Nominations for the 40th American Music Awards were announced Tuesday morning. Nicki Minaj and Rihanna dominate with four nods apiece, while Drake, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, One Direction and Usher follow with three.

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A federal court judge exceeded her authority by granting a reprieve to a Texas man sentenced to death in the slaying of a 12-year-old girl near Houston 12 years ago, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday.

A nude University of South Alabama freshman had taken LSD and assaulted others before he chased the campus police officer who fatally shot him, authorities said Tuesday, though the student wasn’t armed and didn’t touch the officer.