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Quincy Jones on stage during the 53rd Montreux Jazz Festival in 2019. Photo: AFP / Fabrice Coffrini Few people in the music world can match the accomplishments of Quincy Jones, who died at the age of 91. Jones died on Sunday at the age of 91, his publicist said. The man known simply as "Q," was a huge influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music in his collaborations Michael Jackson. Here are nine facts about Jones: * Jones' work reached the moon. He said Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon on the Apollo 11 lunar mission in 1969, told him that he played Frank Sinatra's 1964 Jones-produced recording of 'Fly Me to the Moon' before setting out on the lunar surface. * In addition to scoring more than 30 mov...

Supporters outside Kamala Harris' rally at Muhlenberg College, Allentown. Photo: Nick Monro/RNZ Women's rights and abortion were the main issues given by supporters of Kamala Harris spoken to outside the Pennsylvania college hall where she's due to speak on Tuesday morning. Harris is making a whistle stop tour of the crucial swing state on Tuesday as she looks to build on late momentum with older women voters ahead of polling day Wednesday. Harris is making stops in Allentown, Scranton and Reading during the day, before attending a massive outdoor rally in Philadelphia that will include guest appearances from the likes of Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey. It comes as a late poll in the normally red state of Iowa showed Harris leading in the race there and out performing Donald Trump with wom...

By Jack Queen, Reuters SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk awarded Kristine Fishell with a US$1 million check. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Michael Swensen Elon Musk's pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its US$1 million-a-day (NZ$1.7m) giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said. Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an "illegal lottery," as Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest ahead of Wednesday's US presidential election. "There is no prize to be won, instead recipients must fulfil contractual obligations to serve as a spokesperson for the PAC," Gober said...

By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland, Reuters US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a stop at Elam's Barber Shop in Pontiac, Michigan. Photo: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP Democrat Kamala Harris made her closing pitch for the US presidency at a historically Black church in the swing state of Michigan, while her Republican rival Donald Trump rallied in Pennsylvania. Opinion polls show the pair locked in a tight race, with Vice President Harris, 60, bolstered by strong support among women voters while former President Trump, 78, gains ground with Hispanic voters, particularly men. Voters overall view both candidates unfavorably, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, but that so far has not dissuaded them from casting ballots. More than 76 million Americans ...

US Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Photo: AFP With only hours to go until Election Day in the US, the presidential candidates are making their final arguments for the top job. The race for the White House between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has already seen more than 78 million Americans cast ballots ahead of Tuesday's Election Day, approaching half the total 160 million votes cast in 2020, in which US voter turnout was the highest in more than a century. Follow all the latest developments with RNZ's live blog: Source link