Taylor Swift Credits Fiance for Feeling ‘Confident & Free’ at Iheartradio Awards

The 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards captured attention asTaylor SwiftandTravis Kelcemade headlines with their interactions at the event. The couple arrived at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on March 26 with a lot to celebrate. Swift led the winners list, winning seven awards from nine nominations, including Artist of the Year and Pop Album of the Year for "The Life of a Showgirl." But besides her accolades, the night marked the first time Swift and her fiancé attended an awards show together as a couple.

Taylor Swift mentions Travis Kelce in her winning speech at 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's photos at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards showed them all loved-up. Swift accepted Pop Album of the Year onstage and thanked fellow artist RAYE as she opened her speech, pointing to the fans that inspired the album's mood, explaining the feeling she got while performing, and connecting with fans.

As the speech went on, Swift associated the album's upbeat tone with Kelce, who was in the audience. She said, "This album probably also feels very happy and confident and free because that's the way that I get to feel every single day of my life because of my fiance who's here tonight." As the crowd burst into cheers and applause, she added, "So thanks for all the vibes."

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Swift did not walk the red carpet with Kelce, but they were together during the ceremony, sharing affectionate moments during the night, including holding hands and kissing.

The pop star's award wins added another record to a long list.Billboardreported that her latest trophies brought her career total to 41 iHeartRadio Music Awards, which keeps her as the most-awarded artist in the show's history.

Between the major wins and the onstage shoutout to Travis Kelce at the show, Taylor Swift connected "The Life of a Showgirl's" "confident and free" feeling to the person cheering for her from the crowd.

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Original Bond Girl Ursula Andress Was the Victim of a $23 Million Theft — Now $20 Million of Her Assets Have Been Recovered

In January, Ursula Andress filed a criminal complaint against her wealth manager, Eric Freymond's estate, alleging she was defrauded out of 18 million Swiss Francs ($23 million worth)

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• On Thursday, March 26, Italian authorities seized $23 million worth of assets that were allegedly stolen from Andress

• Andress is best known for her role as the first "Bond Girl" in Dr. No (1962)

Italian authorities have seized €20 million ($23 million) worth of assets that were allegedly stolen from Swiss actressUrsula Andress.

Italian finance authorities, Guardia di Finanza, confirmed the news on Thursday, March 26, in aFacebook post, stating that they had "seized assets, works of art and financial availability for around 20 million euros."

Andress, 90, is best known for her role as Honey Ryder inDr. No(1962), oppositeSean Conneryas the first "Bond girl."

She claimed her former longtime wealth manager, whom she identified as Eric Freymond, allegedly ran an international money-laundering scheme and used her assets to purchase Palazzo al Bosco, a 44-acre villa in Tuscany,The New York Timesreported, citing Italian outletCorriere Della Sera.

The property is known for its notable art collection.

Freymond denied the various claims that he misused several clients' money. He died in July 2025 in an apparent suicide.

In January, Andress filed a criminal complaint against Freymond's estate for embezzlement in Switzerland, per local outletBlick. She told Blick at the time that she was defrauded out of 18 million Swiss Francs, approximately $23 million, after Freymond allegedly transferred money from a bank account without her consent to make fraudulent purchases.

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PEOPLE reached out to attorneys for Freymond's estate.

She said that she was suffering from anxiety due to being taken advantage of by people close to her, "This feeling of helplessness is unbearable – it's killing me."

"I am still in shock," Andress told the outlet. "I was deliberately chosen as a victim. For eight years, I was courted and wooed. They lied to me unscrupulously and exploited my good will and trust in a perfidious and indeed criminal way in order to take everything from me."

"I've worked hard and always saved my money," she said. "I hoped to spend my final years happily and peacefully. And now this happens – I've been disgustingly cheated! I hope the perpetrators are punished to the full extent of the law. I'm devastated."

It remains unclear if any arrests were made.

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In addition to her groundbreaking role as the first "Bond girl," Andress starred in the James Bond parodyCasino Royale. The actress also worked opposite Elvis Presley inFun in Acapulcoand Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in4 for Texas.

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Rachel Zegler wants to do a gender-swapped “Hamlet”

Rachel Zeglerhas big plans — for movies and the stage.

When asked if she would want to do more Shakespeare, theWest Side Storyactress was clear.

"If they'll have me, I'm dying to do more Shakespeare, my God," she told she told the U.K.'sThe Standard. "I'd love to do a femaleHamlet. I think that'd be so fun. Well, not 'fun,' really, but you know."

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The star of Disney's 2025 live-action version ofSnow Whitecertainly wouldn't be the first to do so. Gender-flipped adaptations of the Bard's work have been presented numerous times, in projects such as a well-reviewed 2020 production in Dublin, when Ruth Neggaplayed the starring role. Cush Jumbo starred in anacclaimed gender-blindversion in 2021.

Zegler, 24, also teased a project she couldn't completely disclose, describing it as "a musical film I'm really excited about, and I wish I could tell you what it is because I'm working with some f----ing amazing people on it. But I can't."

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It's been rumored for months that Zegler will take on the role of Gloria Estefan in a biopic, the outletBroadway Worldnoted, with Estefan herself havingconfirmed it toThe Sunin October.

"We're still working on the green light because we're figuring out where to do it, how to do it," the "Get on Your Feet" singer said then.

Speaking of her time on the stage, Zegler said that she'd been been able to overcome any nerves when she made her debut in June in London's West End. She was starring inEvita, playing a role previously taken on by the likes of Madonna and Patti LuPone.

"I'm terrified of everything, but I'm a really good actress," said Zegler, who won at the Golden Globes and was nominated at the Critics Choice Awards for her portrayal of Maria inWest Side Story. "These roles are iconic for a reason, but I had done it before withWest Side Story, and I knew I could do it again."

The actress said that she felt destined to star inEvita, and, after hearing she was being considered for the part, urged her agents to do what they could.

"I said, 'I don't care what it takes. I know that I can do it and that no one can do it like me,'" Zegler recalled. "That sounds really confident and probably borderline selfish. But there are times where you just know."

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New York town official found guilty of shooting lost DoorDash driver

GOSHEN, NY — An upstate New York town official who shot and injured alost DoorDash delivery driverlast year wasfound guilty of multiple assault and firearms chargeson Thursday, March 26, after about three days of deliberations.

An Orange County Court jury convicted John Reilly III, 49, of first-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree assault, and eight counts of criminal possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting of DoorDash driver Alpha Oumar Barry in May 2025. Reilly's sentencing is scheduled for May 18, and he faces up to 25 years behind bars on the top charge.

Reilly, the highway superintendent for the town of Chester, was arrested on May 3, 2025, a day after authorities said he shot at Barry's vehicle as the delivery driver attempted to leave Reilly's property. Chester is part of Orange County and is nearly 60 miles north of Manhattan.

After the verdict was delivered on March 26, Reilly was remanded to Orange County jail without bail. The $250,000 bail he had previously posted was exonerated and will be returned to his family.

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"This defendant's depraved indifference to human life was appalling and nearly resulted in the death of an innocent man," Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler said ina statementafter the verdict. "We can see firsthand the consequences of the use of dangerous firearms by an individual who had no business possessing a gun. ... I hope that the victim can continue to heal from the grievous wounds caused by this defendant's crimes."

During the trial, Reilly maintained that he hadacted in self-defenseand was concerned about the possibility of a home invasion or robbery. Defense attorney Thomas Arthur Kenniff said he was disappointed by the verdict and that the defense intended to appeal the decision.

"As I've said earlier, the inclusion of the depraved indifference charge we don't think it should have been in the indictment to begin with," Kenniff said after the verdict. "We don't think that should have been presented to the grand jury last year, and we don't think that it should have been allowed to go to the jury in this trial."

Prosecutors: DoorDash driver was lost while out on a delivery

At around 9 p.m. local time on May 2, 2025, Barry — who was 24 at the time and a legal immigrant from Guinea — approached Reilly's home in the town of Chester, according to prosecutors. Barry had been lost with a dead phone battery while making a food delivery and arrived, unarmed, at Reilly's front door with a bag of food, asking for help to charge his phone.

After asking Barry to leave, prosecutors said Reilly went inside the house and returned with a sling holster and a .45 caliber Glock pistol. As Barry was in the process of driving away in his Toyota Corolla, he was shot by Reilly in the driveway of the house.

Reilly had fired three shots, and one projectile pierced the trunk of the car and traveled through the driver's seat into Barry's lower back, according to prosecutors.

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Bleeding, with a bullet in his body, prosecutors saidBarry went to a Cumberland Farms storeand asked for help before leaving only after a few minutes to find his family in the nearby city of Middletown. Later that night, Barry underwent a four-hour surgery, in which more than two feet of Barry's bowel was removed, and an ostomy bag was created.

During the investigation into the incident, prosecutors said authorities executed a search warrant at Reilly's residence and recovered .45 caliber casings in the kitchen and front lawn; the projectile from the front lawn; the shoulder holster and loaded .45 caliber Glock pistol; and seven other illegally possessed pistols.

Authorities later learned that while Reilly held a federal firearms license to sell firearms, he did not have a New York state firearms license or pistol permit to lawfully own his guns, according to prosecutors.

Reilly was charged with 14 counts after beingarraigned in June 2025 for attempted second-degree murder. Reilly's wife, Selina Nelson-Reilly, wasindicted by the district attorney in October 2025for hindering prosecution and 17-counts of tampering with evidence, for deleting 17 videos from a smart doorbell camera at their house.

A shooting over pizza delivery mix-up?Small mistakes keep proving to be dangerous in USA.

Latest wrong-place shooting incident in US

Wrong-place shootingshave plagued communities across the United States for decades, with seemingly completely innocent people being fatally shot or seriously injured when they made simple mistakes. For years, such cases have renewed debates about the nation's patchwork of "stand your ground" laws.

Christopher Slobogin, law professor at Vanderbilt University and director of the school's Criminal Justice Program, previouslytold USA TODAYthat self-defense laws have proliferated in recent years, and opponents fear they could lead people to overreact and think they are legally justified.

Self-defense claims and "stand your ground" laws have been at the core of several controversial cases, including the killings ofTrayvon Martinin 2012 andAhmaud Arberyin 2020, as well as the trials ofKyle RittenhouseandDaniel Perryover the shooting deaths of protesters in 2020.

In recent years, similar cases to the shooting in Chester, New York, have sparked outrage and drawn national attention, including in November 2025, when an Indiana homeowner was accused offatally shooting a house cleanerwho went to the wrong residence.

In 2023, an86-year-old White manshotRalph Yarlafter the Black teenager went to the wrong house in Missouri. Two days after the incident, a 20-year-old womanwas shot and killed by a homeowner in upstate New Yorkwhile in a car that mistakenly turned into the wrong driveway.

Contributing: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Jeanine Santucci, and Terry Collins, USA TODAY

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Nepal's new prime minister chooses auspicious time to take oath of office

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — When Nepal's youngest prime minister takes the oath Friday after alandslide victory in the recent election, it won't just be a historic political moment, it will also be a numerological one.

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Balendra Shahwill be sworn in at 12:34 p.m., on a day when the Himalayan nation is celebrating Ram Navami, to mark the birth of the popular Hindu God Rama.

Hindu priests say 12:34 p.m. is the most auspicious time on Friday, according to astrological calculations. It also fits the "1-2-3-4" numerological pattern. Shah is later scheduled to enter his new office at 14:15 p.m. which also fits a "14-15" pattern. Hindu priests consider such numerical patterns as auspicious as well.

Religion and astrology play a big role in Nepal, which is more than 80% Hindu and where people begin new work, get married and hold religious rituals according to auspicious times.

Shah was born in the capital Kathmandu but his family comes from the Hindu-dominated Terai region of Nepal, near the border with India.

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He will take the oath of office as prime minister of Nepal before President Ramchandra Paudel at an elaborate ceremony with Hindu rituals, including "shankhnaad" or blowing of conches, and religious chanting by Hindu priests and Buddhist lamas.

Shah plans to take the oath along with hisnewly chosen Cabinetin the presence of officials and diplomats.

Balendra Shah, a structural engineer who rose to fame as a rap artist before becoming Kathmandu's mayor, leads the Rastriya Swatantra Party, which won about two-thirds of the 275 seats in the bicameral Parliament's powerful lower House of Representatives.

Shah, the 35-year-old political outsider widely known as Balen, will lead a government tasked with navigatingdeep public frustrationwith Nepal's established parties, who were widely blamed by voters for corruption and chronic political instability.

Shah emerged as a prominent voice during thebloody youth-led uprising in Septemberthat toppled the government in the nation of 30 million people, a wave of unrest that left dozens dead.

Although he didn't directly participate in the protests, Shah publicly expressed support for the largely Generation Z demonstrators who led the movement.

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Satellite observations offer insight into a tsunami's early stages

March 27 (Reuters) - Observations made by a satellite operated by the U.S. and French space agencies shortly after a strong earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last year are giving scientists a better understanding of how tsunamis originate and propagate.

The researchers said ‌the findings may help improve understanding of future tsunamis and earthquakes at subduction zones, particularly near the ocean trench where two tectonic ‌plates meet and one slides beneath the other. The strongest tsunamis often are generated by such quakes.

The magnitude 8.8 quake struck on July 29, 2025, triggering a tsunami that spread across ​the Pacific Ocean. A tsunami - a series of extremely long and powerful ocean waves - is caused by large movements of the seafloor that push water up or down, often during earthquakes or landslides that occur under water.

The NASA-CNES Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite made its observations within 70 minutes of the start of the earthquake. It observed not only the leading wave of the tsunami but also a distinct pattern of smaller waves trailing behind it. Such ‌wave patterns had long been predicted in computer models ⁠and theoretical studies, but had been difficult to confirm with real-world observations, the researchers said.

"I believe SWOT represents a new lens for observing and studying tsunamis and their generation," said Ignacio Sepúlveda, a professor of coastal engineering at San Diego ⁠State University and lead author of the study published this week in the journal Science.

"It is also likely to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms that generate tsunamis, including earthquakes," Sepúlveda added.

Traditional deep-ocean pressure sensors and other satellites have limitations in coverage and measurement, making it difficult to capture the full structure of the waves, especially near ​the ​trench, the researchers said. SWOT scans a wide swath of the ocean, producing two-dimensional ​maps of sea surface height. This allows scientists to see ‌the shape, direction and spacing of tsunami waves in much greater detail.

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Tsunamis are among the strongest and most destructive natural forces, with powerful waves radiating from a point of origin outward in all directions. These waves can cause damaging and deadly coastal flooding.

The tsunami in this study did not cause significant loss of life, but others have caused huge death tolls such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people.

The July 2025 tsunami originated within about 10 kilometres (six miles) of the trench, the place in the seafloor where two tectonic plates intersect, the researchers found. This location could ‌not previously be determined using traditional land-based instruments or sparse sensors on the seafloor alone.

Earth's ​surface is made up of immense plates that move very gradually in a geological process ​called plate tectonics.

The researchers found that when earthquake-caused movement extends close ​to the trench, it can generate shorter waves that travel more slowly and spread out over time, forming a ‌trailing pattern behind the main tsunami front. This behaviour means ​that different parts of the wave move ​at different speeds, with longer waves moving more quickly and leading while shorter ones lag behind.

The study also showed that the strength of the trailing waves increases when earthquake movement extends closer to the trench, suggesting these waves are linked to where and how the tsunami ​was generated near the trench.

"This opens a new window ‌to understand in a better way what happens with earthquakes and tsunamis near the trench," Sepúlveda said, referring to SWOT observations. "In ​the future, this knowledge will allow us to improve models we use to evaluate tsunami hazards in coastal communities and make ​them more resilient."

(Reporting by Marta Serafinko in Gdansk, Poland; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Curt Cignetti had a welcome-to-Indiana message for transfer Nick Marsh: Leave the gold shoes behind

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) —Curt Cignettiis not about to let the Indiana Hoosiers put flash in front of fundamentals after their first national championship.

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Newcomer Nick Marsh apparently found that out in humbling fashion before his first practice with the team.

During Cignetti's news conference to preview the start of spring ball, the no-nonsense coach revealed during a discussion about the transfer wide receiver from Michigan State that he chewed out Marsh prior to practice for an equipment faux pas for the old-school program.

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After praising the production Marsh gave the Spartans over his first two seasons in the Big Ten, with 100 receptions for 1,311 yards and nine touchdowns in 23 games, Cignetti made a point to mention he put Marsh in his place for his choice of cleat color.

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"I don't know if that happened to him very often at Michigan State," Cignetti said. "That was a wakeup call."

Perhaps Cignetti was simply trying to use Marsh to send a message to the entire team with a reminder that glamour — or complacency — will get the Hoosiers nowhere in 2026 after winning all 16 of their games in the 2025 season. Whatever his motivation, the 64-year-old Cignetti — who is 27-2 in two seasons at Indiana — quickly softened his tone to seemingly steer the spotlight away from Marsh's first-day mistake.

"He's worked really hard, done a great job for us," Cignetti said.

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