A Mexican social media influencer was shot dead while livestreaming at a beauty salon in a region renowned for cartel violence, with prosecutors saying she was the victim of a targeted attack by a hitman.Valeria Mrquez, 23, amodel and beauty influencer with more than 113,000 followers on TikTok, collapsed on camera after being shot in the head and chest by a masked gunman who fled the scene on a motorbike with an accomplice, prosecutors said.The brazen murder is being investigated as femicide, a gender-based crime under Mexican law, with Mexican President Claudia extending her condolences to Mrquezs family and saying that Mexico's security cabinet is working to solve the murder with the prosecutor's office.AFTER CARTELS KILLED MY HUSBAND, MY FAMILY WAITED 40 YEARS FOR JUSTICE. THANKS TO TRUMP, ITS FINALLY HEREHours before the grisly killing, Mrquez had expressed concern that two men had arrived at the salon in the state of Jalisco near Guadalajara in western Mexico, claiming to have a "very expensive" gift that needed to be delivered to her in person but she wasnt there at the time, according to a witness."Maybe they were going to kill me," Mrquez said in her video minutes before she was killed while livestreaming from the salon. "Were they going to come and take me away, or what? Im worried."When the men returned, they asked if it was Mrquez who was now in the salon.She was heard saying, "They're coming," before a voice in the background asked, "Hey, Vale?""Yes," Marquez replied, just before muting the sound on the livestream.Moments later, she was shot to death. A person appeared to pick up her phone, with their face briefly showing on the livestream before the video ended.Denis Rodrguez, a spokesperson for the Jalisco State Prosecutors Office said investigators believe that the men were hired assassins.WEALTHY SUBURB ROCKED BY SUSPECTED CARTEL MURDER-FOR-HIRE SHOWS DRUG LORDS' REACH ACROSS US: EXPERT"The aggressor arrived asking if the victim (Mrquez) was there. So it appears he didnt know her," Rodrguez said. "With that, you can deduce without jumping to conclusions that this was a person who was paid. It was obviously someone who came with a purpose."Mrquez was handed a stuffed animal and a bag of Starbucks coffee while she was on the livestream before the fatal shots rang out.The region is firmly controlled by one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and murders by hired guns on motorcycles, often known as "sicarios," have become a common occurrence.Rodrguez said that authorities were also investigating if the death was connected to the murder of a former congressman just hours earlier in the same area of Guadalajara, also carried out by two men on a motorcycle.The killing has sent shockwaves through a country that faces high levels of violence against women.Sheinbaum said on Thursday that an investigation is under way to first find those responsible and the motive behind this situation."We are working to find those responsible and determine the motive behind this situation. Obviously, we express our solidarity with the family during this unfortunate situation. Our solidarity goes out to her family," she said.Friends and relatives held a funeral for the slain influencer on Thursday.Jalisco is ranked sixth out of Mexico's 32 states, including Mexico City, for homicides, with 909 recorded there since the beginning of Sheinbaum's term in October 2024, according to data consultancy TResearch.Fox News' Alexis McAdams, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" failed to pass the House Budget Committee on Friday, in what appears to be a massive blow to House GOP leaders' plans to hold a House-wide vote next week.Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., all voted against the legislation. Smucker's vote was a procedural maneuver that allows him to bring the legislation up again, rather than opposition to the legislation.House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said the panel would likely not meet again on Friday, and could reconvene on Monday.The committee met to mark up and debate the bill, a massive piece of legislation thats a product of 11 different House committees individual efforts to craft policy under their jurisdictions. The result is a wide-ranging bill that advances Trumps priorities on the border, immigration, taxes, energy, defense and raising the debt limit.Emotions ran high in the hallway outside the House Budget Committees meeting room from the outset, however, giving the media little indication of how events would transpire.Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who had been at home with his wife and newborn baby, surprised reporters when he arrived at the Cannon House Office Building after he was initially expected to miss the committee meeting.His appearance gave House GOP leaders some added wiggle room, allowing the committee to lose two Republican votes and still pass the bill, rather than just one.But at least four House Republicans went into the meeting warning they were opposed to the bill.Shortly before the meeting was expected to begin, Roy, Norman, Clyde and Brecheen abruptly left the room while saying little to reporters on the way out.Each came back a short while later and criticized the legislation in their opening remarks.The fiscal hawks are frustrated about provisions curbing Medicaid in the bill not going into effect until 2029, and had similar issues with the delay in phasing out green energy subsidies from former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act.."Only in Washington are we expected to bet on the come that in five years, then everything will work. Then we will solve the problem," Roy said during debate. "We have got to change the direction of this town. And to my colleagues and other side of the aisle, yes, that means touching Medicaid."At one point, Norman came out of the room and called for the committee to recess in order to work through the fiscal hawks concerns."If they call for a vote now, it's not going to end well," he said, adding he was still waiting on commitments from House GOP leaders.Minutes later, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who is not a member of the committee but had been meeting with holdouts, told reporters he wanted the legislation to advance through the Budget panel "as soon as possible."When asked about Normans comments, he said, "I just walked out of the meeting with him a few minutes ago as well, we're working on some questions that Ralph and others have, and we're going to be getting them answers as soon as we get them back from the Trump administration. His questions were the same as Chips and a few others, and they're very specific questions, valid questions we're working on getting those answers right now."

Before Lauren Sanchez meets her fianc, Jeff Bezos, at the wedding altar, she held a star-studded bachelorette party in Paris.Dinner was hosted on Thursday, May 15, at the chic restaurant Lafayette's, as the intimate gathering of 13 women featured Hollywood A-listers, including Kim Kardashian, mom Kris Jenner, Katy Perry and Eva Longoria."The atmosphere was very relaxed and very Parisian," a source shared with People. "It was a pre-wedding all-girl party for 13."MYSTERY COUPLE MISTAKEN FOR JEFF BEZOS AND LAUREN SNCHEZ AT CANNESSanchez, 55, took to Instagram to post the dinner menu for her special soire, which included fried chicken, Caesar salad and Norwegian smoked salmon for starters. For the main course, roasted chicken and rigatoni were listed on the menu, which was decorated with red lipstick marks.Celebrity guests sipped on espresso martinis, danced to Earth, Wind & Fire and indulged in a surprise vanilla meringue cake, according to People.LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSSanchez donned a white double-breasted coat with gold buttons, with a black-and-white satin off-the-shoulder cocktail dress underneath. She wore white heels and diamond earrings and held a matching purse that appeared to be in the shape of a diamond ring. Her hair was styled half up and half down with loose curls.Kardashian stepped out in a brown tube top, showcasing her toned midriff, and high-waisted dark gray leggings with a gold chained belt. She had a large fur stole draped over her shoulders and wore a gold necklace to match her belt.KATY PERRY, LAUREN SANCHEZ SHOW OFF BLUE ORIGIN FLIGHT SUITS THAT BRING SPICE TO SPACEPerry wore a strapless pink satin corset dress with white strappy heels.Sanchez shared moments from the celebration on Instagram, as she expressed gratitude to the women who came to celebrate her before she tied the knot with the Amazon founder."Forever starts with friendship, surrounded by the woman whove lifted me up, illuminated my path in dark times, and shaped my heart along the way," her caption read.Bezos proposed to Sanchez with a 30-carat diamond in 2023.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERW Magazine reported that Sanchez's 30-carat engagement ring is estimated to be worth anywhere between $3 million and $5 million. The outlet reported that Sanchez had two engagement parties one in Beverly Hills and another in Positano, Italy.Multiple reports claim that the Amazon billionaire and his fiance of two years will be tying the knot this summer in Venice, with several outlets sharing that wedding invitations were sent to guests months ago.

Liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg responded to recent revelations of former President Joe Biden's inner circle covering up for his mental decline, arguing that the Democratic Party engaged in "groupthink" and refused to allow dissent, especially in the critical final months of the campaign."There was certainly some covering-up going on, especially among Bidens insular inner circle," Goldberg wrote in a Times column published on Friday. She was responding to a book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson revealing the Biden team's "cover-up" for the former president."But more than lying to the public about Bidens increasing infirmity, I think too many Democrats were lying to themselves," Goldberg wrote. "The original sin that party leaders now need to grapple with is their tendency toward groupthink, inertia and an extreme and wildly counterproductive risk aversion."FORMER BIDEN OFFICIALS OFFER RARE PRAISE FOR TRUMP'S BOLD MIDDLE EAST MOVESThe book, "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," included revelations that aides discussed the possibility of Biden needing a wheelchair if he was elected to a second term and that the former president didn't recognize A-list actor George Clooney at a political fundraiser in June.Goldberg, who also raised questions about Biden's cognitive ability in the months before the election, said that the Democratic Party's senior leadership is facing a reckoning for denying those concerns."For many people, Republicans especially, the Democratic Partys ongoing insistence that Biden was basically fine looks like a fraud committed against the electorate," Goldberg wrote.BIDEN MADE HARRIS CAMPAIGN A 'NIGHTMARE,' DESTROYED HER CHANCES BY STAYING IN 2024 RACE TOO LONG, AIDES CHARGECLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE"But while his closest associates might have hidden the worst of the erosion, it was plain enough to anyone willing to see it," she said. "Again and again, voters told pollsters that the president was too old to run for re-election. If ordinary people recognized the problem, why couldnt the insiders?"Goldberg argued that the normalization of "gerontocracy" in American politics, while one explanation for the Democratic Party's refusal to come to terms with Biden's mental decline, is not as comprehensive an answer as its tendency toward "groupthink.""They needed less deference and more courage," Goldberg said of House Democrats who refused to speak out on Biden's mental decline. "They still do."Fox News' Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

Former House Judiciary Chief Counsel Julian Epstein joins the Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss growing criticism of Democratic leadership and what it means for the partys future direction.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams detailed his plan to combat rising antisemitism on college campuses and in public schools across the city during an appearance on CNN's "The Situation Room" on Friday.

Authorities are searching for multiple inmates who escaped from Orleans Parish Jail. (Credit: WVUE)

The Denver Nuggets beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 119-107 in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals. Colin Cowherd discusses the highly entertaining series and how theres a discrepancy between the regular season and post season.

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Joseph Paris, who was the late singer's hairdresser, recalled how the summer of 1969 sparked fear in Los Angeles in his memoir, "Hairman of the Board."