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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.

Former central banker Mark Carney, who was elected leader of the Liberal Party last weekend in a landslide vote, will be sworn in as prime minister of Canada on Friday. Carney will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced he would resign in January, but then forced Parliament into recess so he could not be replaced until March. Trudeau gave a tearful farewell speech at the Liberal Party conference on Sunday and resigned his seat in Parliament the following day, causing a viral sensation by sticking out his tongue as he physically carried his chair out of the building. Trudeau...

A Ukrainian government jet carrying President Volodymyr Zelensky departed the Republic of Ireland, where he had met with the Irish Prime Minister on Thursday, en route to a meeting with Donald Trump on Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, he confirmed on Wednesday evening. Speaking in his nightly address to Ukraine, Zelensky said, per Kyiv state media: Our teams are working with America, we are preparing for negotiations this Friday. An agreement with America. Support for our state and people. Guarantees of peace and security are the key to preventing Russia...

Nearly all staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, will be placed on leave Friday night, the agency announced on its website Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, all overseas missions for USAID had been ordered to shut down, and all staff recalled by Friday, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News. The statement notes that all "direct-hire personnel" will be placed on leave with exceptions for those on "mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs." Those considered exceptions will be notified by USAID leadership by 3 p.m. ET Thursday, and further guidance on how to request...

President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to pause his upcoming criminal sentencing and consider whether his guilty verdict in Manhattan should be thrown out, as the sentencing is now scheduled to take place Friday after a New York appeals court Tuesday shot down Trump’s request to pause it.

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“So Amazon started their Black Friday deals early, and let me tell you, beware of this,” she says in the video. “I had 25 things sitting in my cart for the last two weeks, like things to prepare for the baby and I know the exact price of every single one of those items and what my cart total was two weeks ago.” Jess says she was expecting her cart total to drop significantly. “Everything was going to be on sale, and then I would put in my order,” she explains. “I logged in yesterday, all excited to see this...

While the holiday shopping season has already begun, no retail occasion gets more buzz this time of year than Black Friday. If you have a Sam's Club membership, you'll want to keep many deals on your radar before setting foot in the warehouse club. Throughout November, Sam's Club is offering discounts on various products and holding "doorbuster" events each weekend. From Nov. 22 through Nov. 24, the retailer will offer deals on toys and gifts. Then, on Nov. 27 at 9:01 p.m. EST, Plus members will get early online access to Sam's Club's Black Friday deals, which will be available...

Donald Trump thanked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday after the scion of the legendary family offered him a dynamic-shifting endorsement. Kennedy stated Friday he is suspending his campaign but not ending it, urging residents of blue states to vote for him but throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump in battleground states. The distinction is important for Kennedy, whose candidacy was composed of supporters and volunteers from across the political spectrum. But Kennedy ripped Trump’s opponent, Kamala Harris, while praising Trump Friday, and for all practical purposes, this is an endorsement, plain and simple.

A Christian in the Philippines has been nailed to a cross for the 35th time to mark Good Friday and pray for world peace as faithful around the world observe the Holy Week of Easter to commemorate their belief in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. More than 100 people turned out to see Ruben Enaje, a 63-year-old carpenter and sign painter, and ten devotees be nailed to wooden crosses - real-life reenactments that have become an annual spectacle drawing tourists to rural communities in Pampanga province, north of Manila. The gory ritual resumed only last year after a three-year pause...

At least 22 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Sunday night in Democrat-run Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 8:00 p.m. at a barbershop “in the 2000 block of Kensington Avenue,” the Philadelphia Inquirer noted. The shooting victim, 43-year-old Adinson Suarez-Marte, was taken to a hospital, where he died.

After indulging in a Thanksgiving feast, Americans are waking up and heading to the stores in search Black Friday bargains — but this year inflation is weighing on shoppers heavier than last night’s turkey. In Chesterfield, Missouri, on Thursday evening, there were no customers lined up behind the barricades set up outside the Best Buy in anticipation of lines for doorbuster deals. “I see nothing. I’m surprised,” Jeremy Pritchett told news station Fox2Now. “Normally, it’s wrapped all the way around the building, today no one.” Sky-high prices for food, rent, gasoline and other household costs have taken a toll on...

FBI agents reportedly raided the home of a pro-life activist in Pennsylvania on Friday and arrested him. A group of between 25 and 30 FBI agents raided the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, home of pro-life activist Mark Houck early Friday morning, his family told LifeSite News. Houck is the leader of a nonprofit group that provides sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics in Philadelphia. The arrest seemed to stem from a court case that was dismissed by a federal court in Philadelphia, but was somehow picked up by the Department of Justice, his family said. “The kids were all just screaming,” Houck’s...

Jupiter, Saturn and Venus have lined up in the evening sky and will continue to be prominent features throughout most of December, but this week, the trio will get a visitor. The easy-to-find planets, paired with the approaching peak of the Geminid meteor shower, make December a great month for evening stargazing. The only caveat is that the weather can be fickle during the long December nights, often offering frosty conditions on nights that are not cloudy. The moon started off the week next to Venus, and as the week progresses, it will continue to move up the chain, passing...

Students at the University of Florida believed the name “Black Friday” should be changed until they learned that it has nothing to do with race. Referencing a November 18 opinion article in the Chicago Tribune called “Talk of the County: Black Friday should be renamed so it is not ‘discriminating and profiling against black people,’” Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson asked students at the schools Gainesville campus if they supported changing the name of Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving on which millions of Americans storm retail shops to get holiday deals for gifts and other items.

President Biden plans to travel to Louisiana on Friday to meet with state and local officials and view the destruction caused by Hurricane Ida. The White House said in a statement that Biden will travel to New Orleans “to survey storm damage from Hurricane Ida and meet with State and local leaders from impacted communities.” Plans for the visit were first reported by The Advocate on Wednesday. Biden has received regular briefings on the storm. He met virtually with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) and other state and local officials on Monday and led a call with energy sector...

First Friday Devotion “Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself in order to testify to its love! And in return, I receive from the greater part only ingratitude, by their irreverence and sacrilege, and by the coldness and contempt they have for Me in this Sacrament of Love. … “I feel this more than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My Love, I should think but little of all I have done for them and would wish, were...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. (WPRI) ─ An unexpected visitor at a Massachusetts wildlife hospital Wednesday gave the phrase “through sickness and health” a whole new meaning. The story begins with a Canada goose named Arnold. Arnold and his mate, according to Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, have lived on a pond near the facility for several years. But on Tuesday, staff members noticed Arnold began walking with a limp and kept falling over. After catching him and bringing him inside, the wildlife hospital discovered Arnold had two open fractures on his foot. “Our best guess is that a snapping turtle or other...

House Sergeant at Arms William Walker announced on Wednesday that the remainder of the fencing around the Capitol will be removed starting as soon as Friday. The fencing — which was put up shortly after the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, when attendees of a nearby pro-Trump rally attempted to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results — will take three days to come down. Walker cited the Capitol Police’s assessment showing a lower threat level than earlier this year, noting that it will “monitor intelligence information and the associated threat environment” moving forward.