Greetings! The 80th United Nations General Assembly is in full swing in New York. Let’s get into today’s top stories.

🇺🇳 UNGA intensifies Palestine debate with fresh charges. The 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) continued in New York, with further momentum for the formal recognition of Palestinian statehood gaining additional traction. Chile’s President Gabriel Boric and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva both condemned the ongoing genocide in Gaza during their respective addresses, with the former calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be prosecuted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and drawing parallels between Gaza and the Holocaust. World leaders pressed for various measures, including humanitarian aid access, a two-state pathway, and a durable ceasefire, a resolution the United States vetoed in the Security Council earlier this month, as Israel drew condemnation from Italy, Spain, and other nations for reported drone attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy: The world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history”. Speaking at the UNGA, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that cheap drones and AI-guided autonomous weapons are spreading faster than diplomacy or law can keep up, arguing that “weapons decide who survives”. He urged urgent global rules for military AI and said stopping Russia now is cheaper than hardening every port, airport, and grid later. Zelenskyy cautioned that Kremlin aggression could spill deeper into Europe, pointing to drone incursions and naming Moldova as newly vulnerable. He said more than 30 countries have joined a security coalition with Kyiv and that Ukraine will open battle-tested systems for export to allies. The appeal paired deterrence with reform, insisting that credible arms, enforceable norms, and united pressure are the only path to avoid catastrophe. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said he believed Ukraine could win back the totality of its territory lost to Russia with assistance from NATO, in a stunning reversal from his longstanding calls for concessions to end the more than three-year war.

🔒 Shutdown brinkmanship intensifies after Trump cancels talks. President Trump scrapped a planned White House meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, hardening positions as a funding lapse nears. Without a stopgap, the government runs out of money at midnight between September 30 and October 1. Leaders traded statements but offered no new path to avert a shutdown, and both chambers face narrow calendars to process any deal. A separate Senate effort to advance a short-term patch stalled amid disputes over policy riders. Markets and agencies are now modeling contingency operations if negotiations fail.

🚨 Dallas ICE facility shooting under federal probe. A rifleman opened fire from a rooftop onto an ICE field office in Dallas, striking a transport van in a secure entryway and killing one detainee while critically wounding two others before taking his own life. The FBI says early evidence points to “targeted violence,” and officials recovered an unused round apparently marked “ANTI-ICE”; with no immediate motive disclosed, officials are scrutinizing potential links to anti-immigration rhetoric. No ICE agents or other law enforcement personnel were hurt, but DHS ordered reviews of access points and perimeter protections at similar facilities nationwide. The Trump administration pledged enhanced protocols across 200+ ICE facilities nationwide, amid a 15% rise in reported threats to federal sites this year. Local authorities identified the suspected gunman as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Federal and local investigators are reconstructing the timeline using security footage and ballistic evidence against the backdrop of increasing political violence nationwide.

🏢 Oracle names two co-CEOs as Catz shifts to executive vice chair. Oracle elevated Clay Magouyrk, who built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and Mike Sicilia, who leads Oracle’s industry applications, to co-CEOs as Safra Catz becomes executive vice chair of the board. Larry Ellison remains chairman and CTO, signaling continuity while doubling down on cloud and vertical software. The company framed the move as sharpening execution in OCI and regulated-industry suites where it sees the fastest growth. Analysts read the shift as both succession planning and a bid to speed decisions in large cloud deals. Oracle said customer demand tied to AI workloads remains a central driver of its strategy.

🖼️ White House omits Biden portrait, shows autopen image instead. The new outdoor display of presidential portraits, called “The Presidential Walk of Fame” by President Donald Trump, features an autopen photo in place of Joe Biden’s likeness, a choice critics call a taunt and allies describe as a breach of norms. Reporters were shown the installation along the West Wing colonnade, where portraits of other presidents appear in gilded frames. The White House did not offer a detailed rationale, while historians noted that autopens have been used by multiple administrations for routine signings. The move ignited a flurry of statements from advocacy groups and commentators about politicizing presidential symbolism.

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