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Speaker 2 Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Labor Department says U.S.
employers added 119,000 jobs in September. That's more than expected.

Speaker 2 But job growth in the summer was weaker than first reported. NPR Scott Horsley says the the new numbers were delayed by the six-week government shutdown.

Speaker 3 The report shows hiring was uneven in September. Health care and hospitality continued to add workers, but factories and construction companies shed jobs.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Snapshots of the October and November job market have been delayed by the government shutdown. Some of the October figures, including the unemployment rate, were not gathered at all.

Speaker 3 Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.

Speaker 2 A trade group representing major airlines is urging Congress to permanently stop flight disruptions during government shutdowns, and Pierre's Joel Rose reports.

Speaker 4 The head of Airlines for America, Chris Sununu, told the Senate Aviation Subcommittee that airlines support a bill that would ensure that air traffic controllers get paid during future government shutdowns.

Speaker 5 We need solutions like this to be implemented to shield the FAA and its workforce from the politics of a shutdown.

Speaker 4 The FAA says it was forced to reduce the number of flights at major airports because of staffing shortages of air traffic controllers who were required to work without pay.

Speaker 4 Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth urged regulators to release the data behind that decision, suggesting the Trump administration may have weaponized the aviation system to score political points during the shutdown.

Speaker 4 Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

Speaker 2 Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Ukraine, along with Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. NPR's Tom Bowman reports.

Speaker 6 Driscoll and General George had already planned a trip to Ukraine to talk about drone technology and lessons learned from the Ukrainian battlefield.

Speaker 6 Then the White House last week asked the Army delegation to also help kickstart peace negotiations with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff. A U.S.

Speaker 6 official tells NPR the official was not authorized to speak publicly. Since Driscoll is an Army combat veteran, the sense was this delegation could more easily relate to the Ukrainian officers.

Speaker 6 The news of their trip comes amid reports of a new U.S.-Russia peace plan that calls for Ukraine to give up the rest of the Donbass area to Russia and also accept a smaller army.

Speaker 6 NPR has not confirmed the plan first reported by the Financial Times. Tom Bowman, NPR News.

Speaker 2 News reports in France say French authorities are looking into comments made by the Grok chatbot on the platform X. The chatbot made statements in French denying the Holocaust.

Speaker 2 The post was deleted after it was challenged by the Auschwitz Museum. The X platform then said the statement was fake.
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Speaker 2 Delegates to the UN's World Climate Conference in Brazil are calling for a clear roadmap to guide the world away from fossil fuels. NPR's Julia Simon has more from Belém, Brazil.

Speaker 7 Climate ministers and envoys are calling for for a clear roadmap to move the world away from planet heating, oil, gas, and coal. The U.S.
is not participating in this conference. The U.S.

Speaker 7 is the biggest producer of oil and gas in the world. Ralph Regan Vanu is Minister of Climate Change of Vanuatu, an island nation threatened by rising seas.
Regan Vanu says the absence of the U.S.

Speaker 7 isn't a bad thing.

Speaker 6 Generally, it's a good thing they're not here because we have less recalcitrants to deal with.

Speaker 7 White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told NPR, President Trump will not jeopardize our country's economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals. Julia Simon, NPR News Belain, Brazil.

Speaker 2 Last night, the Country Music Association Awards named this year's winners. One big winner of the night was Lainey Wilson, who was named Entertainer of the Year.

Speaker 8 I just don't even know what to say. I mean, thank you so much.
Thank you. Thank you for loving me and supporting me.

Speaker 8 And thank you to the fans that I just just keep on making my dreams come true every single day. I love y'all.
God bless. We've got to party at Bell Bottoms Up.

Speaker 2 I forgot I was hosting this thing. Wilson, the singer of Whirlwind, also won awards for female vocalist and for album of the year.
The CMA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Vince Gill.

Speaker 2 I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.

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