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In a speech before the United Nation’s General Assembly, a representative of President Donald Trump ’s administration rejected the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Edward Heartney, a minister-counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, called the 2030 agenda “a program of soft global governance that is inconsistent with U.S. sovereignty and adverse to the rights and interests of Americans.”
Trump also said he’s “strongly considering” sanctions and tariffs on Russia in hopes of forcing a settlement to the war in Ukraine, and he sent a letter to Iran’s leaders seeking to negotiate a nuclear deal.
In economic news, uncertainty in world markets continues after Trump declared a weeks-long delay of tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada