US President Donald Trump, speaking at the UN General Assembly, re-issued his threat to "annihilate" Iran and "drive them into Hell" if the regime did not capitulate and make a deal. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.
He also said he was "working closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine" to end the disastrous war. Trump defended his administration's actions in Latin America, including the midnight raid to arrest former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. He also defended his drone strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, accused Mexico of being effectively controlled by the cartels, and said it was "unacceptable" for the US to share a border with a nation under such conditions. He pointed to regime change in Cuba and said he would reject any calls for a "globalist scheme" to control artificial intelligence.
Shortly after his UN address, Trump signed a Greenland deal. Greenland's prime minister Jens-Frederick Nielsen said it "underlines the importance of the Nato alliance." In tricky, carefully worded paragraphs, she said the agreement "recognises the US defining historical and ongoing contributions to the security and defence of Greenland," but it also "respects the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Denmark, as well as Greenland's right to self-determination."
Trump and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani appeared friendly after a 'wide-ranging' meeting at Gracie Mansion. Trump said he hoped Mamdani would be a "great mayor" for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader.
Trump told a CNN reporter at the UN general assembly on Tuesday that he was "surprised" the outlet was covering him, saying it 'shouldn't be here' after he banned the network alongside Politico and MS Now from the White House on Friday. Answering a reporter's question following her first appearance of the midterm campaign season, Kamala Harris said, "The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he's doing."
At a joint press conference on Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced that the federal government was removing 760,000 enrollees from Affordable Care Act insurance marketplaces.
Trump said he is working on a 'massive' Belarus, pivoting away from main supplier Canada amid an escalating trade dispute, and moving instead toward an ally of Russia.
Federal immigration officials in Texas prevented US representative Veronica Escobar from fully conducting her congressional oversight duties at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, the lawmaker said in an interview with the Guardian.
Senator John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, published a letter calling for a key Senate committee to investigate Trump's son over his personal and business dealings with foreign governments, as well as his shady ventures in cryptocurrency and predictions markets. Curtis' letter follows a bombshell report from ProPublica that found a Russian oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, had helped bankroll Trump Jr.'s lavish Bahamas wedding.
The Republican National Committee has sued top election officials in New Jersey, alleging they failed to produce public voter roll records, including the addresses of noncitizen voters.