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Reuters reports that Fancy Bear, the Russian hacker group accused of interfering in the 2016 United States presidential election, had attempted, earlier this year, to hack the email accounts of the California and Indiana branches of the Democratic Party, and those of influential think tanks like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
2020-10-30

The re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump files a libel suit against "The New York Times" over a 2019 editorial piece that accused the Trump campaign of striking a deal with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
2020-02-26

U.S. President Donald Trump accuses former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower the month before the 2016 presidential election but offers no evidence to support his claim. A spokesman for President Obama rejects these claims.
2017-03-4

Donald Trump is forecast to win the United States presidential election as a result of victories of battleground states.
2016-11-8

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida forcibly reject, as has the White House, candidate Donald Trump's suggestion that the U.S. military be withdrawn from Japan and South Korea with nuclear weapons replacing them. A small minority in South Korea, such as the think tank Sejong Institute, agree with Trump on this issue, but this is not mainstream policy.
2016-03-31

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham ends his campaign for the Republican Party nomination for President. During his campaign he has failed to poll above single digits nationally or in the early voting states.
2015-12-21

Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee announces his decision to end his campaign for the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination in Washington, D.C.
2015-10-23

Rick Santorum announces he will be seeking the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2016 United States presidential election.
2015-05-27

Nominally independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont announces that he will be seeking the Democratic Party nomination in the US presidential election.
2015-04-29