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By Gram Slattery, Tim Reid, James Oliphant and Gabriella Borter, Reuters People wait in line to vote on the last day of early voting at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE / AFP Danielle Trenney, a 39-year-old project manager from western Pennsylvania, is so anxious about the US presidential election on Wednesday that she decided to put up a Christmas tree early this year to take her family's mind off things. Trenney said she knew of other families doing the same in Bellevue, a Pittsburgh suburb and an electoral hotbed prized by both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, rivals in a race that analysts say will go down to the wire. "Just trying to pacify the anxiety," said Trenney, who voted for Harris ahead of Election Day. "Anything and ...

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. Trump will spend the day in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan, while Harris will spend the entire day in Pennsylvannia, a state seen as crucial to the election outcome. Follow all the latest developments with RNZ's live blog: Source link

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...