News Wrap: Funeral service for Dick Cheney held at Washington National Cathedral
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Start the day's other headlines at Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral. |
| 0:04.0 | A funeral service for former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney brought together a bipartisan gathering of family and former leaders. |
| 0:16.6 | The front pews were filled with former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, plus |
| 0:23.6 | four former vice presidents from both parties. In their eulogies, President Bush and Cheney's |
| 0:28.9 | daughter Liz honored his sense of duty and commitment to his country. |
| 0:34.9 | His time produced an old breed of public servant, defined by their substance and character. |
| 0:40.3 | This was a vice president totally devoted to protecting the United States and its interests. |
| 0:46.3 | There was never any agenda or angle beyond that. |
| 0:50.3 | But he knew that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. |
| 1:00.0 | For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party |
| 1:07.0 | was no choice at all. |
| 1:09.0 | President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance were not in attendance today as they were not invited. |
| 1:14.8 | Cheney rather famously voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat in the 2024 election, |
| 1:20.6 | as he put it, quote, to put country above partisanship. |
| 1:24.3 | The Trump administration today announced one of its most ambitious plans yet to drill for oil off the nation's coasts. |
| 1:31.3 | The proposal would open up nearly 1.3 billion acres of coastal waters to oil and gas drilling. |
| 1:37.3 | That includes leases for new drilling off the coasts of California and Florida for the first time in decades, |
| 1:42.3 | as well as a remote region off Alaska called the High Arctic, where such drilling has never taken place. |
| 1:49.4 | Critics have slammed the plan, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, who's called it, quote, dead on arrival. |
| 1:56.3 | Federal investigators say there was evidence of cracks in the engine mount of the UPS cargo plane |
| 2:01.7 | that crashed two weeks ago in Kentucky, killing 14 people. |
| 2:05.7 | A series of photos released today show the engine on the plane's left wing starting to detach during |
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