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Scott Brown, a celebrity among Republicans, made his rounds around Capitol Hill this morning, glad handing his soon-to-be colleagues in the Senate as a herd of journalists followed him. (more)

Massachusetts voters will send Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate, an upset hardly fathomed just weeks ago that conservatives across the country are hailing as a rejection of the national Democratic platform. (more)

A victory by Republican Scott Brown Tuesday in Massachusetts could quickly turn into a legal battle over the man he would replace – Sen. Paul Kirk – with the future of health reform in the Senate hanging in the balance. (more)

Republican Scott Brown opened up a five-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley according to a poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday and released hours after President Obama swooped into the state to try and save Coakley’s candidacy and health-care reform. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — A poll just days before the special Senate race in Massachusetts shows a shift in favor of the Republican Party — a potential disaster for President Barack Obama and his Democratic political agenda. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Massachusetts lawmaker says if Republicans win a special Senate election there next week, President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is dead. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming U.S. Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul even if the Republican who has vowed to kill it wins Democrat Edward M. Kennedy’s former seat. (more)

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s war chest has more than $1 million more in it after Monday’s money bomb fundraiser exploded into some major bucks for the Senate hopeful. (more)

A Massachusetts senator could derail President Barack Obama’s health-care bill, a twist of irony given the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s long career of lobbying for reform on Capitol Hill. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior House Democrats have largely abandoned hopes of including a government-run insurance option in the final compromise health care bill taking shape, according to several officials, and are pushing for other measures to rein in private insurers. (more)

It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform – and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill. (more)

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Edward Kennedy’s widow has formally endorsed Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race for her late husband’s U.S. Senate seat. (more)