WASHINGTON — D.C. police say shots were fired just blocks from the White House (pictured) following an armed robbery attempt.

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Police say it happened before 6:30 a.m. Friday near Lafayette Square in Washington.

Police say three suspects, including at least one with a gun, approached two people and tried to rob them.

D.C. police spokesman Araz Alali says the victims began following the suspects in their car, and that one of the suspects fired shots. No one was injured.

Alali says no one was immediately in custody.

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1. ^{^}Psst, Donald Trump: Mitt Romney Was Born In Kenya (newsone.com)
2. ^{^}Boy,11, Fights Off Pitbulls To Save 5-Year-Old Sister’s Life (newsone.com)

As the louder members of the right wing media continue to stumble over the reality that Mitt Romney lost his quest for the presidency, concrete data explaining his loss continues to come out. While there are number of variables –  i.e. Blacks, single women, Latinos, and gays going out for Obama in droves — regarding the highly contested state of Ohio, it is evident that the Black vote in particular played a deciding factor in President Barack Obama winning the state, and consequently, re-election. Better luck next time, voter suppression.

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LUKE FRANS of Resurgent Republic’s fascinating analysis of Ohio exit polling: 

Romney won the White vote 58-41 (2008: John McCain won 52-46). Romney won White men 63-36 (2008: McCain won 53-45). Romney won White women at about the same margin as four years ago, 53-46. But the White vote overall was 79 percent of the turnout, down 4 points from 2008 (White men: 3

When two pitbulls rushed through the hole of a chain linked fence and attacked an 11-year-old boy and his 5-year-old sister in Dublin, Ga., big brother took charge.

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According to 13 WMAZ-TV^[1], Maleik Carr (pictured) and his sister Jalia walk through a backyard along the fence to get to the school bus stop each day. But on Monday morning, they were met by the two angry dogs.

“The brown and white dog ran to the other side, jumped out of the fence and the black one did too, and they started snapping at Jalia. So I ran over there started kicking them away from her, and they bit me. And I told Jalia to run,” says Maleik.

She dashed across the street as her big bro bravely battled the two pitbulls. When they started biting on his legs, he took his sister’s toy chair and began beating them with it. He battled them long enough to hop over his own fence where his sister met and then rushed him to the hospital.

Here is more from 13 WMAZ-TV:

“It hurt me to my soul when I saw t

While the nation and world will now turn their attention toward President Barack Obama‘s next term as president^[1], NewsOne cannot fully commemorate the President’s win without acknowledging what his decisive victory meant to both Africans throughout the diaspora and the world’s citizens four short years ago this week.

SEE ALSO: Election 2012: The ’47 Percent’ Leads President Obama To A Second Term^[2]

In 2008, the financial crisis made the selection of this nation’s 44th president a grave endeavor: Banks needed bailing out, housing markets crashed, stock markets turned downward, and unemployment rose to unprecedented heights. So in the final days leading up to the presidential election, many wondered who would be able to lead this country out what would come to be called the “Great Recession.”

On November 4, 2008, then-Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama would deliver an unfathomable shellacking to GOP presidential nominee John McCain, with Obama earning a deafening 365 electoral