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Democrats’ way back to the House majority could run through a swing district in the nation’s biggest swing state. The question is which path the party will choose to try to get there.
Since February, five Democrats have launched campaigns for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, a Lehigh Valley seat held by Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, which has flipped back and forth and seen some of the closest races in the country in recent years.
The primary field — which includes a firefighters union leader, a former federal prosecutor (and former Republican) who resigned, a community advocate and two local officeholders — has turned into a crowded microcosm of the different approaches Democrats are taking to appeal to voters, define their party and frame themselves as strong candidates in the age of Trump.
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Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed the first phase of a ceasefire deal was widely welcomed Thursday by world leaders, the families of hostages and Palestinians who have endured more than two years of war.
But huge questions remain about whether Trump’s 20-point plan can successfully resolve the long-term future of the Gaza Strip, with uncertainty over its directive for Hamas to disband as well as the governance of the shattered enclave.
The plan, which was mediated by Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, will also need formal agreement at 5 p.m. local time today (10 a.m. ET) by Israel’s government, an Israel official briefed on the matter told NBC News. That does not appear a sure thing, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowing to vote against it.
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Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops in states that don’t want them will be tested in two different courts today.
Lawyers for Chicago and Illinois will go before a federal judge to try to block troops from being deployed in the country’s third most populous city, while attorneys for Portland and Oregon will urge a federal appeals court to leave in place a restraining order against troop deployments there.
The hearings — in Chicago and San Francisco — are set to begin at noon ET in courthouses about 2,000 miles apart.
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Trump will hold a Cabinet meeting this morning amid tensions over the government funding impasse, deployments of National Guard to U.S. cities, and a tentative agreement between Israel and Hamas to the initial phase of his administration’s peace plan.
Trump’s Cabinet meetings can go on for a while. His last meeting, in August, lasted more than three hours.
Later, Trump will hold a meeting at the White House with the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb.
Stubb said in a post to X this morning that he would “sign a Memorandum of Understanding on icebreaker cooperation” with Trump. The memorandum, Stubb said, “lays the foundation for commercial agreements between the United States Coast Guard and Finnish companies.”
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