内容摘要：There may be less pushback to aid cuts if the Republicans win a significant majority in Congress following Tuesday's elections, however. The party has already secured the Senate - Congress' upper chamber - and currently has a majority in the lower chamber - the House of Representatives.

There may be less pushback to aid cuts if the Republicans win a significant majority in Congress following Tuesday's elections, however. The party has already secured the Senate - Congress' upper chamber - and currently has a majority in the lower chamber - the House of Representatives.

Just north of Tel Aviv on Wednesday, close to the Mossad’s headquarters, a BBC correspondent found several badly damaged cars and a pile of earth next to a road where a missile impact was said to have caused a crater between 8m and 10m deep.The nearby municipality of Hod HaSharon also said about 100 houses were damaged by a missile explosion and shrapnel. "This was a very powerful impact with a huge risk of claiming human lives," the municipality said.

And a video released by the IDF showed the head of its Home Front Command visiting, just to the east of Ashkelon, causing extensive damage to a classroom.Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service paramedics treated two people with light injuries from shrapnel in the Tel Aviv area, as well as some people with minor injuries caused by falling as they moved to shelters.

However, the Palestinian Civil Defence authority said a Palestinian man was killed when he was hit by a falling missile fragment in the West Bank city of Jericho.CCTV footage showed the rear half of a large, black missile plummeting directly on to a man as he walks along a road at night. It was not clear if the missile had been intercepted.

, a 37-year-old Palestinian construction worker from Gaza who had been sheltering in Jericho since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas last October.

The IDF has not provided details about how the missiles were shot down, besides saying that Israeli and US-led forces were involved and that Israeli air defences “operated impressively, with high rates of interception”.A TikTok star who died after taking a poison she ordered online had overdosed on prescribed medication in the months before her death, an inquest heard.

Imogen Nunn, 25, died at her Brighton flat on New Year's Day 2023 after taking a poisonous substance.An inquest into her death was told Ms Nunn, who was born deaf and used social media to raise awareness of hearing and mental health issues, saw a consultant psychiatrist on three occasions in the months prior to her death.

Dr Simon Baker, of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said meetings were held after she overdosed on medication and after an incident of self-harm but that no changes were made to her care on either occasion.Dr Baker, who also saw Ms Nunn three days before her death, said she had "pretty much the maximum amount of support".