Check out NewsOne’s gallery of the cutest pictures of our newest First Daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama.

Ok, the 2008 Presidential Election is over; I have exhaled… a little. After all the media coverage on the events leading up to the first Black Democratic presidential nominee, CNN decides it needs a “comedy” show on the “most trusted name in news” network? Is this decision really trustworthy?

Oprah will be ending her popularly syndicated talk show in 2011, at the end of her 25th season. Unless she doesn’t. It all depends on who you talk to. David Zaslav, Discovery Communication’s president and CEO, the business partner work with Oprah on her soon-to-launch Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), said, “The expectation is that after […]

  Although President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign centered around predecessor George W. Bush’s failed policies, the two men met to discuss the transition to power for the 44th president. The soon-to-be and former leaders of the Free World surely differ on policy but, a friendly tour couldn’t be too bad. From AP:   WASHINGTON (AP) The […]

From Ben Smith at Politico: The Daily Telegraph has a list of “50 facts you might not know” about Barack Obama that could be interpreted as a Christmas wish list for the president-elect. Some examples: He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics. His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. […]

From Ben Smith at Politico: Jeremiah Wright spoke to a black student group at Northwestern last night, and Bill Ayers showed up. This past Spring, Northwestern rescinded its offer of an honorary degree to Wright.

Fresh off the success of hi “Yes We Can” anthem, Will I Am of the Black Eyed Peas has debuted a new video, “It’s a New Day.” While the songs has no celebrity appearances like “Yes We Can,” there are several celebrity cameos. While there are no Obama references in the song, it is clearly […]

In a record bailout of a private company, the government on Monday provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American International Group, including $40 billion for partial ownership.

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong composed some of his most influential Jazz songs during this week in 1925. Find out more Black history facts for this week right here.

President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.

From The Anchorage Daily News: For two months she basked — and sizzled — in the world’s hottest celebrity spotlight. Now Sarah Palin has come home to begin the last two years of her term as governor of Alaska. Everything has changed: Palin’s personal horizon, her relations with the state’s other elected officials, the public’s […]

President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to make good on a promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.