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Last week, four-time Grand Slam singles winner Naomi Osaka took home yet another title, at the 2021 Laureus World Sports Awards where she was named Sportswoman of the Year. Though unable to attend the award ceremony IRL, the 23-year-old tennis star still used the occasion as an opportunity to get dressed up. In fact, while accepting the award virtually from her training base in Los Angeles, Osaka slipped into something very formal: a wedding dress. 

Keeping with the tradition of tennis whites, Osaka wore a sequin-covered gown with a plunging neckline and flowy, quarter-length sleeves. And before you assume that her dress is totally out of your budget and/or designed by a major fashion house — Osaka is a spokesperson for Louis Vuitton, after all — get this: it’s from none other than British fashion brand ASOS’ bridal collection. 

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But that’s not even the best part. Osaka’s dress, called the Ciara Sequin Kimono-Sleeve Wedding Dress, is still available in sizes 2 to 14 and costs $339, which, as anyone who’s purchased (or tried to purchase) a wedding dress will tell you, is quite affordable.

Shop Osaka’s ASOS dress, as well as a few can’t-miss styles from the brand’s bridal collection, below.

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Shockingly, Donald Trump, Jr.’s ex-wife, Vanessa Trump, came to the realization that she didn’t have to spend her life with someone whose own father reportedly said he is “not the sharpest knife in the drawer” and “has the worst judgment of anyone in the world.” But according to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Carol D. Leonnig, Vanessa did manage to find love in the White House during Trump’s presidency with — wait for it — a Secret Service agent.

In her book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, out next week, Loennig reported that Vanessa “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family” after she filed for divorce in 2018. Loennig added that the agent “did not face disciplinary action” because he and the Secret Service were not Vanessa’s official guardians at the time they started dating.

Vanessa wasn’t the only member of the Trump family who got “inappropriately — and perhaps dangerously — close” to an agent either. The Guardian, which obtained a copy of Loennig’s book, reported that Tiffany Trump also “began spending an unusual amount of time alone with a Secret Service agent on her detail” after breaking up with a boyfriend. Other members of the Secret Service reportedly “became concerned at how close Tiffany appeared to be getting to the tall, dark, and handsome agent.” Both Tiffany and the agent denied any involvement, but he was still reassigned. Loennig wrote that it was unclear whether Donald Trump was aware of either relationship. 

But wait, let’s back up to the 12-year marriage between Vanessa and Don Jr. Their romantic love story began when his father accidentally introduced him to Vanessa twice in one evening. “Donald comes back up to me again, ‘I don’t think you’ve met my son Donald Trump, Jr.,'” Vanessa told the New York Times in 2006. She said that she responded, “Yeah, we just met, five minutes ago.” They later met a third time at a different party, where they once again reintroduced themselves to each other and Vanessa mocked Don’s father.

Don Jr. shared his side of the story, too. “You know, I’m 25 at the time, I did perfectly well with girls. It wasn’t really my M.O. to have my father try to pick up girls for me,” he told the New York Times. (His current girlfriend also has professional ties to his dad, but that’s neither here nor there.) There were a lot of rumors about the couple’s split, with multiple sources reportedly telling Page Six that Vanessa had wanted a divorce for years and Don “treats her like a second-class citizen.” It’s also rumored that Don had an affair with Danity Kane’s Aubrey O’Day in 2006 — a rumor which many have come to know and love over a decade and a half now.

Since the divorce, Vanessa has stayed out of the spotlight and kept relatively quiet on social media. Don Jr., meanwhile, has been busy tweeting, advising his twice-impeached father on “political things,” and recording creepy videos of himself ranting about American teachers. He did recently buy a house with his girlfriend, right-wing pundit Kimberly Guilfoyle, but according to the Palm Beach Post, around 30 of his new neighbors contacted the manager of the property owners’ association to express their displeasure and “political concerns” about Don Jr. joining the neighborhood. In any case, he might not have won this breakup.

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At the end of last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new face mask guidelines that gave people more opportunities to ditch the covering — news that caused many to rejoice (and some to feel a little apprehensive). And yesterday, Anthony Fauci, MD, the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, mentioned that it may be time for officials to start thinking about changing indoor mask wearing guidelines, too.

During an interview Dr. Fauci gave on Sunday to ABC News, he was asked if he agreed with others who said that it was time to relax the indoor mask rules. He replied, “I think so, and I think you’re going to probably be seeing that as we go along, and as more people get vaccinated… The CDC will be, you know, almost in real time… updating their recommendations and their guidelines.”

For now, though, nothing has changed: The CDC’s guidelines still say that fully vaccinated people should wear masks in indoor public settings. While Dr. Fauci said he agreed that these rules should be relaxed in the future, he also emphasized that continuing to prioritize getting vaccines into arms was key. “As you get more people vaccinated, the number of cases per day will absolutely go down. We’re averaging about 43,000 a day. We’ve got to get it much, much lower than that. When that gets lower, the risk of any infection indoor or outdoor diminishes dramatically,” he said to ABC News.

Currently, more than 152 million people in the U.S. have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and over 114 million people have been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. That means around 58% of adults have received at least one dose of the vaccine, a number that President Joe Biden hopes to increase to 70% by July 4.

Even after guidelines begin to relax, we may never be saying a full goodbye to face masks. In a different interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Dr. Fauci noted that it’s likely that people who have grown used to wearing face masks will continue to do so — if not all the time, then at least seasonally, like during peak cold and flu season to prevent the spread of common illnesses.

We know that masks are part of an effective strategy when it comes to fighting infectious diseases. Flu cases have dropped dramatically this year: There were fewer than 2,000 flu cases confirmed in the U.S. while last year, there were around 38 million flu cases. Flu deaths have dropped, too. One child is reported to have died from the flu in the most recent flu season, compared to 195 deaths during the 2019 to 2020 season. “We’ve had practically a nonexistent flu season this year merely because people were doing the kinds of public health things that were directed predominantly against COVID-19,” Dr. Fauci said to NBC.

But even those who may opt to wear a mask in the future during cold and flu season are likely looking forward to a loosening of the current face mask guidelines, since that would mean that COVID-19 cases were decreasing and the pandemic was, hopefully, reaching an end. While Dr. Fauci’s words gave us something to look forward to, for now, we must continue to wear masks when we’re around people from outside our household, especially when we’re indoors.

And if you haven’t already, get vaccinated. As Dr. Fauci reminded us, as the number of fully vaccinated Americans goes up, the less likely we’ll see a surge in COVID-19 cases in the upcoming fall and winter, which will then lead us closer to normalcy, Dr. Fauci says. His hope? We’ll be back to normal one year from now. “I hope that next Mother’s Day, we’re going to see a dramatic difference than what we’re seeing right now. I believe that we will be about as close to back to normal as we can,” he told ABC, adding, “We’ve got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated.”

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Remember when Netflix’s Tiger King aired somehow both two months and nine years ago? Since becoming a household name in March 2020, Carole Baskin — the founder of Big Cat Rescue, Joe Exotic’s nemesis, and maybe an alleged murderer, depending on who you ask — has only increased her efforts to pass the Big Cat Public Safety Act. The act would add restrictions on who can own, trade, and exhibit exotic cats Now, the Tiger Queen is appearing on CNN and imploring Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to sign onto the act in light of a recent case involving a tiger on the loose in Houston.

On Monday, May 10, Houston police captured 26-year-old Victor Hugo Cuevas, who is accused of running from authorities and housing a Bengal tiger. Although Cuevas is still in custody, the tiger’s whereabouts are still unknown, the police announced on Twitter. “This has become kind of commonplace in Texas, and so I really hope that Senators Cruz and Cornyn will sign onto the Big Cat Public Safety Act, because if they had last year when the house passed this bill… the Senate didn’t bring it up for a vote,” Baskin said. “If it had passed last year, this wouldn’t have happened this time.”

Baskin went on to warn people not just about the loose Texas tiger, but also about Cuevas himself. Cuevas was out on bond for an unrelated murder charge from 2017, but now, county prosecutors are reportedly looking to revoke that bond. According to CNN, Jose Ramos, who lives next door to Cuevas, had “no idea a man charged with murder was living next door to him in this family-friendly community,” especially a man housing a large endangered animal. Cuevas’ attorney, Mike Elliot, said that Cuevas was simply housing the tiger, who really belonged to an exotic pet dealer named Deandre.

“I am extremely worried about what happens with this tiger and the people around it, because the people who were involved in buying and selling and transporting this tiger have proven that they are absolutely reckless individuals with no concern for the people around them or for the animal involved,” Baskin told CNN. “The kind of people who own tigers are really dangerous, reckless people.”

Some might think it’s ironic that Carole Baskin is the one warning people about owning tigers — and warning people about an accused murderer.

Baskin has made it her mission to prevent “dangerous, reckless” individuals from owning big cats: On Tiger King, viewers watched her relentlessly attempt to shut down Joe Exotic’s zoo in Wynnewood, OK. There has been a lot of confusion as to whether Baskin’s sanctuary is actually more humane than Exotic’s, though, since both were “taking advantage of exotic animals to make money,” as producer Rick Kirkham noted. 

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Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar.

Today: a naval officer who makes $60,000 per year and spends some of her money this week on ramen.

Occupation: Naval Officer
Industry: Military
Age: 25
Location: Yokosuka, Japan
Salary: $60,000
Net Worth: ~$86,000 (Checking: $2,985, savings: $19,933, share certificate: $4,923, roth IRA: $19,609, Government Thrift Savings Plan: $39,022)
Debt: $0 (I pay my full credit card statement at the end of the month)
Paycheck Amount (2x/month): $2,270
Pronouns: She/her

Monthly Expenses
Rent: $1,912 (I live alone in a rented apartment off-base. I get an Overseas Housing Allowance as part of my salary, which covers about $1,800 a month of my rent bill. I pay the rest out of pocket. Most people who get the same allowance as me choose to rent and not spend over the allowance, but I decided the extra money per month was worth the beautiful apartment in a neighborhood I love.)
CAUSEBOX: $250/year
YouTube Premium: $11.99
Cell Phone: $73.32
Amazon Prime: $9.92

Was there an expectation for you to attend higher education? Did you participate in any form of higher education? If yes, how did you pay for it?
Definitely. When I graduated from high school, I didn’t feel ready to go to college. I didn’t want to “waste” a lot of money earning a degree I wasn’t sure about, but my parents told me it was go to college or leave their house and support myself. I knew I couldn’t afford to rent my own apartment or car payments making minimum wage, so I earned an ROTC scholarship that took care of my tuition and applied to colleges. My dad paid for my room and board, which I paid back after I graduated. I worked part-time in college to pay for groceries and gas.

Growing up, what kind of conversations did you have about money? Did your parent/guardian(s) educate you about finances?
My dad always took me to the bank with him when he needed to run errands. He explained to me how he put everything in savings except for the money he was okay spending, and how he figured out what percentage of his paycheck should go into the spending category. The idea of interest compounding the sooner you put your money into the bank stuck with me even when I was little. I knew that I could put money away when I didn’t need it and it would turn into more money in the future. A guy I dated in college explained I should open an IRA even before I started working, so I started mine when I was 19.

What was your first job and why did you get it?
My dad didn’t want me to work when I was in high school. He grew up supporting younger siblings (his younger siblings were orphaned when he was 21 and they were minors) and I think he didn’t want me to feel stressed or burdened about financial hardship. I also think he didn’t have the money to help me get a car or the time to drive me to work anyway, so my first job was working in a cafeteria when I was in college after I left home. This money was what I used for groceries and going out.

Did you worry about money growing up?
No. I know my mother clipped coupons and planned our meals based on what was on sale or in season, and that my parents would carpool to save gas, and that we didn’t have cable because it was expensive. We also didn’t take family vacations. However, my parents definitely spent money, investing in my sister and me and supporting us in different hobbies and activities. There was always money for me to get a musical instrument or my sister to get new running shoes for track, but we didn’t get fancy electronics as holiday gifts like a lot of my friends did.

Do you worry about money now?
Not really. I don’t travel much right now due to COVID and I don’t have any “expensive” hobbies that require me to buy equipment and gear. My biggest expense is food. I barely buy anything else, and I know that I could even cut down on the snacks and eating out if I had to.

At what age did you become financially responsible for yourself and do you have a financial safety net?
22. I wasn’t paying for my own rent when I was in college — I paid for about half my living expenses. My safety net was my parents. Now I’m on my own, and I think if I absolutely needed help, I could ask, but I am very resistant to that idea. I’d have to have less than $1,000 in the bank to go to them for something like rent or food.

Do you or have you ever received passive or inherited income? If yes, please explain.
Nope!

Day One

6 a.m. — I wake up early, at 5:20. It’s still dark outside but I’m excited because it’s a Friday and I’m planning on making today a half-day. I hit snooze for ten minutes, getting out of bed at 5:30. I rush through getting ready and catch a train at 5:50 ($2 to swipe my train pass). I respond to Facebook Messenger and texts as I ride the train in. I usually wake up to some messages because while I sleep, my friends in the States are still awake and send me things. $2

12 p.m. — After a busy morning at work, I go on a run during my lunch hour. The weather is beautiful, sunny, and mid-60s and it’s too nice to resist. I drink a chocolate milk box I have at the office.

3:30 p.m. — I walk to the Pizza Hut that is next to the pier that my ship is on and buy some breadsticks ($3.50). I am not sure when I’ll be getting dinner because I’m supposed to leave around 4 for a spontaneous road trip this weekend. It’s the second weekend I’ve been allowed to do something besides be at home or work (COVID-19 precautions), and some friends booked an Airbnb over the weekend at the base of Mt. Fuji. I Venmo a friend ($90) for my two-night stay. $93.50

5 p.m. — The trip is off to a semi-late start. My friend and I are driving together and we stop to get gas. I run into the mini-mart and get gum, granola, and candy ($17.48). When I get back to the car, my friend and I realize we don’t have an exact address to go to, just the city we’re planning to visit. While we wait to receive the Airbnb address from the friend who made the booking, I run back inside to pick up some hard cider and lemonade for the evening’s festivities ($34.35). Since I didn’t pay for gas on the trip, I offer to pay the tolls ($12.40). $64.23

Daily Total: $159.73

Day Two

9 a.m. — After a night celebrating the fact that the group could actually go on this trip (we’re all vaccinated with some restrictions lifted), I’m the first to wake up in the Airbnb. I make a mug of tea and look through a magazine on the coffee table. It has an ad for a breakfast spot nearby and I convince everyone that waffles are the way to go for breakfast. One of my friends picks up the bill, so waffles are on him!

12:30 p.m. — Japan is famous for its onsens and I’m determined to go and relax at one since I haven’t been allowed to in over a year. My friends and I drive to one that is accepting of guests with tattoos (usually a taboo) and I break off from my friends to go alone into the women-only bath. I pay cash for my entrance fee. Later when I get out of the baths, I realize I should’ve brought or purchased a towel. Oh well. I drip dry before changing into clean clothes. $8

6:15 p.m. — After the relaxing onsen, we decide we want to get massages. I pay $60 for a 30-minute foot and calf massage and a 60-minute body massage. I can hear another person so relaxed that they have fallen asleep and are snoring on the massage bed next to mine. $60

8 p.m. — After a full day driving around and relaxing, my friends and I stop at a ramen place for dinner. We all try different types of ramen (I opt for pork and vegetables) and I end up paying for the group. $72

Daily Total: $140

Day Three

9 a.m. — My friends and I get up and decide to visit a gem museum. I pay cash for the entrance tickets for myself and two friends. $18

10:15 a.m. — We are back at the waffle place for brunch! This time I order a basil and tomato sandwich and it’s amazing. The tomatoes are piping hot, so I go with a brownie and ice cream for dessert. I pick up the bill for this breakfast for my friends. $54.45

12:30 p.m. — After eating, we take a gondola up a mountain with amazing views of Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji. I pay for my ticket ($5) and enjoy the short ride. I do not mind heights. At the top, I pay for a small fortune at the shrine ($1). It’s a good one! I pick up some souvenirs at the top to send to friends before we hike down ($22.32). $28.32

3 p.m.— After the natural beauty of the mountain and lake, we go to the Aokigawahara Forest for a short hike. While walking, we decide to see some famous caves formed from lava tubes. I pay my entrance fee ($3) and prepare to duck through a lot of small spaces. $3

5 p.m. — Everyone is tired and ready to head home from the weekend. I wanted to find a smaller restaurant, but the group votes for a well-known sushi chain. I eat and stack my plates. We pay and hit the road home, opting for a scenic and toll-free route. $15.25

Daily Total: $119.02

Day Four

5:50 a.m. — Another early train ride to work ($2). I definitely stayed up too late the night before, video calling a friend. I’ll be on the ship all day today. I skip breakfast and munch on chips for lunch. Not the healthiest, but it’s my duty day so I cannot leave the ship to pick up something else food-wise. I stay on the ship working all day long. $2

6 p.m. — I eat a cup of Annie’s mac and cheese for dinner before my evening workout. I buy 12 packs of these cups on Amazon whenever I run out. I work out and then go to bed on the ship.

Daily Total: $2

Day Five

6 a.m. — I wake up on the ship today and skip breakfast per my usual routine.

12 p.m. — At lunch, I’m really hungry so I walk to an on-base cafeteria and order Japanese curry and rice. $5

5 p.m. — Now that we are allowed to eat in restaurants again, I take two friends to an udon restaurant they’ve never been to before. Since I treated him to a few meals over the weekend, one of my friends pays for my dinner.

6:30 p.m. — We aren’t allowed to go to bars, so after dinner, my friends and I go to a convenience store to buy a drink ($1.51), which we (classily) drink in a park before our 8 p.m. curfew. Canned chuhais come in different “strengths” (alcohol content) and flavors and are pretty cheap. I take the train home ($2). $3.51

Daily Total: $8.51

Day Six

6 a.m. — The usual morning train to base ($2). I made a 2021 resolution to buy no drinks in plastic bottles, so as tempting as a morning coffee or tea from the vending machine at the train station looks, I ignore them. $2

5 p.m. — After my Clif Bar breakfast and running through my lunch break, I’m SO ready for dinner. I have spent the whole day thinking about going to my favorite cafe. The woman who runs it has a changing menu board based on what she feels like cooking that day. Today, I decide on her roasted chicken. The meal set includes soup, salad, fresh-baked bread, and tea at the end of the meal, and it’s phenomenal. I could eat here every night. The quality of food is miles above what I could make. If I wasn’t so full, I would stay for dessert too. $16.51

7 p.m. — After that delicious meal, I wish I could stay outside and walk around. Unfortunately, the curfew is still in effect and I take an early train home. $2

Daily Total: $20.51

Day Seven

6:20 a.m. — I wake up to a dead phone which means I slept through my alarm. I change in literally two minutes and run for the train station, catching the last train I can take without being late ($2). I have to run from the train station to the ship, so I roll into work sweaty and holding nothing but my ID card, a credit card, and some cash rubber-banded together in my pocket. It’s easier to run when everything you carry is lightweight. $2

5 p.m. — I ate a Cliff Bar and some pistachios from my snack drawer at work throughout the day, so I take the train home ($2) and get to dinner hungry again. I order ramen at my favorite spot in my neighborhood. I choose curry ramen with an extra egg and yuzu juice to celebrate the end of the week ($11.01). I accidentally thought it was Friday the whole day, and I’m going to keep up the end-of-week mindset. $13.01

Daily Total: $15.01

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