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Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran if regime doesn't make a deal
President Donald Trump addressed the U.N. General Assembly at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency.Trump opened his remarks Tuesday to the international community with more of a campaign stump-style speech, largely overlooking foreign affairs to focus on his domestic track record on the economy, immigration and crime."I can report to you with pride that America is back and our country is stronger today than ever before," Trump said.Trump then turned to his six-months-long war against Iran, framing the conflict he launched earlier this year as necessary to address a long-ignored threat. Trump accused Iran of stalling to make a deal to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and negotiate an endgame to the war until after the midterm elections.“I have a big decision to make,” Trump said. “Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?”He continued, “Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”Iran’s delegation walked out as Trump railed against the Islamic Republic.The global economy has been shaken by his decision to launch a war against Iran. Anxiety about the social impact being wrought by artificial intelligence is surging. And questions linger about the future of the United Nations itself with Trump’s scaling back U.S. financial support for the United Nations.After his speech to the annual gathering of world leaders, Trump is expected to hold talks with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and a more informal meeting with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to the White House. He’s also set to meet with leaders and senior officials from Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates — to discuss the way ahead with the war in Iran and growing concern about recent Iran-backed rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia. Trump also plans to take part in an event on the Shield of Americas, an initiative Trump launched with Latin American countries earlier this year focused on combatting violent cartels.The visit to the U.N. comes when Trump’s foreign policy approach — particularly his decision to start a war with Iran — has become a drag on his fellow Republicans’ hopes of retaining control of both chambers of Congress during the coming midterm elections. Trump insisted Tuesday that he's not concerned with politics and claimed the world is better off for his leadership."As president of the most extraordinary nation in history,” Trump said. “I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester.”Iran war to loom largeIn last year’s address at the U.N., Trump claimed the U.S. had "demolished" Iran’s nuclear capabilities after he ordered the June 2025 bombardment of three key facilities. He returns to the General Assembly nearing the seven-month mark of a new war against Iran that he insists is necessary to address a nuclear threat posed by Iran. The war has grown more complicated even though strikes by the United States and Israel have killed much of Iran’s top leadership and destroyed its air force and navy, while a U.S. blockade of Iranian oil has left Tehran in economic shambles.But the energy market continues to be spooked. Saudi Arabia earlier this month shuttered a key pipeline that acted as a relief valve for oil blocked in the Gulf. The kingdom made the move after the pipeline came under attack by Iran-backed militants in Iraq. At the same time, territorial grabs by the Yemen-based Houthi rebels, another Iranian-backed group, near the Bab al-Mandab Strait has now made it treacherous for oil carriers to use that Red Sea shipping lane.Majed al-Ansari, chief spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, said Monday that Qatar and other mediators are trying to penetrate a "deep deficit of trust" between the U.S. and Iran and get the sides back to negotiations."Either we sign a deal now or sign a deal 10 months away,” said said al-Ansari, speaking at the Concordia Annual Summit, a global affairs forum taking place during the U.N.'s high-level week. “The only difference is the number of dead and destruction that we see."Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that Trump is open to meeting with Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, while he's in New York for the General Assembly."This is a president that will meet with anybody for the most part, because he believes that engaging with people is important if you're going to solve problems," Rubio said on the “TODAY” show. "It doesn't mean you're going to end up agreeing with them, but it's important.”The administration will sign a Greenland dealAt last year’s General Assembly, Trump touted his record as a peacemaker and claimed that "everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize" for his administration’s efforts mediating several conflicts around the globe. This year, his administration is set to sign an agreement on the sidelines of the General Assembly with Danish and Greenlandic leaders that aims to set the pathway for the expansion of the U.S. military’s footprint on Greenland.The deal, announced last week, came together after Trump repeatedly threatened to "take over" Greenland, a territory of NATO-ally Denmark, by military force if necessary.Under the deal, Greenland remains Denmark’s territory. "I'm looking forward to the meeting tomorrow. I think we have reached a good agreement," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Danish broadcaster TV2 Denmark.Trump’s frustration with Russia-Ukraine war mountsThe president could also touch on Russia’s continuing war against Ukraine during the address — a conflict that during his 2024 campaign he predicted would be resolved on Day One of his second term.The president has routinely expressed frustration about the conflict. He hasn’t obscured that his patience is being tested by Ukraine’s targeting of Russia’s diesel refineries — an issue that’s added to oil markets’ volatility — and Russia’s targeting of Ukraine’s energy grid.Trump last week asserted that he got the two sides to agree to not target each other’s energy infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was willing to go along with Trump’s plan if Russia abided by it. Russia said it could only go along with Trump’s energy truce proposal if Western energy sanctions on Moscow were lifted first.The two sides have continued carrying out strikes on refineries and other energy infrastructure. Trump on Monday, before departing for New York, expressed his frustration with targeting of energy infrastructure."Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine,” Trump posted on social media. He added, "This ridiculous and never ending War with Ukraine must be ended." Trump to hold critical talks with U.K., Japan and Venezuela leadersThe president is set to hold his first face-to-face meeting with Burnham, the center-left Labour Party leader who became prime minister in July.With elevated oil prices dragging the British economy, he may also be eager to discuss ways to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He announced on Monday that he would send a Royal Air Force plane to the Mideast to help Saudi Arabia repel attacks from Houthi rebels. The plane will refuel Saudi planes during defensive missions.Trump’s meeting with Japan’s Takaichi comes as he prepares to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week to Washington for a state visit.The historically complicated Japan-China relationship became even more fraught after Takaichi said last year that Japan's military could intervene if China were to take action against Taiwan, a semi-autonomous island democracy that Beijing considers its own territory. The tensions have spilled over into the China-Japan economic relationship.Trump’s engagement with Rodriguez, Venezuela’s interim president, will be the first meeting between the two leaders since Trump in January ordered a U.S. military operation to capture then-President Nicolás Maduro and swept him off to New York City to face federal narco-terrorism and drug trafficking charges. Maduro’s lawyers have objected to the U.S. military action that snatched him from power.
Is Newark open? Delays linger at airport after Monday travel meltdown
Damaged communications lines at a key air traffic control facility in Philadelphia had been repaired, allowing airports across the U.S. Northeast to resume operations after hours of disruptions, the nation’s transportation secretary said Monday evening.Hundreds of flights were canceled, including more than 600 into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, as the outage hit every major airport in the New York City area. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy also said in an online post that "it will take some time to clear all existing delays" despite the repairs.The primary communications line at the Federal Aviation Administration facility in Philadelphia had failed earlier Monday, while the backup fiber optic line was inadvertently severed by railroad construction workers. The failures left controllers without radar or communications for hours.The outage brought commercial air traffic to a near-standstill at Newark for much of the day, with no commercial flights landing at the airport from about 9:40 a.m. to just after 5:20 p.m. local time, according to flight-tracking site Flightradar24. More than 200 flights into and out of Philadelphia International Airport were also canceled, while disruptions hit LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York. By Monday evening, flights were resuming at those airports.Some airlines were allowing customers to change flights without charge. The FAA advised travelers to check the status of their flights before heading to the airport.The outage occurred just as President Donald Trump and numerous foreign leaders were flying into New York City for the U.N. General Assembly. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney missed an event Monday on the sidelines of the General Assembly because of the flight disruptions but his office said he had arrived in New York by Monday night.Cindy Phan said her morning flight from Newark to Minneapolis was repeatedly delayed before she learned around 3 p.m. that it had been canceled and rescheduled for Tuesday, requiring her to find and pay for another night at a hotel."We could have had a whole day in New York," Phan said, adding that she wanted to get home to her "two little Chihuahua babies."Shannon Franke and her husband took a connecting flight from Nashville to Chicago when they found out their final Southwest leg home to Philadelphia was canceled. They had gone to Nashville to see the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Tennessee Titans 24-20 on a touchdown in the last seconds Sunday.Stuck in Chicago, Franke said, they lucked out finding a hotel room and decided to enjoy some deep-dish pizza."We're just making the best of it," Franke said. "If the Eagles would have lost … it would have been so much worse."The technical problems stem from the same FAA facility in Philadelphia that caused numerous disruptions at the Newark airport last spring. Regional control centers like these have two lines that carry radar and communications data in and out: the primary and the backup. The FAA said a circuit on the primary failed Monday morning, and when the system tried to switch to the backup, workers discovered that the fiber optic line had been cut. Earlier in the day, Duffy said an Amtrak construction crew was to blame. Amtrak, however, pointed to a New Jersey Transit construction crew that was working in the area between Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey.FAA administrator Bryan Bedford told reporters earlier the agency had focused on fixing the primary connection as soon as possible by installing a new circuit on the primary line, while also working to repair the backup fiber optic line. Verizon said at the time that its technicians were also working to restore service.Bedford earlier described the fiber break as "massive," saying it would take several hours to repair, according to a video posted online by a CBS reporter. The primary circuit that failed is due to be replaced as part of a massive overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system.Also Monday, the FAA began testing a new computer system that uses AI to help predict schedule conflicts and weather issues to help air traffic controllers reroute traffic. But that system is initially being tested only in the Washington, D.C., area, so it did not appear to be linked to the outages.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
Tuesday briefing: Europe thinks Russia is preparing to test Nato's limits
In today's newsletter: Intelligence chiefs warn that Russia's appetite for risk is growing, as sabotage and other covert attacks target countries supporting UkraineGood morning. As the UN general assembly kicks off in New York later today, we anticipate a heavy focus on the ongoing conflicts in Iran, Ukraine and the Gulf – as well as the inevitable body language analysis of Andy Burnham's first in-person meeting with Donald Trump.But another related conflict is likely to dominate informal discussions: the intensifying acts of sabotage on European states that are believed to trace back to Russia but deliberately fall below the threshold for military response – a so-called hybrid or "shadow war" with the singular purpose of disrupting support for Ukraine.Yemen | The UK has agreed to provide defensive air support to Saudi Arabia to help counter Houthi fighters and restore stability in the Middle East while driving down the cost of living at home, Andy Burnham has said, ahead of his first meeting with Donald Trump.Environment | The "jaw-dropping" El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.Gaza | Israeli and UK military commanders could be requested to give evidence to an inquest concerning three British aid workers killed in Gaza when aid vehicles they were travelling in were hit by an airstrike.US | After President Trump's snap decision to ban CNN from the White House, the four other networks that comprise the White House's TV pool decided they would cease their pooled coverage of the president.Slavery | Bones of the enslaver Edward Colston are likely to remain interred in a church in Bristol if and when the currently unused building is given a new lease of life as a community resource, it has emerged. Continue reading...
Bill Gates pushes for 'smart use' of AI as his foundation builds more representative language data
Bill Gates told his foundation’s Goalkeepers gathering that "increased generosity" and "the smart use of AI" together could accelerate the fight against inequality, urging the world’s richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence toward what he considers "lifesaving innovations.""We failed to build in the right human values and ways of keeping our moral code controlling what these AIs do," Gates, the foundation’s chair, said during a Monday conversation with political commentator Van Jones at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.The Gates Foundation’s annual event, usually hosted the week of the United Nations‘ high-level meetings, opened with a reminder: 26 of the world’s 34 wealthiest nations decreased development aid to poorer countries last year. Meanwhile, the U.N. has warned that progress on its sustainable development goals — lofty targets to reduce poverty, improve health and protect the environment by 2030 — is "slow and uneven."The contraction comes at a time when Gates suggested "we have some of the best innovations ever to improve people’s lives." His foundation spent much of its two-hour event elevating educators, farmers and health workers who are using AI to identify students’ learning gaps, combat pest infestations and better recall patients’ medical records.The Gates Foundation also touted its new coalition of Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations working to make AI more accessible in underrepresented languages.The partners — 60 in total, according to Monday’s announcement — include frontier AI labs, corporations, philanthropies and others already working to expand the number of languages available in AI tools that the Gates Foundation believes could combat global inequality. The coalition aims to reach more than 3 billion people over five years by better coordinating existing efforts. Artificial Intelligence Sep 21 China and U.S. compete for AI dominance but have shared concerns over safety Artificial Intelligence Sep 19 Trump says he's creating an AI force and appointing a czar amid concerns over the rapidly developing technology It’s work that must continue "full speed ahead,” according to Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, even as some of the largest AI companies urge their industry to slow down development of advanced models. Governments must regulate the impacts on cybersecurity or children’s development, he said, while they extend AI’s humanitarian applications to poor communities currently "shut out" from the technology."Even if AI was frozen right now — which I don't expect and I am not calling for — we would want to be building these language sets and making them usable with the tools that we have available right now," Suzman told The Associated Press.The collaboration follows last week’s Goalkeepers report, where the foundation committed $1 billion toward AI-focused efforts to improve health outcomes, upgrade educational tools and inform small farmers’ practices around the world. Unrepresentative language data could lead a model to mistranslate a pregnant Malawi woman saying her "water has broken" into the direct English that she’d "thrown away water,” the report warned.The "original sin" is that many AI tools were trained on language data scraped from the internet, according to Mozilla Data Collective CEO E.M. Lewis-Jong, whose company was incubated by the Mozilla Foundation and is now a subsidiary of the not-for-profit Mozilla.org. The data-sharing platform seeks to help communities upload cultural and linguistic data sets on their own terms rather than have that data taken from the web without their explicit consent. "The internet is not a representative space," she said. "Why would you think that you were going to get a culturally diverse and representative system out of something that was predominantly trained on Reddit?"Details such as the coalition's governance are still getting hammered out, according to Suzman. A secretariat will track each signatory's commitments and the Gates Foundation may nudge partners to fill larger gaps when necessary.Google, a member of the coalition, has been funding an effort to collect more than 150,000 hours of audio across every district in India. Known as Project Vaani, the push underscores the need to gather speech data on dialects within languages, according to Google senior vice president James Manyika. To get there, he said, Google is working with local partners to record speech in the field.Anthropic, whose CEO published an essay calling for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements, was already working with the foundation to speed up vaccine developments and bolster its chatbot's data set of local crops. Elizabeth Kelly, the head of beneficial deployments at Anthropic, acknowledged the company’s products "lag in many African languages in particular.”"We're acutely aware that we can't achieve any of the benefits we want to see in terms of improving patient outcomes or improving literacy and numeracy for students across the globe unless we actually get this language piece right,” she told AP.
Trump says he'll probably lose lawsuit brought by news outlets he banned from White House, blaming judge appointed by 'TRUMP' – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.US TV networks suspend White House pool coverage over Trump media banSign up for US Breaking News emailsThe three news outlets President Trump banned from the White House last Friday have filed their anticipated lawsuit against his administration to restore their access.In the new complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday, CNN, MS Now and Politico alleged that Trump had violated the First Amendment and due process by stripping the outlets of their White House access in a blatant act of retaliation for coverage he disliked. Continue reading...
Who is playing in NFL Week 3? Here's the full schedule
Week 2 was all about injuries.Several starting quarterbacks went down, and some defenses took charge with bounce-back efforts after a high-scoring first week. It’s still too soon to panic for most teams, but the urgency level will certainly be elevated as the NFL heads into its third weekend.What’s in store for Week 3? Here’s the full schedule ahead:var pymParent = new pym.Parent('nfl26', 'https://visuals.otsops.com/projects/nfl-sched-2026/index.html', {title: '', parenturlparam: '', parenturlvalue: ''});The slate opens with an NFC matchup between two teams off to slow starts. Michael Penix Jr. will make his season debut for the Atlanta Falcons (0-2), as his team visits Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers (1-1) for their home opener at Lambeau Field.Looking ahead to Sunday, there are nine games in the early window and four games later in the afternoon. The early slate is headline by a trio of AFC matchups: Los Angeles Chargers (0-2) at Buffalo Bills (2-0), Cincinnati Bengals (2-0) at Pittsburgh Steelers (1-1) and New England Patriots (1-1) at Jacksonville Jaguars (1-1). The late window will include the second international game of the season, as the Dallas Cowboys (1-1) and Baltimore Ravens (1-1) face off in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NFL 3 hours ago How to watch Rams vs. Broncos on Sunday Night Football in Week 3 NFL 18 hours ago Falcons say Michael Penix Jr. will make 2026 debut as starting QB vs. Packers NFL Sep 20 NFL Week 2 Sunday winners and losers: Raiders shock Chargers, Vikings halt Bears NBC’s Sunday Night Football will be a matchup of two conference finalists from last season, as Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos (1-1) host Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams (1-1).Week 3 will conclude with an NFC showdown on Monday Night Football. Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles (2-0) will visit the Chicago Bears (1-1), potentially without the injured Caleb Williams, at Soldier Field.
Cause of death revealed for actor Hayden Panettiere at age 36
What to KnowHayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and other drugs, according to the coroner’s office in Greenville County, South Carolina.The coroner determined that the “Heroes” and “Nashville” star died from an accident overdose of fentanyl, 4-ANPP, Alprazolam, Methocarbamol and Quetiapine.The autopsy showed no signs of injuries that would have contributed to her death.Panettiere died Aug. 16 at a Greenville, South Carolina apartment at the age of 36. Actor Hayden Panettiere died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl and several other drugs, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.The report listed the “Heroes” and “Nashville” star’s cause of death as toxic effects of fentanyl, 4-ANPP — used in the manufacture of fentanyl — Alprazolam, commonly known by the brand name Xanax and used to treat anxiety, Methocarbamol, and Quetiapine. Celebrity News Aug 24 Anna Paquin blasts Hollywood's treatment of child stars in tribute to Hayden Panettiere Celebrity News Aug 21 Hayden Panettiere's ex-fiancé shares emotional post on her 37th birthday The manner of death was ruled an accident.Methocarbamol is a prescription muscle relaxant, often used to treat muscle pain. Quetiapine is an antipsychotic prescription medication.The autopsy showed no signs of injuries that would have contributed to her death.Panettiere died Aug. 16 in Greenville, South Carolina at the age of 36. First responders found her in cardiac arrest when they arrived and started life support measures.Resuscitation efforts were not successful, and Panettiere died at the scene. Authorities said Panettiere had been temporarily staying at the residence.A heavily redated Greenville Police Department released earlier showed that Panettiere’s on-again off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were with her at the apartment complex when she died. A responding officer said Hickerson did not become visibly emotional until Panettiere was declared dead by EMS.The report also said he showed police a “bag of medication” Panettiere was taking at the time of her death.In a statement in August, Hickerson’s attorney Sloan Ellis reiterated that police found no signs of foul play. Panettiere’s rise to Hollywood stardom began at a young age when she appeared in TV commercials. Early acting credits included soap operas like "One Life to Live" and “Guiding Light,” beginning at age 4. She voiced the young princess ant in "A Bug's Life," the animated feature, and eventually appeared in big-screen stories, including "Remember the Titans," "Ice Princess" and "Bring It On: All or Nothing.”Her breakout role came with the NBC sci-fi series “Heroes,” in which she portrayed a high school cheerleader with superpowers. Panettiere earned two Golden Globe nominations for her role as a musician in “Nashville.”She shared her struggles with addiction and postpartum depression in her recently released memoir, “This Is Me: A Reckoning.” Panettiere and Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko had a daughter in 2014.She entered rehab and gave Klitschko custody of their child in 2018.
Trump seeks 'massive' Belarus fertiliser deal amid Canada trade war
Trump's announcement on Russia ally comes as he steps up his trade war with Canada, a long-term US ally and top supplier of potashPresident Donald Trump has said he is working on a "massive" deal to buy fertiliser from Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia."The United States is working on a massive deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus," Trump said on his Truth Social network. "The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our farmers and ranchers." Continue reading...
The Latest: Trump returns to UN at moment of anxiety about Iran, AI and future of world body itself
President Donald Trump is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency. After his speech to the annual gathering of world leaders, Trump is expected to hold talks with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Japanese Prime Ministe...
Oil prices tumble to 2-week low on hopes for critical pipeline reopening and Iran diplomacy
Oil prices fell sharply fell for a fifth straight trading session, reaching a two-week low on hopes of a renewed diplomatic push to end the Iran war and optimism over the reopening of a critical pipeline in Saudi Arabia.
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