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Steinway & Sons has made its cast-iron plates at the O.S. Kelly Foundry in Springfield, Ohio since 1938. Just two men create and pour the molten mixture that cools into the cast-iron heart of a piano.

Janet Yellen cleared a key hurdle in her path to become the next chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, after a Senate Banking Committee hearing went smoothly Thursday. The most difficult questions centered on the Fed's stimulus efforts.

Agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have spent months testing new plastic weapons, and report that the guns can be lethal and hard to detect. The findings come just as a federal law that requires guns to be composed of at least some metal to help people in schools and airports detect them is set to expire.

The young ruler of North Korea stunned the world when he ordered his uncle executed. Now, observers are reading the tea leaves for a sign of what's to come.

Running a hospital that scores well on keeping more patients alive or providing extensive charity care doesn't translate into a compensation bump for top executives. Nonprofit hospitals have been under scrutiny for paying high salaries to chief executives while skimping on benefits for their communities.

McDonald's and its franchises planned to recruit as many as 50,000 new employees with the first self-proclaimed National Hiring Day Tuesday. The restaurant also is hoping to improve the image of working at McDonald's.

This week, as President Obama presented his budget plan and criticized Congressman Ryan's plan, he invoked the name of David Stockman, the first budget director under former President Ronald Reagan. Stockman also found faults in the Republican proposal, but he has criticism for Obama, too. Host Scott Simon talks with Stockman about the debate over the nation's fiscal future and the latest budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans.

Yingluck Shinawatra's party won a landslide victory in elections Sunday. Her win could bring back her older brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006.

Iowans gathering in Ames for the GOP straw poll ticked off reasons they had chosen their favorite candidates. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, said Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a "tactical error" by shunning the poll, instead opting to announce his candidacy for president Saturday in South Carolina.

The Italian town of Prato is home to the largest concentration of Chinese residents in Europe. In this textile center, the Chinese have created a parallel, off-the-books economy — hiring illegal workers and selling items at low prices. As their wealth has grown, Italian resentment has spread.