A female politician who was legitimately elected "first alternate member" of the city council in Qazvin, Iran, was denied her right to sit among the other representatives because she was deemed "too sexy" by the conservative election review board.

And they would have gotten away with it too, if the dog hadn't started barking.

With Washington's marijuana legalization initiative still in the process of taking effect, police in the state's largest city are doing their part to educate partakers — by doling out hundreds of bags of Doritos at Seattle's annual Hempfest.

The impression that his owner was in peril was enough motivation for this overly protective pit bull to freak out and rush into the lake after him.

Thousands are injured across Egypt, and at least 638 are dead, after a vicious crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins by the Egyptian Army—the third such mass killing since President Mohamed Morsi was removed from power by the military, and the worst by far.

New information emerged Wednesday about the mysterious murder of an Orlando-area CrossFit gym owner. Monday evening, a gunman walked into the CrossFit Mosaic in Winter Garden, Florida and fatally shot 33-year-old Richard Millsap.

A young Toronto-area mechanic learned a valuable lesson Tuesday when he asked his Twitter followers to deliver a “20 sac chop” of marijuana to his workplace. The York Regional Police spotted the request and tweeted “Awesome" in response, setting off a chain of thousands of retweets that eventually led to the young mechanic's firing.

Anthony Stokes, the Georgia teenager denied a heart transplant because of his “history of non-compliance,” has been moved to the top of the donor's list at his Atlanta-area hospital, according to Stokes' family.

Inspired by a 1986 Smiths gig poster that features a ponderous Charlie Brown, Bay Area graphic designer Lauren LoPrete decided to see what would happen if she combined other Morrissey-penned lyrics with random panels from Peanuts comic strips.

Early this morning, the New York Times unveiled a 2,878-word, A1 investigation into the Clinton Foundation, the eponymous philanthropic arm of the Clinton family’s equally unquenchable ambitions. “PAPER TAKES DOWN CLINTON FOUNDATION,” Drudge trumpeted; “devastating,” The Telegraph gasped. Uh, but: the piece doesn’t seem to have much of a point. Is the Times trying to say something it can’t print?

NYU President John Sexton, who oversaw the school’s underfunded expansion into the United Arab Emirates and China (and even more of lower Manhattan), will step down in 2016. No word on whether he’ll have to relinquish his subsidized Fire Island beach house.

With the recent expansion of its breakfast taco test to dozens of restaurants nationwide, and with the chicken and waffle craze reaching peak hype thanks to Popeyes Chicken Waffle Tenders and Frito Lay's re-introduced Chicken & Waffles-flavored potato chips, it was only a matter of time before Taco Bell put its hands together and came up with the Chicken & Waffle Taco.

On the last day of his sentencing hearing, Bradley Manning, the Army private convicted of espionage last month, apologized for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks, telling the court that his actions "hurt the United States."

On the left: a courtroom sketch of Real Housewife of New Jersey Teresa Giudice and her husband Real Guy Who Lives in New Jersey Joe Giudice, drawn by artist Shirley Shepard as the two pled not guilty to federal fraud charges Wednesday. On the right: a flesh sketch of two humans, drawn by God on a day when he was "all thumbs," as they appeared in real life.

With all of the Portlandia-style hipster jokes emanating from the Pacific Northwest, it's easy to forget that the region is lousy with far-right lunatics. Case in point: A flyer being distributed around Portland neighborhoods threatening to post the names of people who receive government disability benefits.

Turns out that big Al Qaeda conference call that scared everyone was actually posts on a Jihadi forum.

“People are changing their behavior to protect themselves...They don’t wear rainbow pins anymore, they don’t hold hands outside.” This series of mini-profiles of gay people living in anti-gay Russia is essential reading.

On every box of Papa John's pizza, founder and CEO John Schnatter recounts his ongoing mission to "build a better pizza" using "the highest quality ingredients available - like fresh, never frozen original dough, all-natural sauce, veggies sliced fresh daily and 100 percent real beef and pork."

One piece of information that your neurons probably never fire about is that Kelly Clarkson is worth a million billion dollars. She may seem like just a girl you went to high school with who later became a hairdresser, or your rural cousin's girlfriend who already has a 2-year-old named Braylee from a previous relationship, but know this: Kelly Clarkson has enough money to have you killed and then pay to "make it go away" six times over.