WASHINGTON -- As Ben Bernanke takes the chairman's seat, Federal Reserve watchers wonder how many more interest rate increases are in store.

Like the sign says, they really are brewing beer today at Napa's Downtown Joe's brew pub. For the past 12 years the popular hangout has been dedicated to the craft of beer making, even as the microbrewery popularity waned from the heady brewing days of the late 1990s.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Some were sent away for being too profane, others for making snide comments at inopportune times. Now the greeting cards that never made it to the stores hang solemnly on a wall at Hallmark Cards Inc.

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Is a traditional tribal leader a government official, and could giving money to him be considered bribery?

QUINCY, Wash. -- In the heart of potato country, a high-tech boom is taking place.