Nationwide, more than 57 percent of women ages 15-44 live in a state where abortion is legal. That number is projected to rise to 61 percent after the abortion bans are overturned.
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With polls closed in all but 10 states, election results are highlighting how counties shifted from their 2020 margins. Follow our interactive map: washingtonpost.com/elections…
Finding out who won the presidency may take days.
Election officials in key swing states are urging Americans to be patient as they tally results, a process that varies from state to state because each has different vote-counting laws. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
The Washington Post is tracking how each of the nation’s 3,000-plus counties shifts from its 2020 vote totals. As counties in more than half of all states have started reporting results, our map is filling in. Follow our interactive map: washingtonpost.com/elections…
Polls will close in more than a dozen states at 9 p.m. Eastern, including three battlegrounds—Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. washingtonpost.com/elections…
Michigan’s early-voting tally is higher than it was in 2020, according to the latest data update from the Associated Press.
Across the nation, more than 84 million people cast their ballots early in person or by mail. See totals in your state: washingtonpost.com/elections…
Polls will close at 7:30 p.m. Eastern in North Carolina, another battleground, and two other states.
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Vice President Kamala Harris has held her leads nationally and in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, but her lead in Pennsylvania shrunk in the last week. Trump still leads in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
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Economy adds 12,000 jobs in October, the slowest pace in nearly four years.
The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent. Economists cautioned that recent hurricanes and labor strikes artificially depressed data.
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Soaring housing and stock prices make it look like younger Americans are finally getting ahead financially. But could it all be a mirage?
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Between 1952 and 2000, more than 20 states on average were targeted each year by the major party candidates.
But in recent elections, campaigns have homed in on a smaller slice of American voters whose choices will determine the presidential outcome.
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Where there is water, there might be life. In an ambitious $5 billion mission decades in the making, NASA is poised to send a jumbo robotic probe called the Europa Clipper to see if this icy moon of Jupiter has the key characteristics of a habitable world.
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Despite Milton’s relatively fast speed, it dropped 6 to 12-plus inches of rain in a swath running from the Tampa Bay region through Orlando and toward Daytona Beach.
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Milton spawned outbreaks of strong, long-lasting tornadoes, most of them on the eastern side of Florida, beginning hours before landfall Wednesday.
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The category numbers classify hurricanes based on maximum sustained wind speeds ranging from 74 mph to 157 mph and above.
Here’s what they look like
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Forecast models suggest Hurricane Milton is likely to strike the western part of the Florida peninsula on Wednesday, bringing rain, dangerous ocean surge and damaging winds.
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The Washington Post is gathering the best available national and state-level polling data and factoring how citizens in each state voted in the last two presidential elections to calculate which candidate voters currently favor in the presidential race.
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Vice President Kamala Harris still leads by two points nationally and her leads in the Midwest have stabilized, but the Sun Belt remains very close.
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