<p>Incumbent Republican senator is facing strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton in state that has been red for almost a century</p><p><strong>Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow.</strong></p><p><strong>Yuri Ihnat</strong>, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, said on television on Monday morning that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</a> had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv at around 11pm. Earlier, a Ukrainian government official had told the Guardian the US had not warned the capital about the impending missile strike.</p><p><strong>Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that “restoration work <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/trump-dc-golf-course-renovation">will begin</a>” next month to a historic public golf course in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/washington-dc">Washington DC</a> despite a federal judge’s court order to pause his plans over environmental and historic preservation concerns.</strong> He wrote that the facility would be transformed into “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World”.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ilhan-omar">Ilhan Omar</a>’s attorneys have asked the US Department of Justice to return property that federal agents removed days earlier from her home during a search.</strong> The lawyers for the Minnesota Democrat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/17/ilhan-omar-search-seized-items">contended that</a> the seizure as “neither justified nor lawful”, according to a letter published on Friday. The federal investigation into Omar was launched just weeks ahead of the 3 November midterms, in which Omar is on the ballot.</p><p><strong>Former US president Barack Obama <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/tom-homan-trump-ilhan-omar-citizenship-deportation">condemned comments</a> by Trump’s “border czar” that the Republican presidential administration could “of course” strip Omar of her citizenship and deport her.</strong> Obama wrote Sunday morning, on X, that “the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/oct/19/donald-trump-kansas-roger-marshall-golf-ukraine-midterms-latest-news-updates">Continue reading...</a>