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, Ordojouz, 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 lackluster 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's 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

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