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Election officials work at a table inside the White Horse Inn, which is being used as a polling station in Priors Dean, southern England Thursday May 7, 2015. Polls have opened in Britain's national election, a contest that is expected to produce an ambiguous result, a period of frantic political horse-trading and a bout of national soul-searching.  (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT
Election officials work at a table inside the White Horse Inn, which is being used as a polling station in Priors Dean, southern England Thursday May 7, 2015. Polls have opened in Britain's national election, a contest that is expected to produce an ambiguous result, a period of frantic political horse-trading and a bout of national soul-searching. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT Election officials work at a table inside the White Horse Inn, which is being used as a polling station in Priors Dean, southern England Thursday May 7, 2015. Polls have opened in Britain's national election, a contest that is expected to produce an ambiguous result, a period of frantic political horse-trading and a bout of national soul-searching. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. TIGHTEST BRITISH ELECTION IN DECADES UNDERWAY

Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives and Ed Miliband’s Labour Party are running neck-and-neck, and neither looks able to win a majority of Parliament’s 650 seats.

2. TORNADOES RAKE SOUTHERN PLAINS

At least 12 people have been injured by twisters that hit Oklahoma and rural parts of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska and damaged homes in the Oklahoma City area.