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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump bashed the United Nations today in a lengthy speech to world leaders gathered in New York at the UN General Assembly. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the speech comes as Trump is increasingly isolated inside the body. President Trump touted that the U.S. has entered a golden age while scolding the body for rampant waste and corruption. He used a faulty teleprompter and broken escalator as a metaphor for larger problems. of the United Nations. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it's not even coming close to living up to that potential. But his most pointed criticism was on migration. The United Nations

is funding an assault on Western countries and their borders. Trump accused the UN of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to support illegal migration into the U.S., including providing shelter and transportation, and he blamed political correctness on the issue for what he said was ruining their countries. Franco, Ordonias, NPR News. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says an uncertain economic outlook has caused many companies to cut back on hiring. NPR Scott Horsley reports the lackloster job market led the Fed to cut its benchmark short-term

interest rate last week for the first time in nine months. Hiring slowed to a crawl over the summer, and the Fed hopes to prevent a sharper slowdown by cutting interest rates. The central bank still keeping a watchful eye on inflation, though. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told an audience in Rhode Island that President Trump's tariffs have already resulted in some price hikes, and more are expected. Uncertainty around the path of inflation remains high. We will carefully assess and manage the risk of higher and more persistent inflation. We'll make sure that this one-time increase in prices does not become an ongoing inflation problem.

On average, members of the Fed's rate-setting committee expect to cut interest rates by an additional half-percentage point by the end. end of this year. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. Jimmy Kimmel Live will be back on the air tonight, but not everywhere. ABC put the show on hold last week over remarks that Kimmel made on air after the killing of Charlie Kirk. And as Steve Futterman reports, many ABC stations will be keeping it off the air for now. More than 60 ABC affiliates, over 20% of ABC stations will not be broadcasting Jimmy Kimmel's show when it returns. Stations that are owned by two large broadcast groups. Next are, and Sinclair will substitute other programming.

It was complaints from those two groups last week that helped lead to Kimmel's show being suspended. Here on Hollywood Boulevard where the show is taped, Kimmel fans like Samurai Barnett are happy he's back. It shows you what we can all do when we all unify on one accord immediately. Like this happened in less than a week. Sources with the program say they expect Kimmel

to make a conciliatory statement on tonight's show. Steve Butterman reporting, this is NPR. Ryan Ruth has been found guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course last year. After the verdict today, Ruth tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen, but was quickly restrained by officers. The jury took about two hours to reach their decision. Ruth represented himself in court and faces up to life in prison with sentencing scheduled for December. The Gates Foundation announced that it will give nearly $1 billion to fight global diseases like H.I. AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. NPR's Fatma Tannis reports, and a note that Gates Foundation is

also a financial supporter of NPR. The announcement came from Bill Gates himself at an event in New York on Monday evening, which was aimed at setting goals for improving global health and ending poverty. Worldwide efforts to fight diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria have been seriously hampered by the Trump administration's foreign aid cuts, as well as those of other countries. Clinics have shut down. Aid groups have laid off. thousands of employees and patients have not been able to access life-saving medication. Gates urged governments to reverse cuts to global health programs. He warned that millions of children are at risk of dying if the funding drops too low. Fat Matanis, NPR News.

A woman was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison today for attempting to defraud Elvis Presley's family by trying to auction off his storied home in Memphis, Graceland. Prosecutors say Lisa Janine Finley falsely claimed Presley's daughter borrowed nearly four million dollars and had pledged Graceland as collateral. She pleaded guilty earlier this year to mail fraud and had been indicted on identity theft, but the charges were dropped in a plea deal. This is NPR.