Donald Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser was well ahead of his time when he wrote a mail to then US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2019, asking if a group could be formed to brainstorm about a US digital currency, new documents revealed.

The long and uneven shadow of COVID-19 looms over the global labour market recovery. While Europe and North America are showing signs of bounce-back, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean are languishing.

Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, said the company will accept payment for Tesla merchandise in Dogecoins. Some items on Tesla’s merchandise page are already reflecting their prices in the cryptocurrency token.

The company had introduced the pilot test of the feature in August last year, as a part of its effort to reduce misinformation on its platform. It was first tested in the United States, Australia and South Korea. Since it was first announced, Twitter said it has received around 3 million reports from users who have used it to flag tweets which they believe are in violation of its policies.