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Actor Vince Vaughn joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Good Friday after attending a prayer service at the U.S. Capitol. Vaughn, renowned for his roles in comedy classics like Wedding Crashers, Old School, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, posed with Trump for a photo. The White House’s image, which is headed with “White House Crashers,” plays on the 2005 film Wedding Crashers, in which Vaughn and co-star Owen Wilson played a pair of Washington, DC, bachelors who crash weddings to pick up women.

Jon Stewart says Vice President Harris overseeing President-elect Trump’s electoral victory as a tally of states was read on the House floor on Monday had a funereal feeling to it. Harris presided over a joint session of Congress as the election’s certification was confirmed. “The ultimate indignity of this Jan. 6 is that Donald Trump’s opponent, Kamala Harris, because she is the vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies,” said Stewart as he hosted “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central Monday evening. “Poor baby,” Stewart whispered. “But it does suck,” the comedian added, before playing a clip of Republicans...

Democrats are divided about attending the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. About 60 members of Congress in 2017 reportedly did not attend Trump’s inauguration, but that was before he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in a landslide, shifted 48 states to the right, and earned a mandate to govern. “I’m not quite sure what I would be celebrating with his inauguration,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told USA Today. “I had not gotten to that point yet. Blocked that out.”

The decline in college enrollment among U.S. young adults in the past decades is being driven in part by fewer young men pursuing higher education, according to data analyses by Pew Research Center. Roughly 1 million fewer young men are in college compared to 0.2 million fewer young women in the past decade, Pew senior researcher Richard Fry wrote, citing new data from the U.S. Census Bureau pertaining to 18-to-24-year-olds’ college enrollment data. “As a result, men make up 44 percent of young college students today, down from 47 percent in 2011…” he wrote. “This shift is driven entirely by...

President Biden will not be attending former President Obama’s 60th birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard, a White House official confirmed. “While President Biden is unable to attend this weekend, he looks forward to catching up with former President Obama soon and properly welcoming him into the over 60 club,” the White House official told The Hill. Obama turns 60 on Wednesday. Biden is slated to travel to Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Friday.

An Ohio churchgoer sparked a coronavirus outbreak that spread to more than 90 other people after he attended a service, Gov. Mike DeWine said. The 56-year-old man, who was not identified, was infected with the virus when he attended church on June 14, news station WLWT reported. Following the service, the virus “spread like wildfire” and 91 people throughout five counties developed symptoms, DeWine said. “[It’s] very scary,” the Republican governor said during a Tuesday press conference, according to news station WKYC. DeWine said that he’s sending a letter to the state’s faith leaders to discuss better ways to protect...