Trump set to address UNGA with Middle East and Ukraine on agenda – US politics live

President also due to hold meetings with 11 world leaders Sign up for US Breaking News emails Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump is expected to ⁠start the day with a speech to assembled delegates at the UN General Assembly, before meeting with no fewer than 11 world leaders, bilaterally or in group settings. The major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds. Newsrooms including the New York Times and the Washington Post also decided to hold off on publishing or distributing still photographs taken as part of the White House pool coverage on Monday until midnight as part of the collective effort. More here .

The barred outlets – CNN, MS Now and Politico – sued the administration on Monday , saying the president’s actions were a violation of their first amendment rights. The parties are seeking a temporary restraining order that would immediately lift the ban – and return access for the journalists – while the case plays out. More here . Trump is bracing for a loss in the lawsuit brought by the three media organizations , as he considers that the judge presiding over the case – his own appointee – previously ordered the White House to restore credentials for journalist Jim Acosta. “In other words, almost without question and, as usual, we’ll go for appeal,” he wrote on Truth Social. Trump said that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a “great mayor” for New York , an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party’s alleged embrace of “communism” ahead of the November…