As Congress debates giving immunity to phone companies that assisted the government in tracking terrorist communications, trial lawyers prosecuting those phone companies have poured money into the coffers of Democrats.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks.

The U.S. Air Force’s competition to replace the KC-135 is coming to a close, with the Pentagon’s decision expected at the end of February.

For last 14 years, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have documented the march of economic freedom around the world with an informative Index of Economic Freedom.

The use of technology like blogs, mass texting and online phone banks has been key to Sen. Barack Obama’s surprise sweep of recent primaries.