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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

US should review its regional policy: Spokesman

EghtesadOnline: US should review its regional policy, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said in reaction to the US presidential election result.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 10:49

Trump's chance of victory skyrockets on betting exchanges, online market

EghtesadOnline: Online trading platform PredictIt and bookermaker Paddy Power showed a massive reversal of fortune for U.S. presidential candidates Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night, as the New York businessman's chances of taking the White House skyrocketed on both.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 07:50

Trump’s Wall Street fans cheer as markets churn

EghtesadOnline: Wall Street supporters of Republican Donald Trump chanted "USA, USA" and clinked glasses on Tuesday as he won the key battleground state of Ohio in a nail-biting presidential election.
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Publish Date:09/November/2016 | 07:26

Mexicans on U.S. border fear economic catastrophe if Trump wins

EghtesadOnline: Mexicans on the U.S. border anxiously awaited the outcome of the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, plagued by fears of economic disaster if Republican Donald Trump wins and tries to choke local industry, isolate the country and deport millions.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 08:49

Clinton and Trump chase last-minute support on U.S. election eve

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. presidential campaign neared its end on Monday in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a "phony" and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country, as a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed Clinton with a strong chance of winning.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 06:55