returned her to school later that day. Sounds like a heartwarming afternoon. Except that it was the wrong kid altogether.