Top pollster Nate Silver has released his long-awaited final prediction of the 2024 election hours before the polls close across the U.S. And he says it’s ‘literally closer than a coin flip,’ and potentially the closest election in U.S. history just hours before the polls close on Tuesday. After 80,000 model simulations, Silver has Democrat Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in the majority of match ups.

Two small children were found decapitated in a bathtub yesterday on the French island of Guadeloupe. The bodies of the mutilated four-year-old and 13-month-old siblings were discovered by their distressed father overnight in their family home. The children’s mother, who is the prime murder suspect, was found naked and wandering the streets by two police officers after the alarm was raised.

Police officers have slammed the BBC for its ‘utter lack of balance’ in a new Panorama documentary about the fatal shooting of violent gang member Chris Kaba. The 24-year-old was shot in the head by Met firearms officer Sergeant Martyn Blake as he tried to ram his way out of a police roadblock in Streatham. Critics rounded on the BBC for repeatedly referring to the career criminal as ‘unarmed’ despite him being behind the wheel of an Audi Q8 that Sgt Blake feared he would use to run over his colleagues in a desperate bid to escape.

Donald Trump said he felt ‘confident’ after he cast his vote in Palm Beach, Florida, even as polls show the race between him and Kamala Harris is virtually tied. The 78-year-old was accompanied by wife Melania, who kept her sunglasses on as her husband took questions from reporters with just hours until the polls close in what could be one of the closest elections in history. She answered one short question about how she was feeling: ‘Very good. Thank you.’

The closure of two hugely popular Cornish tourist destinations in the space of a couple of hours has left locals in shock amid concerns about the state of the county’s holiday industry. Dairyland Farm Park, near Newquay, has been welcoming visitors for almost five decades, but shut its doors for the final time last weekend. Citing persistent financial struggles, the attraction shared its difficulties in trying to recover from the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic against the backdrop of rising operating costs.

Arrangements for Liam Payne’s funeral are close to being finalised – with his body expected to soon be repatriated ahead of a large-scale service set to be announced imminently, MailOnline has learned. Investigators probing his ‘unexplained’ death in Buenos Aires are expected to release Liam’s body to his heart-broken father Geoff this week and British consulate officials have made plans for the repatriation. Once the body of the 31-year-old star is back in the UK from the Argentine capital it’s expected this will be followed by the announcement of a lavish funeral expected to be attended by hundreds of mourners.