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Three-time Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Lenny Wilkins has died.
Wilkins was honored as both a player and a coach.
He was known as one of the best point guards of his era, and he coached 2,487 NBA games.
That's a record that still stands.
And Wilkins was also inducted as part of the 1992 U.S.
Olympic team and coached the Olympic team to a gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
Moments ago, the Senate voted in favor of a procedural vote to advance a measure to reopen the federal government.
Under the deal, the government would be funded through January 30th.
It also includes full year funding of three appropriations bills, including funding for SNAP food benefits through the end of next September.
Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine says they got the best deal they could.
If the final bill is approved this week, it would then return to the House for a vote.
There were thousands of flight cancellations and delays today at airports around the country.
They occurred as the FAA continues to reduce traffic at some of the country's busiest airports because of air traffic control staffing concerns.
NPR's Joe Hernandez has our report.
The parents of a Florida teenager imprisoned for allegedly throwing stones in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say his detention has now been extended until mid-December.