Trump to give UN speech after more US allies recognize Palestinian state: Live

Famed Yale business guru Jeffrey Sonnenfeld has said America’s top tycoons are freaked out by Trump’s “Maoist” MAGA movement, despite some executives’ “Dear Leader” praise in public.

Fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers were among prominent names welcoming Jimmy Kimmel back after ABC lifted his suspension on Tuesday.

Shahana Yasmin has the story.

Less than three months after President Donald Trump complained that Americans have “too many non-working holidays,” the White House says he would not oppose adding one more — in honor of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Asked whether the president would support legislation to establish a 12th federal holiday to the calendar to commemorate Kirk, who was shot and killed earlier this month by an assassin in Utah, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied: “I’m sure he wouldn’t oppose such a thing.”

Andrew Feinberg has more.

Lawyers for The Wall Street Journal blasted the president’s defamation lawsuit against the publishers and journalists who uncovered his alleged birthday letter to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which the president claims does not exist.

A letter allegedly signed by Trump – which features a sexually suggestive drawing and a birthday wish that says “may every day be another wonderful secret” – was first published by the newspaper and then shared with members of Congress by the Epstein estate.

Trump has repeatedly denied writing the letter and denied that a signature on the document is his. The president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit claims that “no authentic letter or drawing exists,” and on his Truth Social account, he called the WSJ’s story a “false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS ‘article’ in the useless ‘rag’ that is.”

The president’s lawsuit “does not include a single plausible allegation” that any of the defendants – which include right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the newspaper’s parent companies – knowingly published false statements about him, lawyers wrote Monday.

“The Article is true,” lawyers wrote, and the evidence is publicly available for anyone to see.

The president and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr declared Monday that they’ve found a link between autism and acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, despite scant evidence of a link.

Speaking from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Trump said women should not take acetaminophen “during the entire pregnancy.”

“With Tylenol, don’t take it! Don’t take it,” Trump insisted. “All pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use of this medication while pregnant.

“And I want to say it right now, and you know the way I look at it, don’t take it. Don’t take it. There’s no downside in not taking it.”

He said the Food and Drug Administration would begin notifying doctors that the use of acetaminophen “can be associated” with an increased risk of autism but did not immediately provide any medical evidence for the FDA’s new recommendation.

Trump and Kennedy, both of whom also repeated some debunked and other unfounded links between vaccines and autism, which affects one in 31 children in the U.S., according to CDC statistics.

RFK had earlier promised he would reveal “what has caused the autism epidemic” by September.

Eric Garcia has a full report.

As we await the president’s appearance before the General Assembly, here’s some other news from Trumpworld.

Ryan Routh, the man charged with the second attempt on Trump’s life during last year’s presidential election, is currently defending himself in a Florida courtroom and will today deliver his closing arguments.

Prosecutors have said Routh, 59, spent weeks plotting to kill Trump before aiming a rifle through shrubbery as the Republican candidate played golf on September 15 2024 at his West Palm Beach country club.

Routh has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations.

As Britain tries to stop the global talking shop from being drowned out by U.S. self-interest, it’s become clear how far Donald Trump is from sharing its vision, writes our world affairs editor Sam Kiley in New York.

This was the moment French President Emmanuel Macron added his voice to calls for Palestinian statehood on Monday.

Speaking at the General Assembly on Monday, U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of allowing children in Gaza to die of starvation.

Cooper hit out at the “unbearable humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, which she said was worsening as Netanyahu’s government “chooses to escalate war and hold back aid.”

She also warned the two-state solution faces “profound peril”, saying that “extremists on both sides” want the possibility of a viable Palestinian state to “disappear beneath the rubble.”

Her remarks to the U.N. came a day after the U.K. announced it would recognise Palestine, a move she defended and said was “born of urgency and principle” in a bid to save the two-state solution.

President Donald Trump is set to address the United Nations General Assembly this morning , with global leaders awaiting his remarks with some concern given his administration’s efforts to cut back on U.S. engagement with international bodies in the interests of promoting his “America First” agenda.

His speech also comes at a difficult moment for international relations with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza still raging and the U.K., France, Australia and Portugal among the countries coming forward to recognize the Palestinian people’s right to statehood.

Here’s a preview from Aamer Mahdani.