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This is AP News Minute.

Hurricane Maria is pounding parts of the eastern Caribbean, tearing across Dominica late Monday. The powerful storm weakened slightly, becoming a category-4 hurricane.

President Donald Trump speaks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Trump has been stressing the need for reform at the UN.

North Korea's foreign minister is on his way to the UN General Assembly. Tensions are high over his country's nuclear and missile tests. The UN Secretary General calls North Korea the most dangerous crisis that we face today.

Demonstrators gathered outside a jail in downtown St Louis to demand that protesters arrested Sunday night be released. Protests are being held in St Louis over the acquittal of a white former police officer in the shooting death of a black man.

Shirley Smith, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.