What were the significant events at Dick Cheney's funeral?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Mourners are gathered inside the Washington National Cathedral for former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral. Former President George W. Bush is among those to eulogize his former Vice President.
Though not a happy assignment, I do consider it an easy one because there was so much to like and admire about Dick Cheney. Dick was a stoical man, and I doubt he left his life with any complaints about the time given to him or its end.
Cheney was one of the most powerful political figures of his time. The Republican served as White House chief of staff, a member of Congress, a defense secretary, and a vice president alongside President George W. Bush for two terms. Cheney was a chief architect of Bush's war on terror post-9-11 and a force behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
In his later years, Cheney was still a hardline conservative, but did not support President Trump, whom Cheney described as the greatest individual threat to our republic. Neither Trump nor Vice President J.D. Vance was in attendance. The Labor Department says U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September, more than expected, but job growth in the summer was weaker than first reported.
And Pierre Scott Horsley reports the new numbers were delayed by the six-week government shutdown.
The report shows hiring was uneven in September. Health care and hospitality continued to add workers. but factories and warehouses shed jobs. The unemployment rate inched up to 4.4 percent while the workforce grew. Job gains for the two previous months were revised down by a total of 33,000 jobs.
While the information in today's release is somewhat stale, it's the last jobs report the Federal Reserve will get before its next decision in December on interest rates. Snapshots of the October and November job market have been delayed by the government shutdown and Some of the October figures, including the unemployment rate, were not gathered at all. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
The CDC has made a dramatic shift in its position on vaccines and autism. More from NPR's Rob Stein.
The CDC's website now says a link between vaccines and autism cannot be ruled out. That's a sharp reversal from the CDC stance that there is no link. The change comes even though a connection between vaccines and autism has long been debunked by a large body of high-quality research. but Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long promoted the discredited claim.
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