Republican primary runoff voters chose US representative Mike Collins to face Ossoff in November Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump’s pick to face rising Democratic star Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s midterm election for senator later this year swept to victory last night. Donald Trump laid into Benjamin Netanyahu , telling a news conference at the G7 summit in France that the Israeli prime minister “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”. The Republican-led US Senate on Tuesday narrowly failed to advance a war powers resolution introduced by Democrats that would have directed the president to end hostilities with Iran, by a vote of 48-47. The justice department announced charges against five men for an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government