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Conservative radio host Phil Valentine from the American city of Nashville has died from the effects of the coronavirus. He regularly downplayed the vaccines and regularly spread fake news about the virus. Valentine was 61 years old.   Phil Valentine was a notorious vaccine doubter with a talk show on radio station 99.7 WWTN-FM in Nashville, Tennessee. He said about the corona vaccine, among other things: "I have a shallow risk of getting corona and dying from it if I get it. So why would I risk a heart attack or paralysis by getting vaccinated?" He was also a proponent of Ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug circulating in conservative circles as "the panacea against corona." On his show, he released a self-written parody of the Beatles song Taxman, called Vaxman. He makes fun of mas...

Trump Organization finance director Allen Weisselberg surrenders to authorities as part of a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's company. That reports The New York Times.   Allen Weisselberg walked into the building that houses the Manhattan criminal court today, according to the American newspaper. He and a Trump Organization representative are expected to appear in court later in the day. In recent months, it was investigated whether tax had been paid on, among other things, cars, homes and apartments for employees. The prosecutors tried to get Weisselberg's cooperation, but his lawyers always said he wouldn't. Now the financial director has decided to cooperate. These are the first charges against former US President Donald Trump's company since prosecut...

During the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, the US Department of Justice has subpoenaed Apple to obtain information about at least two Democratic representatives, their employees and their families.   One of them was leading Democrat Adam Schiff and The New York Times reports citing insiders. According to the paper, prosecutors were trying to identify the media sources, which at the time reported contacts between Trump associates and Russia. The Justice Department's suspicions focused on Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee. Schiff is now chairman and was its leading Democrat at the time. The files of at least twelve people - including a minor child - who had a link with the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018. Apple would only have handed over m...