Watched by the world, President Donald Trump returns to the United Nations on Tuesday to deliver a wide-ranging address on his second-term foreign policy achievements and lament that “globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order,” according to the White House.
World leaders will be listening closely to his remarks at the U.N. General Assembly as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish U.S. support for the world body in his first eight months in office. After his latest inauguration, he issued a first-day executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization. That was followed by his move to end U.S. participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council, and ordering up a review of U.S. membership in hundreds of intergovernmental organizations aimed at determining whether they align with the priorities of his “America First” agenda.
Global leaders are being tested by intractable wars in Gaza,Ukraine and Sudan, uncertainty about the economic and social impact of emerging artificial intelligence technology, and anxiety about Trump’s antipathy for the global body.
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Trump cancels meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on keeping government open
The president said on his social media site that he’ll no longer meet with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
The New York lawmakers had been scheduled for a Thursday meeting with Trump ahead of the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 in hopes of reaching an agreement to avoid a government shutdown.
Trump called the requests made by Democrats in Congress, which include efforts to preserve health care programs, “unserious” and “ridiculous.”
“I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Still, Trump indicated he would meet with them “if they get serious about the future of our Nation. We must keep the Government open, and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed.”
Trump said he wants no money on health care for immigrants in the U.S. illegally and no government funding of medical treatments on gender transition.
Melania Trump is launching a global coalition to help with children’s tech education
Aides described the first lady’s Fostering the Future Together initiative as an extension of her work advocating for children.
She’s set to launch the program Tuesday afternoon in New York on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly session.
Marc Beckman, a senior adviser to the first lady, told Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” that the goal is to help children with their development in technology and education.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis eyes land in downtown Miami for Trump presidential library
DeSantis, a Republican, is pushing to establish Trump’s presidential library in an iconic stretch of downtown Miami. Paving the way for the president’s post-administration historical archives is another way DeSantis and conservative lawmakers are vying to demonstrate their loyalty to Trump.
DeSantis announced a plan Tuesday to set aside a 2.63-acre parcel of land adjacent to the Freedom Tower, a historic building that served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans seeking asylum in the United States.
Florida’s Cabinet is slated to vote on the proposal Sept. 30.
Trump to meet with congressional Democratic leaders as government shutdown deadline looms
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had requested a meeting with the president to discuss a bipartisan deal on government funding last week.
“In the meeting, we will emphasize the importance of addressing rising costs, including the Republican healthcare crisis. It’s past time to meet and work to avoid a Republican-caused shutdown,” Schumer and Jeffries wrote in a joint statement released Tuesday morning.
The White House has not yet announced the meeting.
Congress must pass a government funding plan before a Sep. 30 deadline. Any plan would require at least some Democratic senators to support it given the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, though Republicans and Democrats have so far had few negotiations.
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Shares of Tylenol maker Kenvue bounced back sharply before the opening bell Tuesday, a day after President Trump promoted unproven and in some cases discredited ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism.
“Don’t take Tylenol,” Trump instructed pregnant women around a dozen times during the White House news conference Monday, also urging mothers not to give their infants the drug, known by the generic name acetaminophen in the U.S. or paracetamol in most other countries.
Shares of the New Jersey consumer brands company tumbled 7.5% Monday. Shares have regained most of those losses early Tuesday in premarket trading.
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Trump’s schedule, according to the White House
At 9:50 a.m. ET, Trump will deliver remarks to the United Nations General Assembly. He’ll then take part in a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders across the late morning and early afternoon.
In the evening at 7:20 p.m., he’ll attend and give an address at a U.N. reception before returning to the White House.
Rubio says Trump will challenge ‘feckless’ UN to live up to its potential
Trump will address the annual UN General Assembly later Tuesday and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the president would call for it to act on various crises instead of just debating them.
“I think what the president’s going to do is challenge the U.N. to find its meaning and its purpose and its utility as an organization because it it doesn’t seem to be doing the job,” Rubio said in an interview on “Fox and Friends.”
Rubio noted that in his private life, Trump had once offered to help renovate the U.N. headquarters in New York but had been turned down.
“I think it’s emblematic of how feckless the U.N. has become as an organization,” he said. “It’s just a place where once a year a bunch of people meet and give speeches and write out a bunch of letters and statements but not a lot of good, important action is happening. The U.N. has a lot of potential but it’s not living up to it right now.”
More Americans see benefits of immigrants as Trump targets legal pathways, poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll shows U.S. adults are more likely than they were a year ago to think immigrants in the country legally benefit the economy. The finding comes as the Trump administration is imposing new restrictions targeting legal pathways into the country.
The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans are more likely than they were in March 2024 to say it’s a “major benefit” that people who come to the U.S. legally contribute to the economy and help American companies get the expertise of skilled workers.
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WHO calls for caution before making links between acetaminophen use by pregnant women and autism
World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic noted “some observational studies” that have suggested a possible association between prenatal exposure to acetaminophen, or paracetamol, and autism, “but evidence remains inconsistent.”
Several studies conducted afterward have “found no such relationship,” he said.
“If the link between acetaminophen and autism were strong, it would likely have been consistently observed across multiple studies,” Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.
“This lack of replicability really calls for caution in drawing casual conclusions about the role of acetaminophen in autism,” he added.
Jasarevic noted that WHO advises that medicines in pregnancy should always be used with caution, especially in the first three months, and in consultation with a patient’s doctor.
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