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The action by China's central bank widens the range at which the currency can be traded on the international market. The move is seen as seen a step toward addressing foreign complaints that China was suppressing the value of its money to boost Chinese exports, and hurt foreign imports.

By Cheril LeeOmaha, NE – The ICAN 2011 Women's Leadership Conference takes place tomorrow at the Qwest Center Omaha.Mary Prefontaine is the Executive…

Ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide's supporters accuse the United States of engineering the president's exit from office. Bush administration officials insist Aristide is a failed leader who resigned in the face of an armed rebellion. Rebels arriving in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, met with cheering crowds. Hear NPR's Michele Kelemen and NPR's Martin Kaste.

In 1992, the world met Crumpet the elf in David Sedaris' "Santaland Diaries," the story of his time working as a Macy's department store elf. Now imagine you had that job. Tell us your story.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in help for AIDS are now pouring into Nigeria and other developing countries. In Nigeria, the man in charge of these funds is Dr. Abdulsalim Nasidi. He must navigate a mine field of restrictions to set up new health systems where none exist.

Golf courses are water hogs, and that thirst is especially notable as California's drought grows in severity. At Pelican Hill, a top golf course near Los Angeles, water conservation is an obsession.

Among those who responded: Ric Flair. The covfefe kerfuffle is a reminder that we're living in a unique political era, when even the words are brand-new.

Florida Gulf Coast's run as NCAA darlings has ended, but it was an outcome the stats predicted. Michigan also rallied Friday, joining the likes of Duke and Louisville. The remaining eight teams will be vying this weekend to make the Final Four.

Four years ago, Elena Delle Donne was the top basketball recruit in the country. But Delle Donne walked away from an elite college program — so she could be with her severely disabled sister and the rest of their family. Now she's the best college player in America.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 21 defendants to death over a deadly soccer riot last year, adding fuel to the violent protests that continued to flare across the country on Saturday.