WHAT TO KNOW

* Trump held his eighth Cabinet meeting amid tensions over the government shutdown and National Guard deployments in Illinois and Oregon. The shorter-than-usual meeting came on the heels of an agreement between Israel and Hamas on the first phase of the Trump administration’s peace plan. * The “first phase” of the plan to end the Israel-Hames conflict in Gaza includes a pause in fighting and release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Israel’s government is now considering the formal approval of the agreement. * Federal judges are hearing arguments today on challenges to Trump’s mobilization of National Guard troops in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to bolster federal immigration and anti-crime operations. Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if the

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