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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, a drone strike targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant; the World Health Organization declared the Ebola disease outbreak a public health emergency of international concern; and conflicting advice makes it hard for women to know when to get a mammogram.
But first, the Trump administration has run the names of at least 67 million voters through databases as it looks for noncitizens and people who've died, fuelling concerns that valid voters could end up being expunged from state voter rolls.
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Anthony Nel poses for a photo Thursday in Denton, Texas. Nel’s local election office in Texas temporarily canceled his registration last fall while he was waiting for a new passport to replace an expired one. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Trump administration promotes a program to check voter eligibility. Critics fear a midterm purge
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Even as Democratic officials fight the effort in court, the Trump administration has run millions of voter registrations through government databases to determine their eligibility in a process that critics worry could end up purging valid voters from the rolls before the November elections. Some states allow only a month for people to prove their eligibility and others suspend it immediately. Voters such as 29-year-old Anthony Nel have been caught in the middle. The native of South Africa, who became a citizen more than a decade ago, was flagged as a potential noncitizen. Nel’s local election office in Denton, north of Dallas, temporarily canceled his registration last fall while he was waiting for a new passport to replace an expired one. “I’m like, ‘You should know that I’m a citizen, that the passport exists,’” he said in an interview. Read more.
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Palestinians attend the funeral of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the leader of Hamas’ military wing, and his daughter and wife in Gaza City on Saturday. They were killed in an Israeli strike Friday evening. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Drone strike sparks fire at UAE nuclear power plant in latest blow to Iran ceasefire
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A drone strike targeted the United Arab Emirates’ sole nuclear power plant on Sunday, sparking a fire on its perimeter. There were no reports of injuries or radiological release, but it highlighted the risk of renewed war as the Iran ceasefire remains tenuous. U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested hostilities could resume and was expected to speak with Israel’s prime minister on Sunday. Read more.
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When should you get a mammogram? Conflicting advice makes it hard to know
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Deciding when to get routine mammograms is confusing. Some health groups recommend women begin at age 40 or 45 while another recently opted for age 50. The conflicting advice is at least partly because guidelines are designed for women at average risk, but breast cancer is so common that it is hard to know who is really “average.” Death rates have been dropping for decades, thanks largely to better treatments. But it is still the second-most common cause of cancer death in U.S. women — and diagnoses are inching up. Read more.
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Dara from Bulgaria holds up the trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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