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When to Expect Election Results in Each State
- Alabama
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials expect unofficial results to be available before noon Eastern time on Wednesday.
- Alaska
- Polls close at Midnight and 1 a.m. E.T.
First results are expected around 1 a.m. Eastern time. Some absentee ballots will be counted late on election night, with subsequent counts taking place up to 15 days later. Ranked-choice voting is used in federal and state races; if no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote, the next tabulation will be conducted after 15 days.
- Arizona
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
First results typically come in around 10 p.m. Eastern time. Most voters cast ballots by mail, and counting typically takes days. Officials in Maricopa County, the state’s largest, said full tabulation could take 10 to 13 days.
- Arkansas
- Polls close at 8:30 p.m. E.T.
Officials did not estimate how long counting would take, but most results are typically in by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. Only a small share of voters cast ballots by mail in the state.
- California
- Polls close at 11 p.m. E.T.
Most voters cast votes by mail, and ballots can take days — or even weeks — to count. As of Friday, there were 6 House districts rated as tossups by the Cook Political Report. If the balance of power in the House comes down to these seats, it could be awhile before we know which party will take control.
- Colorado
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
The state has long conducted its elections by mail. In 2020, it took about a day to report 95 percent of votes; in the 2022 midterms, it took almost four days. Much of the timing depends on how many ballots arrive on Election Day itself.
- Connecticut
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
In 2022, most votes were reported by noon Wednesday, with 11 percent of voters casting ballots by mail (an excuse is required). The state has newly implemented early, in-person voting, but those ballots cannot be opened or tabulated until Election Day.
- Delaware
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials expect 100% of votes to be reported by midnight on election night.
- District of Columbia
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
In 2020, about 69 percent of votes were reported by noon Wednesday; in 2022, that share was 80 percent. Each registered voter was mailed a ballot, which has 10 days to arrive if postmarked by Election Day.
- Florida
- Polls close at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. E.T.
Votes are counted extremely quickly, with 99 percent of votes reported by midnight in both recent general elections. First votes are expected after most polls close at 7 p.m. Eastern time.
- Georgia
- Polls close at 7 p.m. E.T.
Most voters tend to vote early in person, and vote reporting is usually relatively fast. The share of ballots cast by mail is expected to be much smaller than in 2020, but the state could still be counting corrected mail ballots, overseas and provisional ballots for several days.
- Hawaii
- Polls close at Midnight E.T.
The state runs a predominantly mail election. In 2020, it took until about 7 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday to reach 95 percent of votes. In 2022, it took an additional day.
- Idaho
- Polls close at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they would not expect this election to be much different than previous ones, though 2020 was probably an outlier. In 2020 and 2022, most results were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. First results are expected after 11 p.m. Eastern time.
- Illinois
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said that reporting could look similar to 2022, when more than 90 percent of votes were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. Ballots postmarked by Election Day have two weeks to arrive, but most jurisdictions should have their complete unofficial results within a week.
- Indiana
- Polls close at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. E.T.
In 2022, most ballots were counted by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. A smaller share of voters cast mail ballots that year compared with 2020, and requirements for doing so have become stricter since. First results are expected after polls close in most of the state at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
- Iowa
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
In 2022, after the poll closing time was moved one hour earlier, 95 percent of votes were reported by midnight Eastern time. Mail voting rates have fallen since 2020, when absentee ballot request forms were mailed to every eligible voter.
- Kansas
- Polls close at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. E.T.
Most votes were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday in 2020 and 2022. Ballots cast by mail, which have three days to arrive if postmarked by Election Day, have been used less than in 2020.
- Kentucky
- Polls close at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they hope to report unofficial results by midnight Eastern time on election night.
- Louisiana
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
Officials expect that unofficial votes will be counted before noon Eastern time on Wednesday. In the state’s open primary system, which is used in nonpresidential races, if no candidate wins a majority of the vote, the top two vote-getters advance to the next election on Dec. 7.
- Maine
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they expect a pace of reporting similar to 2020, when most results were in by noon the next day. In races where ranked-choice voting is used, including for the presidency and U.S. Congress, only first rankings will be available; if no candidate receives a majority, a second tabulation will occur in the days following the election.
- Maryland
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they had no reason to think the pace of reporting would differ from 2020 and 2022, when more than 70 percent of votes were reported by noon on Wednesday. Postmarked mail ballots that arrive on Election Day or after will be counted starting two days after the election.
- Massachusetts
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
In both 2020 and 2022, more than 90 percent of votes were counted by noon on Wednesday, with more than one-third of voters casting a ballot by mail. Ballots postmarked by Election Day have three days to arrive.
- Michigan
- Polls close at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. E.T.
Most votes are generally in by noon Eastern time on the day after the election, and the state has passed reforms that could contribute to faster counting. In 2020, Mr. Biden ultimately won Michigan, but a “red mirage” showed Mr. Trump ahead in the reported tally before all mail ballots had been counted. It is unclear how new rules will affect the order of votes reported this year.
- Minnesota
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
Officials say it’s possible that more counties will report results after midnight Eastern time this year. While officials are now allowed to start processing mail ballots sooner, the absentee ballot deadline has moved to 9 p.m. Eastern time from 4 p.m., which could contribute to the slightly later results.
- Mississippi
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they had no reason to think reporting would differ from recent major elections, when between 80 and 90 percent votes were counted by noon on Wednesday.
- Missouri
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said that most counties should report at similar rates to recent general elections, when unofficial results were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday.
- Montana
- Polls close at 10 p.m. E.T.
Most voters cast ballots by mail, which must be received by Election Day. More than 90 percent of votes have been reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday in recent major elections.
- Nebraska
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
Officials expect reporting to follow the same trend as recent elections, with most votes counted by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. A new voter ID law could result in more voters casting provisional ballots, which take longer to be processed.
- Nevada
- Polls close at 10 p.m. E.T.
About half of voters usually cast ballots by mail, and counting usually takes days. It could be faster than in the past because of new technology and a rule that allows officials to tabulate ballots sooner. Postmarked ballots are allowed to arrive up to four days after the election, on Nov. 9.
- New Hampshire
- Polls close at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. E.T.
With the exception of Dixville Notch — the small town that begins voting at 12 a.m. on Election Day and promptly reported five votes in 2020 — vote counting in the state has extended into the day after the election.
- New Jersey
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
The state introduced early in-person voting in 2021, and mail voting has dropped significantly from its 2020 levels. In 2022, about 90 percent of ballots in U.S. congressional races (not shown) had been counted by noon the day after the election.
- New Mexico
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
In the last two general elections, nearly all unofficial results were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. By 1 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, processing of absentee ballots must either conclude, or pause and resume the next day.
- New York
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
State officials would not comment on timing, but there have been some recent changes that could affect results reporting. Mail ballots, which must be postmarked by Election Day but are allowed to arrive up to a week later, no longer require an excuse. In 2020, no mail ballots were counted until after election night, but that changed for 2022.
- North Carolina
- Polls close at 7:30 p.m. E.T.
Early, in-person voting is very popular, and votes are typically counted very quickly, with nearly all votes reported by midnight. New rules mean that early voting results will no longer be reported immediately at poll close time, but mail ballots are now due on Election Day (in 2020, ballots postmarked by Election Day had nine days to arrive).
In 25 western counties affected most by Hurricane Helene at the end of September, voters have been given special accommodations for casting their ballots, and a small number of secure tents have been erected to replace destroyed polling sites.
- North Dakota
- Polls close at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. E.T.
In the past two general elections, unofficial results were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. Ballots must be postmarked by the day before the election, but those arriving after Election Day will not be counted until about two weeks after the election.
- Ohio
- Polls close at 7:30 p.m. E.T.
Most votes tend to be reported on election night. Like in many other states, mail voting rates fell in 2022. Mail and early in-person votes favoring Democrats tend to be reported first.
- Oklahoma
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
In recent general elections, nearly all votes have been reported by midnight Eastern time on election night.
- Oregon
- Polls close at 11 p.m. E.T.
Officials said counting the unofficial results would take a few days. The state, which conducts all-mail elections, passed a new law in 2021 allowing ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive up to seven days later.
- Pennsylvania
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Counting is expected to extend beyond election night, primarily because election workers are not allowed to start processing mail ballots until Election Day. Still, vote counting could be faster than in 2020, partly because of new, faster equipment and ballot counting requirements. In 2020, after an initial batch of heavily Democratic votes, the reported tally favored Mr. Trump until more mail ballots were counted, and Mr. Biden’s margins increased.
- Rhode Island
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Officials said vote counting should look similar to 2022, when 99 percent of votes were counted by midnight on election night.
- South Carolina
- Polls close at 7 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they expected most votes to be reported by noon on Wednesday.
- South Dakota
- Polls close at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. E.T.
In recent general elections, about a quarter of voters cast ballots by mail, and between 90 and 100 percent of votes were reported by noon Eastern time on Wednesday. First results are expected after 9 p.m. Eastern time, when the last polls close in the state.
- Tennessee
- Polls close at 8 p.m. E.T.
Full, or nearly full, results have been reported by midnight Eastern time in recent general elections.
- Texas
- Polls close at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. E.T.
Most votes tend to be counted on election night. Voting by mail requires a valid excuse, and only a small share of voters cast ballots this way. First results are expected when polls close in most of the state, at 8 p.m. Eastern.
- Utah
- Polls close at 10 p.m. E.T.
Most voters cast ballots by mail, and officials say the timing of results will largely depend on how many ballots are returned at the last minute. Ballots postmarked by the day before the election have two weeks to arrive.
- Vermont
- Polls close at 7 p.m. E.T.
Officials said they had no reason to think the pace of reporting would differ from 2020 and 2022, when nearly all votes were reported by noon on Wednesday.
- Virginia
- Polls close at 7 p.m. E.T.
Most results tend to be reported by noon on Wednesday, though mail ballots postmarked by Election Day have three days to arrive. The share of voters casting a ballot by mail fell to about 9 percent in 2022 from 22 percent in 2020.
- Washington
- Polls close at 11 p.m. E.T.
Officials expect full, unofficial results five to seven days after the election (though postmarked ballots have 20 days to arrive). Much of the timing depends on how many ballots are returned early.
- West Virginia
- Polls close at 7:30 p.m. E.T.
Nearly all unofficial results tend to be reported by noon on Wednesday. Officials say they have no reason to think this year will be different.
- Wisconsin
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
Complete unofficial results are not expected until the morning after the election. Officials cannot begin processing ballots until Election Day, but they are required to count through the night. In some places, absentee ballots are counted at a central facility and are reported in large batches. In 2020, a “red mirage” showed Mr. Trump ahead in the reported vote until the final results arrived. That pattern did not repeat in 2022.
- Wyoming
- Polls close at 9 p.m. E.T.
All unofficial results were reported by noon on Wednesday in 2020 and 2022. Officials say they have no reason to think this year will be different.
After a nearly 10-day journey that took the Artemis II astronauts around the moon, in front of an eclipse and farther away from Earth than any humans before them, the crew of four have made a dramatic return home.
The Artemis II astronauts share a group hug aboard the Orion capsule.
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NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen were ensconced in the Orion space capsule when they dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Friday. The USS John P. Murtha is stationed near the splashdown zone to help recover the crew.
To get back to Earth, the space capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and slow down from nearly 25,000 miles per hour — or more than 30 times the speed of sound — to a gentle 19 mph or so before splashdown.
The roughly 13-minute journey from the top of the atmosphere to the surface is like “riding a fireball through the atmosphere,” NASA astronaut and Artemis II crew member Victor Glover said before the maneuver.
But, he said, it’s also a necessary one.
“We have to get back,” Glover said. “There’s so much data that you’ve seen already, but all the good stuff is coming back with us.”
The crew of four, who looped around the far side of the moon on Monday April 6, took photos and made observations as they passed over the lunar surface. The crew is set to bring that data and more back to the team on the ground.
Nell Greenfieldboyce and Central Florida Public Media’s Brendan Byrne contributed to this report.
President Trump has submitted plans plans to paint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building white to a group that advises on architecture in Washington, D.C.
The French Second Empire-style, slate-gray building houses office space for members of the president’s team, including the National Security Council.
The building sits across a driveway from the West Wing and was completed in 1888. The plans submitted by the president say that the Eisenhower Executive Office Building is an eyesore that has long been criticized and has fallen into disrepair since its completion. The plans say “the color, design, and massing of the existing structure does not align visually with the surrounding architecture and lacks any symbolic cohesion with the White House.” The plan points to examples of cracks and poor exterior maintenance and argues, “The benefit to painting the stone is that it is repeatable.”
“The inability to bring the stone facade back to a baseline color has plagued the maintenance of the [Executive Office Building] in the past, and and will continue to plague it if not addressed,” the plan says.
The plans included renderings of what the building would look like if it’s painted white.
The Executive Office of the President submitted a design proposal to the Commission of Fine Arts, a panel of Trump appointees who advise on public architecture and design in the nation’s capital.
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The Labor Department says the vast majority of new jobs created over the last year went to women, most of them in health care.
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In December 2016, as Donald Trump was headed to the White House for the first time, Betsey Stevenson offered the incoming president some economic advice.
Stevenson, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, argued in an op-ed that it would be a disservice to encourage men “to cling to work that isn’t coming back.” She cited Trump’s promise to bring an iPhone factory to the U.S.
“If Trump really wants to get more Americans working,” she wrote at the time, “he’ll have to do something out of his comfort zone: make girly jobs appeal to manly men.”
It’s a message she believes is even more relevant today.
For decades, the focus has been on getting more women into male-dominated fields. Some efforts have been more successful than others. But now, with the vast majority of new jobs going to women, it’s clear that men need help, too.
“This is happening at a time where it’s become verboten to talk about diversity, equity and inclusion,” Stevenson says. “And yet the people we need to be talking about right now are men.”
17 times as many jobs filled by women
In the mid-1970s, women held about 40% of jobs in the U.S, not including farm work or self employment. By the early 2000s, women’s share of jobs had grown to just under half. It’s hovered around there since, crossing the 50% threshold just a few times, including during the Great Recession, just before COVID, and now.
That parity masks the significant gains women have recently made in the labor market. Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump’s second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That’s nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.
The lopsidedness was driven by huge growth in health care, where women hold nearly 80% of jobs. Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.
“If we want to see job growth that’s as robust for men as it is for women, we’re going to have to see men embracing those kinds of jobs,” says Stevenson.
So far, that hasn’t happened in any meaningful way. Stevenson believes it’s because men are more likely than women to have an identity tied to a particular occupation, making it harder for them to find work outside that field, much less in one dominated by women.
Meanwhile, in his second term, Trump has not strayed from his message that manufacturing will make the country strong. It’s something he emphasized in his second inaugural address, declaring that “America will be a manufacturing nation once again,” and in his repeated promises that tariffs would “bring factories roaring back.”
When manufacturers added 15,000 jobs in March, the White House called it proof that “the best days for American workers, manufacturers, and families are still ahead,” despite the fact that the sector is still down 82,000 jobs from when Trump took office.
“We have seen a year of a president absolutely fixated [on] growing the manufacturing sector,” Stevenson says. “There’s not enough of those jobs for men as a whole to thrive.”
A push for policies to open doors for men
What’s happening now in the labor market comes as no surprise to Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, a nonpartisan think tank.
He says not enough attention has been paid to the scarcity of men in certain professions, and now we’re seeing the consequences.
“There is no cause for panic here,” says Reeves, who’s been studying the decades-long decline in labor force participation among men. “But I do think we should be alert to signs that the labor market might be moving even more quickly in directions that are leaving too many men behind.”
Reeves notes that for years, the country has embraced policies and programs aimed at getting more women into science, technology, engineering and math, and the share of women in STEM jobs has grown.
“But that didn’t happen by itself. It happened as a result of concerted efforts to break down gender stereotypes,” he says.
Still, gaps remain, and some of those efforts have seen their government funding cut under Trump.
Now Reeves says what’s needed are policies and programs to draw male workers into fields such as nursing, teaching and social work.
“Those are occupations that serve people, and they should look like the people that they serve,” he says. “And it’s good for men because it means they won’t lose out on those jobs if that’s where the growth is coming from.”
Framing jobs as more masculine
Stevenson has been thinking about ways to make the fastest-growing sectors of the economy more welcoming to men.
“I think there are ways for us to talk about those jobs as being particularly masculine,” she says.
For instance, many health care jobs could be framed as roles requiring the strength to lift people. Preschools could highlight the need for teachers who serve as positive male role models.
“Kids love to be rough and tumble and build things,” she says.
Stevenson knows some people will be offended by such gender stereotyping.
“But I do want to encourage us to realize that we have to help men understand that they can do caregiving roles and stay masculine,” she says.
Ongoing challenges for women and men
What Stevenson doesn’t want people to conclude is that everything is okay now that women are leading on jobs.
“We know that there is still discrimination that holds people back,” she says.
For women, she says, that discrimination might be preventing them from getting the promotion that they deserve, contributing to the widening gender pay gap. For men, it may mean sitting on the sidelines because they don’t think there’s a role for them in the economy.
“I think we can use this moment to realize that discrimination, occupational segregation… these are things that harm all of us, not just one narrow group,” she says.
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