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Morning Rundown: Israel-Hamas truce plan breakthrough, troop deployments go to court, and bird flu\u2019s unwelcome comeback<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Melanie Jackson<\/span>Melanie Jackson is a general assignment intern for NBC News based in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Democrats\u2019 way back to the House majority could run through a swing district in the nation\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 which includes a firefighters union leader, a former federal prosecutor (and former Republican) who resigned, a community advocate and two local officeholders \u2014 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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Alexander Smith<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Freddie Clayton<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump\u2019s announcement that Israel and Hamas have\u00a0agreed the first phase of a ceasefire deal<\/a>\u00a0was\u00a0widely welcomed Thursday<\/a>\u00a0by world leaders, the families of hostages and Palestinians who have endured more than two years of war.
But huge questions remain about whether\u00a0Trump\u2019s 20-point plan<\/a>\u00a0can successfully resolve\u00a0the long-term future of the Gaza Strip<\/a>, 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\u2019s government, an Israel official briefed on the matter told NBC News. That does not appear a sure thing, with\u00a0Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich<\/a>\u00a0vowing to vote against it.
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Dareh Gregorian<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Trump\u2019s efforts to deploy National Guard troops <\/a>in states that don\u2019t 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\u2019s 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<\/a>.
The hearings \u2014 in Chicago and San Francisco \u2014 are set to begin at noon ET in courthouses about 2,000 miles apart.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Megan Lebowitz<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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.\u00a0<\/a>
Later, Trump will hold a meeting at the White House with the president of Finland, Alexander Stubb.
Stubb said in a post to X<\/a> this morning that he would \u201csign a Memorandum of Understanding on icebreaker cooperation\u201d with Trump. The memorandum, Stubb said, \u201clays the foundation for commercial agreements between the United States Coast Guard and Finnish companies.\u201d
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