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President Bush's speech to the Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday addresses intelligence documents on al-Qaida. The White House says the documents show that Osama Bin Laden sought a greater al-Qaida presence in Iraq.

In his run for the White House, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is just as dependent on attracting campaign money as his opponents. A look at Obama's list of political contributors offers few surprises.

Americans' telephone records, secretly gathered by tricking telephone companies into revealing private billing information, are often bought by businesses, and sometimes law enforcement agencies. That's the testimony of data-broker witnesses grilled by members of the House Energy and Commerce committee.

Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin offers his views on the controversy surrounding former CIA Director George Tenet. In his new book, At the Center of the Storm, Tenet says his agency warned the White House against going to war with Iraq.

The plan to firm up a porous Southern border by sending in the National Guard suggests the White House sees illegal immigration as an emergency. But the real target of this administration's move may be in Washington, where Congress is debating what to do about people in the country illegally.

This week, the Senate will take up legislation passed by the House that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. There'll also be discussion of a bill to spend more money on finding ways to make embryonic stem cells without destroying an embryo.

The Bush administration is reviewing its aid to Pakistan, in the wake of President Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency rule. But options are limited. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte testifies before a House committee about U.S. aid to Pakistan.

As President Obama introduced his Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, Tuesday at the White House, he said, "Walking in the door, she would bring more experience on the bench ... than anyone currently serving on the United States Supreme Court had when they were appointed."

The Obama administration last week pledged to spend $275 billion in hopes of reducing mortgage interest rates and lowering monthly mortgage payments. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros reacts to the bailout plan and discusses reasons behind current problems faced by the mortgage industry.

It was quite a week in economic news. The market tanked when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner showed up but didn't have a lot of details. Both House and Senate passed the stimulus bill, but Obama's hopes of a bipartisanship effort never came to pass.