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Enjoying the podcast so far? Get more from shows like this one with NPR+. For a simple recurring donation, you'll get perks from over 20 NPR podcasts, including sponsor-free listening, bonus episodes, early access, shop discounts, and more. Join us in making the world a more curious and well-informed place at plus. npr dot org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. In ads and campaign speeches, Democrats have been trying to reach conservative women who may be reluctant to vote for former President Trump. As NPR's Sarah McCammond explains, several groups are trying to persuade suburban women to vote for Vice President Harris even secretly.

Recent ads from anti-Trump groups are trying to persuade suburban women to vote for Vice President Harris even secretly. Recent ads from anti-Trump groups are sending the message that women don't have to tell their husbands who they're voting for. In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. Jackie Payne with Galvanize Action, which focuses on moderate white women, says some keep their opinions quiet to avoid conflict. So they're still very much voting, but as they do so they're navigating this conflict

that they're experiencing with the folks around them. The ads have sparked pushback from conservative commentators. Recent polls show a significant gender gap, with more women supporting Harris and more men supporting Trump. Sarah McKammon, NPR News. Harris is spending the final day before Election Day campaigning in Pennsylvania, which both candidates consider crucial to winning the presidential race. Former President Trump in Pennsylvania in Reading today, where the crowd responded with a resounding no

when Trump asked attendees whether they were better off now than four years ago. Trump also noting that's how long he's been waiting to return to the White House. Think of this though, we're just one day away. We've been waiting for this. I've been waiting four years for this. And so have you. And so have you. We've all been waiting four years, one day. Trump calling the 2024 election the most important political event in the history of our country. Republican presidential candidate will be in Pittsburgh today, as will his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris. With tomorrow's election, China is among the countries

who'll be watching results closely. However, the outcome of the vote seems unlikely to fundamentally change the course of a tense bilateral relationship. Here's NPR's John Rewich. The Chinese government has tried to steer clear of openly commenting on the election or the two candidates. Both former President Donald Trump

and Vice President Kamala Harris are known quantities, though. Trump for the trade war he launched against China and Harris as a key part of the Biden administration, which has kept the Trump-era tariff regime in place and expanded efforts to deny China access to key technologies. Many here in China are convinced that acrimony and friction between the US and China will continue regardless of which candidate wins the election. Harris seems poised to keep running with Biden's competitive approach to relations with China, and Trump has threatened to dramatically increase tariffs on Chinese goods.

John Ruch, NPR News, Guangzhou, China. Stalks drifted lower on Wall Street ahead of the election. The Dow was down 257 points. You're listening to NPR. Striking machinists at airplane builder Boeing are voting today on whether to approve a new contract. The latest proposal would include a 38% pay increase over four years, as well as ratification and productivity bonuses.

What apparently would not include, though, is a restoration of a traditional pension, which is something workers also wanted. Like many companies, Boeing froze its pension plan nearly a decade ago. Machinists have been on strike for seven weeks now, virtually shutting down production of most of the company's passenger planes. Music legend Quincy Jones has died at his home in Bel Air, California. He was 91 years old. No cause of death was given by Jones' publicist.

And Peter Walter Ray Watson says the iconic music producer's influence over popular music stretched over nearly seven decades. Born in Chicago during the Great Depression, Quincy Jones seemed to have a superpower. As composer, arranger, a tastemaker of new artists and established ones, Jones surrounded himself with musicians who helped him precisely shape hit songs like this one, while bending the recording studio to his will. Because there's music in the air and lots of loving everywhere, so give me the night. All things that made him creatively and quintessentially Quincy Jones. Walter Ray Watson, NPR News. Critical futures prices moved higher today after OPEC agreed to delay a proposed December

output hike for another month. That will potentially keep supplies a bit tighter. Oil rose $1.98 a barrel to $71.47 a barrel. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.