A veterinary clinic in Texas allegedly convinced a family to euthanize their 5-year-old Leonberger for health reasons, only to secretly keep the dog alive in a feces-covered cage for six months for blood transfusions.

In 2012, a New York woman shopping for shoes found a disturbing note in her Saks Fifth Avenue bag. Someone claiming to be a worker imprisoned in a Chinese factory told a story of 13-hour days and being treated "like slaves," pleading for "HELP HELP HELP." Now the man behind that letter has been found.

Your college professors are racist and sexist as all get-out, says science.

First things first: The crime that brought Clayton Lockett to Oklahoma's death chamber did not present a hard case, as violent murders go. Lockett was sentenced to death almost 15 years ago for the murder of 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman, who he shot and then, with friends, buried alive off a country road. His guilt was not in dispute in his final set of appeals. The arguments were all focussed on the way he was going to die, about the sources and kinds of drugs that were going to kill him.

This is the Tonight Show in 2014, in which we learn that Annie Hall either doesn't know or just doesn't care how beer pong works.

India's Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi displays the victory symbol to supporters after casting his vote in Ahmadabad, India, on Wednesday. Image via Ajit Solanki/AP.

The Montana Supreme Court has ordered a resentencing for the former high school teacher who served just one month after being convicted of raping a 14-year-old student. The rapist, who has been free since last fall, will receive a new sentence from a different judge in accordance with the state's sentencing guidelines.

Earlier this week, the Seattle Police Department released a never-before-seen note taken from Kurt Cobain's wallet at his suicide scene. The note, presumably written by Cobain, mocks his wife, Courtney Love, calling her a "siphon" and a "bitch with zits."

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Amazon is the future of retail, so it's always useful to hear from real live Amazon warehouse workers about what their jobs are really like. Today: one worker details just how much Amazon values its own time over that of its employees.

Say you're an embattled conservative governor in Florida. Say you want to go out and glad-hand with voters who hate Obamacare as much as you do. What's the stupidest place to do that? How about a senior center in South Florida, where Barack Obama won in 2012 by half a million votes?

Toronto residents asked their public library to remove six books and a DVD over the past year, and one of those books was Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop. The classic rhyming tale of fatherhood and saltation was accused of putting pops at risk of being actually hopped on.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has granted the state's request for a stay on a county judge's decision to void a new voter ID law. Arkansas and the Pulaski County Election Commission have until Friday to present their appeal in favor of the restrictions.

A couple that leapt to their deaths from the George Washington Bridge on Monday allegedly murdered a man in Suffern, N.Y. just before their joint suicide.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the military to review its standards on grooming, in light of the confusion over new limits on hairstyles traditionally preferred by black women. The updated standard, the New York Times reports, "implies that there is something wrong with black women's natural hair."

The Arctic, located at the top your globes, is a very cold place covered in snow and ice. For now. But not for long. There are plenty of business people already making plans to industrialize the hell out of this frozen wasteland.

In Mooney's Bay Park, to be precise. Wait, why are you laughing?

A webseries about tiny hamsters would already be better than the vast majority of reality TV programming available today, but, like some kind of YouTube Steve Jobs, the creators of Tiny Hamsters Eating Tiny Burritos also provide you with BOOM! One more thing. And that thing is tiny burritos.

Why hasn’t Shepard Smith come out yet? The affable Fox News anchor has a longtime boyfriend, ranks among Fox’s most senior talent, and lives in New York City. It could be, of course, that he’s just a very private person, or—as the Times argued in October—that public attitudes have changed and nobody cares if a famous figure is gay.