US midterm voters head to the polls in a referendum on Trump's second term

Americans voted Tuesday in midterm elections that will determine control of Congress during the final two years of Donald Trump's presidency.

• Democrats need a net gain of three House and four Senate seats to take control of both chambers.
• Trump announced the US would end $4bn in annual funding to Israel after the end of this year.
• Six in ten voters nationwide disapprove of Trump's job performance, according to CNN's Voter Poll.
• The Justice Department deployed about 1,000 election monitors across all 50 states.