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First a Grammy, then the Brits – now singer-songwriter Olivia Dean is queen of the MOBO Awards, picking up three of the top prizes.
Dean was named best female act at the ceremony, held at Manchester‘s Co-op Live, and bagged both the album and song of the year prizes for chart-topper The Art Of Loving and its hit track, Man I Need.
The star, whose music blends pop, funk and soul, was also among the night’s performers, alongside acts including FLO, Aitch and Myles Smith, and a grime medley featuring Chip, D Double E, Nolay, Scorcher and Wiley, curated by DJ Target.
This year’s show – celebrating 30 years of the MOBOs – also featured special appearances from US stars Pharrell Williams, who was honoured with the global songwriter award, and Slick Rick, who received a lifetime achievement prize.
Dean can now add her MOBOs to the trophy shelf after her Grammy win in January. She also dominated the Brit Awards last month.
Elsewhere, rapper and singer Jim Legxacy won the gong for best male act, singer-songwriter Raye was honoured in the video of the year category for Where Is My Husband!, and rapper DC3 was named best newcomer and also picked up the prize for best gospel act.
The MOBOs celebrate the best of black music in the UK and internationally, and this year marks the ceremony’s 30th anniversary.
Other awards included best RnB/soul act for FLO, best alternative act for Nova Twins, best hip-hop act for Central Cee, best jazz act for 2023 Mercury Prize winners Ezra Collective, best electronic/ dance act for Sherelle, and best producer for P2J.
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There were also international awards for Arya Starr, who was named best international act, Wizkid (best African music act) and Vybz Kartel (best Caribbean music act).
Outside music, YouTuber, influencer and Celebrity Traitors star Niko Omilana was named best media personality, and Stephen Graham – fresh from several BAFTA nods and after wins at the Golden Globes and the Emmys in the US – was recognised for his performance in the groundbreaking series Adolescence.
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Country musician Tracy Lawrence is calling out the growing political divide in America and urging fans to keep it out of country music.
In a candid moment, the longtime country artist took aim at what he sees as a deep divide in the nation and shared his hope for a return to a simpler, more inclusive society.
“Our journeys are all unique into themselves, but we all share a passion and a love of music,” he said during his conversation with Morgan Evans on the “TL’s Road House” podcast.
“What I love about it, and I wish we could get back to more of this,” Lawrence continued. “With all the divisive stuff going on with politics and the world … music is supposed to be the thing that unites us.”
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Tracy Lawrence performs at the Ryman Auditorium May 18, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
The “Time Marches On” singer, known for his traditional country roots and decades-long career, emphasized that music has historically served as a place where people could connect without the weight of political identity.
“I wish people would get the politics out of all this stuff,” he continued, “where we could just get back, and it doesn’t matter what color you are or where you come from.”
His frustration may reflect a broader tension across the entertainment industry, where artists are often pulled into political debates, whether they want to be or not.
Tracy Lawrence said music should bring people together. (Scott Dudelson)
“I think music is supposed to be one of those things that brings us all together,” he added. “Because it used to be that, and I’d love to see that happen more again.”
In February, the country star revisited a harrowing chapter from more than three decades ago, when he was shot four times during a brutal mugging in Nashville.
Tracy Lawrence was shot four times by unknown assailants. (Will & Deni McIntyre)
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“I was angry back then,” Lawrence exclusively told Fox News Digital. “I felt like … they were trying to take my opportunity away from me, and I didn’t get the mental help that I needed. I’m much more aware of the consequences, whether it’s, you know, if you go through a physical altercation or family trauma or whatever those things are.”
Tracy Lawrence says music should bring people together as his 2026 No Alibis Tour gets underway. (Scott Dudelson)
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Instead of processing the trauma, Lawrence said he buried it.
“I’m a big believer in taking care of your mental health these days, and I didn’t do that at the time. That was a very traumatic experience for me.
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“I just suppressed it and shoved it down, and it caused me a lot of problems in my personal relationships, problems in my career.”
The aftermath forced him to reshape how he saw himself.
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“When you overcome a life-altering experience like that, I think there’s a little bit of a God complex that comes with it when you survive something that you probably shouldn’t have,” Lawrence said. “It caused me to push things to the edge a lot more than I would have if that had not had happened to me.”
Lawrence’s 2026 No Alibis Tour kicked off in March and will run through August, and the country star plans to stop in his hometown of Nashville at the Ryman Auditorium.
A benefit cheat who defrauded more than £23,000 by claiming she was too ill to go outside was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico.
Catherine Wieland, 33, claimed her anxiety was so severe it left her housebound.
But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said it discovered she had been lying about her condition.
The DWP said it found evidence of Wieland, from Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, surfing in Cancun and visiting Thorpe Park three times while earning tens of thousands of pounds in Personal Independence Payments (Pip) over more than two years.
It added she had also spent money from her disability benefits on manicures, tanning sessions and trips to a private Harley Street dentist.
According to the DWP, when investigators confronted her with bank statements, she told them: “I didn’t realise you’re not allowed to leave your house.”
Despite claiming her health was so bad she could not cook or wash herself, Wieland made 76 beauty appointments, visited 60 pubs, clubs and restaurants, and spent money in foreign currencies.
Then following her luxury Mexico trip, she submitted a review claiming her condition had got worse.
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Wieland pleaded guilty to failing to notify a change of circumstances and must now repay the £23,662 stolen from taxpayers between 2021 and 2024.
At Lewes Crown Court on Thursday, she was sentenced to 28 weeks in custody, suspended for 18 months.
DWP minister, Andrew Western, said after the hearing: “This is an insult to every hardworking taxpayer and to people who genuinely depend on Pip.
“Wieland lied repeatedly, milked the system for every penny she could get and then had the nerve to claim her condition was worsening while she was ziplining and surfing in Mexico.
“We are committed to finding those who try to defraud taxpayers, and they will face the consequences.”
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U.S. dollar bills will bear President Donald Trump‘s signature to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, the Treasury Department said, a first for a sitting president.
Trump’s signature will be placed on all U.S. paper currency and will replace the Treasurer of the United States’ signature on U.S. money for the first time in 165 years. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the move will recognize the Trump administration’s “historic achievements.”
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are on a path toward unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength and stability,” Bessent said in a statement. “There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the Semiquincentennial.”
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President Donald Trump’s signature will be featured on U.S. paper currency to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Treasury Department said on Thursday. (Fox News/Getty Images)
The first $100 bills with the signatures of Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will be produced in June, followed by other denominations in the coming months, Reuters reported.
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Scott Bessent, U.S. Treasury Secretary, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C, (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
The Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing is currently still producing notes bearing the signatures of former President Joe Biden‘s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, and Treasurer Lynn Malerba, Reuters reported.
In a statement, Treasurer Brandon Beach said placing Trump’s signature on U.S. currency is “not only appropriate, but also well-deserved,” given his “mark on history as the architect of America’s Golden Age economic revival.”
Thursday’s announcement came as Trump makes efforts to put himself on a coin. The design of a commemorative gold coin with his image was approved by a federal arts panel.
The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Meanwhile, Trump’s name has been placed on buildings, government programs, and institutions.
Uncle Sam is trying to make American call centers great again. The question is whether they will be great because they’re filled with local workers or whether this will provide yet another excuse for companies to turn customer service jobs over to AI.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously (or as unanimously as a body missing two of its five members can decide) Thursday to proceed with drafting rules that would require companies under its purview to begin onshoring customer service call center operations – at least to a degree.
“We propose to limit the percentage of customer service calls that providers may make from or answer at foreign call centers to a specified percentage,” the Commission wrote in the draft [PDF] notice of proposed rulemaking (the voted-on version has not been published as of writing). “We believe that such a cap would encourage movement of call center operations back to the U.S.”
The FCC Is hoping the public will weigh in on that percentage should be, and whether it could be reduced over time to further force onshoring.
The FCC justified the proposal by citing not only privacy and security concerns that have recently been raised surrounding overseas customer service call centers, but also by admitting what everyone already knows: Customer service in the industries it regulates plain sucks.
“Communications providers regulated by the FCC,” the Commish explained, are part of “an industry that consistently ranks amongst the lowest in customer satisfaction surveys.”
That’s true, at least anecdotally: Do a quick online search for worst customer service, and ISPs, cellular carriers, cable companies, and others that fall under the FCC’s purview are usually right up there at the top (or bottom).
In addition to requiring a certain percentage of calls to be handled by US call centers, the FCC also proposed in the rule to require informing callers if the agent answering their call is located overseas, requiring transfer to a US-based agent upon request, and limiting transactions involving sensitive customer data to US call center agents only.
Additionally, the measure takes steps to address call center spam by using financial tools (fees and bonds) to ensure they don’t moonlight as scam outfits. It also proposes increased English proficiency requirements for foreign call center agents in instances where they’re still used.
All this, naturally, begs the question of whether any company operating an overseas call center would opt to pay an American agent American wages for the same role. The FCC understands that.
“We recognize…that those changes could come with costs to communications service providers,” the FCC noted in the proposal, noting the need to “strike a balance between achieving our goals while not imposing undue costs on these companies.”
Why deal with costs, though, when you could just automate your call center entirely?
Rick Ruth, director of carrier relations and regulatory affairs at call center automation outfit CTM, seems to be ready and waiting for the added business courtesy of the FCC.
“Organizations may well expand the use of AI-driven classification, routing, and automation for initial customer interactions rather than absorb the cost of a fully domestic workforce,” Ruth told The Register in an email. He explained that he believes the most likely scenario is for AI to manage triage and intake, with humans reserved for complicated or sensitive issues.
That said, there are plenty of reasons why automating call centers might not be the best idea. It hasn’t worked well, for one, with around half the companies who try it giving up completely. In cases where AI agents are called upon as assistants for human employees, bots haven’t fared much better, with many call center agents having trouble making their AI assistants useful.
Either way, it’ll take some time for this proposal to wind its way through the FCC’s systems – first comes a comment period, then drafting actual rules based on that feedback. By then, who knows how good AI customer service agents will be. ®
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Voters are not only dissatisfied with the direction of the country but also pessimistic about the economic outlook, financially strained in their own lives and unconvinced Washington leaders are in touch or will offer solutions.
That’s according to a new Fox News national survey released Thursday.
Nearly two-thirds, 64%, are dissatisfied with how things are going in the U.S.
While that’s the highest dissatisfaction rating of President Trump’s second term, it’s also a small improvement from the 68% who were unhappy at the end of the Biden administration in December 2024.
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At the same time, majorities say national leaders are out of touch with people like them. Six in 10 voters say the White House is out of touch (60%), and similar shares say the same about congressional Republicans (61%) and congressional Democrats (58%).
A quarter of both Democrats and Republicans think their respective party’s lawmakers are out of touch. Half of non-MAGA Republicans say the White House is out of touch.
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Trump receives negative marks across issues. His worst numbers are on inflation, with a new low of 28% approving. That’s down 7 points since January and 12 points since March 2025.
His 34% approval for the economy is another new low, down 6 points since January and 9 points from a year ago. Other ratings are also well underwater: healthcare (36 approve, 64 disapprove), Iran (36-64), taxes (36-64), foreign policy (38-62), and immigration (44-56). His best issue is border security (50-50), where equal numbers approve and disapprove.
The president’s overall job rating stands at 41% approve and 59% disapprove. Former President Obama had similar ratings at a comparable point in his second term, 40%-53% in March 2014.
Trump’s 59% disapproval is the highest of either term. Last month, 43% approved and 57% disapproved. A year ago, views were nearly evenly divided, 49-51%.
Current approval of Trump among Republicans is 84%, a second-term low (down from 92% last March), while disapproval has reached a high of 16%. Approval among non-MAGA Republicans dropped 11 points over the past year (70% to 59%). MAGA Republicans remain nearly unanimous with 97% approval, little changed from 98% a year ago. Fully 95% of Democrats disapprove, tying a record high this term. Independents are also negative, 75% disapprove.
The economy remains central to dissatisfaction. Large numbers of Democrats (91%) and independents (90%) rate it negatively, as do more than half of Republicans (52%).
Overall, 75% of voters say the economy is in bad shape, up 4 points since last month (71%). The number giving the economy negative marks has ranged from 67% to 79% since Trump took office in January 2025.
Personal financial assessments are similarly downbeat, with nearly half, 46%, saying they are falling behind. That’s up from 44% in December and just one point below the record high of 47% in June 2022.
That strain is reflected by 61% saying they could not miss more than two paychecks and still pay their bills. That’s up from 54% in both 2023 and 2019.
Two years ago, 17% lived paycheck-to-paycheck. Now, 27% say they couldn’t miss even one payday. That number climbs to 37% for those with annual household income below $50,000.
Neither major party has convinced voters it has a clear plan to address costs. Some 68% say the Democratic Party lacks a clear plan for bringing prices down, while 70% say the same about the GOP. More than 4 in 10 say neither party has a plan. Equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans, 59%, say their respective party has a clear plan.
“The issue environment in 2026 has almost completely flipped from 2022 and 2024,” says Daron Shaw, a Republican who conducts the survey with Democrat Chris Anderson. “Voters don’t think either side has a plan, of course, but since the GOP is in charge, they shoulder the blame.”
To top things off, voters don’t see the economy getting better anytime soon. A 53% majority anticipates economic conditions will worsen in the next year, up from 45% in January and more than double the share who see improvement (25%).
Republicans are alone in their optimism, expecting the economy to improve by a 19-point margin. Both independents (by 44 points) and Democrats (by 68 points) see the economy declining next year by wide margins.
Concerns about the economy — day-to-day costs in particular — top the list of what worries voters most. A large majority of 86% is concerned about inflation and high prices, including 57% who are extremely concerned. Around 8 in 10 express concerns about healthcare (81%), gas prices (80%), and political divisions in the country (80%).
Seven in ten or more are worried about unemployment (73%), potential attacks in the United States (73% by Islamic terrorists and 70% non-Islamic terrorists) and their ability to pay their bills (70%). Concern also extends to gun violence (69%), Iran obtaining nukes (66%), AI technology (66%), antisemitism (63%) and detentions and deportations by ICE (62%).
Inflation is the top concern for Democrats, Republicans and independents. Healthcare is second for Democrats and independents, while Islamic terrorist attacks are second for Republicans. There is a consensus that political divisions within the country are a problem, with most Democrats (85%), Republicans (80%), and independents (70%) expressing concern.
Worry about gas prices is widespread, with about 8 in 10 across all income levels — including $100,000 and above — saying they are concerned.
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Sixty-nine percent of voters support birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. That’s up from 67% in 2025 and from 45% when Fox News first asked the question in 2006. Current support stands at 91% among Democrats, 75% among independents and 44% among Republicans. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a birthright citizenship case April 1.
Conducted March 20-23, 2026, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,001 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (104) and cellphones (641) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (256). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education and area variables to ensure the demographics are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the most recent American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis, and voter file data.
Fox News’ Victoria Balara contributed to this report.
United States President Donald Trump has pushed back a self-imposed deadline for attacks on Iran’s power grid to April 6, citing progress in negotiations to end the ongoing war in the country.
Thursday’s announcement comes as the president continues to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for oil traffic.
“As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 PM, Eastern Time,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
“Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.”
The post marked the latest postponement Trump has announced since he first threatened Iran’s energy system.
On Sunday, Trump threatened to attack Iran’s power grid if the Strait of Hormuz was not opened within 48 hours. He wrote that he would strike energy plants, “STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST”.
Then, on Monday, he said he would delay the strikes for another five days based on “good and productive conversations” that Iran denies took place. Thursday’s is the second such delay.
The Trump administration has often put forward contradictory statements about the direction of the war, which began when the US and Israel attacked Iran nearly one month ago, on February 28.
But intentionally targeting Iran’s power supply could increase criticism of the overall military campaign.
Already, legal experts have described the initial attack on Iran as an act of unprovoked aggression.
Destroying or damaging civilian infrastructure, meanwhile, could be considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Analysts, however, have noted a trend in contemporary warfare towards attacking “dual-use” structures that benefit both military and civilian populations.
In Ukraine, for instance, Russian President Vladimir Putin justified an attack on energy infrastructure by saying it would set back the country’s military industrial complex. Still, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for those Russian attacks.
Amnesty International is among the rights groups that have denounced Trump’s plans to bomb Iranian power stations as “a threat to commit war crimes”.
Despite confident assertions from the White House that the victory in Iran is close at hand, the war shows few signs of ending.
Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, meanwhile, has sent shockwaves through the global economy. More than one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through the narrow waterway, along Iran’s shoreline.
Faced with threats to oil tankers, traffic through the strait has largely ground to a halt.
Trump has issued calls to allies to help reopen the strait, but so far, he has encountered scepticism from NATO countries and other partners.
In a cabinet meeting earlier on Thursday, Trump reiterated his position that Iran was “begging” for a deal to end the war, despite continued strikes against US bases and allies across the region. He also blasted media reports that Iran has rejected the US’s 15-point plan to reach a ceasefire.
“ They’ll tell you, ‘We’re not negotiating. We will not negotiate.’ Of course, they’re negotiating. They’ve been obliterated. Who wouldn’t negotiate?” Trump asked.
“If they make the right deal, then the strait will open up.”
Reports in the US media have suggested that the White House is considering ground operations against Iran, a step that analysts warn would lead to further escalation.
Already, an estimated 1,937 people have been killed in Iran, and 13 US military members have died. Dozens more deaths have been reported around the Middle East.
Iran, however, has denied that talks are taking place and has threatened to step up attacks around the region if the US or Israel target its energy grid.
Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. – Photo: Amar Ujala
