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Remember back in 2015 when Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen joked about sending Hillary Clinton to prison?

It’s funny how things change. It now appears that Cohen, not Clinton, will be the one headed to prison. On Tuesday, Cohen reached a plea deal in the Southern District of New York, pleading guilty on charges that include campaign finance violations from his time working on the campaign of President Donald Trump.

According to the Associated Press, Cohen could spend between four and five years in jail.

Between news that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty of tax fraud and Cohen’s plea, news fiends’ attention was divided on Tuesday. Still, the internet found time to craft some five-star memes, GIFS, and tweets about Trump’s right-hand man.  Read more…

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There’s a new Tinder in town. It’s a feature called Tinder U, made specifically for users of the dating app who are in college. And the company is rolling it out just in time for the start of the new school year.

To set up Tinder U on an account, users must have an active .edu email address and be geolocated on their college campus. At launch, Tinder U will be available to iOS users who attend a four-year, accredited, not-for-profit school.

Tinder U functions just like regular old Tinder, with swiping and all. You can even toggle back and forth between the Tinder U feature and the original. When toggled on, users will see their school logo depicted as a badge on their profile image. Using this feature brings up college students in the same area, including students on Tinder who attend nearby universities.  Read more…

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Latex and mesh and denim, oh my! Welcome to MTV’s Video Music Awards — an event that’s both a celebration of pop culture and a competition for who can pull off the most outrageous outfits. 

Save your evening gowns for the Grammys — this year’s VMA stars strutted down the pink carpet in vintage throwbacks and in Amber Rose’s case, latex lingerie complete with a mask and whip. 

Here are 2018’s wildest VMA looks. 

Grace VanderWaal 

Bethany Meyers and Nico Tortorella 

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Spoilers ahead for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Like, in-the-credits-level spoilers.

Thought Lara Jean’s love story in Netflix’s delightful rom-com To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before was done and dusted? 

There’s a little easter egg in the credits that’ll convince all of you hopeless romantics that her boy dramas are nowhere near over.

The film, based on Jenny Han’s YA romance novel, follows the antics of Lara Jean Song Covey (Lana Condor) who writes letters to all her crushes, never intending to sending them. But, yeah, they get sent. Read more…

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You know you’re in trouble when your only hope for stability is something as notoriously unstable as cryptocurrency. And yes, Venezuela appears to be very much in trouble.  

According to Bloomberg, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Friday that he intended to link a new national currency, the sovereign bolivar, to a cryptocurrency of his own government’s making — the Petro. This is the first case of a government tying its economic fortunes so closely to that of any digital currency, and suggests a possible exit path for a country ravaged by hyperinflation. 

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Nicki Minaj blamed a 6-month-old baby for lackluster album sales, and Twitter has been rolling out some golden memes about the whole situation.

Despite landing the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200 with “The Queen,” Nicki was peeved that Travis Scott’s “Astroworld” topped charts for the second week in a row. During a Twitter meltdown on Sunday, Nicki blamed Spotify, Travis’ merch loophole, Kylie Jenner’s promotion tactics, and even the couple’s infant daughter, Stormi Webster, for keeping her from the coveted No. 1 spot. 

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Last week, a bombshell AP investigation found that Google was still tracking iPhone and Android device users, even if they turned off the “Location History” setting. Now, the first lawsuit has been filed against the search engine giant over this issue, according to documents posted by Ars Technica. 

On Friday, attorneys representing the plaintiff, Napoleon Patacsil from San Diego, filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco. The lawsuit is looking to establish an “iPhone class” and an “Android class” in its desire to obtain class action status. This could potentially affect millions of users — anyone who uses either an iPhone or Android device and had turned off Location History yet were still tracked by Google.  Read more…

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This is You Won’t Regret It, a new weekly column featuring recommendations, tips, and unsolicited advice from the Mashable culture team.

Nothing feels better than blocking an obnoxious branded Twitter account — whether you’re doing it to spite Alex Jones, to protect yourself from insidious marketing, or some combination of the two.

Look at what’s happening on Twitter, for example. As we reported earlier this month, #GrabYourWallet co-founder Shannon Coulter recently put pressure on the platform to remove Jones by creating a list of Fortune 500 companies on Twitter that people can block in protest. Read more…

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Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America has made it clear that no one is exempt from the comedian’s satirical skewering. The latest unfortunate victim is food critic Bill Jilla, whom Cohen convinces to eat (fake) human flesh while masquerading as a Michelin star-seeking chef.

Cohen dons another disguise, this time as Rick Sherman, an ex-con with a prison-themed menu at his restaurant. He serves Jilla a variant of beans on toast, followed by a sausage in a condom, followed by what he claims to be the cooked remains of a Chinese prisoner. Jilla barely balks before trying it and immensely enjoys the dish.  Read more…

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