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Times' Russia report is 'virtual treason,' Trump says

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said President Donald Trump's attacks on the press are "dangerous". [AFP]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused The New York Times of "a virtual act of treason," after it reported the US is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid.

Current and former government officials have described the classified deployment of American computer code inside Russia's power grid and other targets, the Times reported.

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