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Report: The rumors about kids getting lung cancer from hitting the Juul too hard are untrue

RIP to those of you who just flushed $45 down the toilet

Every person you’ve drunkenly met at a tailgate this semester

Because who actually goes for the game?

Professor sends USC into lockdown with false report of shots in Fertitta Hall

DPS advises students to stay clear of the area, but LAPD confirms there is no shooter

Every godawful human being you’ll meet or become on your study abroad in Europe

I just, like, LOVE, London

If Big 10 schools were characters in Game of Thrones

When you play for the B10, you win or you die

UVA fraternity receive $1.65m payout from Rolling Stone after defamatory gang rape story

The magazine’s cover story ‘A Rape on Campus’ was described as ‘a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable’

UVA fraternity receive $1.65m payout from Rolling Stone after defamatory gang rape story

The magazine’s cover story ‘A Rape on Campus’ was described as ‘a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable’

Unelectable, deluded, and facing ‘electoral annihilation’: What they said about Jeremy Corbyn

This is what the columnists wrote

Unelectable, deluded, and facing ‘electoral annihilation’: What they said about Jeremy Corbyn

This is what the columnists wrote

The best reactions to The Tab’s April Fools’ stories from across America

Did we trick you?

Bizarre, unexplainable things that only happen on a night out in the UK, but literally nowhere else in the world

Why are we like this

When is Mother’s Day 2017? Thank me for warning you now

Show yo’ momma how much you love her

Tomi Lahren suspended for not being conservative enough

Final thoughts, anyone?

McDonald’s Twitter account goes IN on Donald Trump, everyone lovin’ it

Give your social media intern 1000000 McNuggets, now

Are there microwaves that turn into cameras like Kellyanne Conway says? I spoke to manufacturers on livechat to find out

Someone had to investigate

What is Vyvanse? Meet the Adderall alternative taking colleges by storm this exam season

‘Vyvanse makes you feel invincible’

If you think Kellyanne Conway lacks class for kneeling on the Oval Office couch, wait until you see these 100 percent real pictures

They will shock you to the core

President Trump tells CPAC exactly what they want to hear – who cares about the truth?

In a meandering 48-minute speech, he attacked the media, his predecessor and his defeated opponents. What else is new?

Which Star Wars character is your uni?

Awkward if you’re Jar Jar

BREAKING: Bank robbery and hostage situation in progress at Alabama Credit Union

The university is telling people to avoid the area

My week on a girl’s beauty regimen

DO. NOT. PUT. VEET. ON. YOUR. NIPPLES

Not our President: College students fight back after shock Trump election

The kids are not alright

BREAKING: Donald Trump is the next President of the United States

Yes, really

The sexist double standard of being Hillary Clinton

A Daisy Bernard illustration

Revealed: Milo Yiannopoulos’ tour rider is as ludicrous as his politics

Venues will be fined in excess of $7500 if they play anything by Adele

We are hiring three editors for our New York office

Join our gang

Peter Thiel came out as gay on the RNC stage and no-one knew how to react

‘It’s between him and God, and when he dies, he’ll have to face God, and God will make that judgement’

Pokémon GOP: I tried to catch ’em all at the Republican Convention

I wanna be the very best, the greatest, like, totally amazing, people love me

America needs an honest, credible President. America needs Frank Underwood

He would actually make America great again

Let’s not kid ourselves – Leo doesn’t deserve to win an Oscar

I’m sorry but The Revenant is un-bear-able

Brighton is the city London wishes it could be

I have to praise you like I shouuuuuuld

If you went to private school, top firms are more likely to give you a job

Mind your head on the glass ceiling

Finalists: Do not complete the National Student Survey

If you do, you’re letting number-crunching analysts kill academia

Gotcha! Here are all of The Tab’s April Fools from up and down the country

Did you know the word ‘gullible’ isn’t in the dictionary?

What is it with student election candidates and their teeth?

Tell me I’m not the only one who sees it

The pain of being rejected from both Oxford and Cambridge

This goes out to everyone who was ‘too fun’ for the country’s best two unis

Finished freshers? The 10 things you can’t do any more when you’re in second year

You and your mates are so like this

Triumphant Edinburgh Fives fresher returns – with NINE hockey club ties

They don’t call him Dan Ladd for nothing. They call him it because it’s his name

Triumphant Edinburgh Fives fresher returns – with NINE hockey club ties

They don’t call him Dan Ladd for nothing. They call him it because it’s his name

Dear greedy nightclubs and wet student unions: Stop breathalysing people on the door

You’re shooting yourselves in the foot

Your obsession with vintage is making you even more bland

Are you alright

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who use their phones in pub quizzes

Something must be done

The graduation photographers think I’m an Indonesian girl called Winona

Actually, I’m a 22-year-old bloke from Gloucestershire

Police crack down on laughing gas in 1,200-container ‘haul’

Yes, really

The Radio 1 Sex and Relationships Advice section can change your life for the better – if you just LET it

Your license fee is teaching kids about fingering and that’s excellent

ENTER: The Tab summer poetry competition

Judge: A retired English teacher. Prize: TBC

If you don’t have a ticket, here’s how to break into Glastonbury – from people who’ve actually done it

See you in Shangri-La

I don’t get gin

Everyone else seems to – but I just don’t