Anger has focused on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has become a political lightning rod in the United States, and the high death toll in Gaza.

If Democrats can win control of either the House or the Senate, they will have seized some control of Washington back from President Donald Trump and Republicans.

Matthew Unglesbee allegedly told the FBI the white powder substance was salt and that he mailed the threatening letters to Congress as a joke.

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Republicans lined up a series of doomed votes in their final hours, hoping to portray Democrats as obstructionists. But some conceded that their party was more likely to be punished.

Congress is considering several bills to address the law's problems. The newest one, introduced on Oct. 8 by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would get rid of the arbitration system entirely and just use the QPA.