LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Dean, the “Wicked” duo of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande and the Dalai Lama are among the winners at the 68th annual Grammy Awards.
While the Grammys save the biggest categories for its telecast, which begins at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS, 86 awards were handed out during the Premiere Ceremony Sunday afternoon. Lamar won the night's first televised award: best rap album.
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Ruchaun Akers, from left, Sounwave, Kamasi Washington, and SZA accept the award for record of the year for "Luther" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Lady Gaga accepts the award for best pop vocal album for "Mayhem" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Bad Bunny arrives at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Olivia Dean accepts the award for best new artist during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for best rap album for "GNX" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Shaboozey accepts the award for best country duo/group performance for "Amen" by Shaboozey and Jelly Roll during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Yungblud poses in the press room with the award for best rock performance for "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Pat McCrory, from left, Daniel Fang, and Brendan Yates of Turnstile accept the award for best rock album for "Never Enough" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
FKA Twigs poses in the press room with the award for best dance/electronic album for "EUSEXUA" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Gesaffelstein accepts the award for best remixed recording for "Abracadabra - Gesaffelstein Remix" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
FKA Twigs accepts the award for best dance/electronic album for "EUSEXUA" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Trevor Noah is hosting the telecast.
Here's an updating list of select winners at Sunday's Grammys:
“luther,” Kendrick Lamar with SZA.
“GNX,” Kendrick Lamar
“Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” Bad Bunny.
Olivia Dean
“Mayhem,” Lady Gaga.
“Messy,” Lola Young.
“Wildflower,” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell.
“EUSEXUA,” FKA twigs
“Defying Gravity,” Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
“Never Enough,” Turnstile
“Beautifully Broken,” Jelly Roll.
“Mutt,” Leon Thomas
“A Matter of Time,” Laufey
“Cancionera,” Natalia Lafourcade
“Palabra De To’s (Seca), Carín León
“Sinners,” various artists
“Sinners,” Ludwig Göransson
“Heart of Mine,” Darrel Walls, PJ Morton.
“Coritos Vol. 1,” Israel & New Breed
“Golden,” from “KPop Demon Hunters"
“Portrait,” Samara Joy
“Southern Nights,” Sullivan Fortner featuring Peter Washington and Marcus Gilmore
“Push 2 Start,” Tyla
“BLXXD & FYAH,” Keznamdi
“Anxiety,” Doechii
“Music by John Williams”
“Songs of a Lost World,” The Cure
Amy Allen
Cirkut
“Your Friend, Nate Bargatze,” Nate Bargatze.
“Meditations: The Reflections of his Holiness The Dalai Lama,” Dalai Lama
“Words for Days Vol. 1,” Mad Skillz.
“Chromakopia”
Pharrell Williams
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Ruchaun Akers, from left, Sounwave, Kamasi Washington, and SZA accept the award for record of the year for "Luther" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Lady Gaga accepts the award for best pop vocal album for "Mayhem" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Bad Bunny arrives at the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Olivia Dean accepts the award for best new artist during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for best rap album for "GNX" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Shaboozey accepts the award for best country duo/group performance for "Amen" by Shaboozey and Jelly Roll during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Yungblud poses in the press room with the award for best rock performance for "Changes (Live From Villa Park) Back To The Beginning" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Pat McCrory, from left, Daniel Fang, and Brendan Yates of Turnstile accept the award for best rock album for "Never Enough" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
FKA Twigs poses in the press room with the award for best dance/electronic album for "EUSEXUA" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Gesaffelstein accepts the award for best remixed recording for "Abracadabra - Gesaffelstein Remix" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
FKA Twigs accepts the award for best dance/electronic album for "EUSEXUA" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump paid his respects on Wednesday at a Delaware military base where the remains of six U.S. service members killed in the crash of a refueling aircraft were returned to their families.
It was the second time since launching the war with Iran on Feb. 28 that the Republican president will attend the solemn military ritual known as a dignified transfer, which he once described as the “toughest thing” he has had to do as commander in chief.
Accompanying Trump were Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, House Speaker Mike Johnson, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and lawmakers including Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt, both Alabama Republicans.
All six crew members of a KC-135 Air Force refueling aircraft were killed last week in a plane crash over friendly territory in western Iraq while supporting operations against Iran. They were from Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Washington state.
“Every person on that aircraft carried a weight most Americans will never see, and they carried it with professionalism, courage, and a level of quiet excellence that deserves to be recognized,” retired Lt. Col Ernesto Nisperos, a friend of one of those killed, said in a text message Wednesday.
The crash brought the U.S. death toll in Operation Epic Fury to at least 13 service members. About 200 U.S. service members have been injured, including 10 severely, the Pentagon has said.
Wednesday's dignified transfer was closed to news media coverage at the request of the families in accordance with military policy. Trump spent just under two hours on the ground and didn't speak to reporters leaving Air Force One or returning to it.
Trump last traveled to Dover Air Force Base on March 7 for the dignified transfer of six U.S. service members who were killed by a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait. He saluted as flag-draped transfer cases containing the remains of the fallen service members were carried from military aircraft to vehicles waiting to take them to the base's mortuary facility to prepare them for their final resting place.
“It's the bad part of war,” he told reporters afterward. Asked then if he worried about having to make multiple trips to the base for additional dignified transfers as the war continued, he said, “I'm sure. I hate to do it, but it's a part of war, isn't it?”
U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said that the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in “friendly airspace” over Iraq but that the loss of the aircraft during a combat mission was “not due to hostile or friendly fire.” The circumstances were under investigation. The other plane landed safely.
The crash killed three people assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida: Maj. John A. “Alex” Klinner, 33, who served in Birmingham, Alabama; Capt. Ariana Linse Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington; and Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky.
Klinner, who left behind a wife, a 2-year-old son and 7-month-old twins, was known for his steady command and goofy nature, as well as a willingness to help others. Pruitt’s husband described her as a “radiant” woman who lit up the room. Savino was a friend, mentee and “source of positive energy” who was proud of her Puerto Rican heritage and inspired young Latinas, said Nisperos, who is serving as spokesman for her family.
“She had had this warmth that made you feel seen, a strength that showed up in everything she touched, and a spark — that spice — that made her unforgettable,” Nisperos said. “If you knew her, even for a moment, you knew you were in the presence of someone who was going to change the world.”
The three others were assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio: Capt. Seth Koval, 38, a resident of Stoutsville, Ohio, who was from Mooresville, Indiana; Capt. Curtis Angst, 30, who lived in Columbus; and Master Sgt. Tyler Simmons, 28, of Columbus.
Koval grew up dreaming of becoming a pilot, according to his wife, who described him as a loving, generous “fixer of all things.” Angst’s family said his life was defined by service, generosity and “a genuine love for people.” Simmons loved confiding in his 85-year-old grandmother and working out with her, Sen. Jon Husted said Tuesday, when he and Sen. Bernie Moreno honored the Ohio airmen on the Senate floor.
“To the mom and dad of these three young soldiers, I can’t even process what you’re going through. I can’t even imagine the emotions that you’re feeling,” Moreno said. “Just know that America is grateful beyond words for the sacrifice that your heroic young sons made.”
Associated Press writers Holly Ramer in Concord, N.H., and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he walks to depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
This image provided by the Ohio National Guard shows Tech Sgt. Tyler Simmons. (Ohio National Guard via AP)
This image provided by the Ohio National Guard shows Capt. Seth R. Koval. (Ohio National Guard via AP)
This image provided by the Ohio National Guard shows Capt. Curtis J. Angst. (Ohio National Guard via AP)
FILE - A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
FILE - President Donald Trump salutes as an Army carry team moves a flag-draped transfer case with the remains of Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, who was killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait after the U.S. and Israel launched its military campaign against Iran, during a casualty return, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One, Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)