On Monday, President Trump opened his first-ever remarks as president to the United Nations General Assembly with a shout out to one of his luxury properties. "I actually saw great potential right across the street, to be honest with you, and it was only for the reason that the United Nations was here that that turned out to be such a successful project," Trump said about Trump World Tower, immediately after thanking the world leaders and diplomats gathered for the annual week-long summit in New York City.

USA Today noted that Saudi Arabia bought the Tower's 45th floor, and "turned those into part of the Saudi Mission to the United Nations."

After that, Trump turned to talking about the reforms he believes are needed at the organization he once criticized as a "club for people to get together, talk, and have a good time." "[I]n recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement," Trump said, warning that he's "not seeing results in line with this investment" made by America. He proceeded to outline plans for reform, including "clearly defined goals and metrics" for "every peacekeeping mission" and a bigger focus on "results rather than on process."

As he'd walked in Monday morning, he'd proclaimed that "this will be a great week." Trump is slated to give a speech Tuesday, and later in the week he will meet with other world leaders. Becca Stanek

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi knows that the popular vote doesn't count for much.

In an interview with Rolling Stone published Sunday, Pelosi explained why she doesn't mind if her ratings are way down and she's attacked from every side. The literal 16,000 attack ads that demonize the top Democrat don't matter much when you've got a House to win back, she said.

Pelosi says that President Trump is "terrible," but wants voters to focus on his awful policies, not his bombastic personality. She believes that Democrats have the right message and values, even though "people say, 'Well, it doesn't inspire me.'" In response to people who criticize her for weighing in on primaries, Pelosi just shrugs. She isn't eager to back ultra-liberal and progressive candidates, even if they win primaries, because she thinks they don't "the faintest chance of winning the general election" in moderate districts, something she's focused on in order to flip 23 House seats this fall.

The minority leader says critics "come after me because I'm effective," and says she's "proud" to stand by values that are alternately called too liberal and too conservative. Rather than focus on bringing her own poll numbers up, she told Rolling Stone, she'd rather focus entirely on winning midterm elections. Joking that Trump helped recruit new Democratic candidates, Pelosi said she'd "rather spend the money on the candidates who win rather than getting into a tickle contest with a skunk over some of this stuff."

Pelosi pointed out that at least her numbers are higher than "whatshisname" Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Besides, no matter what people say, concludes Pelosi, "I just want to win the election." Read more at Rolling Stone. Summer Meza

Georgia's leading GOP gubernatorial candidate may have just made some Republican enemies.

In an off-the-record conversation with a former candidate, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said conservative voters didn't "give a sh-t about" the issues during Georgia's recent Republican primary. "This primary felt like it was who had the biggest gun, who had the biggest truck, and who could be the craziest," Cagle said.

Cagle's closest competitor, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, obtained and released the audio Monday, per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Kemp tweeted that this is what Cagle "really thinks of conservative voters in Georgia" and immediately drew comparisons to Hillary Clinton's infamous insult for President Trump's voters.

Kemp's campaign previously released a different chunk of the same conversation. In that excerpt, Cagle revealed that he backed an education policy that he said was flawed in a "thousand different ways" just so another Republican gubernatorial candidate wouldn't get funding from a charter school advocacy group, per the Journal-Constitution. Cagle's campaign hasn't responded to the Journal-Constitution's request for comment.

Cagle and Kemp were the top two candidates in Georgia's Republican primary, with Cagle securing 38.9 percent of the vote and Kemp getting 25.6, per The New York Times. With neither getting a majority of the vote, the two candidates will have a run-off for the nomination July 24. Kathryn Krawczyk

At least eight young soccer players have been saved from a cave in Thailand in a rescue operation that can only be described as harrowing. The team of 12, plus their 25-year-old coach, got stuck 16 days ago when flooding pinned them on a ledge two-and-a-half miles from the Tham Luang Nang Non cave entrance. With oxygen levels plunging dangerously low inside the cave, expert divers have put their own lives at risk to make the 11-hour roundtrip journey to extract the boys from the cave in a race against the continuing monsoon rains. Here's a look at just how difficult it is to save the boys. Jeva Lange

The boys are deep within a flooded cave.

Officials determined that diving was the best option for getting the boys out.

The boys use ropes on the walls to guide them through the muddy water. The divers hold their oxygen tanks.

The boys and divers must pass through a narrow passage called "the T-junction," which is one of the most complex parts of the journey.

The boys are extracted in a "relay" of divers.

Even though North Korea admonished the Trump administration's "gangster-like" approach to denuclearization talks, President Trump isn't concerned.

Trump on Monday tweeted that he has "confidence" in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, predicting that Kim would "honor the contract" that they each signed during the June summit in Singapore. "Even more importantly," wrote Trump, Kim will honor "our handshake."

The summit didn't lead to any immediate tangible steps toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, leading some to criticize Trump's overly self-congratulatory analysis. The criticism, along with North Korea's labeling talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as "deeply regrettable," has perhaps left the president feeling defensive. Despite Trump's assurances, whether Kim holds the all-important handshake in equally high regard remains to be seen, but The New York Times reports that he's at least on board with a "friendly relationship and trust." Summer Meza

A young Chinese activist named Dong Yaoqiong filmed herself throwing ink on a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who in March obtained legal authority to stay in office indefinitely, and posted the video online. "I oppose Xi Jinping and his authoritarian dictatorship," she said. "Let's see how he's gonna deal with me."

In a later post on Twitter, Dong shared a photo that appeared to show police waiting outside her apartment. "Right now there are a group of people wearing uniforms outside my door. I'll go out after I change my clothes," she wrote. "I did not commit a crime. The people and groups that hurt me are the ones who are guilty." Since then, her Twitter account has been deleted; her video has been taken offline; and she has disappeared.

In response, other activists have reposted the video and protested her disappearance by splashing ink on other public images of Xi, posting photos using her hashtag, #InkSplash. Some unverified reports suggest Dong has been taken to Beijing from Shanghai, the site of her original protest. Bonnie Kristian

Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to his most recent sexual abuse charges.

The disgraced movie mogul is out on bail after pleading not guilty to sexual assault charges Monday morning, The Associated Press reports. These charges of criminal sexual assault and predatory sexual assault were levied July 2, and may land Weinstein in jail for life.

On May 25, Weinstein surrendered to police after being charged with two rape counts and one criminal sexual count against two separate women. Weinstein pleaded not guilty to the first charges and was released after paying $1 million in bail, but a grand jury indicted him on the same charges days later.

The two July counts of predatory sexual assault and one count of a criminal sexual act stemmed from an alleged attack on a third woman in 2006. Weinstein's lawyer suggested before Monday's hearing that the Hollywood executive would plead not guilty, seeing as Weinstein has maintained his innocence since he first faced a landslide of allegations last October. He was released on continued bail after the pleas, per ABC News. Weinstein still faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for the predatory sexual assault count. Kathryn Krawczyk

As the rescue operation continues to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a cave in Thailand, the boys' parents have not yet been informed which eight children have been freed and which four remain in the cave.

The boys removed from the cave were immediately taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. There they will be quarantined "away from the parents for one to two days and will stay in the care room" to check whether they picked up an infection in the cave, said Thai Health Secretary Dr. Jessada Chokedamrongsook.

The families, meanwhile, have agreed to wait together at the entrance of the cave until the entire team has been rescued.

After the rescue is complete, the team will remain hospitalized for another week. In the long term, their parents will be warned to expect psychological trauma from the ordeal. "They may become fearful, clingy, or jumpy; they may fear for their safety," explained Dr. Andrea Danese, a stress and development expert at King's College London, adding that "they may become very moody or easily upset (or, in contrast, they may become detached or numb); or they may develop headache and stomach-ache related to the intense distress." Bonnie Kristian