Biden to address UN assembly for last time as president

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS IN NEW YORK TODAY FOR HIS FINAL UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPEARANCE WHILE IN OFFICE. 

IN HIS ADDRESS TO THE ASSEMBLY — BIDEN’S EXPECTED TO ONCE AGAIN CALL FOR AN END TO THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR AND REITERATE AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE IN ITS WAR WITH RUSSIA, AS WELL AS, CALL FOR AN END TO THE ONGOING CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN. 

THE PENTAGON ANNOUNCED MONDAY IT’S SENDING ADDITIONAL U-S TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST TO SUPPLEMENT THE ROUGHLY 40-THOUSAND ALREADY IN THE REGION AS TENSIONS CONTINUE TO RISE THERE — ESPECIALLY BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON. 

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS REPORTING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS WILL ALSO BE SPEAKING TO THEIR COUNTERPARTS ON THE SIDELINES OF THE U-N ABOUT WAYS TO PREVENT THE FIGHTING THERE FROM ESCALATING FURTHER. 

THE PRESIDENT IS SET TO DELIVER HIS SPEECH AROUND 9 A.M. THIS MORNING. HE IS ALSO SCHEDULED TO MEET WITH UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY LATER IN THE WEEK. ZELENSKYY IS ALSO EXPECTED TO MEET WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WHILE HE’S VISITING THE U.S.

PENNSYLVANIA HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED A SWING STATE WHEN IT COMES TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS — AND THIS YEAR THE CANDIDATES KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF WINNING THERE. 

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 

“If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing. It’s very simple.” 

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAID THAT TO A CROWD OF SUPPORTERS AT A RALLY IN INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA MONDAY NIGHT. 

IT WAS JUST THE LATEST IN A HANDFUL OF VISITS TO THE CRUCIAL STATE IN RECENT WEEKS AS HE LOOKS TO SECURE A SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM. 

ALSO ON MONDAY — SOURCES CLOSE to THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TOLD MEDIA OUTLETS HE WILL RETURN TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA ON OCTOBER 5-TH. 

BUTLER IS WHERE A SNIPER FIRED AND  GRAZED HIS EAR WITH  A BULLET,  IN THE FIRST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE IN JULY. 

SINCE THEN, THE SECRET SERVICE PUT IN-PLACE TIGHTER SECURITY PROTOCOLS FOR CANDIDATES AT RALLIES. 

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS ALSO PUSHING TO WIN THE PENNSYLVANIA VOTE. 

SHE’LL BE THERE AGAIN *TOMORROW* FOR A CAMPAIGN EVENT IN PITTSBURGH — ALSO ONE OF HER MANY STOPS IN THE SWING STATE SINCE TAKING UP THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. 

IN THE 20-20 ELECTION — PENNSYLVANIA WENT TO JOE BIDEN, A KEY STATE IN HELPING HIM WIN THE PRESIDENCY. 

THERE ARE 19 VOTES AT STAKE THERE.

NOW TO THE LATEST IN THE MIDDLE EAST  — NEARLY 500 PEOPLE WERE KILLED MONDAY IN LEBANON IN THE DEADLIEST STRIKE BY ISRAEL IN NEARLY TWO DECADES. 

LEBANESE AUTHORITIES SAY ISRAELI WARPLANES STRUCK CIVILIAN AREAS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF LEBANON. 

EARLIER IN THE DAY, ISRAEL HAD TOLD CIVILIANS TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE AREAS — WHICH IT SAYS ARE COMMONLY USED BY HEZBOLLAH FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 

THIS COMES — AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF WAR AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA ALONG ITS SOUTHERN BORDER — ISRAEL IS NOW SHIFTING ITS FOCUS TO THE NORTH, WHERE THE IRAN-BACKED MILITANT GROUP, HEZBOLLAH,  HAS BEEN FIRING ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS, WHICH IS ALSO BACKED BY IRAN. 

ALREADY ON TUESDAY, ISRAEL’S MILITARY SAYS IT HAS STRUCK “DOZENS” OF ADDITIONAL TARGETS IN LEBANON.  

MEANTIME, HEZBOLLAH SAID IT FIRED ROCKETS INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL OVERNIGHT 

THE FIGHTING HAS HEIGHTENED FEARS OF A WIDENING WAR IN THE REGION.

AN EXECUTION OF A MAN FOUND GULITY OF A 1998 MURDER IS SET TO PROCEED THIS EVENING IN MISSOURI– AFTER THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT AND THE GOVERNOR REJECTED REQUESTS TO CANCEL THE SCHEDULED LETHAL INJECTION. 

A JURY CONVICTED MARCELLUS WILLIAMS OF THE STABBING DEATH OF LISHA GAYLE – A SOCIAL WORKER AND FORMER NEWSPAPER REPORTER – INSIDE HER SUBURBAN ST. LOUIS HOME. 

WHILE WILLIAMS HAS ASSERTED HIS INNOCENCE.  HIS LAWYERS ARGUE THE STATE SUPREME COURT SHOULD HALT THE PROCEEDINGS DUE TO ALLEGED PROCEDURAL ERRORS IN JURY SELECTION AND ALLEGED MISHANDLING OF THE MURDER WEAPON BY THE PROSECUTION.  THE COURT REJECTING THOSE ARGUMENTS. 

MISSOURI GOVERNOR MIKE PARSON ALSO REJECTING A CLEMENCY REQUEST TO SWITCH THE SENTENCE TO LIFE IN PRISON. 

WILLIAMS’ LAWYERS STILL HAVE AN APPEAL BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT. 

AS OF NOW THOUGH — THE EXECUTION — THE THIRD IN THE STATE THIS YEAR — IS SET FOR 6 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.

HURRICANE JOHN MADE LANDFALL IN MEXICO LATE MONDAY AS A CATEGORY 3 STORM. 

JOHN BRINGING 120-MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS TO MEXICO’S SOUTHERN PACIFIC COAST – ACCORDING TO THE US NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER. 

LOCAL OFFICIALS TELLING RESIDENTS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AS THE STORM COULD BRING “EXTRAORDINARY” RAINFALL TO THE AREA – IN EXCESS OF 10 INCHES. 

THE HURRICANE CENTER WARNING JOHN COULD HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGES AND FLASH FLOODING BEFORE WEAKENING AS IT MOVES FURTHER INLAND.  MEANWHILE, FOLKS IN FLORIDA’S BIG BEND ARE BRACING FOR THE IMPACT OF STORMS THAT ARE LIKELY TO HIT BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

FINALLY THIS MORNING — IT APPEARS MUSIC SUPERSTAR BEYONCE HAS A NEW COLLABORATION COMING OUT – NOT WITH ANOTHER SINGER— BUT WITH A JEANS COMPANY. 

LEVI’S TEASING WHAT APPEARS TO BE A PARTNERSHIP WITH BEYONCE IN AN INSTAGRAM POST ON MONDAY. 

THE COMPANY SHARING AN IMAGE OF A WOMAN WEARING A COWBOY HAT AND RIDING A HORSE WITH THE CAPTION READING “INTRODUCING A NEW CHAPTER.”  IT SEEMINGLY REFERENCES BEYONCE’S LATEST ALBUM “COWBOY CARTER.” 

LEVI’S ALSO TAGGING HER INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT IN THE POST. 

THE POTENTIAL PAIRING BUMPING-UP LEVI’S SHARES  FOR THE DAY. 

YOU COULD SAY : DENIM IS HAVING A MOMENT LATELY WITH FASHION BRANDS LIKE AMERICAN EAGLE AND ABERCROMBIE SAYING THE TREND IS GROWING IN POPULARITY AND REVITALIZING SALES.  

PLUS — BEYONCE’S ALBUM DOES FEATURE A SONG CALLED “LEVI’S JEANS” — SO THIS DOES SEEM LIKE A PERFECT FIT.