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Elected officials say violent threats occasionally come with the job, but many politicians assert that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others reflects a culture that has become too heated and rife with instigation to violence.

Elected officials say violent threats occasionally come with the job, but many politicians assert that the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others reflects a culture that has become too heated.

With less than a month left until election night, Republicans and Democrats are focusing on tossup races. Among them is the Virginia race between Sen. George Allen (R-VA) and Jim Webb, a Navy secretary under President Reagan now running as a Democrat. The two held their last debate Monday.

Congress is taking a second look at guidelines hastily enacted last year for trying detainees in places such as the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This week, military judges threw out two cases that were brought to trial under the so-called Military Commissions Act.

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings into charges that Marines massacred up to 24 Iraqi civilians last November while hunting for a roadside bomber, Chairman John Warner (R-VA) said Sunday. The U.S. military is already investigating the allegations.

Congressional Democratic leaders seem to have blinked in the staredown with President Bush over a bill to fund four more months of the Iraq war. Democrats say their bill no longer contains a timeline for troop withdrawal from Iraq — a point that prompted a veto of earlier legislation.

With control of the health care debate slipping from his grasp, President Barack Obama pitched his ambitious plan to both conservative talk radio and his own liberal supporters Thursday - and denied a challenge from one backer that he was "bucklin' a little bit" under Republican criticism.

Domenici withdraws support for President Bush's Iraq war policy and backs a proposal to bring most troops home by March.

Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) has stirred much debate after criticizing an incoming congressmen's decision to use the Quran in a private, unofficial swearing-in ceremony. Goode said it points to the need for a change in immigration policy, and wrote a letter warning of an influx of Muslims if tighter immigration policies aren't enacted.

Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, wants to continue the mission with the current troop buildup until spring 2008, in order to maintain the strides made in security there. President Bush ordered troop escalation in January.