FBI searches aide’s home

FBI agents looking for financial documents have searched one of the homes of US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, whose past foreign political work has been swept into the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mr Manafort’s spokesman Jason Maloni said FBI agents had searched one of Mr Manafort’s homes, but he would not say when the search occurred or what it was for.

Mr Manafort has been a subject of a longstanding FBI investigation into his dealings in Ukraine.