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One dead and another missing in suspected grizzly bear attack in Canada
The incident took place in the same province where a grizzly attacked a group of schoolchildren last November
A mother is dead and her daughter is missing in western Canada after a suspected grizzly bear attack in the same community where a bear attacked a group of schoolchildren earlier in the year.
On Tuesday, the British Columbia conservation officer service said in a social media post that it had launched a search for the two missing people on the weekend, and that during the search on Sunday an officer found the mother’s body. The search for her 19-year-old daughter is ongoing.
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When Will We Know the Results of the Midterm Elections?
Election Day has nearly come to an end, with tens of millions of voters having flocked to the polls around the U.S. Through a series of stunning victories, Democrats have been projected to take back control of both chambers of Congress.
Many key races that fell in favor of Democrats were called on Tuesday night, including wins in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, and more. Other, tighter contests could take multiple days—if not longer—to determine a winner. It all boils down to the states, which the U.S. Constitution empowers to establish the times, places, and manners of holding elections and counting ballots.
Certain states are known for having shorter count times, such as Florida. Others typically take longer, like California, due to its size, and Alaska, where ranked-choice voting can make the process of certifying votes more complicated.
“There are all these differences, both in process and deadlines, and geography, and who the voters are, and who the candidates are, that make a difference in what this looks like,” Mitchell Brown, a professor of political science at Auburn University and the author of “How We Vote: Innovations in American Elections,” tells TIME.
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Mitchell says that it could take up to 30 days before all the states certify their results. She stresses that official midterm results released by the states themselves are different from projections from media outlets, which will call races sooner.
“It's really important for everyone to understand that what happens on election night when we're watching TV or looking online, and we're seeing races called, those are predictions by media outlets. They're not the official results,” adds Chris Mann, the research director at The Center for Election Innovation & Research. “With close elections, we may end up not knowing who the winner is until we get to those official certifications that every vote has been counted.”
Here’s what to know about how the midterm votes will be tabulated, and when we are likely to know the results.
When do the polls close?
Polls open and close at varying times in different states around the country, with most closing their polls around 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. local time. Because the U.S. is divided across several time zones, however, those closures are spread over several hours on Election Day. And in some cases closing times vary even between different parts of the same state.
Here is when the latest polls close in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., in Eastern Standard Time.
7 p.m. EST: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia.
7:30 p.m. EST: Ohio and West Virginia.
North Carolina also typically closes its final polls at this time, but due to minor technical issues reported in some localities on Tuesday—which have since been resolved—the state’s board of elections has extended voting hours in some precincts.
8 p.m. EST: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.
In Pennsylvania, most polling sites will close at 8 p.m., but in three precincts they will stay open for an additional half hour “due to machine set-up issues” that delayed the opening of those polls this morning, according to Chester County officials.
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8:30 p.m. EST: Arkansas.
9 p.m. EST: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
10 p.m. EST: Montana, Nevada, and Utah.
11 p.m. EST: California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state.
Midnight EST: Hawaii.
1 a.m. EST: Alaska
How are ballots counted?
After their respective polls close, states must verify and count ballots that were cast in various ways, including those made in person during the early voting period and on Election Day, mail-in ballots, and provisional ballots.
Depending on the state, ballots are either counted right at voting locations, or transported back to county counting facilities. Mann says these facilities are like warehouses containing machines that can quickly and accurately count votes.
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Provisional ballots allow people to vote who fail to meet certain eligibility requirements that can later be verified. If, for example, someone arrives at a polling site and does not have their ID, they may be able to vote through a provisional ballot that can then be counted if and when they have verified their identity.
Brown says the process of confirming provisional ballots is called “curing” and can add additional time to the tallying process.
Fourteen states and Washington D.C. also allow ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they are received during a set post-election window, which can also add delays to final vote counts.
Why does it take longer to get results from some states than others?
It will take significantly longer for the results of the election to be officially tabulated—or even projected by media outlets—in some states than in others.
When it comes to the media calling races, projections may take longer to come in cases when races are tight, and the winner does not become clear until nearly all the votes are counted.
“If there is a high margin of victory, they can make that projection sooner,” Wren Orey, who runs the Elections Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a policy think tank, tells TIME. “Whenever there's a very narrow margin of victory, that means that election officials need to process and report more results before a media outlet can be confident projecting a winner.”
In terms of the actual process of states counting votes, meanwhile, differences in speed can boil down to physical factors, such as the distance ballots must be transported before being counted. In states such as Alaska, for instance, vast and rural territories create delays for counting ballots. “There are sometimes ballots being flown back to Anchorage in order to be processed,” says Orey. They add that some states may also simply have more infrastructure to count ballots, including more machines, employees, and counting locations.
State laws governing how votes are cast and counted can also play a role in the timeline of election results. Alaska and Maine, for example, use ranked-choice voting, a process in which voters rank their top candidates instead of choosing one person for a position. Mann describes this method as a “more complicated process” in tight races, where ballots may need to be recounted due to one candidate not receiving an outright majority in the first or even subsequent rounds of counting.
“If no candidate has a majority on that first count, then they drop the candidate with the lowest number of votes, and they go through it again,” Mann explains.
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Other states, like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, prohibit preparing mailed ballots for scanning until Election Day.
“Those are two of several states that don't start this process until the morning of Election Day, and they will have hundreds of thousands of ballots,” to prepare to be counted while running the polls at the same time, Mann says.
Fraud is extremely rare
The process of confirming election results taking days or weeks, Mitchell says, is completely standard, and is not an indication of election fraud, which research and state audits have consistently shown to be extraordinarily rare.
“The thing that I would hammer home is not knowing an official result the day of the election, the day after the election, even a week after the election, is not evidence of fraud,” says Mitchell. “And to say so is to misconstrue and manipulate people.”
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“[Fraud] is extremely rare … Elections are more secure, more accurate than they have ever been,” adds Mann. “Election officials and your friends and neighbors who are out working the polls are working incredibly hard. They are very dedicated to make sure the election is safe, secure, accurate.”
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“There are a lot of things to learn today,” Emery said afterwards. “Overall we are competing fantastically in the Champions League; we have nine points. Today, we saw there is still more to do to get to this level. Even sometimes in this match we were close to achieving it. We had chances, but we must be ruthless in the final third. Three-nil maybe was more than we deserved.”
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If it is given the go-ahead, the justice department said, it expected an initial six to eight months of construction focused on excavation and foundation work that could begin as soon as Thursday, with above-ground construction beginning in May 2027 at the earliest. Total construction is anticipated to take 33 to 39 months, the government said.
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If it is given the go-ahead, the justice department said it expected an initial six to eight months of construction focused on excavation and foundation work that could begin as soon as Thursday, with above-ground construction beginning in May 2027 at the earliest. Total construction is anticipated to take 33 to 39 months, the government said.
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Spain’s transport minister handed in his resignation on Tuesday after the train crash that killed 69 people last week, one of the worst railway disasters in Europe this century.
Óscar Puente, who had earlier pledged to work “tirelessly” to restore confidence in the world’s second-largest high-speed rail network, also said he was withdrawing from the country’s upcoming general election.
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What a blue wave could actually do
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This was already a record-breaking election, even before the polls opened today.
Campaigns and their allies poured record sums into political advertising. A near-record number of lawmakers are retiring or running for a different office, creating an unusually high number of open seats. And President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are approaching record lows, giving Democrats a rare opportunity: the chance to retake control of both chambers of Congress by cutting through some traditionally Republican states.
Both parties are framing the election in existential terms. Democrats have cast the midterms as an emergency brake on Trump and his agenda. And Republicans have characterized the election as a sort of firewall against far-left activists.
Unsurprisingly, given those stakes, turnout has been historic. More than 59 million Americans voted early this year, which — you guessed it! — completely blew past the midterm early-vote record set by the 2022 elections.
In-person turnout looked similarly brisk in many places Tuesday, including Georgia, Florida and Maine. But it could be days or even weeks before we have full results, especially in very close races. And it will take much longer to figure out what those results mean for the rest of us.
Go a little deeper
Democrats are really jazzed — almost queasily so — by the hope that they could retake Congress. Polls have consistently favored their candidates in the House, and they need to pick up four new seats to take control of the Senate.
Even if that happens, however, there are limits to what even a very large “blue wave” can achieve. Voters who expect their new lawmakers to ride into DC on white stallions and raze Trump’s agenda might find the next two years…a bit disappointing.
How disappointing? Well: My colleague Andrew Prokop recently asked congressional aides and outside experts what a Democratic majority could do over the rest of Trump’s second term. They “painted a picture of a grim slog akin to trench warfare.” Oof.
Much of that prediction is simple mathematics. Most legislation requires 60 Senate votes to overcome a filibuster. And even the most optimistic predictions put Democrats short of that 60-vote threshold, which means that most bills they want to pass will need to attract (via compromise or political strong-arming) some number of Republican senators.
Contrary to my recollections of Schoolhouse Rock!, however, Congress’s powers don’t begin and end with the passing of bills. A majority in either chamber would give Democrats more leverage over congressional investigations and the ability to issue subpoenas. And if Dems win the Senate, they’d gain control over the confirmation process for senior administration officials and federal judges.
Subpoena power could allow for more robust investigations into things like the Trump family’s crypto investments and Trump’s fundraising for the White House ballroom. That Senate majority, meanwhile, would let Democrats block Trump’s nominees for judgeships and administration posts — a tantalizing prospect, since lower courts are growing alarmingly partisan and two of the conservatives on the Supreme Court are approaching 80 years old.
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that he would not expect a Democratic victory to persuade Trump to “change his ways.”
“But we’re going to fight Trump tooth and nail…no matter what he does,” Schumer said.
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- Yesterday’s trivia: Yesterday we asked you which US pharmaceutical giant was founded by a Union army veteran after the Civil War. That would be Eli Lilly, which still bears the name of its 19th-century founder.
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The majority of the left elevator, part of the tail that controls the pitch of the aircraft, was found in three separate pieces between 1.3 miles and 3.8 miles from the crash site at Greenacres, near West Palm Beach, according to National Transportation Safety Board member Tom Chapman.
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The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a “doomer” about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a “wonderful future” but he said “it might be that we would have been better off never developing it”.
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