Video of the Year: Beyonce, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”

Best Female Video: Taylor Swift, “You Belong With Me.”

Best Rock Video: Green Day, “21 Guns.”

Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, “Womanizer.”

Best Male Video: T.I. featuring Rihanna, “Live Your Life.

Best Hip-Hop Video: Eminem, “We Made You.”

Best New Artist: Lady Gaga

Best Video That Should Have Won a Moonman: Beastie Boys, “Sabotage.”

Best Breakthrough Video: Matt and Kim, “Lessons Learned.”

 NEW YORK (AP) — The MTV Video Music Awards kicked off Sunday with a poignant, tender tribute to fallen icon Michael Jackson, but soon got back into raucous character thanks to Kanye West, who delivered yet another awards show outburst at the expense of country and pop sweetheart Taylor Swift.
The two moments represented the highs and the lows of the VMAs, which are defined not by its awards, but its wacky and tacky moments.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will return as co-hosts of the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville this fall.

The CMA said Tuesday that both singers possess the humor and timing needed to host the three-hour show, which airs live on ABC Nov. 11.

The pair, two of country's most popular young stars, hosted for the first time last year.

The person said Monday that the bid came after several studios, including Paramount, Universal and 20th Century Fox, were shown footage starting early last week. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the bidding had not been completed. None of the studios would comment on the record.

Chappelle arrived at about 1 a.m. to a surge of camera phone-wielding fans. There was only problem - a small amplifier left the comic inaudible to most.

It's not clear why Chappelle was in Portland, and what led him to Pioneer Courthouse Square.

"I'm not here for money," he told the crowd.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano even gave two thumbs up to the film's treatment of adolescent love, saying it achieved the "correct balance" and made the stars more credible to the general audience.

"I was not one of the doctors who participated in giving him overdoses of drugs or too much of anything," Dr. Arnold Klein said in an interview that aired Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America." ''In fact, I was the one who limited everything, who stopped everything."

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff backed attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain, who had been designated in Jackson's 2002 will as the people he wanted to administer his estate. Attorneys for the pop singer's mother repeatedly objected to their appointment at Monday's court hearing.

NBC joins ABC, CNN, MSNBC and E! Entertainment in offering the ceremony live. It's set for 10 a.m. PDT at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

NBC had initially planned only a one-hour prime-time special on Tuesday night, but said Sunday it would also cover the event live. It was not immediately clear who would anchor.

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ABC's "This Week" - Vice President Joe Biden.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" - Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" - Pre-empted by coverage of Wimbledon tennis.

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CNN's "State of the Union" - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell; Mullen; Queen Noor of Jordan.

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Sixteen-year-old Mike Rios was the first to demonstrate his moves when the Harlem theater's doors opened Wednesday night. The Elizabeth, New Jersey, boy wore a Jackson-inspired red jacket and pants. He grooved to Jackson's "Bad." The crowd cheered. A female audience member jumped on stage.

The material includes unused tracks from studio sessions of some of Jackson's best albums, as well as more recently recorded songs made with Senegalese R&B singer and producer Akon and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am.

Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff called for a speedy compromise between attorneys for Katherine Jackson and the two co-executors of Michael Jackson's will - lawyer John Branca and John McClain, a music executive and a family friend.

The changing funeral circumstances disappointed many Jackson fans who had descended on the estate in the rolling hills near Santa Barbara with the hope of attending a public viewing.