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White House vows to fight media 'tooth and nail' over Trump coverage

EghtesadOnline: The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what it sees as unfair attacks, with a top adviser saying the Trump administration had presented "alternative facts" to counter low inauguration crowd estimates.
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Publish Date:23/January/2017 | 05:06

Trump Aide Says Press Secretary Used ‘Alternative Facts’

EghtesadOnline: A top adviser to President Donald Trump said Sunday that his press secretary, Sean Spicer, had offered “alternative facts” in a statement the day before from the White House briefing room in which he contested reports on the size of Trump’s inauguration audience.
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Publish Date:23/January/2017 | 05:01

White House accuses media of playing down inauguration crowds

EghtesadOnline: The White House on Saturday accused the media of framing photographs to understate the crowd that attended Donald Trump's inauguration, a new jab in a long-running fight between the new president and the news organizations who cover him.
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Publish Date:22/January/2017 | 05:00

Trump’s Pledge of Quick Action Slowed by Cabinet-in-Waiting

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump vowed to bring swift change to Washington in a fiery inaugural address, yet that promise is colliding with the reality that only two members of his Cabinet cleared the Senate by the end of his first day in office.
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 14:38

Anti-Trump activists try to block access to inauguration

EghtesadOnline: Liberal activists protesting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration scuffled with police in Washington on Friday after attempting to block the Republican real estate developer's supporters streaming in for the ceremony.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 15:48

Executive actions ready to go as Trump prepares to take office

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive actions on his first day in the White House on Friday to take the opening steps to crack down on immigration, build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border and roll back outgoing President Barack Obama's policies.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 14:52

Trump Arrives for Inauguration With Promise to Unify the Nation

EghtesadOnline: On the eve of his inauguration as the 45th U.S. president, Donald Trump offered a measure of humility and a promise of unity to thousands of supporters who had arrived in Washington for the ceremony.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 24:57

Trump’s Tough Talk Further Rattles World Capitals on Day One

EghtesadOnline: Donald Trump invoked the image of a U.S. plagued by weak borders, lopsided alliances and bad trade deals in an inauguration speech that hammered on his “America First” view of foreign policy and undermined hopes abroad that the new president would moderate his protectionist tone.
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 04:36

Trump admin targets violent Islamist groups as foreign policy priority

EghtesadOnline: The Trump administration will make defeating "radical Islamic terror groups" its top foreign policy goal, according to a statement posted on the White House website moments after Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 04:53
Trump adjusted his tone, but not his message of a country in dire need of fixing

Trump by the Numbers: Inaugural Speech Takes Campaign to Capitol

EghtesadOnline: The key moment of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration address came almost precisely at its midpoint, 722 words into the 1,433-word speech. That’s when Trump transitioned from a litany of America’s past failures to a vision of its future successes, announcing, “from this moment on, it's going to be America first.”
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Publish Date:21/January/2017 | 04:35

In Trump We Trust: Inauguration prompts celebration in Russia

EghtesadOnline: The Kremlin may have spent years reviling America, but Russians hoping Donald Trump will usher in a new era of detente marked his inauguration on Friday with parties and trinkets from commemorative coins to "matryoshka" nesting dolls in his image.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 14:55