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Underwood leads CMT nominations

NEW YORK

Carrie Underwood is the top contender for the 2015 CMT Music Awards with five nominations.

CMT announced Wednesday that Underwood scored two nominations for video of the year with the Grammy-winning “Something in the Water” and “Somethin’ Bad,” her duet with Miranda Lambert. Underwood also earned two nominations for female video of the year with “Something in the Water” and “Little Toy Guns.”

Twelve videos are nominated for video of the year. Contenders include Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean.

Lady Antebellum and Kenny Chesney, also video of the year nominees, have four nominations each.

The CMT Music Awards will air live June 10.

Clooney, astronauts celebrate Apollo 13’s 45th anniversary

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS

George Clooney has joined astronauts Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford and Eugene “Gene” Cernan at a gala in Texas to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission.

The event took place Tuesday night at an airport hangar in the Houston suburb of Sugar Land.

The Apollo 13 mission was the third intended to land on the moon, but after it launched April 11, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded, crippling the spacecraft. The crew was forced to orbit the moon instead of landing and returned safely April 17. Lovell commanded the mission.

Clooney is a brand ambassador for Omega, which sponsored the event and outfitted the astronauts on the mission with watches.

The event culminated with dinner in a room designed to mimic the surface of the moon.

Associated Press