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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

U.S. courts look ahead to Trump as Obama cases fizzle

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama 's legal defense of some key initiatives including his signature healthcare law is collapsing as courts put cases on hold until after President-elect Donald Trump, hostile to the policies, assumes office on Jan. 20.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 10:52

Chicago Faces Political Power Outage as Trump Succeeds Obama

EghtesadOnline: Chicago is racing the clock. Nowhere will political power evaporate more dramatically at noon on Jan. 20 than in the third-largest U.S. city, a bastion of Democratic power that’s enjoyed special access to Washington during President Barack Obama ’s eight years in the White House.
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Publish Date:06/December/2016 | 17:37

Aleppo's fall would be win for Russia, defeat for U.S. in Mideast

EghtesadOnline: U.S.-backed moderate rebels' loss of the eastern half of Syria's largest city Aleppo to Russian-backed government forces would be a defeat for President Barack Obama 's efforts to promote democracy and defeat terrorism in the Middle East, U.S. officials conceded on Monday.
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Publish Date:06/December/2016 | 10:10

China upset as Obama bars Fujian buying Aixtron's U.S. business

EghtesadOnline: China's Foreign Ministry expressed displeasure on Monday after President Barack Obama blocked a Chinese investment fund from acquiring the U.S. business of German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 10:16

Obama's not-so-secret admirer: Donald Trump

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama has a new fan: Donald Trump. After lambasting Obama for months as a failed leader unfit to be president, the Republican president-elect found kinder words on Tuesday for the man he will succeed in the White House on Jan. 20
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Publish Date:23/November/2016 | 14:56

Obama declines comment on reports of possible removal of NSA chief

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama declined on Sunday to comment on media reports that senior defense and intelligence officials in his administration had requested the removal of National Security Agency chief Mike Rogers.
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Publish Date:21/November/2016 | 07:33

Obama offers bleak assessment of situation in Syria

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that chaos in Syria could persist for "quite some time" and that Russian and Iranian support for President Bashar al-Assad's air campaign had emboldened the Syrian leader's crackdown on rebels.
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Publish Date:21/November/2016 | 07:25

Obama, Putin talk about Syria and Ukraine in quick summit meet

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for around four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, in what is likely to be their last in-person meeting before Obama leaves office.
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Publish Date:21/November/2016 | 05:39

Senior U.S. officials recommend removal of NSA director: sources

EghtesadOnline: The heads of the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community have recommended to President Barack Obama that the director of the National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, be removed from his position, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:20/November/2016 | 06:52

Wall Street keen for a fellow traveler at Treasury

EghtesadOnline: With President-elect Donald Trump promising to spend as much as half a trillion dollars on infrastructure and slash taxes – initiatives that could add dramatically to the U.S. debt and balloon the budget deficit - Wall Street is far more focused on who will next head the U.S. Treasury than it was in the previous selection process under President Barack Obama .
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 05:46

Obama to reassure U.S. allies about Trump's commitment to NATO

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama said on Monday he would reassure U.S. allies during his trip overseas this week that Republican President-elect Donald Trump plans to maintain core U.S. strategic relationships around the world, including with NATO.
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Publish Date:15/November/2016 | 06:29

Obama officials work against time to wrap banking rules

EghtesadOnline: U.S. officials are striving to put finishing touches on a slew of banking rules before President Barack Obama leaves office and hands regulatory power to Donald Trump who has vowed to rewrite the existing financial rule book.
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Publish Date:14/November/2016 | 05:50

U.S. protesters march against Trump presidency for fifth day

EghtesadOnline: Demonstrators in major U.S. cities took to the streets on Sunday for a fifth straight day to protest President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign manager said President Barack Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton should do more to support a peaceful transition.
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Publish Date:14/November/2016 | 05:30

Trade. North Korea. Iran. The dangers awaiting Trump.

EghtesadOnline: Barack Obama met with Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Thursday following his spectacular election upset on November 8. While the president-elect promptly promised to “put America’s interests first, but deal fairly with everyone”, many U.S. allies are nervous about what his win will mean for U.S. policy. That means he now has to begin a major campaign of re-assurance, and prepare for a host of challenges in a world full of potential danger.
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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 04:44

Trump Now Wants to Keep Popular Obamacare Provisions, Scrap Rest

EghtesadOnline: President-elect Donald Trump reversed himself on completely eliminating the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama ’s signature health law, saying instead he would keep two popular features and pledged no gap in coverage as it’s replaced.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 08:03