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So, what is “Doge”?

Dogecoin, the meme cryptocurrency often associated with Elon Musk, soared in worth after President-elect Donald Trump greenlit the tech billionaire’s ideas for a recent executive department with an evocative acronym.

Trump announced that Musk, the globe’s richest person, will navigator the recent Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, alongside fellow billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy. (Yes, we’ve heard the jokes about two people running a department of efficiency.)

Our narrative conveniently tells what you require to recognize about both the proposed federal agency and the coin.

Ever dreamed of a second passport?

Second passports are a way some Americans, like Sue Reddel and her wife Diana, are moving abroad for excellent.

In 2017, while living in Wisconsin as a journalist, Reddel visited Portugal for the first period and “fell in adore” with the population and people, returning home with the concept that she could live there permanently. A couple of years later, they drove around the country “to view if I was crazy,” as Reddel put it. Shortly after, they began researching the relocation procedure.

Amid growing uncertainty in the U.S., Reddel and her wife are part of a rising wave of Americans moving abroad.

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Finally, here’s a popular narrative from earlier this year that you may have missed. Read it! distribute it!

By now, you’ve probably heard about a massive data breach that compromised the Social safety numbers and other data of millions of Americans and could now be in the hands of hackers.

The cache of data is made up of 2.9 billion records, including names, addresses, Social safety numbers and relatives dating back at least three decades.

A lawsuit alleges National community Data, which aggregates data to propose background searches, did not adequately protect the information, allowing it to be stolen and offered for sale on the dim web.

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Daniel de Visé covers money management for USA Today.