A Turkish reporter is being hailed a comic hero in the Turkish TV world after he wore blackface while doing a report on United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Just days after it arrived on store shelves, the Barack Obama Chia– the latest invention in the Chia Pet line of ceramic chia seed planters-has been pulled from circulation in Chicago and Tampa Bay Walgreens stores after the chain was flooded with allegations of racism. Read the rest of this entry »

President Barack & First Lady Michelle Obama met Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during a tea party at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama paid a visit to The Tonight Show on Thursday, where he jokingly discussed everything from the AIG bailout and March Madness to the long-awaited White House dog.

President Barack Obama will be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday night, a NBC rep has confirmed.

Obama’s appearance will mark first time a sitting president has appeared on the long-running show.

First Lady Michelle Obama gives PEOPLE the full scoop on her marriage to President Obama and adapting to life at America’s most famous address.

“We haven’t had that time together for [years], so that explains a lot why we all feel so good in this space. I don’t want anybody to think it’s that easy. It works because we really work at it. … We have a strong marriage, but it’s not perfect.”

Rev. Al Sharpton and members of his National Action Network will picket in front of The New York Post headquarters (1211 6th Ave between 47th and 48th Sts.) at noon on Thursday in protest of a cartoon in Wednesday’s edition that allegedly links President Barack Obama to the 200-pound chimp that was killed for attacking its owner’s friend this week. Read the rest of this entry »

Ty Inc. is retiring the names “Marvelous Malia” and “Sweet Sasha” after First Lady Michelle Obama attacked the toy manfacturer for naming a pair of plush dolls after her young daughters. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks like Janet Jackson isn’t the only women with big problems with Beyonce. Read the rest of this entry »

Senator Oprah?!

The Queen of Talk was considered to fill President Barack Obama’s empty United States Senate seat, embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich revealed on Good Morning America Monday.

The governor, whose historic impeachment trial begins today, says that Emmy Award-winning talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey “was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators.”

“She seemed to be someone who would help Barack Obama in a significant way become president.”

“My plan was to get up and watch ‘Good Morning America’ and work out and then I just thought, ‘Let me just lay here another half hour.’ If I had been watching, as I normally watch — from the treadmill, I would have fallen off the treadmill,” says Lady O. “I’m pretty amused by the whole thing.”

When asked by BFF Gayle King on XM Radio Monday if she would consider the seat, Oprah replied:

“Absolutely not. I would have said, ‘Where would I fit it in with my day job? My mid-day job, my night job, my radio job, my magazine job?’”