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Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, an abortion clinic opens in rural Kansas, a community remembers one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever and Prince Harry turns 40.

But first, how Kamala Harris prepared to debate Donald Trump.

UP FIRST

Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Vice President Kamala Harris during an ABC News presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Days of preparation and one final warning. How Kamala Harris got ready for her big debate moment.

Kamala Harris spent several days at a hotel in Pittsburgh preparing for last week's debate against Donald Trump. She held mock debates with her team and honed her strategy. Then, an hour before she left, she received one of the strangest briefings of her political career. Read more.

TOP STORIES

Security personnel stand outside a recently opened Planned Parenthood clinic in Pittsburg, Kan., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A small town in Kansas has found itself at the center of abortion’s national moment

The debate over reproductive rights has landed in a college town of 20,000 in the southeast corner of one of the few states left in the region still allowing abortions. It is near Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas and not terribly far from Texas. Read more.

The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors

In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, more than 430 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite repeated warnings about the church’s leader. Read more.

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IN OTHER NEWS

Photos of victims of the Lahaina wildfire are displayed under white crosses at a memorial above the Lahaina Bypass highway on Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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Hawaii wildfire: New report finds ‘no evidence’ officials prepared for wildfire that killed 102 despite warnings

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli military says 3 hostages recovered months ago were likely killed in November airstrike

'Trump Train' trial: Was it political violence when a ‘Trump Train’ convoy surrounded a Biden-Harris bus?

Emmys: ‘Shogun,’ ‘The Bear’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ are at the top of the queue as the Emmys arrive

Voter registration: Oregon DMV mistakenly registered more than 300 non-citizens to vote since 2021

Royal birthday: Prince Harry is marking a midlife milestone far from family

Trailblazing ballerina: Michaela DePrince, whose career inspired many after she was born into war, dies at 29

Jane's Addiction: Wife of frontman says tension and animosity led to onstage scuffle

Animal attack: A river otter attacks a child at a Seattle-area marina

Today in History: In 1963, a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama

WATCH

Israel-Hamas war: Israeli military take media on supervised tour of southern Gaza Strip

Jury duty: Jurors help detain a man who flees a Maine courthouse in handcuffs

Stuck in space: Astronauts make first public comments since Boeing capsule left without them

Emmys: Dick Van Dyke on how he hopes to be remembered

Cat rescue: A cat named Drifter is rescued from a sewer after nearly 8 weeks 

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