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United Airlines baggage tags are displayed on a table at San Francisco International Airport. The carrier says it's starting a pilot program next month that will offer rapid coronavirus testing at the airport or via a self-collected, mail-in test ahead of a flight. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

United Airlines Says It Will Offer Certain Travelers Coronavirus Tests At The Airport

A pilot program on flights from San Francisco to Hawaii would give on-the-spot tests for the virus that causes COVID-19. Travelers who test negative would not be required to quarantine upon arrival.

The flag-draped coffin of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrives to the U.S. Capitol where she will lie in state for two hours in Washington, D.C. Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, First Women To Lie In State At US Capitol

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is lying in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman to be given that honor in the nation's history.

Father Steve Dublinksi walks through an empty Sacred Heart Catholic Church. COVID-19's spread has kept parishioners out for months, with little end in sight.

Catholic Church on College Hill still adjusting through pandemic

More Murrow News StoriesPULLMAN, Wash. – As Pullman continues to watch Coviid-19 cases increase, Father Steve Dublinski of Sacred Heart Catholic Church…

The Talking Cedar brewpub and distillery opened to the public this summer in Grand Mound. CREDIT: Tom Banse/N3

Chehalis Tribe Opens Distillery, After Centuries-Old Nationwide Prohibition Overturned

A new distillery will soon begin making whiskey, vodka and gin on Chehalis tribal land in southwest Washington state. It's the first legal, Native-owned distillery to open on tribal land in the nation. The Chehalis Tribe's effort to diversify its economy by joining the craft spirits boom had to first overcome a nearly two century old prohibition on liquor production in Indian Country.

Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley spent much of his career as an attorney challenging the agency he would eventually lead. CREDIT: Matthew Brown/AP

Judge Ousts Top Public Lands Official After More Than A Year In Office Without Senate Confirmation

The ruling blocks William Perry Pendley from continuing as the temporary head of the Bureau of Land Management, a post he has held for more than a year without being confirmed by the Senate.

Archbishop Franzo King who, with his wife Marina, co-founded the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, in a portrait shot in Jan. 2020. Colin Marshall/NPR

Five Decades On, An Eclectic Church Preaches The Message Of John Coltrane

In 1965, two young fans heard the jazz giant John Coltrane play at a San Francisco club and had a religious epiphany. Their church is an idiosyncratic and joyful blend of devotion to the divine — and to jazz.

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BOOK REVIEW: You Can't Send Your Kids To Dance Class Now, But You Can Read Them 'Bunheads'

Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland's new kids' book Bunheads draws on her own childhood experiences — if your kids love dance, it's just the thing to keep them going until classes come back.

Granite Northwest wants to expand its existing gravel mine (center, in the hillside) in Selah further east. The proposal has drawn opposition from the Yakama Nation, which for five years has fought to keep the mine from expanding on traditional lands ceded to the government in the Treaty of 1855. CREDIT: Google Earth

Yakama Nation Case Could Set Precedent For Handling Sacred Tribal Sites In Washington

The Yakama Nation seeks to stop gravel mining near a historic village and burial ground near Selah, Washington. The litigation could change the way tribal sites can be developed.

The grand jury recording in the Breonna Taylor case will be released, after a judge ordered the attorney general's office to produce the recording by Wednesday. Here, a mother and son attend a demonstration in what activists are now calling Injustice Square Park in downtown Louisville, as protesters demand justice for Taylor's killing by police. Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Recording Will Be Released, Kentucky Attorney General Says

"The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body," Attorney General Daniel Cameron says in a statement. "It's apparent that the public interest in this case isn't going to allow that to happen."

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden with moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. CREDIT:Patrick Semansky/AP

First Presidential Debate Proceeds With Taunts, Interruptions And Little Substance

The presidential race has been remarkably stable for weeks, despite the historic crises that have battered the country this year, including a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and a reckoning over race and police brutality. With just five weeks until Election Day and voting already underway in some key states, Biden has maintained a lead in national polls and in many battlegrounds.

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