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Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran if a deal isn't reached: 'I have a big decision to make'
President Donald Trump addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency — and made the case that he’s shown fortitude while other leaders have equivocated as he defended his decision to start a war with Iran.Trump opened his remarks 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. View this post on Instagram A post shared by NBC4 Washington (@nbcwashington)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?”The president’s comments came in his wide-ranging address to the international body in which he also celebrated this year’s U.S. military operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, a new agreement to expand the U.S. military presence in Greenland, and pushed back against calls for greater regulation of the artificial intelligence industry.But at the heart of the address was a fulsome defense of the war and pushback on the notion that Iran has shown a measure of resilience."The terrorist regime is behaving badly, not because they are strong and confident, but because they are weak and desperate,” Trump said.Most of Iran’s delegation walked out of the chamber as Trump railed against the Islamic Republic.Trump later told reporters that his chief envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met with the Iranian officials on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders but he offered few details about how the discussions transpired or the substance of the exchange."It was a very good meeting," Trump said. The president later added that the Iranian officials were "not the highest level, but it's something."The engagement comes after months of U.S.-Iran communications languishing following the collapse of a short-lived ceasefire that was brokered in June. U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately with Qatari and Pakistani mediators in Doha in early July for indirect talks.Earlier Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said 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 NBC's "Today" show. "It doesn't mean you're going to end up agreeing with them, but it's important."Trump also met on Tuesday with leaders and senior officials from Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates — as well as Jordan to discuss the way ahead with the war in Iran.In his address to the General Assembly, Trump made the case that he’s shown fortitude while other leaders have equivocated as he defended his decision to start a war with Iran.But Trump also suggested that he could be at a crossroads in the conflict even as he called on the Islamic Republic to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz and return to the negotiating table to find a settlement to end the conflict.Trump’s speech began a busy day of diplomacyAfter his speech, Trump gathered with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen on the sidelines of the General Assembly to sign a new security agreement.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. Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will immediately begin the process of developing a larger military presence in Greenland including "building two very major military bases."Under the deal, Greenland remains Denmark's territory.Trump also held talks with new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He’s expected to hold a more informal meeting on Tuesday evening with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to the White House.Trump also took 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.Iran war looms largeThe 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. Recent polls show 69% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the war. 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.”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.In 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 returned 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.The energy market continues to be spooked by the war and oil prices remain elevated. 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.Trump’s frustration with Russia-Ukraine war mountsIn his address, the president also touched on Russia’s continuing war against Ukraine during his U.N. address — a conflict that during his 2024 campaign he predicted would be resolved on Day One of his second term. He once again expressed hope that the conflict will soon be resolved.Trump hasn’t obscured that his patience is being tested by Ukraine’s targeting of Russia’s diesel refineries — an issue that’s added to the global 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.Zelenskyy had 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 noted that last week he signed a new sanctions bill targeting Moscow. It empowers him to impose up to 100% tariffs on the top five importers of Russian oil or natural gas.The legislation includes an exception for countries that import less than 15% of Russia's natural gas exports and have taken significant steps to reduce those imports. Trump, however, has yet to enact the stiff penalties."If necessary, I will have to use them," Trump said. "It's time to stop the killing."
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.
'Short on substance': Albanese urges climate action on world stage – but advocates say Australia failing on fossil fuels
Prime minister says 'climate security is the new national security' in keynote speech in New YorkFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton's free Clear Air newsletter hereAustralia understands the dangers of global heating and the urgency of climate action as much as any other country, Anthony Albanese has said in a keynote speech shortly before the United Nations general assembly.Giving the opening address at a Climate Week event in New York on Monday, the prime minister said Australians had experienced the impact of climate breakdown up close with a series of disastrous bushfires and floods in the past decades.Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton's Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...
Man shot by ICE in Texas is back in detention after leaving hospital, attorney says
A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Texas was back in a federal detention center Tuesday after being taken to a hospital for a second time with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to his attorney.A federal judge also ordered Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, who was shot Sunday in Austin, to appear in court next week following a lawsuit that sought to stop his removal from the U.S.Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, Perez’s attorney, said in a video posted to social media Tuesday that the 28-year-old man was "still in a lot of pain."Perez was being held at a federal detention facility in the remote South Texas town of Pearsall, according to Texas Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, who has joined others in his party in sharply criticizing the shooting that occurred amid a surge in ICE enforcement during President Donald Trump's second term. The violent encounter has also sparked protests in Austin, including a gathering outside the Texas Capitol on Monday night.Perez was making a DoorDash delivery Sunday afternoon when ICE officers in an unmarked truck sideswiped his car twice, Lincoln-Goldfinch has said. He was shot and taken to a hospital, then released into ICE custody with a bullet still in his back. Perez went back to the hospital Monday evening after complaining of pain and was taken back into ICE custody around midnight, Lincoln-Goldfinch said.Court filings from Perez's lawyers indicated he was forced to sleep on a cement floor at an ICE temporary processing center, and then at 4 a.m. Monday, ICE transferred him to the Pearsall facility. A temporary restraining order from his attorneys said he was also subject to interrogation without legal representation present.Lincoln-Goldfinch wrote on social media that he was taken back to the hospital around 5 p.m. Monday after he began experiencing a loss of sensation in his arm.The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to email messages Tuesday. The agency has released little information and has not said what prompted the shooting. In a statement early Monday, the department said it was investigating the shooting of a Venezuelan man in the U.S. illegally who "had a final order of removal."On Tuesday, the department responded on social media to a video of Texas Democratic U.S. Rep. Greg Casar saying Austin will be safer once ICE leaves, calling it a "ludicrous statement.""No amount of smears and false narratives will slow down ICE from doing its job by removing dangerous illegal aliens from our communities," the agency posted.On Monday, Perez called into a news conference and told reporters he had received no pain medication and slept on the floor.Castro posted on social media that he planned to visit Perez on Wednesday to "check on his condition and demand his release."In response to the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Perez to appear in person at a hearing Sept. 30 in San Antonio. Austin 8 hours ago Venezuelan man shot by ICE says bullet is still lodged in his back texas Sep 20 Federal ICE agent shoots man in Austin after pursuit, Austin PD says Austin Sep 21 Attorney for the man wounded in an ICE shooting in Austin holds press conference Wilder is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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...
'Shame on you': Netanyahu vows to tell 'the truth' about Mamdani in UN speech
Ahead of his arrival in New York City for the UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Mayor Zohan Mamdani in a searingly brief video statement Tuesday, once again accusing him of supporting terrorists and encouraging violence against Jewish people.“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani,” Netanyahu said as he delivered those allegations. He pledged to directly address the mayor in his Thursday speech to the United Nations General Assembly.“I’m coming to the UN,” Netanyahu said. “I’m going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I’m going to tell the truth about you.”It follows Mamdani’s Monday night comments, in a post-President Donald Trump meeting press conference interview with CNN, that doubled down on his calls for Netanyahu’s arrest. The mayor called him “a war criminal” who architected “a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people.”Their tete-a-tete over the ICC warrant dates back months. Previously, Mamdani had pledged to arrest Netanyahu if he traveled to New York City. He later acknowledged he lacked the authority to do that but continues to say the International Criminal Court warrant should be upheld."I do believe that that is something that should be honored, because what we want to see, and we've been talking about this today, is a faith in our politics, a faith in accountability," Mamdani told CNN Monday.The mayor didn’t immediately address Netanyahu’s response directly. He didn’t appear to be asked about it during an unrelated press conference late Tuesday morning.It comes a day after Mamdani hosted Trump at Gracie Mansion, where the two say they discussed a housing project in Queens and making life more affordable for New York’s working class. After the sit-down, the duo held a joint press conference, in which they acknowledged their political differences while standing side by side.The meeting was the latest cordial encounter between the Republican president and Democratic socialist mayor, who have struck up a surprisingly warm relationship despite their lack of political overlap, and have tried to find common ground in helping the city they both love.They have met at least twice previously and have appeared to maintain some level of contact, though the mayor stays tight-lipped about any ongoing conversations with the president.The pair of polarizing leaders met in the Oval Office shortly after Mamdani's election victory last year for a surprisingly friendly confab centering on ways to help their shared hometown, a detente that came after months of verbal sparring. They also met in February, after Mamdani officially took office, to talk development.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
Suspect in Belleville synagogue shooting has died
A 29-year-old man who opened fire on a police officer stationed outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Ont., on Sunday has died, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) confirms. The man was identified as Sean Ward from Quinte West, Ont., and was injured during an exchange of gunfire with Const. Jeff Smith, a 13-year […]
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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...
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