Presidential candidate Barack Obama, D-Ill. has named four colleagues to his campaign’s congressional liaison team to "ensure that the member of Congress' counsel is considered in overall message strategy, campaign planning and execution," The Hill reports.

The four congressional advisers Obama selected to help him include congressional Democrats in his campaign's messaging are:

There's roughly twice as many polar bears in the world today as there was 30 years ago. But on May 14, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, invoking the U.S. Endangered Species Act, proclaimed polar bears a “threatened species.”

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh unveiled his 4 ½ hour Che Guevara biopic at the Cannes Film Festival last Thursday. One reviewer described the movie as “maniacally anticipated.” Variety hailed it as Cannes' “most-anticipated” film.

In the early 1960s the law of supply and demand greatly irked Cuba's “minister of the economy” Ernesto “Che” Guevara. “No problemo!” he decided one fine morning. I'll simply abolish it by creating a “new man,” with these insufferable Cubans as my Guinea Pigs.