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Conductor James Levine returns from 2-year absence

Metropolitan Opera Music Director James Levine conducts the MET Orchestra on May 18, 2013 during a rehearsal at Carnegie Hall. The Sunday, May 19 concert by the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall will mark Maestro Levine's first public performance in more than two years after being sideline by a spinal injury. The concert will be broadcast live on SIRIUS XM Channel 74 and streamed on the Met's Web site (metopera.org) beginning at 2:55 p.m. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Cory Weaver)

NEW YORK (AP) — Conductor James Levine has returned from an absence of more than two years to lead the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in a concert at Carnegie Hall.

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OJ Simpson lawyers say he is closer to freedom

O.J. Simpson and his defense attorney Ozzie Fumo confer during an evidentiary hearing for Simpson in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison as a result of his October 2008 conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping charges, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial, claiming he had such bad representation that his conviction should be reversed.  (AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest high-stakes court hearing for O.J. Simpson in the glitzy capital of big gambles has come to a close with the former football star’s defense team feeling confident that their client is closer to getting out of prison.

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Swift, Bieber, more ready for Billboard Awards

In this April 2, 2013 file picture Canadian singer Justin Bieber performs at O2 World in Hamburg, Germany. German officials say Justin Bieber will have to pay the bill for his monkey’s two month stay at a Munich animal shelter. A spokesman for Munich’s customs office says the cost of care, food and vet visits for Mally is several thousand euros (dollars). That’s, of course, what you might call “chimp change” for the global superstar. Customs spokesman Thomas Meister says Bieber has until midnight Friday May 17, 2013  to claim the monkey seized by authorities March 28 when the singer failed to produce its papers after landing in Munich on tour. Bieber’s management company has asked the shelter to place the 20-week-old monkey in a zoo but hasn’t talked with customs. If not claimed, Mally becomes German government property and will likely go to a zoo in any case.  (AP Photo/dpa, Sven Hoppe,File)

They battle it out weekly on the Billboard charts, and now they’re competing at the Billboard Music Awards.

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Old rules don’t mean much to broadcasters

This Nov. 10, 2012 file photo shows actor Denis Leary at "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cure Parkinson's" Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research benefit  in New York. Leary wrote and produced the series "Sirens," one of the first original comedy series coming to USA Network.  (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — The most striking thing about the broadcast TV networks announcing their new fall schedules this past week was how little that actually meant.

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Moore, Broncos put his big blunder behind them

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos have moved on, even if their fans haven’t.

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