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America and the world has its reckoning with the ballot box today. After an enormously expensive election campaign, at a time when many Americans are feeling the pinch economically, the polls suggest this will be an historically close contest.

We all want to know who won the election, but getting the result could take a while – so here’s what you should be looking for in the meantime, those all-important clues that might point to a winner.

Our teams on the campaign trail reflect on what they’ve heard on the streets of America from voters, in the lead-up to the vote.

The US election doesn’t just have an effect in the country or on the border, but far beyond the United States, with major ramifications for Ukraine, the Middle East and the EU depending on who wins. We spoke to Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer prize winning American journalist and historian, and author of ‘Autocracy Inc. –…

Despite the claims of the Democrats, the relative calm on the southern border is more because of a campaign of cartel violence than the tough measures passed by President Biden.

We spoke to Carmen Marqués Ruiz, who’s the EU’s Climate Pact Ambassador and is from the Valencia region.

Heavy downpours and flooding have hit Barcelona, triggering red alerts, days after catastrophic floods further south in Valencia. Spain is sending another two and a half thousand soldiers to help with the clean-up, distribute food and water and stop looters. They’ll join five thousand sent over the weekend amid growing anger over the handling of…

One of the things that makes US elections so unpredictable is the electoral college system. It means the winner of the popular vote doesn’t always become president and some states become much more important than others.

We spoke to Matt Terrill, who ran Marco Rubio’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and Susan Platt, who was Chief of Staff to Joe Biden when he was in the Senate. Matt Frei: So at the beginning of the programme, we said that there are two very divergent tones in these final…

After millions of miles travelled and billions of dollars spent – the US presidential election campaign is in its final hours. And the tone of the candidates in these final hours could not be more different. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are spending the day making a final dash for votes, with both holding competing…

Are there people out there who don’t usually vote, young men perhaps, that the polls aren’t picking up and are swinging to Trump in large numbers? Or is there a swathe of independents, older women, traditional Republicans, turning their back on Trump and voting Democrat? 

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making their final pitch to voters, as an American election race that has seen assassination attempts and President Joe Biden stepping aside as a candidate enters its final day.

We speak to Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky, who’s in Pennsylvania, and Republican strategist Kristin Davison, who’s in New Mexico as the campaigns head into the final days.

The US election is now a mere two days away, and Donald Trump is racing around three of the seven crucial swing states, while Kamala Harris is focusing her campaigning on Michigan.

They went to see the damage from Tuesday’s catastrophic floods. Instead, Spain’s King, Queen and Prime Minister had mud and abuse hurled at them in Paiporta – one of Valencia’s worst-hit suburbs.