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WEEKEND COVERAGE

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ELECTION 2024-AP POLL-HISPANIC VOTERS — A solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris and a negative view of former President Donald Trump, but Hispanic men are divided on both candidates, according to a recent AP-NORC poll. By Fernanda Figueroa and Linley Sanders. SENT: 970 words, photo, video, audio.

NAVY SEALS-INVESTIGATION — A military investigation has concluded that two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned as they tried to climb aboard a ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen because of glaring training failures and a lack of understanding about what to do after a fall into deep, turbulent waters. By Lolita C. Baldor. SENT: 1,140 words, photos.

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NEW AND DEVELOPING

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Adds UNITED STATES-MIDEAST, BOEING-LAYOFFS, TURTLE SMUGGLING, UNITED NATIONS-GAZA-HUMANITARIAN AID.

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TOP STORIES

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HURRICANE MILTON — Florida residents are continuing to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Milton and figure out what to do next. The storm smashed through coastal communities, tore homes to pieces, flooded streets and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least nine people are dead, but many are relieved Milton wasn’t worse. By Julio Cortez, Kate Payne and Haven Daley. SENT: 980 words, photos, video, audio. WITH: HURRICANE-MILTON-CLIMATE — Climate change gave significant boost to Milton’s destructive rain, winds, scientists say; CLIMATE-HURRICANE-SEASON-UPDATE — Experts warn ‘crazy busy’ Atlantic hurricane season is far from over. (both sent).

MIDEAST-WARS — An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three other troops, Lebanon’s military said, an incident that entangles the country’s official army in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. By Bassem Mroue. SENT: 1,190 words, photos, video. With MIDEAST-WARS-THE-LATEST; UNITED STATES-MIDEAST — US sees a window for a new push to break political deadlock in Lebanon to ease conflict; and UNITED NATIONS-GAZA-HUMANITARIAN AID — The UN says that aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months. (All sent.)

ELECTION 2024-HURRICANE POLITICS — A pair of unwelcome and destructive guests named Helene and Milton have stormed their way into this year’s presidential election. The unprecedented back-to-back hurricanes have jumbled the schedules of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, both of whom devoted part of their Thursdays to tackling questions about the storms. By Josh Boak. SENT: 1,170 words, photos.

NOBEL-PEACE — The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said Friday the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure.” By Mike Coder and Elena Becatoros. SENT: 1,080 words, photos, video.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Authorities say a nighttime Russian missile strike on Odesa has killed at least four people, including a 16-year-old girl. It is the latest in a series of attacks this week on the southern Ukrainian region that likely are intended to disrupt the country’s grain exports. SENT: 340 words, photos.

EUROPE-UKRAINE — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it’s important that allies’ aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year as he received a pledge of a new weapons package from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on a European tour meant to win backing for his “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia. SENT: 620 words, photo.

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MORE NEWS

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GIRLS-STABBING-PLOT — A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate in 2014 to please horror character Slender Man is asking a judge again to release her from a psychiatric hospital. SENT: 300 words, photos.

EXPLOSIVES-FOUND-KNOXVILLE — Authorities in eastern Tennessee continued to investigate a container suspected of holding large amounts of dynamite. SENT: 260 words, photos.

BRITAIN-AL-FAYED — Police in London say 40 more women have made allegations of rape or sexual assault against the late Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed. SENT: 390 words, photos.

TURTLE SMUGGLING — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. SENT: 250 words.

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ELECTION-2024 — Donald Trump is detouring from the battleground states to visit a Colorado suburb that’s been in the news over illegal immigration. He’s often using false or misleading claims to drive a message that migrants are causing chaos in smaller American cities and towns. By Jesse Bedayn and Adriana Gomez Licon. SENT: 1,060 words, photos. Trump event in Colorado underway; rally in Nevada at 8:30 p.m. With ELECTION-2024-THE-LATEST.

ELECTION-2024-ABORTION-YOUNG-FEMALE-VOTERS — A survey has found that abortion has passed inflation to become the top issue in the presidential election for women younger than 30. That’s a key finding of a KFF survey of female voters with results released Friday. About 2 in 5 said abortion was their top concern. SENT: 580 words, photos.

ELECTION-2024-GENDER-POLITICS — Are some men reluctant to vote for Kamala Harris because she’s a woman? Harris rarely references her gender on the campaign trail but now others — most notably Barack Obama — are making express appeals to male voters, hoping to overcome ingrained sexism as Election Day looms. By Will Weissert and Zeke Miller. UPCOMING: 900 words, photos by 7 p.m.

ELECTION 2024-HOUSE-CALIFORNIA — California’s reputation as a politically liberal state is being tested in a string of U.S. House districts that are expected to play into control of the chamber. Both parties see it as a crucial battleground and are pumping millions of dollars into contests in Southern California and the Central Valley farm belt. SENT: 1,510 words, photos.

ELECTION-2024-PACIFIC-NORTHWEST — National Republicans and Democrats are keenly eyeing the Pacific Northwest, where two of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country are playing out. SENT: 970 words, photos.

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NATIONAL

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COLORADO-GOLD-MINE-PEOPLE-TRAPPED — Investigators were trying to figure out Friday what led an elevator to malfunction at a former Colorado gold mine, killing one person. Four others were injured and 12 people were trapped for hours at the bottom of the tourist attraction 1,000 feet beneath the surface. SENT: 430 words, photos.

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INTERNATIONAL

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KOREAS-TENSIONS – North Korea has accused rival South Korea of flying drones to its capital to drop anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets and threatened to respond with force if such flights occur again. South Korea issued a vague denial of the allegation. SENT: 700 words, photos, audio.

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SCI-NORTHERN-LIGHTS — Another in a series of unusually strong solar storms hitting Earth produced stunning skies full of pinks, purples, greens and blues farther south than normal, including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City. SENT: 400 words, photos, video. Find a selection of related photos in the Northern Lights collection in AP Newsroom.

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BUSINESS

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BOEING-JUSTICE-DEPARTMENT — Relatives of some of the 346 people who died in two crashes involving Boeing 737 Max planes are in court, where their lawyers are asking a federal judge to throw out a plea agreement that the aircraft manufacturer struck with federal prosecutors. SENT: 470 words, photos. With BOEING-LAYOFFS — Boeing will lay off 10% of its workers as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production. UPCOMING: 350 words by 6 p.m.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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SEXUAL-MISCONDUCT-DIDDY — A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May. SENT: 450 words, photos.

ENT-TV-NCIS-AUSTIN-STOWELL — Austin Stowell’s extremely happy about winning the role of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in “NCIS: Origins.” He says that since he got the job, it “has just been day after day after day of the greatest day” of his life. The actor puts light blue contact lenses in to portray the ex-Marine-turned-naval investigator Gibbs, 25 years before audiences first met “NCIS” star Mark Harmon, in the role he played from 2003 to 2021. SENT: 690 words, photos.

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SPORTS

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BBN-NLDS-PADRES-DODGERS — The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers take their heated rivalry into a deciding Game 5 in the National League Division Series. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos. Game starts at 8:10 p.m.

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A sacrificial chicken is seen tied up, while another is carried inside a plastic bag by a man during Dashain festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal,Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A man who identified himself as Jesse walks out through floodwaters of the Anclote River after Hurricane Milton hit the region, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in New Port Richey, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

Gallery employees display a painting by Laurence Stephen Lowry called Senhouse, Maryport at Christie's auction rooms in London, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, the painting estimated at 700,000-1,000,000 UK pounds will be auctioned in the Modern British and Irish Evening Sale on Oct.16.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Malaysian Chinese devotees walk barefoot over burning coals during the Nine Emperor Gods festival at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A resident of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike returns to collect his family's belongings at the site of Thursday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

CORRECTS NAME - Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in an anti-atomic bomb meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 4, 2022. Ninon Hidankyo has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo News via AP)

Women react in front of their destroyed apartment at the site of Thursday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Members of the New York Yankees celebrate in the clubhouse following a 3-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Game 4 of an American League Division baseball playoff series Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Detroit Tigers' Trey Sweeney strikes out in the eighth inning during Game 4 of a baseball American League Division Series against the Cleveland Guardians, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

FILE The sole candidate for the upcoming election for the Macao chief executive post, Sam Hou Fai, the city's former top judge, waves as he leaves the stage after a press conference at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex in Macao, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan, File)

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Tang Chhin Sothy/Pool Photo via AP)

Wildlife Keeper Stephanie Scurtu examines a wood thrush, a kind of migrating songbird, to determine if it is healthy enough for release at the DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Glen Ellyn, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Two actors who played Hindu god Rama, sitting, and his brother Laxman, standing next to him in the center, wait on the stage at the end of the third day of Ramleela, a dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana, as event organizers and donors pray to them, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

FILE - South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Kang has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Britain's Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, speak to members of the emergency services during a visit to Southport Community Centre to meet rescue workers and the families of those caught up in the Southport knife attack earlier this year in Southport, England, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Danny Lawson, Pool Photo via AP)

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for photographers after the press conference, at Villa Pamphilj, in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A winch brings up trapped mine visitors Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colo. (Arthur Trichett-Wile/The Gazette via AP)

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, on the Gila River Indian Community reservation in Chandler, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump departs after speaking at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Men read mobile phone alerts telling residents of southern Lebanon not to return to their homes until further notice because of operations Israel says are targeting Hezbollah facilities in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A man uses his mobile phone as flames and smoke rise at the scene of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Natasha Ducre surveys the kitchen of her devastated home, which lost most of its roof during the passage of Hurricane Milton, in Palmetto, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Ducre, her husband, three children, and two grandkids rode out the storm in a government shelter and returned to find their home unlivable and much of their furniture and belongings destroyed by rainwater. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

FILE - This combo image, provided by the Department of Defense, shows Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers, left, and Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram, right. Chambers and Ingram died while boarding an unflagged ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen, Jan. 11, 2024, in the Arabian Sea. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

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FILE - Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris waves to the crowd as she arrives at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Leadership Conference, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Blaring trumpets and joyful voices resounded in a New Orleans neighborhood this week as about 100 people marched in honor of John “Prince” Gilbert, a key member of innovative brass bands that have become an important part of the city's music scene over the past several decades.

Gilbert, who died last weekend, played the saxophone for Rebirth Brass Band, which has been a favorite in New Orleans since the 1980s. The band is known for preserving and growing the brass band heritage, combining genres including funk, soul and jazz to create their own sound. He also was part of the New Birth Brass Band.

He taught, and recorded with, his son Orlando, who organized Monday evening's second line parade — so called because observers traditionally fall in behind the band and marchers to form a second parade line.

“He’s one of the innovators of New Orleans music, and he’s left an indelible mark on New Orleans culture and is and will always be a part of the history of New Orleans culture,” Orlando said of his father's career.

“My father’s playing was the bedrock of my own musicianship,” he added.

This undated family photo released by Orlando Gilbert shows Orlando with his father John "Prince" Gilbert in younger days. (Orlando Gilbert via AP)

Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician and son of John "Prince" Gilbert, plays and marches in an emotional second line parade, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Musicians and friends form a second line parade organized by Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician, for his father John "Prince" Gilbert, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Orlando Prince, center, a rising jazz musician and son of John "Prince" Gilbert, plays and marches in an emotional second line parade, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Musicians and friends form a second line parade organized by Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician, for his father John "Prince" Gilbert, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician and son of John "Prince" Gilbert, plays and marches in an emotional second line parade, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Musicians and friends form a second line parade organized by Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician, for his father John "Prince" Gilbert, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Musicians and friends form a second line parade organized by Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician, for his father John "Prince" Gilbert, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. John "Prince " Gilbert was a founding member of the Rebirth Brass Band and a fixture in the New Orleans Jazz community for decades. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

This undated family photo released by Orlando Gilbert shows Orlando with his father John "Prince" Gilbert in younger days. (Orlando Gilbert via AP)

Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician and son of John "Prince" Gilbert, plays and marches in an emotional second line parade, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. John "Prince " Gilbert was a founding member of the Rebirth Brass Band and a fixture in the New Orleans Jazz community for decades. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

This undated family photo released by Orlando Gilbert shows Orlando with his father John "Prince" Gilbert in younger days. (Orlando Gilbert via AP)

Orlando Prince, a rising jazz musician and son of John "Prince" Gilbert, plays and marches in an emotional second line parade, as a sendoff for his father who recently died, in the Treme section of New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. John "Prince " Gilbert was a founding member of the Rebirth Brass Band and a fixture in the New Orleans Jazz community for decades. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)