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Adele swept the top honors at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, but the night was shared with Beyoncé. Adele went home with five total awards, including album of the year for "25."

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Beyonce's performance was pretty bomb.

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The superstar, who recently announced she's expecting twins, performed two songs from her album "Lemonade" during a nine-minute artistic set that celebrated motherhood.

Wearing a golden crown and surrounded by more than a dozen dancers, Queen Bey moved gracefully through "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" -- at one point, pulling off a gravity-defying chair stunt.

Beyoncé, who was introduced by mom Tina Knowles, began and ended her performance with the words of poet Warsan Shire, which she also sampled in "Lemonade"

"If we're going to heal, let it be glorious," she quoted at the end of her set.

Beyoncé's performance was not officially announced prior to Sunday night.

Later, when she picked up the award for best urban contemporary album, she explained the inspiration for making "Lemonade."

"My intention for the film and album was to create a body of work that would give a voice to our pain, our struggles, our darkness and our history. To confront issues that make us uncomfortable," she said.

She continued: "It's important for me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror, first in their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys, and see themselves and have no doubt that they're beautiful, intelligent and capable. This is something I want for every child of every race."

Her performance was quick to garner reactions on Twitter and among her musical peers.

Chrissy Tiegen tweeted an emotion-filled photo from the audience.

Former "Destiny's Child" bandmate Kelly Rowland also tweeted her support with a series of bee emoji.

Beyoncé didn't end up winning album of the year, but shared a sweet moment with Adele, who gave kudos to her idol while accepting the award.

"This album for me -- the 'Lemonade' album -- was just so monumental and so well thought out and so beautiful and soul-bearing and we all got to see another side to you that you don't always let us see and we appreciate that," she said. "You are our light."

While Beyoncé teared up, Adele added: "I love you. I always have. And I always will."

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Beyoncé's mother of a Grammy performance

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The superstar, who recently announced she's expecting twins, performed two songs from her album "Lemonade" during a nine-minute artistic set that celebrated motherhood. Wearing a golden crown and surrounded by more than a dozen dancers, Queen Bey moved gracefully through "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles" -- at one point, pulling off a gravity-defying chair stunt.

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Adele swept the top honors at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, but the night was shared with Beyoncé.

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Grammys 2017: Adele and Beyoncé's big moments. Adele swept the top honors at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, but the night was shared with Beyoncé.
Adele went home with five total awards, including album of the year for "25."

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Adele went home with five total awards, including album of the year for "25."

Beyoncé won two, including best music video for "Formation" and best urban contemporary album for "Lemonade."

The two superstars each provided stellar performances.

Beyoncé, who recently announced she's expecting twins, reminded everyone why her nickname is Queen Bey with a powerful medley of "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles." The nine-minute set was a celebration of women and motherhood.

Adele opened the show with her hit "Hello." She later performed a slowed arrangement of George Michael's "Fastlove" in tribute to the singer, who died on Christmas Day.

After a few verses, Adele uttered an expletive and stopped.

"I'm sorry, I can't mess this up for him," Adele said.

She then beautifully powered through the song. The audience responded with a standing ovation.

Adele's evening got better when her single "Hello" won Grammy Awards for song and record of the year.

During her acceptance speech for the latter, she professed her admiration for fellow nominee, Beyoncé.

"I adore you and I want you to be my mommy," Adele quipped.

Moments later when she won album of the year, Adele insisted Beyoncé deserved it more.

"The artist of my life is Beyoncé, and this album to me, the 'Lemonade' album, was just so monumental," said a teary Adele to Beyoncé, who mouthed "I love you" from the audience.

Adele broke her trophy in half -- it's not clear whether that was an accident, though it appeared to be -- and backstage talked of how devastating Beyoncé's loss was for her as a fan.

"I was completely rooting for her, I voted for her," Adele said. "I felt like it was her time to win. What the f*** does she have to do to win album of the year?"

David Bowie posthumously won five Grammy Awards for his final album, "Blackstar."

Chance the Rapper won the first award of the night for best new artist.

"Glory be to God," the Chicago native said before thanking his family and his hometown.

The rapper also won best rap album -- making history as the first artist with a streaming-only album to win a Grammy.

The politically-charged climate of the country was reflected throughout the ceremony.

A Tribe Called Quest teamed up with Anderson .Paak and Busta Rhymes for a set that included criticism of President Donald Trump.

"I just want to thank President Agent Orange for perpetuating all of the evil that you've been perpetuating throughout the United States," Rhymes said before launching into the song "We the People."

James Corden had a few political lines, but the Grammy host largely kept the focus of the night on the music and his self-deprecating brand of humor.

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Grammys 2017: Adele and Beyoncé's big moments

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Adele went home with five total awards, including album of the year for "25." Beyoncé won two, including best music video for "Formation" and best urban contemporary album for "Lemonade." The two superstars each provided stellar performances. Beyoncé, who recently announced she's expecting twins, reminded everyone why her nickname is Queen Bey with a powerful medley of "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles."

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Mr. Kohl- Adele was the big winner at the Grammy's last night taking home 5 Grammy's including song, record, and album of the Year.

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Mr. Kohl- Adele was the big winner at the Grammy's last night taking home 5 Grammy's including song, record, and album of the Year.

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The 59th annual Grammy Awards brought a pair of sweeps: a likely one for a dearly departed star, a surprise for the reigning queen of pop - and more performances than anyone will likely remember tomorrow.

As she did in 2012, Adele swept her "general category" nominations (the night's headline trophies) - but five years ago she wasn't up against what many considered to be one of the year's most definitive and universally lauded pieces of work: Beyoncé's Lemonade. Beyoncé has won neither record or album of the year - Adele is the first to twice sweep the album, record and song of the year categories.

As she accepted the penultimate award of the night, record of the year, Adele looked at Beyoncé and said, "You move my soul every single day."

Beyoncé didn't make it out of the front row of the audience for the three final awards of the night, and Adele would be back to the stage moments later to accept Album of the Year for 25 as well, upsetting Lemonade. Adele herself admitted Lemonade was a "monumental" work and mentioned being unable to accept the Album of the Year award (before accepting it).

By the numbers, the night's other big winner was David Bowie, who posthumously took every award he (and package designer Jonathan Barnbrook) was nominated for, including best rock song and best rock performance for his deeply affecting and pre-eulogistic "Blackstar" from the album of the same name, which won best alternative music album, best recording package and best engineered album.

The arrival of the night went to Chance the Rapper, the Chicago-born rapper who has shepherded his career independent of the major-label system. Chance was named best new artist - and thankfully ignored the show's get-off-the-stage music during his acceptance of the night's first trophy. Later, winning the award for best rap album for Coloring Book, he somewhat notably gave a shout-out to German-based streaming company SoundCloud, not Apple Music, which paid him a fair chunk of change for a window of exclusivity for Coloring Book. Independent is as independent does.

More than most years, a black cloud whorled over this year's Grammys, the show's 59th iteration and one that followed a year of remarkable loss for popular music after the deaths of Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, Merle Haggard and many others ... but also a year that began amidst a deeply polarized political climate, one that many artists, we can reliably assume (Madonna, for sure), are lamenting.

Ahead of the telecast many wondered whether the Grammys would get political. (One only needed to look to Kendrick Lamar's performance last year for the answer, regardless of longtime producer Ken Ehrlich's pre-show diplomacy.)

Jennifer Lopez was the first of the night to make a statement, however oblique, saying: "At this point in history, our voices are needed more than ever," before doubling down, quoting from Toni Morrison's essay, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room For Fear."

Katy Perry, who stumped for Hillary Clinton, ended a performance of new single "Chained to the Rhythm" bathed in a projection of the preamble to the Constitution - a gesture that seemed less overtly political than one that simply acknowledged politics exist.

Orange Is The New Black's Laverne Cox, introducing Metallica and Lady Gaga's fiery performance of "Moth Into Flame," referenced the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of a case centering around students' right to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.

Even Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, who generally steers clear of even a whiff of politics, jumped into the fray, if meekly. Portnow referenced "the things" - music principally, we can assume - that bring us together and help to cohere our "more perfect union." Then, more customarily, Portnow called for reforms to the consent decrees which dictate songwriter remuneration and copyright laws that regulate usage of music. Even Johnnie Walker, in a late-show whiskey ad, retained Chicano Batman to sing "This Land Is Your Land," touching on Trump's executive order around immigration.

Solange (who made NPR Music's favorite record last year) introduced A Tribe Called Quest, who alongside Anderson.Paak and Busta Rhymes, performed a medley that kicked off with "Can I Kick It?" before Busta Rhymes popped up to "President Agent Orange and his unsuccessful attempt at a Muslim ban," then moving into "We The People" from Tribe's newest record, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. Q-Tip ended the utterly monumental performance with repeated calls to "resist" - it was the most fervently and successfully political presentation of the night.

Not to be outdone, Beyoncé meteored a crater of personal and political empowerment. Her mother, Tina Knowles, introduced a reliably gargantuan and beautifully produced performance, which began with the rhetorical question: "Do you remember being born?"

The production design referenced the Virgin Mary, Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I, with little singing for a extended period of time before Beyoncé settled into a pillowy rendition of "Love Drought" and "Sandcastles."

There, too, were the flowers that accompanied that now-famous Instagram post. As my colleague Rodney Carmichael wrote: "This is full-on #blackwomanmagic." "There is a curse," Beyoncé whispered in a pre-taped voice over, "that will be broken... now that reconciliation is possible... if we're gonna heal, let it be glorious."

Later, accepting the award for best urban contemporary album for Lemonade, she said her work seeks "to confront issues that make us uncomfortable - it's important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty."

Sturgill Simpson, backed by Daptone Records' house band The Dap-Kings (and, it seemed, a few friends), delivered arguably the most purely perfect musical performance of the night, singing "All Around You" with striking commitment. Equally striking was Bruno Mars' late-show tribute to Prince, which began with the indelible prayer of "Dearly beloved..." and ended with Mars ripping a (nearly) Prince-worthy guitar solo.

There were flubs: Adele stopped her tribute performance of George Michael's "Fastlove" as it was getting going, swearing and apologizing before jumping back into the 1996 hit. "I don't want to do this like last year," she said, referencing the broken piano of 2016. The song choice was semi-appropriately elegiac, though didn't engage with the unbridled joy of Michael's best work.

As for the rest: A mildly disappointing performance of "Hello" from Adele, who opened the show just prior to a very brief bit of slapstick and rapping that served as host James Corden's introduction.

There was a surprisingly sharp turn from previously stilted performer The Weeknd (with assistance from Daft Punk), an '80s synth jams straight out of Top Gun (Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban performing "The Fighter") and a bizarrely empty new reggaeton-by-way-of-Bon Iver jawn from Ed Sheeran.

Neil Diamond, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Jennifer Lopez, Tim McGraw and Jason Derulo sang "Sweet Caroline" with Corden in a makeshift iteration of the "Carpool Karaoke" segments on his late night show. Diamond looked, perhaps was, a little lost.

Katy Perry's performance perhaps unintentionally referenced the mirrored picket fence sculpture by Alyson Shotz at upstate New York sculpture park Storm King. Gary Clark and William Bell (who won for best Americana album) performed the blues standard "Born Under a Bad Sign," written by Bell and Booker T. Jones and first recorded by Albert King in 1967 for Stax Records.

The show remained as reliably corrugated as ever - as it will until entropy catches up with it. Looking to the Grammys for substantive, not glancing, engagement with challenging times, as Ann Powers addressed recently, is a waste of time. The show is comfort food; delivering the same faces, the same voices, the same melodies and shimmering gowns.

Perhaps next year, when the awards return to New York for the first time since 2003, the show will let itself change as much as the world around it has. But probably not.

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In Austin,Texas,a United Airlines flight was delayed after the pilot acted in such a way passengers thought she was mentally unstable.

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The pilot, whom CNN is not naming, boarded the plane in street clothes and began speaking to passengers over the intercom, spokesman Charlie Hobart said.

Passengers on Saturday's San Francisco-bound flight took to social media to express concerns after the pilot spoke to them about her divorce and the presidential election, among other issues.

One passenger, whose Twitter bio identified him as Randy Reiss from San Francisco, tweeted that the pilot called Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump "a**holes" and, at one point, said that she was going "to be on Oprah."

Some passengers said on social media that they got off the plane. Another pilot was brought in and the flight took off about two hours later, Hobart said.

Hobart said he didn't have more details about the incident, including why the pilot was allowed on the plane in plain clothes and if anyone thought something was amiss before she boarded.

United will discuss the incident with the pilot, he said.

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The pilot, whom CNN is not naming, boarded the plane in street clothes and began speaking to passengers over the intercom, spokesman Charlie Hobart said. Passengers on Saturday's San Francisco-bound flight took to social media to express concerns after the pilot spoke to them about her divorce and the presidential election, among other issues.

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Adele wins 5 grammy's including album of the year

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A United Airlines flight was delayed after a pilot's "super weird political speech"

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Adele went home with five total awards, including album of the year for "25."

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Conservation officials in New Zealand have been puncturing the dead whales so they do not explode. About 400 whales have died.

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"In the heat, the whales can explode, but we've taken steps to prevent that," Trish Grant, a spokeswoman for New Zealand's Department of Conservation, told CNN.

"Our staff has been puncturing the dead whales, using an implement that releases the gas (inside their carcasses) that someone local has built for us."

Excavators will be used to move the dead whales further up Farewell Spit in Golden Bay, which is on the tip of New Zealand's South Island, to a location in the nature reserve that's not open to the public.

From Friday to Sunday, around 400 whales died on Farewell Spit, the conservation department said in a statement. It's the third largest mass beaching of whales in the country's history.

Mass stranding

Grant told CNN that the department had spent Monday monitoring a pod of whales still in the Golden Bay area from the coastline amid concerns that they would also beach themselves.

"We've finished for tonight, but we'll resume our searches tomorrow. The whales are still in the Golden Bay area relatively close to shore and there's a risk that they could strand overnight," Grant said.

Whales were first spotted in the water late on Thursday night, by a department staffer, before being found on the beaches of Farewell Spit Friday morning.

Hundreds of volunteers joined the rescue effort.

Farewell Spit is considered to be a whale trap due to its shallow water, said Grant.

The largest whale stranding event in New Zealand took place in 1918, when 1,000 whales stranded themselves on the Chatham Islands. The second largest was in Auckland in 1985, when 450 ended up on a beach.

Grant said that many factors can be involved in whale beachings.

"Sometimes it can be caused by a diseased member among them - because they have strong social bonds, if one of them gets in trouble, the rest can follow," explained Grant.

CNN's Ben Westcott contributed to this report

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"In the heat, the whales can explode, but we've taken steps to prevent that," Trish Grant, a spokeswoman for New Zealand's Department of Conservation, told CNN. "Our staff has been puncturing the dead whales, using an implement that releases the gas (inside their carcasses) that someone local has built for us."