If your course is one in which you would like students to keep an eye on the news, you can embed a newsfeed from Google News in the Announcements of your BlackBoard course.
Directions
Go to the google News Widget page http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/newsshow/wizard.html
To put it in Blackboard:
Open your course and go to the Control Panel.
Click Announcements or another [...]