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In an effort to stabilize their economies, a number of South American countries have fixed the value of their currencies to the American dollar. In Argentina, for example, bank customers can get their money in either pesos or U.S. dollars. They're worth the same amount. But there's a downside to the move -- those countries have essentially ceded control over their economies. Some of them are now reconsidering the idea. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports organized labor is disturbed about several Bush administration decisions and is preparing to oppose Republican congressional candidates next year. Organized business, on the other hand, is taking its issues to the administration, especially at the regulatory level of federal agencies.

NPR's David Welna reports on today's action in the House of Representatives on the proposed repeal of estate taxes. The plan would reduce the top rate of 55 percent to 39 percent by 2010, and then phase it out altogether in 2011. It's a move that is expected to cost $193 billion over the next 10 years.

The idea of one nation publicly apologizing to another is a relatively recent development in international diplomacy. Robert Siegel talks about it with Elazar Barkan, chair of the cultural studies department at Claremont Graduate University and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. (4:00) The Guilt of Nations is published by W.W. Norton & Company.

Around the country, there's a rush on this month to get married. NPR's Mandalit delBarco reports a last minute action by the Clinton administration has immigrants rushing to tie the knot. Under provision 245-i an immigrant without permanent residency status who marries someone who is a legal resident or citizen will not have to leave the U.S. in order to legitimize their immigration status. But the provision only lasts until the end of April.

The noted sleight-of-hand artist, who died in 2018, was also a scholar of con games and oddities. This week, Sotheby's auctioned off part of Jay's 10,000-item collection. Originally broadcast in 1998.

Scolari, who died Oct. 22, played opposite Tom Hanks in the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies, and later co-starred in Newhart. He won an Emmy for his role on Girls. Originally broadcast in 1988.

NPR's Beijing Correspondent Rob Gifford talks with host Lisa Simeone about today's mid-air collision between a U.S. Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese aircraft. The Chinese plane went down, and the pilot is missing. The U.S. plane made an emergency landing; all 24 members of the crew are reported safe.

Adapted from Nella Larsen's 1929 novella, Netflix's new film centers on two Black women, one of whom pretends to be white; the other could pretend, but chooses not to.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade on the surrender and arrest early this morning of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.