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    President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a Nixon/Watergate plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. While citing no evidence to support his explosive allegation, Trump said in a series of five tweets sent Saturday morning that Obama was wire tapping his New York offices before the election in a move he compared to McCarthyism. Bad (or sick) guy! he said of his predecessor, adding that the surveillance resulted in nothing found. An Obama spokesman gave an emphatic, but noticeably limited response: A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of tha...

    US president Donald Trump continues to be dogged by concerns about his connections to Russia and suggestions that several of his advisers were in contact with the Kremlin during his election campaign. Alleged links between Russian officials and Trump associates are being investigated by the FBI and both sides of Congress, while two FBI field offices are reportedly investigating the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computer system and the posting of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. US intelligence officials have concluded that Russian hackers were behind the attacks. According to a report by the Office of the Direct of National Intelligence, issued two weeks prior to Trump’s inauguration, the Russian government aspired to help ...

    Activist and actress Jane Fonda has spoken for the first time about being raped and sexually abused as a child, saying she was raised with the disease to please others. Fonda, 79, a long-time outspoken advocate of women’s rights, said it had taken her years to stand up for herself in Hollywood on issue such as pay and the roles she took. I’ve been raped, I’ve been sexually abused as a child and I’ve been fired because I wouldn’t sleep with my boss and I always thought it was my fault; that I didn’t do or say the right thing, Fonda told fellow actress Brie Larson in a conversation for the March 2 edition of Net-a-Porter magazine. Fonda gave no details of the assaults. I know young girls who’ve been raped and didn’t even know it was rape, she said. ‘They think, It must have ...

    Uber on Friday acknowledged the use of a secret software program to steer drivers away from trouble, including sting operations by local authorities to catch lawbreakers. In the latest in a streak of damaging news for the ridesharing giant, Uber came forward about its Greyball software after a New York Times report which said the program aimed to deceive authorities in markets around the world. According to an Uber statement, the tool was used in cities where it was not banned from operating, and the main intent was to protect drivers from disruption by competitors using the smartphone application to interfere instead of summon legitimate rides. This program denies ride requests to fraudulent users who are violating our terms of service, an Uber spokesperson said in an ema...

    As Donald Trump desperately tries to distance himself and his administration from links with Russia, over in Moscow businessmen, oligarchs and politicians are raising eyebrows and wry smiles. The President may have told a Washington press conference, “I have no deals that could happen in Russia because we’ve stayed away”, but those in the know believe the truth is very different. The Mirror travelled to the former Soviet state to investigate allegations which have engulfed Trump and his team regarding clandestine links. We discovered that far from “staying away” Trump has formed associations with some of Moscow’s most powerful and influential players, has sold his Miss Universe contest there, has a Hollywood Boulevard-style signed star in a shopping mall and even had plans...