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  • My classmate, the robot: NY pupil attends remotely

    In an elementary school hallway, a teacher takes her second-graders to the library, leading a single-file line of giggling boys and girls that's perfectly ordinary until you get to a sleek white robot with a video screen showing the face of a smiling, chubby-cheeked boy.


  • Actress Alyson Hannigan obtains restraining order

    A judge Wednesday granted Alyson Hannigan a temporary restraining order from a man who she claims has repeatedly threatened her and her family in online postings.


  • ** FILE ** In this Oct. 27, 2012, photo, President Obama, left, speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Elm Street Middle School in Nashua, N.H. Under a fall canopy of crimson and golden leaves, the battle for independent voters is being waged hour by hour in battleground New Hampshire. The state offers only four electoral votes, but Mr. Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are vying fiercely for the remaining independent voters, who are decidedly ambivalent about either candidate. (Associated Press)

    Independents wooed as win-makers

    Political mailers are stuffed in their front doors, and the phone rings nonstop. Under a fall canopy of crimson and golden leaves, the battle for independent voters is being waged hour by hour in battleground New Hampshire.


  • President Obama talks about U.S. oil dependence on March 1, 2012, in Nashua, N.H. (Associated Press)

    Obama: Time to end tax breaks for Big Oil

    Feeling the political heat from high gas prices, President Obama Thursday demanded that Congress end "inexcusable" tax breaks for oil and gas companies — a step that independent researchers say would lead to even higher gas prices.


  • Illustration: Vote busters by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    MURDOCK: Dead voters haunt the polling booth

    Liberals love to laugh off voter fraud. It's "a made-up problem invented by GOP operatives," Robert Koehler snickered in the Jan. 5 Huffington Post. Regarding ballot hijinks, De- mocratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz chuckled, "There is almost none."


  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, listens as he is introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., as he campaigns at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    DEAN: Romney's Nashua moment

    Thirty-two years ago in New Hampshire, during a debate among Republican presidential candidates, Gov. Ronald Reagan effectively clinched his party's nomination for president. The rest, of course, is history. He went on to win the election against a weak and ineffective president in a landslide and ushered in a period of conservative dominance that has continued up to this day.


  • Rep. Ron Paul campaigns outside a polling station at Webster School in Manchester, N.H., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Paul backs Romney's record at Bain Capital

    Rep. Ron Paul of Texas came to the defense of Mitt Romney on Tuesday, saying his Republican presidential rivals are selling out basic free-market conservative principles when they criticize the former Massachusetts governor's time at the helm of Bain Capital.


  • Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination at McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford, N.H., on Monday, Jan. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Romney weakens in N.H. as foes slam jobs record

    As voters head to the polls at the New Hampshire presidential primary, Mitt Romney's rivals blasted his record as a venture capitalist while the Republican front-runner's support in polls eroded further.


  • With just four days before the nation's first presidential primary in New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul R-TX, delivers his speech to a large crowd during a campaign stop at Nashua Jet Aviation at Biore Field Airport in Nashua, NH, Friday, January 6, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr/ The Washington Times)

    Paul, son target Santorum in N.H. campaigning debut

    Rep. Ron Paul, running a distant second to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in New Hampshire polls, arrived in New Hampshire to a thunderous rally with supporters Friday for the final weekend of campaigning before Tuesday's primary.


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