Singer Jessica Simpson is happier than ever before after losing a little over 20kg. Simpson, due to marry her fiance Eric Johnson this year, said that she had lost confidence after she gained weight post her first pregnancy.

Kim isn’t the only Kardashian planning a wedding! Sources close to Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick tell Life & Style the pair are focused on finally tying the knot – by eloping to Mexico!

“American Beauty” actress Annette Bening said having her photo taken for Vanity Fair without any makeup was “a thrill.” During an appearance on “Live! With Kelly and Michael,” Bening said she enjoyed the “raw portraits” taken by painter and photographer Chuck Close.

For the first time ever, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business today (March 5) confirmed that he had stripped a 2003 graduate of his MBA degree because he was admitted to the school’s MBA program under “false pretenses.” The decision to nullify the degree of hedge fund trader Mathew Martoma follows his conviction last month of insider trading charges. “Martoma …

Yesterday, a 100 foot-wide asteroid flew by Earth slightly closer than the moon at 217,000 miles away. It turns out it wasn’t alone, though, and an asteroid about the size of a bus will hurtle by today. It might be much smaller, but today’s asteroid, 2014 EC, will be 1/6 of that distance at only 34,000 miles away. The universe’s …

That was Warren Buffett’s soothing advice for equity investors in October 2008, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers had triggered a global financial panic and sent stock markets tumbling. He’s been betting on the U.S. economy ever since with remarkable results, as he explained Saturday in his annual letter to shareholders, which had more than the usual amount of explicit …

Prosecutors could seek the death penalty against the man accused of kidnapping and murdering missing nursing student Holly Bobo. In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director Mark Gwyn announced a specially called Decatur County grand jury had issued a true bill and indicted Zachary Rye Adams, 29, on charges of especially aggravated kidnapping and first-degree …

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today threw out the state’s case against an Andover man accused of secretly taking photographs up women’s skirts on the MBTA, arguing the women did not have a legal expectation of privacy on the trolley and were not partially nude as defined under current law.

A second baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment — in this instance, four hours after birth. Doctors revealed the case Wednesday at an AIDS conference in Boston. The girl was born in suburban Los Angeles last April, a month after researchers announced the first case …

Former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary, who will be a prosecution witness in an upcoming conspiracy trial against former PSU leaders, reportedly told players in November 2011 that he was sexually abused as a boy, according to ESPN the Magazine.

A New Jersey honor student who has sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out of their home had her initial request denied Tuesday by a judge who cautioned that the case could lead to a “potentially slippery slope” of claims by teens against their parents. Rachel Canning had sought immediate relief in the form of …