Two police officers in Baltimore have been suspended after authorities say they slit the throat of a Shar-Pei that had broken free from her owner's backyard and that had reportedly bitten a stranger. The dog, Nala, was seven years old.

In order to avoid going to the dentist, a 12-year-old boy (a 12-year-old dentist avoiding hero) in France ran away and, when found, created a detailed kidnapping story. Police looked for his kidnapper for an entire month.

This story has been updated to reflect the fight happened at Solo's sister's home and not her's.

Sesame Street has built up a good history of sweetly spoofing shows that young children would—hopefully—never watch in order to teach them life lessons, and builds upon that with its most recent: True Mud.

Police in Macau have raided two illegal gambling rings that have yielded million dollars of bets related to this year's World Cup tournament. Officers arrested 26 in two raids on a hotel in the Chinese city, apprehending bookmakers who had been taking bets online and on the phone from across the world.

Last week, Dave Chappelle spoke about his first encounter with Kanye West—whose life is dope, and who does dope shit—on the Tonight Show, in an appearance to promote his upcoming shows at Radio City Music Hall. Last night, his Radio City audience was treated to a surprise performance from Kanye himself.

A Canadian woman who parked her car in the left lane of a highway to help ducks by the side of the road has been charged with two counts of criminal negligence and dangerous driving causing death after a motorist crashed into her car, resulting in the death of the driver and his 16-year-old daughter.

Pope Francis, the cool pope who still has some uncool policies, is in Cassano all'Ionio this Saturday to speak on the endemic problem of mafia violence in Italy. After the pope announced his reform agenda last year, an anti-mob prosecutor said Pope Francis might be under threat of attack by the mafia.

Peanut, a 2-year-old mutt, competed against 29 other garbage dump dogs to win the coveted title of the Sonoma-Marin Fair's "World's Ugliest Dog." Congratulations, Peanut! You little monster!

Gordon Lish, for those of you who do not follow literary gossip, was a famous editor in the 1970s and 1980s. Nowadays, he is primarily remembered as Raymond Carver's editor, whose short stories he shaved down to knife-edge minimalism. For no apparent reason at all, Newsweek just profiled Lish. He's a bit of a hater, it turns out.

When we last checked in with Frostie the Snow Goat, the little guy was fighting off a serious infection that had robbed him of the use of his back legs. His rescuers at Australia's Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary hoped that by getting mobile with the help of a wheelcart, he'd one day walk again.

People fear showing themselves in public without clothes. But why? Can you imagine if horses did the same thing? Horses with clothes... the hooved folly.

Circa, a news app, has opinions about how news should be covered, and contributing editor Evan Buxbaum has taken to Medium to explain them. It's quite an explanation:

Editor's Note 6/24: On Sunday, the writer Kris Ex called our attention to several similarities between this post and an article by Kyle Munzenrieder in the Miami New Times, located here—specifically, several similar phrasings, one outright identical phrase, and a close structural similarity. The New Times article was not linked to or cited in any way.

Even an unscientific ESPN poll tells an enduring truth sometimes. Apparently the only places where a majority of hypothetical Washington NFL fans really couldn't brook a hypothetical name change for the team are the deep South and Utah. Maybe that changes if we leave a link to the poll here.

Since taking Mosul earlier this month, the Islamic militant group ISIS has robbed banks, committed mass executions, and burned oil refineries as Iraq slides closer and closer to all-out war. According to NYPD counterterrorism chief John Miller, New Yorkers and other Americans are marching in their ranks.

We have brought you quite a few firsthand accounts of the misery of working for Amazon at all levels, from the corporate offices to the warehouses. Today, we bring you tales of woe from the people who answer Amazon's customer service calls.

Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, who was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate and pleaded guilty in March to having improper relationships with two other Army women, will retire honorably in the next few weeks at the reduced rank of lieutenant colonel, according to an Army spokesman.

Summer is hot, which makes it prime time for two things: popsicles and anger. That they will, on occasion, combine and combust in popsicle-related crime is perhaps inevitable.

The venerable St. Louis Post-Dispatch dropped George Will's column after the opprobrium heaped on his latest musings on nonconsensual touching. But he will not be silenced after this violation by the Twittocracy. Victims must speak out. Here's George Will taking back the night.