Overview

• The chair of America's House intelligence committee has requested President Joe Biden to declassify information about a serious national-security threat, believed to be a new Russian weapon in space.
• Vladimir Putin expressed a preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in America's upcoming elections, citing Biden's experience and predictability.
• A judge is set to hear arguments on whether the district attorney trying Donald Trump for election interference in Georgia should be disqualified due to alleged impropriety.
• The House is considering legislation to reauthorize and amend a surveillance law that allows spying without a warrant on non-Americans abroad, raising privacy concerns.
• America's immigration-enforcement agency contemplates releasing thousands of detainees to address a $700m budget shortfall, following the collapse of a bipartisan border deal.