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Millions of Americans are at risk of losing healthcare as House Republicans look to implement the Trump administration’s plan to cut at least $715 billion in healthcare funding, including Medicaid.
Republicans, who continue to face criticism from the public as they aim to dismantle healthcare, insist that the latest move is part of their effort to eliminate “fraud, waste and abuse.”
What are Democrats and Republicans saying about the fight for healthcare?
According to Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, the GOP chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees spending for healthcare, the president is keeping his promise to his supporters.
“Savings like these allow us to use this bill to renew the Trump tax cuts and keep Republicans’ promise to hardworking middle-class families,” Guthrie said, per ABC News.
However, Democrats such as Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey continue to fight to preserve healthcare access.
“In no uncertain terms, millions of Americans will lose their health care coverage,” said Pallone, the top Democrat on the panel. He added, “Hospitals will close, seniors will not be able to access the care they need, and premiums will rise for millions of people if this bill passes.”
What are the changes Republicans are proposing for Medicaid?
The Energy and Commerce Committee is proposing a new guideline that would require people to have at least 80 hours of work, education or service per month to be eligible for Medicaid. The new guideline would also require eligible people to verify their qualifications twice a year, as opposed to once as it has been.
Tory Lanez, who’s serving a 10-year prison sentence over the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, has been stabbed at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, California.
TMZ reported that the 32-year-old rapper was rushed to a hospital in Bakersfield.
Are Tory Lanez’s injuries life-threatening?
As TMZ reported, multiple sources, including law enforcement, confirmed that Lanez was stabbed by another inmate on Monday morning. His injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.
Megan Thee Stallion recently accused Tory Lanez of cyberstalking behind bars
Megan also accused him of paying blogger Milagro Gramz to publicly smear her name. Megan ended up filing a lawsuit against Gramz, who allegedly shared deepfake pornography images of her.
According to Billboard, Judge Cecilia Altonaga denied Gramz’s request dismiss the case in February 2025, stating the following: “Plaintiff’s claims extend far beyond mere negligence — they paint a picture of an intentional campaign to destroy her reputation. That is more than enough to [deny the motion to dismiss].”
The judge’s ruling means that Megan’s can move forward with her case.
In August 2023, Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison
In the summer of 2023, Lanez was found guilty of all three felony counts: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
“The jury got it right,” Alex Spiro, Megan’s attorney, told CBS News after the verdict. “I am thankful there is justice for Meg.”
During the high-profile trial, Megan testified that Lanez fired the gun toward her feet and yelled for her to dance while she was exiting an SUV they rode in after leaving a party thrown by Kylie Jenner on July 12, 2020.
In her April 2024 cover story for Women’s Health, Megan reflected on the traumatic experience and how she handled it all in private.
“Before I went onstage, I would be crying half the time because I didn’t want to [perform], but I also didn’t want to upset my fans,” Megan said at the time. “I didn’t want to get [out] from under the covers. I stayed in my room. I would not turn the lights on. I had blackout curtains. I didn’t want to see the sun. I knew I wasn’t myself. It took me a while to acknowledge that I was depressed. But once I started talking to a therapist, I was able to be truthful with myself.”
Patricia Sias Ellis made her dream come true after decades of postponing her studies.
At 79 years old, she graduated from Clayton State University. Ellis, who crossed the stage over the weekend, earning a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.
After she graduated high school, Ellis put her plans to pursue a higher education on hold. She focused on work and raising a family instead.
CONGRATS, GRAD! 🎓 🎊 Patricia Sias Ellis, 79, is graduating from Clayton State University, fulfilling a nearly six-decade dream of earning her criminal justice degree. https://t.co/SA5YVappyN— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) May 11, 2025
At 79, Patricia Sias Ellis made her college dream come true
“I always knew I wasn’t finished,” Ellis told 11Alive.
As her son and husband graduated from Morehouse College, her lifelong goal was reignited. Her son suggested Ellis pursued her dream. She enrolled at Atlanta Metropolitan State College before transferring to Clayton State. She started off by taking one or two classes at a time.
“I just kept trudging along,” Ellis said. “Semester after semester, just doing the work.”
At 79, Patricia Sas Ellis proves it’s never too late to finish what you started. 🎓 After raising a family & battling health challenges, she earned her degree in Criminal Justice from Clayton State. A true light & inspiration. 💙🧡 #Graduation2025🎥 https://t.co/UxjvGPMYl9— Clayton State (@ClaytonState) May 10, 2025
“She lights up the room,” Dr. Georj Lewis, the president of Clayton State University, told the news outlet. “When she crosses that stage, everyone is probably going to stand up. Because she’s hard not to know.”
Last year, Ellis underwent surgery after doctors found a 10-pound tumor on her kidney. She kept pursuing her studies. Overall, the graduate keeps a fond memory of her time at the university.
“These experiences I should have had at 19 or 20 years old, they are the same at 79 years old,” she said. “I’ve had the best time.”
“I feel like the Lord is blessing me with the best years of my life,” Ellis added.
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Family Dollar has announced that it is teaming up with Uber Eats to provide delivery service from about 5,000 locations across the country. With the new partnership, the company said customers will be able to stay home and order various products from their nearby Family Dollar location. The two partners are celebrating the news by providing a 40% discount on Uber Eats orders of $30 or more from Family Dollar.
According to Men’s Journal, the offer is available for a limited time with promo code FAMILY40. Customers can open the Uber Eats app and find the “retail” or “convenience” section to search for Family Dollar items.
“By partnering with Uber Eats, it’s now even easier to access essentials from the comfort of home,” Family Dollar CMO Bonita Price said in a statement, per Men’s Journal. “Expanded access at an incredible value goes a long way in helping our customers save time and do more, especially in underserved communities.”
What is Uber Eats saying about its partnership with Family Dollar?
Uber Eats said in a statement that its partnership with Family Dollar will provide “a convenient and affordable shopping solution.”
“Family Dollar has long been known for providing low-cost, essential items to communities across the country, including many traditionally underserved neighborhoods. Now, through Uber Eats, customers can access Family Dollar’s trusted assortment of value-driven products without leaving home,” the company stated.
What is the latest development on Family Dollar’s economic struggles?
Dollar Tree, which bought Family Dollar for $9 billion in 2015, is now selling the store for $1 billion. Per Men’s Journal, the company is struggling with operational issues and finding it difficult to keep pace with its rivals. Family Dollar plans to close about 1,000 locations in the coming years.
New details have emerged in the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin, four University of Idaho students who were fatally stabbed in 2022.
The latest findings, obtained by Dateline for their recent episode “The Terrible Night on King Road,” reveal the events leading up to the day when 27-year-old Bryan Kohberger allegedly committed the killings.
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What happened in the days leading up to the murder of four University of Idaho students in 2022?
Kohberger, who was a 27-year-old doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University in 2022, was living in Pennsylvania with his family before moving to Pullman, Washington, for school in the summer before the murders. However, Kohberger’s phone data showed that he frequently visited Moscow, Idaho, in the summer of 2022 after being invited to a pool party on July 9. During that summer, the data also showed that Kohberger often spent time near the address of the students who were murdered in Moscow.
Additionally, investigators obtained records from September 2022 showing that Kohberger’s internet history included searches for “Sociopathic Traits in College Student.” He also searched keywords such as “drugged” and “sleeping,” the records showed.
On Oct. 14, 2022, police pulled over Kohberger for a traffic violation. Five days after the stop, Kohberger’s internet history showed that he searched “Can Psychopaths behave prosocially?” In November 2022, the criminology student’s activity showed that he frequently continued to visit the area of the murdered students.
What happened on the day when four University of Idaho students were murdered?
On the night of Nov. 12, 2022, students from the University of Idaho were celebrating Senior Day after the school’s football team played a game earlier that day. One of the students, Kaylee Goncalves, posted an Instagram photo from the party around 9 p.m. that night and said, “One lucky girl to be surrounded by these ppl everyday.”
Goncalves was still with Mogen around 2 a.m. after the party ended. Meanwhile, Kernodle stayed with her boyfriend, Chapin, and two of their friends, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke.
At 3:30 a.m., security cameras showed a white Elantra approaching the King Road home and circling the area multiple times over the next 30 minutes. The white car drove by again shortly after 4 a.m. Then, at 4:20 a.m., the car came back into view and sped off. Investigators believe that’s when the four students were murdered.
What did Kohberger’s phone data show on the night when the Idaho students were murdered?
Phone data showed that Kohberger’s device had been turned off around 3 a.m. on Nov. 13, but it connected to a cell tower in Moscow at 4:48 a.m. The phone user also appeared to make a call to an account registered to Kohberger’s father later that morning. Prosecutors said the phone briefly returned to Moscow around 9 a.m., before it was seen at Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman. That’s when Kohberger took a selfie, showing a thumbs-up sign in a bathroom mirror, prosecutors said.
Kohberger, who faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary, awaits his trial in August.
It’s a historic week for Latin music on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums chart. For the first time in the chart’s 69-year history, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time.
Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos returns to the top, jumping 7-1 on the May 17-dated chart after its vinyl release, while Fuerza Regida achieves its highest-charting album ever, as the band’s new 111XPANTIA debuts at No. 2.
Fuerza Regida also lays claim to the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, or a regional Mexican music album, ever.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos adds a fourth total week atop the list, as it previously spent three weeks at No. 1, consecutively, on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated charts.
The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular weekly basis in March 1956.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 17, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
In the tracking week ending May 8, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 84,500 equivalent album units in the United States — with album sales comprising 48,000 (essentially all vinyl purhases), according to Luminate. As for 111XPANTIA, it earned 76,000 units — and of that, 39,000 were album sales.
Let’s take a look at some of the major milestones achieved this week by the teaming of Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida in the top two slots of the Billboard 200.
Biggest Sales Week for a Latin Music Album in Nearly Six Years:
Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, jumping 7-1 on the May 17-dated chart, following the set’s release on vinyl. It’s the fourth total week atop the list for the Spanish-language project, which spent three consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Jan. 25-Feb. 8-dated charts. In the tracking week ending May 8, Debí Tirar Más Fotos earned 84,500 equivalent album units (up 123%) in the United States, with more than half of the sum driven by vinyl purchases, according to Luminate.
It’s a historic week for Latin music, as Fuerza Regida — Billboard’s year-end top duo/group in both 2024 and 2023 — achieves its first top 10-charting set on the Billboard 200 with the band’s 111XPANTIA bowing at No. 2. In turn, for the first time in the 69-year history of the all-genre chart, Spanish-language albums are Nos. 1 and 2 at the same time. Further, 111XPANTIA marks the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting regional Mexican music album.
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Plus, rapper Key Glock notches his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 as Glockaveli premieres at No. 8.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 17, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on May 13. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ 84,500 equivalent album units earned in the week ending May 8, album sales — essentially all vinyl — comprise a little over 48,000 (up 15,099%, it reenters Top Album Sales for its first week at No. 1), SEA units comprise just over 36,000 (down 3%, equaling 50.27 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it falls 5-6 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise under 500 units (down 8%).
The album’s 48,000 sold marks the largest single-week sales for a Latin music album in nearly six years, since Santana’s Africa Speaks sold 57,000 copies in its first week (June 22, 2019-dated chart), driven by sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the act’s then-upcoming tour. Such offers are no longer chart-eligible.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos surges back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after its vinyl shipments to customers impacted the tracking week — to the tune of nearly 48,000 copies. That’s the largest sales week for a Latin album on vinyl in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991). It surpasses the previous record, held by the opening week of Kali Uchis’ Orquídeas (20,000 sold across seven variants; on the Jan. 27, 2024-dated chart).
Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ lone vinyl edition — on blue-colored double-vinyl in a gatefold package — was sold exclusively via Bad Bunny’s official webstore for $29.98. It went up for pre-order in early February and was then (per the store) “estimated to ship on/around the end of April 2025.” The vinyl is currently sold out on the artist’s webstore, and it has not been announced if the vinyl will be restocked, or sold through any other seller. (The blue-colored vinyl is the only physical format on which the set has been released. It has yet to be issued on CD or any other physical format, and has only been available to purchase as a download.)
Since Debí Tirar Más Fotos debuted on the Jan. 18-dated Billboard 200 (at No. 2), it has yet to leave the top 10 after 18 weeks, with its chart fortunes largely fueled by continued strong streaming of its songs.
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Fuerza Regida debuts with its highest-charting album ever, and first top 10, as 111XPANTIA arrives with 76,000 equivalent album units earned — the band’s best week ever by units.
The set also becomes the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group (surpassing the No. 4 peak of Maná’s Amar Es Combatir in 2006), and for a regional Mexican music album (higher than the No. 3 peak of Peso Pluma’s Génesis in 2023).
111XPANTIA also earns the largest week, by units, for any Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and by a regional Mexican album, since the chart began ranking by units in December 2014. The previous high, in that span of time, for a Spanish language album by a duo or group was Santana’s Africa Speaks (57,000 in its opening week, in 2019), while the previous high for a regional Mexican title was Génesis (73,000 in its debut frame in 2023).
Of the 76,000 units earned by 111XPANTIA in its opening week, album sales comprise 39,000 (the band’s best sales week ever, and the biggest sales week for a regional Mexican album in the modern era; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 37,000 (equaling 50.44 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 5 on Top Streaming Albums) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
With 39,000 copies sold, 111XPANTIA surpasses the previous largest sales week for a regional Mexican title, when Selena’s Amor Prohibido sold 36,000 copies on the chart dated May 6, 1995, in the wake of her death in March of that year.
111XPANTIA was released on May 2 as a 12-song standard album, widely available as a digital download for purchase and via streaming services. On May 5, a deluxe edition of the set, with three bonus tracks, was issued via download services and streamers. The band’s official webstore carried the only physical format editions of the album: the 12-song version on four color vinyl variants, a standard CD, a signed CD (by the group’s lead singer, Jesús Ortíz Paz) and four deluxe boxed sets (two containing a branded T-shirt and a signed CD, two with a branded hat and a signed CD).
The new album was preceded by its hit single “Por Esos Ojos,” which reached No. 5 on Hot Latin Songs (March 1 chart), No. 3 on Hot Regional Mexican Songs (May 10), No. 5 on Latin Streaming Songs (March 1) and No. 79 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 songs chart (March 15).
111XPANTIA is the sixth charting effort on the Billboard 200 for Fuerza Regida, and the third to reach the top 40 (after PERO NO TE ENAMORES, No. 25 in 2024; and Pa las Baby’s y Belikeada, No. 14 in 2023). The group’s success has also extended to the Hot 100, where the act charted 13 song entries before the new album dropped.
Prior to the new album’s release, the group also logged eight top 10s (with one No. 1) on the Top Latin Albums chart, and 10 top 10s (with five No. 1s) on the Regional Mexican Albums chart.
Fuerza Regida’s success on the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 over the past few years has been so significant that the act finished 2024 as the top duo/group artist of the year — among all genres — for the second year in a row. In 2023, the act made history when it became the year’s top duo/group — the first time an act that primarily records in Spanish had ever achieved the feat.
(Latin and regional Mexican albums are defined as those that are eligible for, or have charted on, Billboard’s Top Latin Albums and Top Regional Mexican Albums charts, respectively.)
Nos. 2-7 on the latest Billboard 200 are all former chart-toppers. SZA’s SOS slips 2-3 (52,000 equivalent album units, though up 1%), Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time is steady at No. 4 (46,000; down less than 1%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX dips 3-5 (45,000; down 7%), Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet falls 5-6 (41,000; down 6%) and PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U descends 6-7 (40,000; down 7%).
Key Glock lands his fourth top 10-charting effort on the Billboard 200 at Glockaveli debuts at No. 8 with 34,000 equivalent album units earned. Of that sum, SEA units comprise 28,000 (equaling 37.28 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it debuts at No. 12 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprise 6,000 (it enters at No. 9 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
Glockaveli was released on May 2 as a standard 18-song album, widely available as a digital download to purchase and via streaming services. The standard set was also available on CD (both signed and unsigned), vinyl (standard, color vinyl and signed color vinyl) and a deluxe boxed set containing a branded T-shirt and a CD. A deluxe edition of the album, with three bonus tracks, dropped mid-week — first via the artist’s webstore on May 4, and then wide the following day to general download services and streamers.
Rounding out the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 are Morgan Wallen’s former leader Dangerous: The Double Album (rising 10-9 with 33,500 equivalent album units; up 1%) and Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going (falling 8-10 with 32,000; down 8%).
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