Swift leads, Miguel hurts fans at Billboard Awards
Taylor Swift is red hot.
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'Trek' does $70.6M but falls short of studio hopes
LOS ANGELES -- "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.
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Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival
CANNES, France -- Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival:
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Paul McCartney kicks off "Out There" tour in US
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando.
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Brief panic as blanks fired during Cannes TV show
CANNES, France -- A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted Friday when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators scurrying for cover.
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In Miami, Donna Karan showcases Haitian artisans
MIAMI -- The handbag Donna Karan was showing off Friday lacked her signature logo, or any designer's logo. It was made of paper mache and, the fashion designer said, represented Haiti's handmade carnival masks -- in wearable form.
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Preview: Season finale of SNL
Change is afoot at "Saturday Night Live".
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NYers furious over photos taken through windows
NEW YORK -- In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.
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Aguilera, Green, Levine, Shelton to return to 'The Voice'
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. -- Illustrating the continuity between its original and current coaches lineup, “The Voice" will bring back Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton for its fifth cycle in fall and will pair Levine and Shelton with Shakira and Usher for the sixth cycle in midseason.
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Bieber will have to pay for German monkey business
BERLIN -- Justin Bieber will face a bill for thousands of euros (dollars) for his pet monkey's two-month stay at an animal shelter since it was seized by German customs, officials said Friday as a deadline expired for him to reclaim the animal.
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$1 million in jewels stolen near Cannes film fest
PARIS -- Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday.
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Tim McGraw recasts ACM's TV special, airing Sunday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- When the producers of the Academy of Country Music's annual television special approached Tim McGraw about the 2013 edition, the country music star immediately flashed on the program's format.
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Today in History - May 17, 2013
Today is Friday, May 17, the 137th day of 2013. There are 228 days left in the year.
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Kennedy Center revises way honorees are selected
WASHINGTON -- The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a new process to select artists who receive one of the nation's top arts prizes, the Kennedy Center Honors, after an outside group last year said Latinos have been largely excluded.
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Boy band One Direction: World tour next year
LONDON -- Hit boy band One Direction has announced plans for an ambitious world tour in 2014.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra names new music director
BOSTON -- Andris Nelsons has been named music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
