The nation’s first recreational pot industry opened in Colorado Wednesday, kicking off an experiment that will be followed closely around the world and one that activists hope will prove that legalization is a better alternative than the costly American-led drug war. Business owners who threw their doors open for shoppers at 8 a.m. are looking for the fledgling industry to …

Tom Cruise is reportedly buying his daughter a $US13.5 million ($16 million) mansion for Christmas. Suri Cruise, Tom’s daughter with ex-wife Katie Holmes, will celebrate her first Christmas since her parents’ divorce earlier this year with her very own New York City mansion and a pony.

It was a good year for ‘Yeezus.’ Kanye West‘s tour raked in $25 million in 2013, making it the highest-grossing hip-hop tour of the year. Billboard shares that the Yeezus tour took in $25,213,875. The top grossing date was New York City’s Madison Square Garden with more than $3 million in sales while Kanye’s most attended show came from Toronto …

As MTV reports, Taylor is hoping to surprise Harry (BY THE WAY Harry Styles STOP READING THIS RIGHT NOW) by purchasing some merchandise from his idols, and is going to spend big to get it. “Harry spent £900 on Taylor for her recent birthday, and now she wants to repay the favour,” a source told the Daily Star. “She’s been …

Naya Rivera was dressed down in a black sweater, black sweatpants, and Nike sneakers in Los Angeles on Sunday. But the 26-year-old didn’t forget to add a little glam – the massive diamond engagement ring and matching necklace from her hip hop artist fiancé, Big Sean. The Glee star was seen on a casual coffee run, strolling in a relaxed …

I have been waiting all year to see what Kanye West would give Kim Kardashian for Christmas, and I didn’t even know it until Kim Instagrammed a picture this morning and I thought, “I’ve been waiting my whole life to see that.” Because Kanye West gave Kim Kardashian a gigantic Hermès Birkin covered in naked women.

Kathy Griffin sent Anderson Cooper, who she will be co-hosting CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” a topless photo of herself as a little preview of what her outfit choice may be on air.

Patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease were able to care for themselves longer and needed less help performing everyday chores when they took a daily capsule containing 200 IUs of alpha tocopherol, or vitamin E, a study has found. Compared with subjects who took placebo pills, those who took daily supplements of the antioxidant vitamin E and were followed …

After an up-and-down rookie season that was capped off with a strong finish, the New York Jets haven’t fully committed to Geno Smith being the team’s quarterback for the 2014 season. NFL.com reports that general manager John Idzik noted at the eteam’s end-of-season news conference that Smith may not be the Jets answer going forward.

Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today’s forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.

Firefighters and police in Minneapolis are looking a report of an explosion at a building in the city, which injured several people. NBC affiliate KARE-TV says that there are few details at this time, but emergency official Robert Ball from Hennepin EMS told the station that as many as a dozen people have been injured, with injuries ranging from burns …