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Sports news Trump administration calls prohibited reporters’ White House gain access to’ an advantage, not a right,’ brand names protection a security threat

In a brand-new legal filing in the event over a trio of brand-new outlets disallowed entry to the White House, Trump administration attorneys consistently protected the president’s restriction by stating reporters were not entitled to access to the structure.

” Access to the White House is an opportunity, not a right,” the filing specified.

The filing went on to assert that the 3 outlets– by releasing delicate or categorized details gotten through its reporting– made up a nationwide security danger, offering the president the right to ax their qualifications.

Trump prohibited the 3 outlets– CNN, MS Now, and Politico– last Friday in a breeze choice revealed through social networks. He branded the 3 outlets” phony news” and threatened future restrictions versus other outlets might follow

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Indications of assistance for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO hold on the White House premises. Photo: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

Early the following week, the 3 publications submitted a joint suit asking a federal judge to restore their gain access to, declaring that the action was a prohibited act of retaliation that breached their First Amendment rights. A president, they argued in their grievance, can’t disallow access to reporters based upon reporting he does not like.

Ever since, Trump has actually discovered himself in an intensifying tit-for-tat with journalism, which has actually reacted to the restriction with procedures of uniformity. Numerous outlets have actually decreased to release any images or video of the president so long as the 3 outlets are rejected access to the Addressing reporters at the United Nations, Marco Rubio reiterated, in so many words, that the Trump administration is seeking to replace the current Cuban leadership, and did not rule out the use of force to achieve that goal.

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“The Cuban Revolution has failed. It has failed for sixty-something years, it’s a failure now,” Rubio said. “The question is what replaces it.”

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He continued: “We’re open to measures moving forward that begin that process of change.”

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Pressed on whether the Trump administration would try to repeat its tactics in Venezuela – where it raided the country in the dead of night, arrested former autocrat Nicolas Maduro, and ushered in a more US-friendly leader to replace him – Rubio equivocated, but did not rule out the possibility.

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“If there is a threat to the national security of the United States, the president has both the power and the obligation to address it,” Rubio said. “That said, our preference always is to deal with these things – I don’t want to call it diplomatic – but in a negotiating way.”

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He also said he believed that American business could play “a positive role in a future Cuba,” and that any new government would have to be friendlier to business interests. That comes in light of reporting by the Guardian that shows businesses close to the administration have been buying up assets in Cuba in light of chaos wrought by the US’s latest efforts to cripple the island’s economy.

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In a speech to the United Nations following on the heels of President Trump’s threats to “annihilate” his country, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, struck a defiant tone.

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“He must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying,” Pezeshkian said, referring to Trump. “We will never bow our head or bend at the knee.”

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He continued: “It must be understood by Mr Trump and those who seek to bully us that we are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations – without accepting the language of force.”

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Trump, in his speech the day earlier, said Iran faced a choice between “greatness” and annihilation, warning Iran that he would its people “into hell” if they didn’t make a deal. It was latest of several apocalyptic-sounding threats from Trump toward Iran since the beginning of the conflict.

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Earler in his address, during which the US delegation walked out of the room, Masoud also decried the US and Israel’s campaign against his country as “terrorism.”

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“The US president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism,” he said.

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He said that while Iran has avoided attacking civilian populations, the US “bombed a school” and “children perished under bombs with weapons used by the US and Israel.”

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“They impose the war on us but we have proven that we’re not afraid of fighting, of war, that is defensive in nature, and we will stand in defence of our beloved Iran, our homeland, until our last breath.”

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Donald Trump has a habit of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations general assembly. But this year, he may have upstaged the ghost of Nikita Khrushchev by openly contemplating the annihilation of a fellow UN member state.

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Eleven minutes into a 40-minute address, the US president announced he had “a big decision to make” over Iran, which has staged a much more determined resistance than Trump anticipated when he decided to go to war against the country in February.

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“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild, and create a far greater country than it ever was before?” he asked. “Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”

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Possibly not since Khrushchev, the late Soviet leader, brandished his shoe and allegedly banged it on a desk in 1960 in protest at a fellow delegate’s speech has the annual gathering witnessed such a display of bellicosity from a superpower leader.

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But this seemed more shocking.

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The world may have become inured to Trump’s dire threats to send Iran “to the stone age” or end its civilization – so often have they been issued, only to sometimes be followed by a ceasefire or negotiations. But hearing them voiced in a forum created in the aftermath of the second world war, with the explicit aim of preventing future conflicts, was disconcerting.

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Iran was the focal point of much of Trump’s speech, which began with a catalogue of familiar boasts of his supposed achievements that seemed better fitted to a domestic audience.

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Whether or not the latest threat should be taken literally, little of what he said about Iran seemed reassuring. He appeared to play fast and loose with the facts, consciously or otherwise.

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Trump administration lawyers will face the three new outlets banned from the White House by the president – Politico, CNN, and MS Now – in court today, as the organizations ask a federal judge to restore their access.

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Trump banned the three outlets late last week via a post to Truth Social, sparking a scuffle with the Washington press. The three banned outlets swiftly sued, and other news organizations have halted some coverage of the president in solidarity, including the other rotating members of the president’s standard TV pool (which take turns filming the president’s press-open events and distributing the footage to others).

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The three barred news organizations have accused the president of violating their First Amendment rights by retaliating against them over coverage he disliked. The Trump administration, in a new filing, countered by saying that White House access is a “privilege,” not a right, and that the three outlets’ reporting of information the administration deems sensitive constitutes a national security threat.

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Trump himself has said he’ll “probably lose” the lawsuit, which has landed in the courtroom of a judge he appointed.

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Trump won’t be back at the United Nations today, but world leaders speaking after him on day two of the General Assembly’s gathering will be reckoning with the international order he’s shaped.

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In particular, the leaders of both Iran, the nation Trump started a war with, and Ukraine, whose war with Russia Trump staked his 2024 campaign on ending, will feature in Wednesday’s lineup of speakers.

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The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, is slated to speak first, a day after Trump used his address to the body to threaten to “annihilate” his country and drive its people “into Hell” if Iranian leadership refused to strike a deal to end the war.

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Around the same time Trump delivered those remarks, members of Trump’s team, including Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, held a snap meeting with the Iranian delegation, Trump later said. The President reported that the meeting went “very well,” though Iran has since pushed back on claims that it dropped some preconditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz during those talks.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, will also take the podium, a day after he also met with President Trump. His address will follow a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. Both will give Zelenskyy a platform to rally international support for the defense of his country from a Russian invasion that has endured for well over 4 years.

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In remarks to reporters before his meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy said he wanted to see the war ended before winter.

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“I hope we will end this war, and President Trump will help us end this war. We need to do it as quickly as possible, before winter,” he said.

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In a new legal filing in the case over a trio of new outlets barred entry to the White House, Trump administration lawyers repeatedly defended the president’s ban by saying journalists were not entitled to access to the building.

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“Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right,” the filing stated.

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The filing went on to assert that the three outlets – by publishing sensitive or classified information obtained through its reporting – constituted a national security threat, giving the president the right to ax their credentials.

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Trump banned the three outlets – CNN, MS Now, and Politico – last Friday in a snap decision announced via social media. He branded the three outlets “fake news” and threatened future bans against other outlets could follow.

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Early the following week, the three publications filed a joint lawsuit asking a federal judge to restore their access, alleging that the action was an illegal act of retaliation that violated their First Amendment rights. A president, they argued in their complaint, can’t bar access to journalists based on reporting he doesn’t like.

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Since then, Trump has found himself in an escalating tit-for-tat with the press, which has responded to the ban with measures of solidarity. Several outlets have declined to publish any images or video of the president so long as the three outlets are denied access to the White House. And the members of Trump’s standard TV pool – five channels, including CNN, who take turns traveling with the president, filming his daily activities, and distributing that footage – have ceased their duties.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda.

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António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on the two countries to establish a dialogue on AI similar to the communication between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war.

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“Governments with the greatest AI capabilities have the greatest responsibilities to humanity, to establish channels for dialogue, transparency, trust and cooperation,” Guterres said.

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Tech executives including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Sam Altman of ⁠OpenAI, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk ​of ​Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang ​of Nvidia will reportedly ​attend a ⁠state dinner at the White House on Thursday evening.

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It comes as two leading progressive US lawmakers, senator Bernie Sanders and representative Greg Casar, were due to unveil legislation later today that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI.

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The bill, provided first to the Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.

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“It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down,’” Sanders said in an interview with AP. “Do we really want to develop a super intelligence that when it becomes smarter than human beings could act independently of human control? I don’t think we do.”

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Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks.

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Xi departed Beijing on Wednesday, state media said, heading to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where he will be met by Trump on the tarmac.

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“President Xi Jinping left Beijing by special plane for a state visit to the United States” accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, his right-hand man Cai Qi, and foreign minister Wang Yi, among others, state broadcaster CCTV said.

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In other developments:

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    Speaking at the UN general assembly, Donald Trump re-issued his threat to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into Hell” if the regime didn’t capitulate and make a deal.” He also said he was “working closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine” to end the disastrous war, defended his administration’s actions in Latin America – including the midnight raid to arrest former Venezuelan president Nicólas Maduro, 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, pointed to regime change in Cuba and said he would reject any calls for a “globalist scheme” to control artificial intelligence.

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    Shortly after his UN address, Trump signed a Greenland deal, which Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederick Nielsen said “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.”

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    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.

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    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.

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the president, recording his day-to-day activities, and dispersing that video– have actually stopped their responsibilities.

Addressing reporters at the United Nations, Marco Rubio reiterated, in so many words, that the Trump administration is seeking to replace the current Cuban leadership, and did not rule out the use of force to achieve that goal.

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“The Cuban Revolution has failed. It has failed for sixty-something years, it’s a failure now,” Rubio said. “The question is what replaces it.”

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He continued: “We’re open to measures moving forward that begin that process of change.”

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Pressed on whether the Trump administration would try to repeat its tactics in Venezuela – where it raided the country in the dead of night, arrested former autocrat Nicolas Maduro, and ushered in a more US-friendly leader to replace him – Rubio equivocated, but did not rule out the possibility.

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“If there is a threat to the national security of the United States, the president has both the power and the obligation to address it,” Rubio said. “That said, our preference always is to deal with these things – I don’t want to call it diplomatic – but in a negotiating way.”

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He also said he believed that American business could play “a positive role in a future Cuba,” and that any new government would have to be friendlier to business interests. That comes in light of reporting by the Guardian that shows businesses close to the administration have been buying up assets in Cuba in light of chaos wrought by the US’s latest efforts to cripple the island’s economy.

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In a speech to the United Nations following on the heels of President Trump’s threats to “annihilate” his country, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, struck a defiant tone.

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“He must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying,” Pezeshkian said, referring to Trump. “We will never bow our head or bend at the knee.”

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He continued: “It must be understood by Mr Trump and those who seek to bully us that we are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations – without accepting the language of force.”

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Trump, in his speech the day earlier, said Iran faced a choice between “greatness” and annihilation, warning Iran that he would its people “into hell” if they didn’t make a deal. It was latest of several apocalyptic-sounding threats from Trump toward Iran since the beginning of the conflict.

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Earler in his address, during which the US delegation walked out of the room, Masoud also decried the US and Israel’s campaign against his country as “terrorism.”

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“The US president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism,” he said.

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He said that while Iran has avoided attacking civilian populations, the US “bombed a school” and “children perished under bombs with weapons used by the US and Israel.”

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“They impose the war on us but we have proven that we’re not afraid of fighting, of war, that is defensive in nature, and we will stand in defence of our beloved Iran, our homeland, until our last breath.”

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Donald Trump has a habit of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations general assembly. But this year, he may have upstaged the ghost of Nikita Khrushchev by openly contemplating the annihilation of a fellow UN member state.

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Eleven minutes into a 40-minute address, the US president announced he had “a big decision to make” over Iran, which has staged a much more determined resistance than Trump anticipated when he decided to go to war against the country in February.

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“Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild, and create a far greater country than it ever was before?” he asked. “Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?”

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Possibly not since Khrushchev, the late Soviet leader, brandished his shoe and allegedly banged it on a desk in 1960 in protest at a fellow delegate’s speech has the annual gathering witnessed such a display of bellicosity from a superpower leader.

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But this seemed more shocking.

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The world may have become inured to Trump’s dire threats to send Iran “to the stone age” or end its civilization – so often have they been issued, only to sometimes be followed by a ceasefire or negotiations. But hearing them voiced in a forum created in the aftermath of the second world war, with the explicit aim of preventing future conflicts, was disconcerting.

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Iran was the focal point of much of Trump’s speech, which began with a catalogue of familiar boasts of his supposed achievements that seemed better fitted to a domestic audience.

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Whether or not the latest threat should be taken literally, little of what he said about Iran seemed reassuring. He appeared to play fast and loose with the facts, consciously or otherwise.

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Trump administration lawyers will face the three new outlets banned from the White House by the president – Politico, CNN, and MS Now – in court today, as the organizations ask a federal judge to restore their access.

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Trump banned the three outlets late last week via a post to Truth Social, sparking a scuffle with the Washington press. The three banned outlets swiftly sued, and other news organizations have halted some coverage of the president in solidarity, including the other rotating members of the president’s standard TV pool (which take turns filming the president’s press-open events and distributing the footage to others).

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The three barred news organizations have accused the president of violating their First Amendment rights by retaliating against them over coverage he disliked. The Trump administration, in a new filing, countered by saying that White House access is a “privilege,” not a right, and that the three outlets’ reporting of information the administration deems sensitive constitutes a national security threat.

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Trump himself has said he’ll “probably lose” the lawsuit, which has landed in the courtroom of a judge he appointed.

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Trump won’t be back at the United Nations today, but world leaders speaking after him on day two of the General Assembly’s gathering will be reckoning with the international order he’s shaped.

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In particular, the leaders of both Iran, the nation Trump started a war with, and Ukraine, whose war with Russia Trump staked his 2024 campaign on ending, will feature in Wednesday’s lineup of speakers.

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The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, is slated to speak first, a day after Trump used his address to the body to threaten to “annihilate” his country and drive its people “into Hell” if Iranian leadership refused to strike a deal to end the war.

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Around the same time Trump delivered those remarks, members of Trump’s team, including Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, held a snap meeting with the Iranian delegation, Trump later said. The President reported that the meeting went “very well,” though Iran has since pushed back on claims that it dropped some preconditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz during those talks.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, will also take the podium, a day after he also met with President Trump. His address will follow a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. Both will give Zelenskyy a platform to rally international support for the defense of his country from a Russian invasion that has endured for well over 4 years.

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In remarks to reporters before his meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy said he wanted to see the war ended before winter.

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“I hope we will end this war, and President Trump will help us end this war. We need to do it as quickly as possible, before winter,” he said.

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In a new legal filing in the case over a trio of new outlets barred entry to the White House, Trump administration lawyers repeatedly defended the president’s ban by saying journalists were not entitled to access to the building.

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“Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right,” the filing stated.

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The filing went on to assert that the three outlets – by publishing sensitive or classified information obtained through its reporting – constituted a national security threat, giving the president the right to ax their credentials.

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Trump banned the three outlets – CNN, MS Now, and Politico – last Friday in a snap decision announced via social media. He branded the three outlets “fake news” and threatened future bans against other outlets could follow.

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Early the following week, the three publications filed a joint lawsuit asking a federal judge to restore their access, alleging that the action was an illegal act of retaliation that violated their First Amendment rights. A president, they argued in their complaint, can’t bar access to journalists based on reporting he doesn’t like.

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Since then, Trump has found himself in an escalating tit-for-tat with the press, which has responded to the ban with measures of solidarity. Several outlets have declined to publish any images or video of the president so long as the three outlets are denied access to the White House. And the members of Trump’s standard TV pool – five channels, including CNN, who take turns traveling with the president, filming his daily activities, and distributing that footage – have ceased their duties.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog.

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Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today, ahead of a three-day visit that will undoubtedly see artificial intelligence (AI) high on the agenda.

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António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has called on the two countries to establish a dialogue on AI similar to the communication between the US and the Soviet Union during the cold war.

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“Governments with the greatest AI capabilities have the greatest responsibilities to humanity, to establish channels for dialogue, transparency, trust and cooperation,” Guterres said.

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Tech executives including Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Sam Altman of ⁠OpenAI, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk ​of ​Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang ​of Nvidia will reportedly ​attend a ⁠state dinner at the White House on Thursday evening.

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It comes as two leading progressive US lawmakers, senator Bernie Sanders and representative Greg Casar, were due to unveil legislation later today that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI.

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The bill, provided first to the Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill.

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“It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down,’” Sanders said in an interview with AP. “Do we really want to develop a super intelligence that when it becomes smarter than human beings could act independently of human control? I don’t think we do.”

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Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks.

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Xi departed Beijing on Wednesday, state media said, heading to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where he will be met by Trump on the tarmac.

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“President Xi Jinping left Beijing by special plane for a state visit to the United States” accompanied by his wife Peng Liyuan, his right-hand man Cai Qi, and foreign minister Wang Yi, among others, state broadcaster CCTV said.

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    Speaking at the UN general assembly, Donald Trump re-issued his threat to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into Hell” if the regime didn’t capitulate and make a deal.” He also said he was “working closely with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine” to end the disastrous war, defended his administration’s actions in Latin America – including the midnight raid to arrest former Venezuelan president Nicólas Maduro, 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, pointed to regime change in Cuba and said he would reject any calls for a “globalist scheme” to control artificial intelligence.

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    Shortly after his UN address, Trump signed a Greenland deal, which Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederick Nielsen said “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.”

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    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.

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    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.

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Rubio likewise quickly resolved Trump’s conference with Delcy Rodriguez, the interim Venezuelan president, who last night positioned for a friendly image with Trump at a Manhattan hotel just miles from where her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, was jailed.

“It was a brief conference, however it was an extremely essential conference, “Rubio stated.

Rodriguez took the control Venezuela after the United States robbed her nation’s capital of Caracas and took Maduro, the fallen autocrat, in the dead of night. Ever since, she’s been pliant to United States interests and brokered an offer that would see a huge share of her nation’s oil wealth into United States coffers.

Throughout remarks to press reporters, Rubio stated that the United States was working to” develop the foundation and restore the organizations essential to have totally free and reasonable elections in Venezuela.”

He caveated that complimentary and reasonable elections would have to wait up until Venezuela was in the shape to support an “long-lasting Republic,” and that its very first chosen leader might not acquire “a total disaster, financial and social.”

The conditions for such a democratic shift, per Rubio, consist of reconstructing Venezuela’s independent media, developing the facilities for a credible electoral procedure, and reviving opposition political celebrations banished abroad. Here Rubio name dropped María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who had actually kept close connected with Trump before the administration eventually backed Rodriguez.

Sports news Speaking with press reporters at the UN, Rubio mentions program modification in Cuba

Attending to press reporters at the United Nations, Marco Rubio repeated, in numerous words, that the Trump administration is looking for to change the present Cuban management, and did not dismiss using force to attain that objective.

“The Cuban Revolution has actually stopped working. It has actually stopped working for sixty-something years, it’s a failure now,” Rubio stated. “The concern is what changes it.”

He continued: “We’re open to procedures progressing that start that procedure of modification.”

Continued whether the Trump administration would attempt to duplicate its techniques in Venezuela– where it robbed the nation in the dead of night, jailed previous autocrat Nicolas Maduro, and introduced a more US-friendly leader to change him– Rubio equivocated, however did not eliminate the possibility.

Marco Rubio speaking to the media

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media after consulting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Yuki Iwamura/Pool through REUTERS Photo: Yuki Iwamura/Reuters

” If there is a risk to the nationwide security of the United States, the president has both the power and the commitment to resolve it,” Rubio stated.” That stated, our choice constantly is to handle these things– I do not wish to call it diplomatic– however in a working out method.”

He likewise stated he thought that American company might play” a favorable function in a future Cuba,” which any brand-new federal government would need to be friendlier to organization interests. That can be found in light of reporting by the Guardian that reveals organizations near to the administration have actually been purchasing up properties in Cuba due to turmoil wrought by the United States’s newest efforts to paralyze the

island’s economy.

Sports news Iranian President to United Nations: “We will never bow our head”

Jakub Krupa

In a speech to the United Nations following on the heels of President Trump’s dangers to “obliterate” his nation, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, struck a bold tone.

” He should understand that the resistance of the Iranian individuals will just increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying, “Pezeshkian stated, describing Trump. “We will never ever bow our head or bend at the knee.”

He continued: “It needs to be comprehended by Mr Trump and those who look for to bully us that we are all set for discussion and diplomacy and settlements – without accepting the language of force.”

Trump, in his speech the day previously, stated Iran dealt with an option in between “success” and annihilation, alerting Iran that he would its individuals “into hell” if they didn’t negotiate. It was newest of numerous apocalyptic-sounding dangers from Trump towards Iran given that the start of the dispute.

Earler in his address, throughout which the United States delegation went out of the space, Masoud likewise decried the United States and Israel’s project versus his nation as “terrorism.”

“The United States president explained us as terrorists. We have actually been the victims of terrorism,he stated.

He stated that while Iran has actually prevented assaulting civilian populations, the United States “bombed a school” and “kids died under bombs with weapons utilized by the United States and Israel.”

“They enforce the war on us however we have actually shown that we’re not scared of combating, of war, that is protective in nature, and we will stand in defence of our cherished Iran, our homeland, till our dying breath.”

Melania Trump informed Fox & & Friends today that she will be launching a two-part docuseries following her life as First Lady.

“There’s some personal concerns that I will respond to that individuals never ever heard in the past,” Melania Trump informed the program’s hosts.

It hasn’t yet been a year considering that a previous documentary about Melania Trump, entitled “Melania,” was launched.

Sports news Trump’s hazard to obliterate Iran to UN general assembly is spectacular, even for him – analysis

Robert Tait

Donald Trump has a routine of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations basic assembly. This year, he might have upstaged the ghost of Nikita Khrushchev by honestly considering the annihilation of a fellow UN member state.

Eleven minutes into a 40-minute address, the United States president revealed he had “a huge choice to make” over Iran, which has actually staged a far more identified resistance than Trump prepared for when he chose to go to war versus the nation in February.

Will an offer be made with Iran that lets them reconstructand produce a far higher nation than it ever was before?” he asked.”Or do I wipe out the Islamic Republic and do it rapidly, never ever providing an opportunity to eliminate and ruin individuals and nations once again? Do I drive them into hell without any opportunity of survival and no hope of future achievement or generations?”

Donald Trump standing at the UN podium addressing the gathered world leaders

United States President Donald Trump attends to the 81st United Nations General Assembly. Photo: Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

Perhaps not given that Khrushchev, the late Soviet leader, displayed his shoe and apparently banged it on a desk in 1960 in demonstration at a fellow delegate’s speech has the yearly event saw such a screen of bellicosity from a superpower leader.

This appeared more stunning.

The world might have ended up being inured to Trump’s alarming risks to send out Iran” to the stone age” or end its civilization — so frequently have they been provided, just to often be followed by a ceasefire or settlements. Hearing them voiced in an online forum developed in the after-effects of the 2nd world war, with the specific goal of avoiding future disputes, was disturbing.

Iran was the centerpiece of much of Trump’s speech, which started with a brochure of familiar takes pride in his expected accomplishments that appeared much better fitted to a domestic audience.

Whether the most recent risk must be taken actually, little of what he stated about Iran appeared assuring. He appeared to play reckless with the truths, knowingly or otherwise.

Sports news Trump administration set to safeguard its White House press restriction in court

Trump administration attorneys will deal with the 3 brand-new outlets prohibited from the White House by the president– Politico, CNN, and MS Now– in court today, as the companies ask a federal judge to restore their gain access to.

Trump prohibited the 3 outlets late recently by means of a post to Truth Social, triggering a scuffle with the Washington press. The 3 prohibited outlets quickly took legal action against, and other wire service have actually stopped some protection of the president in uniformity, consisting of the other turning members of the president’s basic television swimming pool (which take turns shooting the president’s press-open occasions and dispersing the video to others).

The 3 disallowed wire service have actually implicated the president of breaching their First Amendment rights by striking back versus them over protection he did not like. The Trump administration, in a brand-new filing, countered by stating that White House gain access to is a “opportunity,” not a right, which the 3 outlets’ reporting of details the administration considers delicate makes up a nationwide security danger.

Trump himself has actually stated he’ll “most likely lose” the suit, which has actually landed in the courtroom of a judge he selected.

Sports news Iran and Ukraine leaders set to resolve UN after Trump’s departure

Trump will not be back at the United Nations today, however world leaders speaking after him on day 2 of the General Assembly’s event will be considering the worldwide order he’s formed.

In specific, the leaders of both Iran, the country Trump began a war with, and Ukraine, whose war with Russia Trump staked his 2024 project on ending, will include in Wednesday’s lineup of speakers.

The President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, is slated to speak initially, a day after Trump utilized his address to the body to threaten to “obliterate” his nation and drive its individuals “into Hell” if Iranian management declined to strike an offer to end the war.

Around the exact same time Trump provided those remarks, members of Trump’s group, consisting of Middle East envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, held a breeze conference with the Iranian delegation, Trump later on stated. The President reported that the conference went “extremely well,” though Iran has actually given that pressed back on claims that it dropped some prerequisites for resuming the Strait of Hormuz throughout those talks.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, will likewise take the podium, a day after he likewise consulted with President Trump. His address will follow a UN Security Council conference on Ukraine. Both will provide Zelenskyy a platform to rally global assistance for the defense of his nation from a Russian intrusion that has actually sustained for well over 4 years.

Trump and Zelenskyy shaking hands in front of a blue UN background, seated in front of Ukrainian and American flags

President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands while conference throughout the United Nations General Assembly. Picture: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

In remarks to press reporters before his conference with Trump, Zelenskyy stated he wished to see the war ended before winter season.

” I hope we will end this war, and President Trump will assist us end this war. We require to do it as rapidly as possible, before winter season,” he stated.

Sports news Trump administration calls prohibited reporters’ White House gain access to’ an opportunity, not a right,’ brand names protection a security danger

In a brand-new legal filing in the event over a trio of brand-new outlets disallowed entry to the White House, Trump administration legal representatives consistently safeguarded the president’s restriction by stating reporters were not entitled to access to the structure.

” Access to the White House is a benefit, not a right,” the filing mentioned.

The filing went on to assert that the 3 outlets– by releasing delicate or categorized details acquired through its reporting — made up a nationwide security hazard, providing the president the right to ax their qualifications.

Trump prohibited the 3 outlets– CNN, MS Now, and Politico– last Friday in a breeze choice revealed by means of social networks. He branded the 3 outlets “phony news” and threatened future restrictions versus other outlets might follow.

Indications of assistance for CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO hold on the White House premises. Picture: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

Early the following week, the 3 publications submitted a joint claim asking a federal judge to restore their gain access to, declaring that the action was a prohibited act of retaliation that breached their First Amendment rights. A president, they argued in their grievance, can’t disallow access to reporters based upon reporting he does not like.

Ever since, Trump has actually discovered himself in an intensifying tit-for-tat with journalism, which has actually reacted to the restriction with steps of uniformity. A number of outlets have actually decreased to release any images or video of the president so long as the 3 outlets are rejected access to the White House. And the members of Trump’s basic television swimming pool– 5 channels, consisting of CNN, who take turns taking a trip with the president, shooting his day-to-day activities, and dispersing that video footage– have actually stopped their tasks.

The Trump administration is declining to work with the freshly designated deputy head of the United Nations refugee firm, Reuters reported.

Tressa Rae Finerty, an American who used up the function of deputy high commissioner at UNHCR previously this month, has actually departed as she looks for a waiver from the United States federal government that would permit her to perform elements of her tasks, according to 7 diplomatic sources.

Her treatment by Washington, which formerly thought about cutting ties with the firm, is seen by numerous of the diplomats as a vindictive reaction after UNHCR chose versus Washington’s favored prospect, Simon Hankinson.

A State Department representative stated it might not discuss pending legal problems. “We deal with and through UNHCR when doing so advances United States diplomacy interests,” the representative stated.

Sports news Trump to meet China’s Xi as Congress mulls expense prohibiting synthetic superintelligence

Hi and welcome to the United States politics live blog site.

Donald Trump will meet the Chinese president Xi Jinping later on today, ahead of a three-day go to that will unquestionably see expert system (AI) high up on the program.

António Guterres, the UN secretary general, has actually contacted the 2 nations to develop a discussion on AI comparable to the interaction in between the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the cold war.

“Governments with the best AI abilities have the best duties to humankind, to develop channels for discussion, openness, trust and cooperation,” Guterres stated.

Tech executives consisting of Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk of Tesla, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jensen Huang of Nvidia will apparently participate in a state supper at the White House on Thursday night.

It comes as 2 leading progressive United States legislators, senator Bernie Sanders and representative Greg Casar, was because of reveal legislation later on today that would prohibit synthetic superintelligence and produce a federal firm to manage sophisticated AI.

The costs, offered initially to the Associated Press, would likewise stop briefly sophisticated AI advancement till standards are executed while developing the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Numerous workers at leading AI business are backing the expense.

“It does not take a genius to state, ‘slow it down,'” Sanders stated in an interview with AP. “Do we truly wish to establish a very intelligence that when it ends up being smarter than humans could act individually of human control? I do not believe we do.”

Congress has actually up until now done little to control the AI market even as a few of its most popular leaders caution about possibly disastrous threats.

Xi left Beijing on Wednesday, state media stated, heading to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, where he will be satisfied by Trump on the tarmac.

“President Xi Jinping left Beijing by unique airplane for a state check out to the United States” accompanied by his better half Peng Liyuan, his right-hand guy Cai Qi, and foreign minister Wang Yi, to name a few, state broadcaster CCTV stated.

In other advancements:

  • Speaking at the UN general assembly, Donald Trump re-issued his danger to “wipe out” Iran and “drive them into Hell” if the program didn’t capitulate and negotiate.” He likewise stated he was “working carefully with the leaders of Russia and Ukraineto end the dreadful war, protected his administration’s actions in Latin America– consisting of the midnight raid to jail previous Venezuelan president Nicólas Maduroprotected his drone strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, implicated Mexico of being successfully managed by the cartels, and stated it was “inappropriate” for the United States to share a border with a country under such conditions, indicated program modification in Cuba and stated he would decline any require a “globalist plan” to manage expert system.

  • Quickly after his UN address, Trump signed a Greenland offer, which Greenland’s prime minister Jens-Frederick Nielsen stated “highlights the value of the Nato alliance.” In difficult, thoroughly worded paragraphs, she stated the arrangement “acknowledges the United States specifying historic and continuous contributions to the security and defence of Greenland,” however it likewise “appreciates the sovereignty and the territorial stability of the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Greenland’s right to self-determination.”

  • Trump informed a CNN press reporter at the UN general assembly on Tuesday that he was “shocked” the outlet was covering him, stating it ‘should not be here’ after he prohibited the network together with Politico and MS Now from the White House on Friday.

  • At a joint interview on Tuesday, vice-president JD Vance and Mehmet Ozadministrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, revealed that the federal government was getting rid of 760,000 enrollees from Cost Effective Care Act insurance coverage markets.


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