Beyoncé will perform at halftime of Ravens-Texans Christmas Day game on Netflix
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Beyoncé is coming to your home on Christmas -- provided you have Netflix and are tuning in to the Ravens-Texans game. Netflix announced late Sunday that the megastar would perform during halftime of a Christmas Day matchup in her hometown of Houston. The streaming service didn't reveal details about the performance but teased that it would likely feature guest appearances from her "Cowboy Carter" album, which delivered Beyoncé a leading 11 Grammy nominations earlier this month. Netflix is also streaming a Christmas day Kansas City Chiefs game, setting up the possibility that another of the world's biggest stars, Taylor Swift, would be on the stream. Swift is dating Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Josh Allen seals Bills' 30-21 win over Chiefs with TD run, ending bid for perfect season
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Josh Allen ran for a 26-yard touchdown on fourth down with 2:17 left, sealing the Buffalo Bills' 30-21 win over the Kansas City Chiefs and handing the two-time defending Super Bowl champions their first loss of the season. James Cook rushed for two touchdowns and Allen threw a 12-yard TD pass to Curtis Samuel for Buffalo. The Bills moved to 9-2 and closed the gap on the 9-1 Chiefs in the race for the AFC's top seed. Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs were the NFL's last undefeated team. They had won 15 straight, including playoffs, since last December. The Bills have won six straight.
Raiders' Brock Bowers and other NFL players celebrate TDs with Trump-inspired dance moves
The Trump dance is becoming a trend around the NFL. Raiders tight end Brock Bowers, Titans wide receiver Calvin Ridley and Lions defensive end Za'Darius Smith followed Nick Bosa's lead on Sunday and celebrated big plays with dance moves inspired by President-elect Donald Trump. Bowers had 13 catches for 126 yards and a touchdown for Las Vegas in a 34-19 loss at Miami on Sunday. The rookie shook his arms and swayed his hips like Trump after a 23-yard catch-and-run TD in the third quarter.
Australian senate censures Indigenous lawmaker who yelled at King Charles III
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month. The censure of independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe on Monday is a symbolic gesture that records her colleagues' disapproval of her conduct during the first visit to Australia by a British monarch in 13 years. The motion was carried 46 votes to 12. Government leader in the Senate Penny Wong said Thorpe's outburst sought to "incite outrage and grievance." Thorpe launched an expletive-laden rant at Charles following his speech during his visit to Canberra and Sydney. Following her censure, Thorpe said she would repeat her rant if Charles returned.
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
A report released Monday by Pew Research Center says about one in five Americans regularly get their news from so-called news influencers on social media. The report found that news influencers posted mostly about politics and the election, followed by social issues like race and abortion and international events, such as the Israel-Hamas war. Most of them - 63% - are men and the majority - 77% - have no affiliation, or background, with a media organization. Pew said about half of the influencers it sampled did not express a clear political orientation. From the ones that did, slightly more of them identified as conservative than as liberal.
Hollywood stars gather for honorary Oscars event celebrating Quincy Jones, Bond producers, more
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Many of Hollywood's biggest stars have gathered at the annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles to honor the late Quincy Jones, James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, filmmaker Richard Curtis and casting director Juliet Taylor. Sunday night event put on by the film academy's board of governors is a de-facto campaign stop for Oscar hopefuls as awards season gets underway. The Governors Awards are often an emotional affair, but the 15th event took on an added sadness following Jones' death on Nov. 3.
Dwayne Johnson's $200 million-plus Christmas pic opens to $34.1 million
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The big budget, star-driven action comedy "Red One" is topping the North American box office charts. The Christmas-themed movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans earned an estimated $34.1 million in ticket sales this weekend. It cost over $200 million to produce. Overall profitability of the Amazon release may never fully be known given its streaming prospects. This weekend's box office results are a bit of a placeholder until the major Thanksgiving tentpoles like "Gladiator II," "Wicked" and "Moana 2" start flooding theaters next week. Second place this week went to "Venom 3," followed by "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," "Heretic" and "The Wild Robot."
Veteran news executive Reg Murphy, who survived abduction decades ago, has died at 90
Reg Murphy, whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore, has died. He was 90 years old. Murphy, who lived on St. Simons Island in Georgia, died Nov. 9. Murphy found himself the subject of national headlines in 1974 when he survived a politically motivated kidnapping. He worked as a reporter and editor at The Atlanta Constitution amid the civil-rights movement. Murphy later became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner in the mid-1970s, then went on to serve as publisher of the Baltimore Sun. Murphy later joined the senior leadership of the National Geographic Society.
Jon Jones sends Stipe Miocic into retirement with decisive UFC heavyweight win in front of Trump
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jon Jones sent Stipe Miocic into retirement with a stunning back kick to the ribs and used a series of blows to the head in the third round to retain the UFC heavyweight championship in front of President-elect Donald Trump in the main event of UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Jones posed and played to the crowd on top of the octagon in front of Trump, Elon Musk and Robert Kennedy Jr. Trump walked out to a rousing ovation just before the start of the pay-per-view card and seemed to bask in thrill of the fighters that throughout the night gave him props.
How a viral, duct-taped banana came to be worth $1 million
NEW YORK (AP) -- Walk into any supermarket and you can usually buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby's in New York. The yellow banana fixed to a white wall with silver duct tape is an artwork entitled "Comedian," by Maurizio Cattelan. It debuted at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair in 2019. "Comedian" is expected to fetch between $1 million and $1.5 million at the Nov. 20 auction. Bidders won't be buying the same fruit that was on display in Miami. Those bananas are long gone. Sotheby's says the fruit always was meant to be replaced regularly.