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    A Philadelphia judge said the $1 million voter sweepstakes linked to Elon Musk was allowed to continue through Election Day because prosecutors failed to show that it was an illegal lottery. District Attorney Larry Krasner called the daily sweepstakes a scam. But Common Pleas Judge Angelo Foglietta in an opinion Tuesday said Musk's political action committee made it clear they were choosing paid spokespeople. Musk committed more than $70 million to America PAC to help Donald Trump return to the White House and other Republicans win. He has now been tapped to help lead a government efficiency effort.

      Dogecoin has raced higher in value since Donald Trump won the presidential election. The cryptocurrency, whose mascot is a super-cute dog that muses things like “much wow,” has more than doubled since Election Day. The latest bump came after Trump named Tesla’s Elon Musk one of the heads of a new “Department of Government Efficiency,” which is not a government agency but does have the acronym DOGE. That's the symbol dogecoin trades under, and it's the latest wild move for a cryptocurrency with a history of them. Trump has embraced crypto and said he wants the United States to be the “crypto capital of the planet.”

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