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Republican Brown wins Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts

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BOSTON — Republican Scott Brown, a little-known state senator just weeks ago, Tuesday trounced Democrat Martha Coakley to win a Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat and jolt Washington's Democratic leaders with a victory that imperils President Barack Obama's agenda, led ...

Boulder’s Olomomo Nut Co. seeks help for Haitian orphanage

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Justin Perkins, founder of Boulder’s Olomomo Nut Company and contributor of Care2.com, is helping gather...

Florida readies itself to house, help Haitian refugees

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MIAMI — North Miami has designated an old high school as a potential shelter. The Krome detention center in West Miami-Dade is another possibility. In Broward County, Sheriff Al Lamberti said he's prepared to reopen a jail shut down last year by budget cuts...

Apple’s paint-splatter image has Web forums in fever of speculation

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LOS ANGELES — With anticipation of the new Apple Inc...

Rescuers, back home from Haiti, used instincts to save victims

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.— South Florida firefighters used a carjack to lift rubble from the leg of a wounded man trapped inside a Port-au-Prince, Haiti, hospital, relying on their instincts and makeshift tools...

Honda ‘among the hunted,’ exec says

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DETROIT — Even if the global economy recovers and...

U.S. is coming to Haiti’s aid as fast as it can,...

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WASHINGTON — Top Pentagon officials said Friday that...

Obama earmarks $100 million for ‘top priority’ Haiti relief

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WASHINGTON — Saying relief for earthquake-devastated Haiti must be a "top priority" for U.S. government agencies, President Barack Obama announced Thursday additional U.S. search and rescue teams and critical supplies are on the way to the Caribbean nation...

Obama, one year later

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A year ago, the mood in Boulder was elation. After eight years of nightmarish governance at the hands of the Bush-Cheney administration, voters had finally put a man in office who reflected our values, who seemed like he was our president. On Jan. 20, when Barack ...

Democrats’ Rocky Mountain high takes a tumble in Colorado

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DENVER — It was less than 18 months ago that the Democratic Party declared this region its new base...

H-P, Microsoft link up in $250 million cloud computing pact

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SAN FRANCISCO — Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday a $250 million partnership designed to simplify technology operations for businesses and promote cloud-computing technologies...

Chinese Internet users praise Google’s threat to exit

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BEIJING — Bouquets of flowers were laid in front of Google Inc.'s headquarters in China on Wednesday, a show of support for a company whose threat to exit China rather than tolerate more censorship is a dramatic shot across the bow of the Chinese Communist Party...