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Trump claims Obama wiretapped him during campaign; Obama refutes it

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump accused predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday of wiretapping him during the late stages of the 2016 election campaign, but offered no evidence for an allegation which an Obama spokesman said was "simply false".
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Publish Date:05/March/2017 | 05:24

Trump Will Visit Headquarters of CIA He Criticized Over Leaks

EghtwsadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump will visit CIA headquarters in Virginia on Saturday on his first full day in office, traveling to the nerve center of a U.S. spy apparatus he criticized over intelligence reports Russia worked to assist his election, said a person familiar with the plans.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 11:53

Senate Panel to Probe If Trump Campaign Had Contact With Russia

EghtesadOnline: The Senate Intelligence Committee announced a bipartisan investigation into Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 elections, including any links with associates of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Publish Date:14/January/2017 | 05:17

Factbox: U.S. intel report on Russian cyber attacks in 2016 election

EghtesadOnline: A declassified report by U.S. intelligence agencies said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 15:15

U.S. Congress certifies Trump's Electoral College victory

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Congress on Friday certified the Electoral College vote that gave Republican Donald Trump his victory in the contentious 2016 presidential election after a raucous half-hour joint session punctuated by Democratic challenges.
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Publish Date:07/January/2017 | 05:48

U.S. obtained evidence after election that Russia leaked emails: officials

EghtesadOnline: U.S. intelligence agencies obtained what they considered to be conclusive evidence after the November election that Russia provided hacked material from the Democratic National Committee to WikiLeaks through a third party, three U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Publish Date:05/January/2017 | 05:01

Investors brace for 2017 shocks after surprise 2016 run

EghtesadOnline: After a late-year rally fueled by the U.S. election pushed stocks to surprising new peaks, investors are wary that the market could be primed for a spill to start 2017.
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Publish Date:31/December/2016 | 13:54

Obama Said to Ready Sanctions on Russian Officials for Hacking

EghtesadOnline: The Obama administration will announce sanctions against Russian officials and state institutions in retaliation for hacking Democratic Party e-mails in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, according to people familiar with the process.
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Publish Date:29/December/2016 | 18:23

U.S. electors expected to officially confirm Trump victory

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Electoral College is expected on Monday to officially select Republican Donald Trump as the next president in a vote that is usually routine but takes place this year amid allegations of Russian hacking to try to influence the election.
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Publish Date:19/December/2016 | 07:03

ICYMI: In Russia, 'fake news' is the norm

EghtesadOnline: In the run up to America's 2016 presidential election, fake news mills churned out stories about both candidates. On Dec. 4, 2016, a man walked into a Washington pizza place and fired an assault rifle. He was there to investigate a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff running a child-sex trafficking ring through the restaurant. It’s a rumor that fake news purveyors spread across social media.
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Publish Date:14/December/2016 | 11:19

Trump derides reports Russia helped him in U.S. election

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump rejected as "ridiculous" reported U.S. intelligence findings that Russia intervened in the presidential election on his behalf through targeted hacking, according to an interview broadcast on Sunday.
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Publish Date:11/December/2016 | 20:02

Team Trump Mocks Suggestion of Russian Meddling in Election

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team dismissed claims of foreign interference in this year’s elections as the CIA reportedly concluded that Russia had intervened to help the Republican candidate and shared its findings with lawmakers in a private briefing.
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Publish Date:11/December/2016 | 18:33

Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber attacks

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review cyber attacks and foreign intervention into the 2016 election and deliver a report before he leaves office on Jan. 20, the White House said on Friday.
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Publish Date:10/December/2016 | 13:48

Trump, without evidence, says illegal voting cost him U.S. popular vote

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that he won the popular vote in the Nov. 8 election "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally", though he provided no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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Publish Date:28/November/2016 | 08:19
Throughout the campaign, automated propaganda accounts on Twitter leaned Republican, but that disparity increased in the race's final days.

Trump's Twitter Bots Turned Out on Election Day

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump’s supporters made a surprisingly strong showing on Nov. 8, and not just at polling places in the rust belt. Twitter bots accounted for nearly a quarter of all postings that included hashtags related to the election, according to an analysis by researchers at Corvinus University, Oxford, and the University of Washington published on Thursday.
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Publish Date:17/November/2016 | 18:22

How the polls missed Trump's victory

EghtesadOnline: Two days ago, pollsters and statisticians gave Hillary Clinton odds of between 75 and 99 percent of winning the U.S. presidential election. How did so many get it so wrong?
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 07:00

Trump trumpeting new tone

EghtesadOnline: 'I am a businessman,' said Donald Trump in the address he made following his victory in the United States presidential election.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 05:17

Iran will respect US choice: Vaezi

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday that Iran will respect whoever the American nation elected for presidency.
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Publish Date:10/November/2016 | 05:16