*🗳️ US MIDTERM ELECTIONS: A Democratic House and a Republican Senate, but still some uncertainty, according to CNN Forecast*

The US 2018 campaign (mostly) comes to an end this Tuesday. If the polls and CNN forecasts are right, the Democrats and Republicans will each have something to be happy about.

Democrats are favored to take back the House, while Republicans are favored to maintain control of the Senate.

CNN final House forecast has Democrats earning 227 seats to the Republicans 208. That's a net gain of 32 seats from the 195 they hold right now. Democrats only need a net gain of 23 to win the 218 seats necessary for a majority.

But forecasts come with a margin of error. Specifically, the 95% confidence interval finds that Democrats could win as few as 207 seats (11 short of a majority) to 259, according to our latest estimate.

Make no mistake though, the House race is still close enough that Republicans could win.

The final Senate forecast is something else altogether. It has Republicans controlling 52 seats and Democrats (and Independents who caucus with them) holding 48 seats in the next Congress. If this forecast were exactly right, it would mean that Republicans would have a net gain of a seat since the last Congress.

*🗳️ US MIDTERM ELECTIONS: Voters divided on Trump and country's direction, according to Reuters-Ipsos poll*

U.S. voters were deeply divided about Republican President Donald Trump’s job performance and the direction of the country as they cast ballots in Tuesday’s congressional midterm elections, according to the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll.

After some voting locations closed on the East Coast but before every vote was counted, early poll results found that about half of those who voted believed the country was on the “wrong track,” and four in 10 said it was headed in the “right direction.”

A slightly larger number of voters disapproved of Trump’s job performance, compared with about four in 10 who approved, the poll found.

The poll, conducted online on Tuesday, was based on responses from 36,740 people who voted in 37 states. The poll is ongoing and will be updated as people continue to vote.

*🗳️ US MIDTERM ELECTIONS: Democrats Pick Up Two House Seats in Early Returns*

Democrats faced mixed results in early returns on Tuesday night, with voters delivering some disappointments for a party hoping their energized base would offer a striking repudiation of President Donald Trump.

While money and momentum favored the Democrats, the party seized just two of the 23 seats in they need to take the House in the first wave of returns, with victories for Donna Shalala, in Florida, and Jennifer Wexton, in Virginia. Several tight races Democrats hoped to win in Florida remained in Republican control.

About three hours after the first set of polls closed, as votes were counted in 40 states, most of the key races remained too close to call.

Millions of Americans had marched to the polls to vote in one of the hardest-fought, most expensive and perhaps most consequential midterm elections in political memory. The election motivated Americans from both parties, with races around the country seeing signs of powerful voter turnout across the country, all but certain to surpass the numbers who voted in the 2014 midterms.

The election became for many a referendum on American values in the Trump era.

*Suspected Mail📦 Bomber Headed to 🇺🇸Miami Court 🏛on Monday*

A former male stripper and part-time pizza deliveryman suspected of mailing at least 14 pipe bombs to some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading critics, including former president Barack Obama, was due in federal court in Miami, Monday.

The Brooklyn-born Cesar Sayoc, 56, is charged with five felony counts - interstate transportation and illegal mailing of explosives, threatening a former president, making threatening interstate communications and assaulting federal officers. The case is expected to be moved to New York, where he will be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York, officials said.

Sayoc has been held without bond since he was taken into custody in South Florida Friday by federal agents after a four-day nationwide manhunt for the person who sent homemade pipe bombs to Trump critics including Obama and former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Trump defeated in the 2016 presidential race.

*MP Fires🔥 into Air in Troubled C. African Republic's Parliament🏛*

A lawmaker fired into the air in the Central African Republic's parliament on Monday after an altercation with a colleague as MPs prepared to vote for a new speaker.

Alfred Yekatom, who represents the southern M'baiki district and is a former militia leader, drew his weapon during the dispute, then fired the gun as he ran away.

Yekatom's motive for shooting the gun, which sent MPs rushing to the exit, was not clear.

The parliament session was suspended for an hour while security forces searched every MP.

The lawmakers went on to elect an MP from western Baboua, Laurent Ngon-Baba, a former minister, in a near-unanimous vote of 112 in favour, with four blank ballots.

The vote came three days after a censure motion removed Karim Meckassoua, who represents a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Bangui.

After years of confrontation between Muslim and Christian groups in the majority Christian country, Meckassoua's election in 2016 was seen as a symbol of reconciliation.

On Sunday Meckassoua said he would challenge his sacking in the courts, calling for his ouster not to be turned into a sectarian debate -- while noting that 38 of the 41 deputies who voted against him were Christian.

Speaking after the vote, Ngon-Baba said: "We can no longer afford to make mistakes. We will immediately take steps, especially concerning the management of financial resources."

*BREAKING💥: Real Madrid👑 Sack Julen Lopetegui🙆*

European champions Real Madrid have decided to part ways with manager Julen Lopetegui, a day after the club were thrashed 5-1 by arch rivals Barcelona.

Lopetegui has been in charge since the start of the season but has overseen a terrible start to the league which sees them languish at the ninth spot.

Real Madrid Castilla coach and former player Santiago Solari will take charge of the team for the time being.

Real Madrid's statement says the decision has been taken "in a bid to change the run of results that the team was in, with all the team's season objectives still possible."