Recent Votes

• Obama puts prestige on line in Mass. contest

  Source: msnbc.com

  President Barack Obama will lend his prestige Sunday to Democrat Martha Coakley, whose bid to succeed the late Mass. Sen. Edward Kennedy has suddenly become a nail-biter.

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• Hawaii's famed white sandy beaches are shrinking

  Jenn Boneza remembers when the white sandy beach near the boat ramp in her hometown was wide enough for people to build sand castles.

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• Easing job losses point to wobbly recovery

  The economy is still shedding jobs, but at a much slower pace than at the height of the financial crisis this year, according to government figures released Friday. That bolsters the view that the economy is making a slow but steady recovery from the worst downturn in decades.

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