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DENVER — The newly shaped Republican presidential ticket is fighting growing pains amid charges from President Barack Obama‘s re-election team that challenger Mitt Romney (pictured) favors his new running mate’s controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and cut trillions of dollars from social programs. RELATED: The Problem(s) With Romney’s VP Paul Ryan[1] The debate moves across five swing states as both campaigns operate at full strength for a second day. Romney will spend Tuesday in Ohio on the final day of his multistate bus tour, having dispatched his vice presidential pick, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, to court voters and donors in Colorado and Nevada. For all the advantages of having a running mate to share the workload, the Republicans are working through the challenge of planning double the events, coordinating messaging on the road, handling new security stresses and simply getting to know each other. All the while, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are linking Romney to Ryan’s H ...

Fans of “Basketball Wives” may remember Evelyn Lozada talking to her sister, Sylvia, and her mother about the fact that her one worry was that her brother-in-law, Anthony Ochoa, who had been suffering through a long bout with cancer, would not live to walk her down the aisle when she married husband Chad Ochocinco Johnson.[1] RELATED:Ochocinco and Evelyn Lozada Married![2] “During filming with my sister, my brother-in-law (Anthony) happened to text me and he was crying saying that he will be at my wedding if it’s the last thing he does. It’s tough because Anthony recently had surgery to remove the tumor and he ended up in the hospital again last week because they found more cancer in his intestine and stomach. As much as I want to be positive all the time it’s really hard because I don’t know what’s going to happen. He is always sick, he doesn’t have an appetite and he is going through a tough time. I will be very happy if he makes my wedding day, but I am hoping that he will and I would ...

If you’re one those Black Americans who has asked yourself, “What has the Republican National Committee done for me lately?” look no further than their support of GOP presidential candidate, Mitt “Mittens” Romney, reports TalkingPointsMemo.com.[1] RELATED: It’s Official: Romney Taps Paul Ryan As His Running Mate [VIDEO][2] In response to former RNC chairperson Michael “Hip-Hop Hooray”[3] Steele’s criticism that they did nothing to encourage Black Americans to vote conservative, the organization pulled the Romney card: “The RNC has done very little since I left office to expand on the work that we had done in this area,” Steele said. “They’ve got a website, God bless them. It’s always good to put a website up with some black faces on it. Outreach.” Oh no he didn’t, said the RNC with a neck swivel. Well, no, they didn’t really say that; but RNC spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski’s come back was equally ridiculous: “We are reaching out to all Americans who know that the failed policies of the past ...

LONDON — This was no Dream Team. This was reality. The gold medal was in doubt for the U.S. men’s basketball team. The Americans led Spain by only one point after three quarters, a back-and-forth, impossible-to-turn-away-from game that almost anyone would hope for in an Olympic final. Especially, it turns out, the U.S. players. “We knew it wasn’t going to be easy. We didn’t want it easy,” LeBron James said. “A lot of teams have won gold easy. We didn’t want it that way. We’re a competitive team, and we love when it gets tight. That’s when our will and determination kind of shows. It was the same way in ’08.” Same result, too. The Americans defended their title Sunday by fighting off another huge challenge from Spain, pulling away in the final minutes for a 107-100 victory and their second straight Olympic championship. And just like 2008, the star-studded Americans had to work for this one. The London 2012 daily magazine proclaimed them “the new Dream Team” in an article, but the real Dream Te ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Albert Freeman Jr., the veteran actor who played Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee’s epic film, “Malcolm X,” has died. He was 78. SEE ALSO: Sherman Hemsley Dead At 74[1] Howard University in Washington, D.C., confirmed his death Friday night but details weren’t immediately available. Freeman taught acting there for years and served as chairman and artistic director of its theater arts department. “He was a brilliant professor, a renowned actor and a master director who made his mark in the classroom as well as on stage, screen and television. … He has mentored and taught scores of outstanding actors. He was a resounding voice of Howard and will be missed,” university spokeswoman Kerry-Ann Hamilton said in a statement. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Freeman earned an NAACP Image Award for playing Malcolm X’s mentor in Lee’s 1992 biography. He also received an Emmy nomination for his role as Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries “Roots: The Next Generations.” H ...

Photo Credit: Vibe.comUPDATE: 11:02 A.M. EST:Evelyn Lozada has been released from the hospital and is staying with friends, according to TMZ.*******************************************Chad Johnson has been arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge after allegedly assaulting his new wife, Evelyn Lozada, after she found a receipt for condoms in their vehicle, reports NFL.com.[1]RELATED:Chad Johnson Police Report[2]The couple were driving home from dinner when the discovery was made. The “Basketball Wives” star was treated at the scene for a “pretty good-sized” laceration after allegedly being headbutted by her husband, before being taken to the hospital, said Cpt. Dale Engle of the Davie, Florida Police Department.Johnson, who recently signed with the Miami Dolphins playing wide receiver, claims they accidentally bumped heads.Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook!NFL.com reports[3]:“We are aware of the situation and are in the process of gathering all of the r...

For much of Black America, police brutality induces paralyzing fear because it often translates to public execution or assault on the streets with little-to-no chance of legal repercussion. RELATED: Killers Behind The Badge: NewsOne’s Investigative Series On Police Brutality In Black America[1] In NewsOne’s Investigative Series into Police Brutality[2], we compiled painful, though unsurprising statistics on the rate of murder and beatings in Black America at the hands of authority figures. In data researched and compiled by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement[3], Black Left Unity Network, and U.S. Human Rights Network, the picture of how often — and fatally — Black people are victimized by police in this country becomes startling clear. Below are the details of the Black men and women who have been murdered at the hands of police so far this year: Pattern of Murders By the Numbers Since January 1, 2012 Thirty cases of state sanctioned or justified murder of Black people in the first 3 months ...

Claressa Shields made history Thursday night when she became first U.S. fighter to win a gold medal in women’s boxing. SEE ALSO: Claressa Shields Wins 1st Gold Medal Ever For U.S. Women’s Olympic Boxing![1] The Flint, Mich., native slugged her way to a 19-12 victory over Russia’s Nadezda Torlopova. Though she has only been on the international fight scene for less than two years, Shields is on her way to stardom. To help you become acquainted with this rising star, NewsOne has provided some quick facts you may not have known about this rising phenom. 1) Heading into the Olympic trials in Spokane, Wash., Shields had a 19-0 record. [Source: NPR.com[2]] 2) Shields was once nicknamed the “16-year-old sensation.” [Source: NPR.com[3]] Watch Claressa Shields on her road to London: 3) Currently, Shields is a student at Flint Northwestern High School [Source: The Detroit News.com[4]]4) While she was edged out of the women’s world championships in China earlier this year, Shields still recovered to e...

Fans around the country were thrilled when the gorgeous and talented Pooch Hall announced on Twitter that he will be returning to BET’s “The Game” for a sixth season, reports AlwaysAList.com.[1][2] BET announced in May that Hall, who plays Derwin “Ding Dong” Davis, would not be returning to the hit series. He made it clear he really didn’t want to leave, but there was a scheduling conflict with his new Showtime series, “Ray Donovan.” Co-star Tia Mowry Hardrict made her exit to allegedly focus on her Style series “Tia and Tamara” with twin sister Tamera Mowry-Housley. Speaking on the news with “The Breakfast Club,” Pooch said his return all hinged on BET: “I can’t say what’s going on with BET, but Pooch Hall is ready,” he said. “I’m just going to tell the fans [to] have faith. It’s being worked out. I want to come back and don’t be surprised if I do come back.” Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Well, he’s coming back. As previously reported by NewsOne, actress Lauren ...

Last year, when President Barack Obama held a press conference to announce that he had requested a copy of his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii to settle conspiracy theories that he was born to a virgin in the jungles of Kenya (or was it to an Islamic polygamist in the desert?), he explained that given the challenges the nation faces, now isn’t the time to be distracted by such utter silliness. As he put it,[1] we’ll never manage to rise to these challenges ”if we just make stuff up and pretend that facts are not facts. We’re not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.” SEE MORE:Dick Cheney: Obama ‘One of Our Weakest Presidents’[2] Mitt Romney (pictured) has the same opportunity to do this now with Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), whom he may feel is his own “carnival barker.” The Senate majority leader has been making headlines, after revealing that an apparent investor of the company Mitt help found, Bain Capital, told him that ...