HAVANA — The Trump administration made clear Tuesday that it sees Cuba as the next country where the U.S. can play out its desires on the world stage.

A day after Cuba’s third nationwide blackout in four months as the socialist island’s economy suffers under U.S. sanctions, President Donald Trump said, “Cuba right now is in very bad shape.”

“And we’ll be doing something with Cuba very soon,” the president added.

The Trump administration is looking for President Miguel Díaz-Canel to leave as the U.S. continues negotiating with the Cuban government, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of talks between Washington and Havana. No detail has been offered about who the administration might like to see come to power.

Many Cubans do not believe that Díaz-Canel holds much power in Cuba, anyway, as opposed to revolutionary founding father Raúl Castro and his family.

Electricity was slowly being restored to hospitals and some homes Tuesday afternoon, but officials warned that the crumbling power network could fail again.

The government blames its woes on a U.S. energy blockade after Trump in January warned of tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, said the island “has an economy that doesn’t work in a political and governmental system. They can’t fix it.”

A Cuban official said Monday that Cuba is open to trading with U.S. companies, but such promises have been made before.

“So they have to change dramatically,” Rubio said. “What they announced yesterday is not dramatic enough. It’s not going to fix it.”

The Trump administration is also demanding that Cuba release political prisoners and move toward political and economic liberalization in return for a lifting of sanctions. Trump has also raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover of Cuba.”

While Cuba produces 40% of its petroleum and has been generating its own power, it hasn’t been sufficient to meet demand as its electric grid continues to crumble.

Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said on X that the island had restored the electrical system in the western town of Pinar del Rio and the southeastern province of Holguin and that some “microsystems” were beginning to operate in various territories.

State-owned media reported that by late Monday power had been restored to 5% of residents in the capital, Havana, representing some 42,000 customers.

The city’s residents are concerned about food spoiling and simply trying to maneuver in homes with no lighting.

“The power outages are driving me crazy,” said 48-year-old Dalba Obiedo. “Last night I fell down a 27-step staircase. Now I have to have surgery on my jaw. I fell because the lights went out.”

Havana resident Tomás David Velázquez Felipe, 61, said the relentless outages make him think that Cubans who can should just pack up and leave the island. “What little we have to eat spoils,” he said. “Our people are too old to keep suffering.”

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Seung Min Kim and Aamer Madhani contributed from Washington.

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Kouri Richins, a Utah woman accused of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl, who self-published a children’s book on grieving following his death, has been found guilty of murder following a weekslong trial.

The Summit County jury began deliberating late Monday afternoon before reaching a verdict after about three hours. She was found guilty on all five counts, including aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder.

Kouri Richins looked down and remained still while the judge read out each guilty verdict. Her sentencing has been scheduled for May 13.

During closing arguments earlier Monday, prosecutors alleged that the mom of three was obsessed with appearing “privileged, affluent and successful” and killed her husband to help pay the debts of her floundering home flipping business and to get a “fresh start.”

The defense, meanwhile, said the case was “sloppy” and “driven by bias” and argued that the state failed to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.

Kouri Richins, 35, was charged with aggravated murder in connection with the 2022 death of her husband, Eric Richins, following a lengthy investigation. Prosecutors allege she spiked his drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl that she purchased illicitly after asking two people for the “Michael Jackson drug.”

“Kouri Richins was a suburban mother, real estate agent. She does not know a lot about the illicit street drug world, but she knows Michael Jackson died from taking drugs,” prosecutor Brad Bloodworth said during closing arguments on Monday. “She doesn’t know how to order a street drug, but she knows she wants the Michael Jackson stuff. She knows she wants it because it is lethal. It is fatal. It kills. And she wanted lethal, fatal death.”

Her charges also include attempted aggravated murder, with prosecutors alleging she gave her husband a sandwich laced with fentanyl on Valentine’s Day two weeks before his death in an initial, failed attempt to kill him.

Kouri Richins was also accused of committing insurance fraud by taking out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life with his forged signature and then submitting a claim following his alleged murder.

She pleaded not guilty and has maintained her innocence.

Her husband, 39-year-old Eric Richins, was found dead in bed on March 4, 2022. An autopsy determined that he died from fentanyl intoxication, and the level of fentanyl in his blood was approximately five times the lethal dosage, according to the charging document. The medical examiner determined the fentanyl was “illicit fentanyl,” not medical grade, according to the charging document.

Prosecutors allege that Kouri Richins purchased illicit fentanyl pills shortly before the Valentine’s Day incident and again before his death, at which point she allegedly asked for stronger drugs.

‘Downward financial death spiral’: Prosecutor

During his closing argument, Bloodworth said Kouri Richins was in “financial desperation” due to her realty company’s debts and needed a significant influx of cash immediately. He alleged she believed she would have financially benefited from her husband’s death — without realizing that his assets were in a trust for their children. 

Bloodworth said October 2021 was the “beginning of the downward financial death spiral” of Kouri Richins’ realty business, and that she had a growing debt picture nearing $8 million. 

He alleged Kouri Richins intended to cause her husband’s death as early as December 2021, when she was booked a vacation with her boyfriend for April 2022.

“Kouri Richins did not book that trip thinking Eric Richins would be alive in April, she booked it knowing he would not,” Bloodworth said.

Bloodworth referred to evidence that he alleged showed she intended to cause her husband’s death. A witness testified during the trial that in December 2021 Kouri Richins said to her that “in many ways it would be better” if Eric Richins “were dead.” In February 19, 2022, days after the alleged attempted murder attempt, prosecutors said Kouri Richins texted her boyfriend, “If he could just go away and you could just be here! Life would be so perfect!!”

Bloodworth said Kouri Richins tried to cover up her alleged role in her husband’s death, starting with the 911 call.

“Listen to how she tells the 911 dispatcher where she was when Eric died. She is distancing herself,” Bloodworth said before the call was played again for jurors. “Rather than, ‘He’s not breathing. He has no pulse. I have to figure out what to do. I need help,’ she’s saying, ‘Hey, look, I was not there. I was in my son’s room.’ That’s her alibi. She’s distancing herself from the time and the place that she murdered Eric.”

Bloodworth also said the call shows that the 911 operator asked Kouri Richins to perform CPR on her husband for 6 minutes before she purportedly did. “She is not immediately trying to revive him,” he said. 

Bloodworth said Kouri Richins deleted her texts and phone logs with multiple people, including her former housecleaner, Carmen Lauber, who testified about obtaining illicit drugs at Kouri Richins’ request in the weeks prior to Eric Richins’ death. He argued that Kouri Richins was worried about being investigated and her deleted messages in the wake of her husband’s death, as evidenced by searches on her phone such as, “can cops force you to do a lie detector test” and “can deleted text messages be retrieved from an iPhone.”

When the toxicology report showed that Eric Richins died from a fentanyl overdose, Bloodworth argued that Kouri Richins then needed to “explain” the presence of the drug — and that she allegedly planned to do so by claiming she got them for her husband at his request.

Bloodworth argued that Eric Richins did not die of an accidental overdose, citing testimony from his friends and family who said he did not use illicit drugs. He also argued that he did not die by suicide and had “every reason to live” — foremost being his three young sons. 

“The evidence proves that Kouri Richins murdered, attempted to murder Eric Richins and that she committed two counts of insurance fraud and forgery,”  he said. “The evidence does not support any other explanation.”

Defense argues case had ‘confirmation bias’

Defense attorney Wendy Lewis argued during her closing that the case was impacted by confirmation bias from the start.

“Instead of looking at the evidence to determine what happened, the state has, they determined what happened, and then they found the evidence to support it,” Lewis said.

Lewis argued that there was “no evidence” that there was fentanyl in Eric Richins’ drink the night he died and that investigators failed to look into his recent trip to Mexico, which the defense had insinuated could have been the source of the fentanyl, or to test an old prescription bottle that was on his nightstand.

Lewis raised questions about the testimony of Lauber, who testified pursuant to several grants of immunity.

“Carmen Lauber was not able to tell you that she bought fentanyl. She agreed on the stand that it was the detectives that first put the word fentanyl in her mouth, in her head. She was told by detectives in this case that she bought fentanyl. ‘Eric died of fentanyl. You bought drugs. You bought fentanyl,'” Lewis said. “She took that story and she ran with it because she had everything to lose.”

On the affair, Lewis said Kouri Richins broke things off with her boyfriend and they never went on the trip. On the phone searches, Lewis argued that Kouri Richins was worried because she was innocent.

“Of course she’s worried. An innocent person would be worried. Anyone would be worried if they just found out that they are a suspect in a homicide investigation,” Lewis said. “She would have been scared to death.” 

Lewis touched on Kouri Richin’s money troubles, acknowledging that the house flipping business was “struggling,” but argued that Eric Richins was “worth so much more to Kouri alive.”

She claimed that Kouri Richins was being judged for how she grieved.

“They want you to look at a woman in the worst moment of her life and to judge her grief,” Lewis said. “There is no wrong way to grieve.”

Lewis told the jury that if they believe Kouri Richins “accidentally obtained fentanyl,” and that Eric Richins then took those pills voluntarily and died, she argued that it is “not aggravated murder” and that they “must find Kouri Richins not guilty.”

On the alleged insurance scheme, Lewis argued that the state has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that there was any fraud or forgery. 

“The state has not proven their case,” Lewis said. “They don’t have the evidence that Kouri Richins killed her husband, so instead, they have tried to show you as much evidence as they possibly can to convince you she’s the sort of person who would.”

Prior to delivering its closing argument, the defense submitted a motion for mistrial, alleging that the state’s closing was full of “wild speculation,” dehumanized Kouri Richins and inappropriately commented on her demeanor. The motion was denied.

In his rebuttal, Bloodworth acknowledged that much of the evidence in the case is circumstantial.

“People do not video themselves poisoning their spouse,” he said. “But circumstantial evidence is just as good as direct evidence.”

Bloodworth argued that there was “plenty of proof to convict” Kouri Richins based on Lauber’s corroborated testimony. He also argued that much of the defense’s argument is based around trying to explain a letter found in Kouri Richins’ jail cell that prosecutors said appears to outline testimony for her brother instructing him to say that her husband got fentanyl from Mexico.

“All the evidence in this case proves that Kouri Richins murdered her husband, the father of her three children, Eric Richins,” he said. “There is no other rational explanation.”

“And despite all the evidence, Kouri Richins doubles down and blames Eric,” he continued.

Kouri Richins did not testify during the three-week trial and the defense called no witnesses.

During his testimony, the lead detective in the case said that Kouri Richins paid a ghostwriter for her children’s book. 

A month prior to her arrest in May 2023, the mom of three young sons appeared on a “Good Things Utah” segment on Salt Lake City ABC affiliate KTVX to promote the book. In the segment, Kouri Richins said her husband of nine years died “unexpectedly” and that his death “completely took us all by shock.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed U.S. diplomats around the world to urge foreign governments to “move expeditiously to diminish the capabilities of Iran and Iran-aligned terrorist groups from attacking our respective nations and citizens” amid an “elevated risk of attack” from the country and its proxies, according to a private cable obtained by ABC News. 

The mandate from the secretary was issued to all diplomatic and consular posts Monday as part of an “action request” labeled “Elevated Concern of IRGC Activity,” referring to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

It instructs U.S. officials to deliver the message above — which is labeled sensitive but unclassified — “at the highest appropriate level” by March 20.  

The Trump administration has been seeking to build international support for its military campaign against Iran, particularly when it comes to assembling a coalition to full open the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump said on Monday that a list of countries that had agreed to help would be announced soon. 

Rubio’s communication to diplomats doesn’t elaborate on the elevated risk of attack from Iran or its proxies, but stresses that a combined approach is the best strategy for offsetting the threat. 

“We assess that the Iranian regime is more sensitive to collective action than unilateral action, and that joint pressure is more likely to compel behavior change by the regime than unilateral actions alone,” the cable says.

“We must act while international attention is focused now to end the Iranian campaign of terror in the Middle East and globally. Do not allow this critical movement to pass,” it says.

Asked by ABC News for comment, a State Department spokesperson said, “President Trump is focused on securing peace in the Middle East. The IRGC, Hizballah, and other Iranian backed proxies destabilize government and undermine regional peace.”

The cable also instructs diplomats to deliver other messages, including a reminder of Iranian regime’s long-running efforts to destabilize the Middle East and beyond through its support of  groups including Hezbollah, Hamas and Iraqi militias, as well as the goals of Operation Epic Fury — which it says are to “neutralize Iran’s nuclear program, destroy its ballistic missile program, disrupt its proxy networks, and diminish its naval capabilities.” 

“At post’s discretion, advocacy efforts should be coordinated with Israeli diplomatic counterparts,” the cable says, adding that the talking points “may not be left behind.” 

Additionally, diplomats in countries that have not yet designated the IRGC and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations are directed to encourage their government to “swiftly” do so, providing additional arguments aimed at making the case. 

“Such a designation will intensify the pressure on the Iranian regime and limit its ability to sponsor terror activities across the globe that jeopardizes the safety and security of your populations,” the cable says. 

“The IRGC has directly orchestrated terrorist and assassination plots on foreign soil and engaged in ongoing espionage and influence operations,” it adds. “These plots are intentional acts designed to intimidate populations and inflict harm on your civilians.” 

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said Monday that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, which was detected early, and that she will continue to serve in her role while she undergoes treatment.

“I am grateful to have an outstanding team of doctors who detected the cancer early and are guiding my care, and I am encouraged by a strong prognosis,” Wiles said in a statement. “I am also deeply thankful for the support and encouragement of President Trump as I undergo treatment and continue serving in my role as White House Chief of Staff.”

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Monday that while Wiles undergoes treatment, “she will be spending virtually full time at the White House, which makes me, as President, very happy!”

During an event at the White House on Monday, Trump praised his top aide, saying that she is an “amazing fighter” and will “take care of it immediately,” referring to her treatment.

“She just started actually, and she’s going to be a great shape,” Trump said of her treatment. “The prognosis there is excellent, beyond excellent.”

Wiles has served as the White House chief of staff since the beginning of Trump’s second term.

She didn’t offer any additional details about her prognosis or treatment plan.

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women in the United States (excluding skin cancers). About 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer. 

An estimated 321,910 females will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, the American Cancer Society estimates. An estimated 42,140 women will die. 

Actress Amy Madigan picked up her first Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday for her role as Gladys in the supernatural horror film “Weapons,” her first win since she was nominated in the same category 40 years ago.

Madigan spoke to ABC News’ Lara Spencer after the ceremony about what it was like coming out on top in a formidable category that also included nominees Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Wunmi Mosaku, and Teyana Taylor, all of whom she shouted out in her acceptance speech.

“I was totally surprised by the accolades that Gladys has been receiving,” Madigan said. “And people really like my work, which is what you want.”

“Gladys was such a great part. But I never thought it would end up at this,” she added.

During their chat, Madigan shared what she thought of Oscars host Conan O’Brien starting the awards show by playing Gladys.

“He was pretty good actually. People just fall in love with her eccentricity, and you don’t get to play those kind of parts that often, you know?” she said. “I do that in my own life, much to the chagrin of my family and dogs.”

She added that she saw O’Brien backstage during the Oscars ceremony and told him he did a “pretty good job” as Gladys.

“[And] he goes, ‘Yeah, you did a lot better,”” she said. “He did a good job!”

Madigan is proving it’s never too late to achieve your dreams: Her win on Sunday comes four decades after she was nominated for best supporting actress for her role as Sunny Sobel in the drama “Twice in a Lifetime,” in which she starred alongside Gene Hackman, Ann-Margret, Ellen Burstyn, Ally Sheedy and Brian Dennehy.

“It’s 40 years ago that I didn’t get the Oscar the first time,” she said, speaking with Spencer, “but I’ve been playing music and acting professionally since I’ve been 19 years old. I’m 75 now.”

In her acceptance speech, Madigan remarked on the difference between the two experiences, saying jokingly, “Everybody’s asking me in the press … ‘Well, it’s been 40 years, what’s different about this time?’ What’s different is I’ve got this little doll guy!”

Elsewhere in her acceptance speech, Madigan thanked her daughter Lily Harris and longtime husband Ed Harris.

“Most of all, I want to thank my beautiful daughter Lily and her husband Sean — and, of course, all the dogs,” she said. “But the most important is my beloved Ed, who’s been with me for forever, and that’s a long-ass time … None of this would mean anything if he wasn’t by my side.”

Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered Sunday night to celebrate the year’s standout achievements in film at the 98th Academy Awards.

“One Battle After Another” claimed the night’s top honor, winning the Oscar for best picture, while the film’s director, Paul Thomas Anderson, earned the award for best director.

Other top prizes went to Michael B. Jordan, who won best actor for “Sinners,” and Jessie Buckley, who received the best actress Oscar for “Hamnet.”

Amy Madigan secured the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in “Weapons,” while Sean Penn won best supporting actor for “One Battle After Another.”

The ceremony also marked the debut of a new category called best achievement in casting, with “One Battle After Another” taking home the inaugural award. It is the first competitive category added by the Academy since best animated feature was introduced in 2001.

The 2026 Oscars were hosted by Conan O’Brien, who returned to emcee the ceremony for the second year in a row. The awards were held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and broadcast live on ABC, with streaming also available on Hulu. 

See the complete list of winners from the 2026 Oscars below.

Best supporting actress

• Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
• Amy Madigan, “Weapons” – WINNER
• Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
• Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”

Best animated feature film

• “Arco”
• “Elio”
• “KPop Demon Hunters” – WINNER
• “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
• “Zootopia 2”

Best animated short film

• “Butterfly”
• “Forevergreen”
• “The Girl Who Cried Pearls” – WINNER
• “Retirement Plan”
• “The Three Sisters”

Best costume design

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Deborah L. Scott
• “Frankenstein” — Kate Hawley – WINNER
• “Hamnet” — Malgosia Turzanska
• “Marty Supreme” — Miyako Bellizzi
• “Sinners” — Ruth E. Carter

Best makeup and hairstyling

• “Frankenstein” – WINNER
• “Kokuho”
• “Sinners”
• “The Smashing Machine”
• “The Ugly Stepsister”

Best casting

• “Hamnet” — Nina Gold
• “Marty Supreme” — Jennifer Venditti
• “One Battle After Another” — Cassandra Kulukundis – WINNER
• “The Secret Agent” — Gabriel Domingues
• “Sinners” — Francine Maisler

Best live action short film

• “Butcher’s Stain”
• “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
• “A Friend of Dorothy”
• “The Singers” – WINNER
• “Two People Exchanging Saliva” – WINNER

Best supporting actor

• Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”
• Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
• Delroy Lindo, “Sinners”
• Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another” – WINNER
• Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”

Best adapted screenplay

• “Bugonia” — Will Tracy
• “Frankenstein” — Guillermo Del Toro
• “Hamnet” — Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao
• “One Battle After Another” — Paul Thomas Anderson – WINNER
• “Train Dreams” — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

• “Blue Moon” — Robert Kaplow
• “It Was Just an Accident” — Jafar Panahi
• “Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• “Sentimental Value” — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
• “Sinners” – Ryan Coogler – WINNER

Best production design

• “Frankenstein” – WINNER
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”

Best visual effects

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash” – WINNER
• “F1”
• “Jurassic World Rebirth”
• “The Lost Bus”
• “Sinners”

Best documentary short film

• “All the Empty Rooms” – WINNER
• “Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
• “Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone'”
• “The Devil is Busy”
• “Perfectly a Strangeness”

Best documentary feature film

• “The Alabama Solution”
• “Come See Me in the Good Light”
• “Cutting Through Rocks”
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” – WINNER
• “The Perfect Neighbor”

Best original score

• “Bugonia” — Jerskin Fendrix
• “Frankenstein” — Alexandre Desplat
• “Hamnet” — Max Richter
• “One Battle After Another” — Jonny Greenwood
• “Sinners” — Ludwig Göransson – WINNER

Best sound

• “F1” – WINNER
• “Frankenstein”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirât”

Best film editing

• “F1” — Stephen Mirrione
• “Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• “One Battle After Another” — Andy Jurgensen – WINNER
• “Sentimental Value” — Olivier Bugge Coutté
• “Sinners” — Michael P. Shawver

Best cinematography

• “Frankenstein”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners” – WINNER
• “Train Dreams”

Best international feature film

• Brazil, “The Secret Agent”
• France, “It Was Just an Accident”
• Norway, “Sentimental Value” – WINNER
• Spain, “Sirât”
• Tunisia, “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Best original song

• “Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
• “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” – WINNER
• “I Lied to You” from “Sinners”
• “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”
• “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”

Best director

• Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
• Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
• Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” – WINNER
• Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
• Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best actor

• Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
• Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
• Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
• Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners” – WINNER
• Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”

Best actress

• Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” – WINNER
• Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
• Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”
• Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
• Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best picture

• “Bugonia”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another” – WINNER
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sinners”
• “Train Dreams”

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“Sinners” star Michael B. Jordan won the best actor Oscar Sunday night at the 98th Academy Awards, beating out a crowded field that included Timothée Chalamet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Jordan’s best actor win for “Sinners” marks his first-ever Academy Award.

The Newark, New Jersey, native thanked the director of “Sinners,” Oscar winner Ryan Coogler, calling him an “amazing person.”

“I’m so honored to call you a collaborator and a friend, and you gave me the opportunity and space for me to be seen, and I love you, too, bro, love you to death,” Jordan said to Coogler, who was in the audience at the Dolby Theatre.

Jordan went on to acknowledge the Black Oscar winners who came before him, including Halle Berry, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and more.

“I stand here because of the people who came before me,” Jordan said, adding, “To be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys, thank you everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it.”

With his best actor win, Jordan joins other Black male actors Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, and Forrest Whitaker, as well as Poitier and Washington.

Jordan also thanked his family in his speech, including his mom, who has been his date to many awards show this season, as well as his dad, whom he said traveled from Ghana to attend the Oscars.

He also thanked his brother and sister, who also walked with him, alongside their parents, at the Oscars.

Jordan finished with a message of gratitude for his supporters, saying, “Thank you for … betting on me, and I’m going to keep stepping up, and I’m going to keep being the best version of myself I can be.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the war with Iran will come to an end in the next few weeks, and possibly sooner, amid concerns about high gas prices.

“I think that this conflict will certainly come to an end in the next few weeks,” Wright told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz. “Could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks.”

Wright’s comments come as Americans are seeing increasingly high gas prices as a result of the war. One major piece of leverage Iran maintains is its control over the Strait of Hormuz, a critical passageway connecting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman through which around 20% of the world’s oil supply passes through. Iran has effectively closed the strait, sending crude oil prices skyrocketing and leading to higher gas prices in the U.S.

According to GasBuddy as of Sunday morning, the price of gas has risen 76 cents per gallon on average since the start of the war, a sharp increase in a short amount of time. Wright had previously said that it was ‘quite likely’ the U.S. Navy could escort oil tankers through the strait, but he reaffirmed Sunday that the Navy was not yet ready to do so. 

Wright said Americans should expect gas prices to come down in the next few weeks, but that there is no guarantee.

“There’s no guarantees in wars at all,” Wright said. “This is short-term pain to get through to a much better place.”

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