CIA chief reportedly warns Russia against attacking Nato countries on visit to Moscow – US politics live

Kremlin dismisses US media reports after meeting as ‘scare stories’, as Pentagon policy chief prepares to meet Nato secretary general Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

A trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on Nato member states, US media reported, after Donald Trump attempted to downplay the visit.

Two dozen mainly Democratic‑led states filed a fresh lawsuit to block Donald Trump ’s executive order restricting mail voting in this year’s midterm elections.

Lawyers for Lisa Cook wrote to the White House on Wednesday, rejecting a new attempt to force the Federal Reserve governor to resign for allegedly listing two properties as her primary residence on mortgage applications.

The letter goes on to detail the numerous other individuals who have made the same mistake on mortgage forms, starting with Trump.

The chief spokesperson for the US Secret Service and two other communications staffers are under investigation for “potential misconduct” and have been suspended, according to the agency and media reports.

A geography professor alleges in a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan that he was fired from his tenured position at the US Military Academy at West Point “because he taught that humans influenced climate change”.

The US army announced on Wednesday that it has awarded to $2.2bn to five contractors “to own, construct and operate nuclear microreactors on military installations” in five states.

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