The song, off his upcoming album, Whatever’s Clever!, features Japanese-American artist Hikaru Utada and was inspired by Charlie’s wife, Brooke Puth.
“Home was written for my best friend, wife and soon to be mother of our first child,” Charlie says in a statement. “Brooke has changed my life for the better and given me a whole new perspective on why and where I belong in this world. Everything makes sense with her.”
He adds that working with one of his “favorite artists” Hikaru Utada on the song was “a true gift.”
Hikaru, who contributed Japanese lyrics to the song, says in her own statement, “I hope everyone enjoys this bilingual song and its universal message.”
Whatever’s Clever! drops March 27. The album also features collaborations with Kenny G, Ravyn Lenae, Coco Jones, Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, and Jeff Goldbum.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Stocks tumbled on Monday as oil prices climbed in response to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 460 points, or 0.9%, while the S&P 500 dropped 0.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq inched down 0.2%.
The major indexes recovered some of their earlier losses on Monday, however, after oil price hikes cooled. Oil markets settled amid a meeting among Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers about a possible coordinated release from their respective strategic petroleum reserves.
The G7 announced on Monday its decision to forego a release of reserve oil at this time, but markets appeared to view the group as willing to take such action.
The Dow fell as much as 750 points on Monday morning, before paring some of its losses in the afternoon.
Indexes fell worldwide on Monday as the spike in oil prices rippled through global markets. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index plunged 5.2%, while pan-European STOXX 600 index slipped 0.6%.
Oil prices climbed as traders feared a prolonged blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a trading route that facilitates the transport of about one-fifth of the global oil supply.
U.S. crude oil prices hovered at about $95 per barrel on Monday afternoon, which marked a nearly 5% hike. Since a month ago, oil prices have soared a staggering 50%.
Oil prices climbed as high as nearly $120 per barrel overnight, but retreated after the Financial Times reported G7 finance ministers would meet to discuss a possible coordinated release from their respective strategic petroleum reserves.
After the meeting, oil prices fell further but remained higher than where they stood a day prior.
The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. soared to $3.47 on Monday from $2.99 a week earlier, AAA said.
In a social media post on Sunday night, President Donald Trump downplayed the rise in oil prices.
“Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!” Trump said.
Soon after the war with Iran began on Feb. 28, U.S.-Israeli forces killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on Sunday to succeed him.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Dionne Warwick attends her 85th Birthday Celebration on December 12, 2025, in Summit, New Jersey. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)
Dionne Warwick will be giving fans a new album one last time. Billboard reports that after 65 years in the music industry, she’s announced her final album, Dwuets, which will see her collaborate with some high-profile duet partners.
The first two letters of the title are in celebration of her first time working with Diane Warren, with whom she shares the same initials, according to the publication. Announced features on the project include Cynthia Erivo, who guests on the lead single “Ocean in the Desert,” and Kehlani, who will appear on the album’s second single.
“It was such a joy to be in the studio harmonizing with such a talented entertainer as Cynthia. We immediately bonded and had so much fun recording this beautiful song,” Dionne says of “Ocean in the Desert,” as per Billboard.
Erivo also enjoyed the experience. She said in her own statement, “It was so warm being in the studio with Dionne; it was like a mother-daughter relationship. This experience was like the godmother of music coming in and saying to me ‘I knight you.’”
In a joint Instagram post, she recalled their first interaction and the moment Warwick asked her to be on the song.
“Ocean in the Desert” is set to arrive on March 20; the release for Dwuets, and additional features, will be announced at a later time.
Warwick’s son and manager, Damon Elliott, produced the album, according to Billboard. Physical art pieces accompanying the project will be up for auction.
Megan Moroney on her 9 Cities 9 Days Tour (Cece Dawson)
If you weren’t one of the fans who got to attend Megan Moroney’s 9 Cities 9 Days tour, in which she played intimate shows and did meet & greets for fans across the country, you can now see what it was like online.
A mini documentary about the tour is available on YouTube. In it, Megan travels from New York to Scottsdale, Arizona, stopping along the way in Nashville; Athens, Georgia; Newport, Kentucky; Kansas City, Missouri; Denver; and Salt Lake City. You’ll see fans camping out for hours, screaming as she performs live and freaking out over getting her autograph.
Also in the doc, you’ll see a makeup-free Megan hanging out backstage and on her bus with her team; showing off her adorable dog, Boots; eating Raising Cane’s chicken; and talking about how she put “every atom in my body” into the making of her album Cloud 9. When she gets the news that it’s debuted at #1 on the chart, she pops a bottle of champagne.
“The reason I wanted to do this is, there’s been something really rewarding about being able to look [fans] in the eye and meet them,” Megan says.
John Fogerty performs during the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on April 24, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)
John Fogerty has announced new dates for his Legacy Tour, although on this leg he’ll be joined by fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Steve Winwood.
The 13-date trek kicks off Sept. 3 in Tinley Park, Illinois, outside of Chicago, with stops that include Boston; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Charlotte, North Carolina. The tour wraps Sept. 20 in Hollywood, Florida.
A ticket presale begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, with tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Fogerty launched his Legacy Tour in the fall of 2025 in support of his most recent album, Legacy: the Creedence Clearwater Revival years, whic had him rerecording his Creedence Clearwater Revival classics. Songs on the album include “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Fortunate Son,” “Have You Ever Seen the Rain” and “Born on the Bayou.”
Next up for Fogerty, after a March 14 concert in Mexico, he’ll headline three shows at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, March 18-21.
Fogerty will also be honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame with the Johnny Mercer Award, which is the organization’s highest honor. Fogerty will receive the award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala on June 11 in New York City.
A complete list of tour dates can be found at JohnFogerty.com.
Poster for Jill Scott’s ‘To Whom This May Concern’ world tour (Live Nation)
Jill Scott is ready to take her new album, To Whom This May Concern, on the road. The singer has announced her accompanying world tour, which will see her perform 36 dates across the globe.
Jill will kick things off in the U.S. with a June 4 performance in Nashville; LA, New York, Chicago, Atlanta and other major cities are also on the schedule.
The Europe/U.K. leg of her tour runs from Sept. 29 to Oct. 14, and her South Africa dates include a Nov. 7 show in Pretoria and a Nov. 11 show in Cape Town.
The tour will feature uniquely curated, residency-style shows in each city, with live band instrumentation at the center. “Creating unique experiences for people in every city is incredibly important to me,” Jill says in a statement. “Music is a conversation, and the stage is where we come together to share truth, joy, and the beauty of being alive.”
An artist presale for the To Whom This May Concern World Tour begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time, followed by the general sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time at missjillscott.com.
To Whom This May Concern, which was released Feb. 13, marks Jill’s first album in over a decade.
The Defense Department has identified Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, of Glendale, Ky., who succumbed to his injuries following a March 1 attack on his base in Saudi Arabia. DoD
(WASHINGTON) — The Defense Department on Monday identified another U.S. service member who died following the opening wave of Iranian retaliatory attacks across the Middle East, marking the seventh U.S. service member to die in the war with Iran.
Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, 26, died Sunday from injuries he sustained during a March 1 retaliation strike on U.S. troops at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia from Iran.
“He gave the ultimate sacrifice for the country he loved,” Lt. Gen. Sean A. Gainey, the top officer for Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said in a statement. “That makes him nothing less than a hero, and he will always be remembered that way. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.”
Pennington enlisted in the Army in 2017 as a supply specialist and was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade at Fort Carson, Colorado. He is set to be posthumously promoted to staff sergeant, the Army announced.
Pennington was working at a strategic radar installation responsible for early warning against incoming missile threats, a critical node in the U.S. military’s missile-defense architecture, according to a source familiar with the situation.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer of the other six American service members killed in the war’s opening hours, after an Iranian drone struck in Kuwait. All six were killed in the same attack.
Even as the ceremony underscored the war’s early toll, the president and senior Pentagon officials have been preparing the public for the likelihood that more casualties are ahead.
“The president’s been right to say there will be casualties,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday. “Things like this don’t happen without casualties. There will be more casualties.”
Hegseth cast the losses as a grim but familiar feature of war for a country that has spent more than two decades fighting in the Middle East.
“Especially our generation knows what it’s like to see Americans come home in caskets,” he said. “But that doesn’t weaken us one bit. It stiffens our spine and our resolve to say this is a fight we will finish.”
ABC News’ Martha Raddatz contributed to this report.
The Anthropic logo displayed on the stage during the company’s Builder Summit in Bengaluru, India, on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Artificial-intelligence firm Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday over the Pentagon’s choice to designate it a “supply-chain risk,” legal filings show.
A spokesperson for Anthropic said the legal action “does not change our longstanding commitment to harnessing AI to protect our national security, but this is a necessary step to protect our business, our customers, and our partners.”
A Department of Defense spokesperson told ABC News: “As a matter of Department of War policy, we do not comment on litigation.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll at the ‘Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic’ book tour in Las Vegas on Feb. 26, 2026. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Jelly Roll will be hanging with Matthew McConaughey in April.
Jelly’s been announced as the headliner for this year’s MJ&M Gala. The benefit is organized by Mack, Jack & McConaughey, the fundraising effort founded by the actor, along with legendary Texas Longhorns football coach Mark Brown and singer/songwriter Jack Ingram.
This year’s gala takes place April 23 at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT via AXS.com. Proceeds will go to five charitable organizations dedicated to children’s education, health and wellness.
In other Jelly news, on Sunday, which was International Women’s Day, he released the video for his single “Thorns,” starring none other than his wife, Bunnie Xo. He wrote on Instagram, “To my beautiful, intelligent, compassionate, graceful wife, and newly New York Times best selling author, I’ll never be able to thank you enough for making me complete. You truly saved my life.”
He added, “They say behind every good man is a great woman, and I know thats damn true for me y’all.”
Jelly sings in the romantic song, “Every lost has a found/ Look at me, girl, standin’ next to you right now/ Thought I’d always be alone/ But every thorn has its rose.”
Miley Cyrus on volume two of reimagined ‘Sesame Street.’ (Zach Hyman/Sesame Workshop)
Miley Cyrus knows how to get to Sesame Street.
The singer is the special guest for volume two of the reimagined Sesame Street, which drops Monday on Netflix and PBS KIDS.
She appears in the “Elmo’s Toy Swap” episode as Elmo learns there’s “no wrong way to play.” In a clip posted to Instagram, we see Miley singing a song about imagination with Elmo and friends.
“We can be whatever we can dream/ When we imagine, anything can happen,” they sing as they imagine themselves in a submarine underwater.
The scene then cuts back to the toy swap, where Miley holds up a sparkly high heel. “Let’s imagine what we can do with this!” she says.
“We loved imagining with you, @mileycyrus!” the show wrote on its Instagram account. “Thanks for stopping by Sesame Street to sing and dance with us. We love you!”
Season 56 of Sesame Street is airing in three volumes. The first volume debuted last November.
