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The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether the president's health care law is constitutional. Chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports on the arguments leading up to the big decision.

With the Supreme Court set to rule on the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health care reform law, one state is paying particular attention.

It’s difficult to come up with a snappy intro to a story like this: Kim Jong-il is dead of a heart attack at age 69. It’s also hard to deny that he was fascinating to watch, somewhat like a train-wreck writ large. But as interesting as Kim himself was as a world leader, it is the society that surrounded him that has always captured my attention

The U.S.

Today was perhaps the most emotional day in the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement. Coming shortly after dramatic park clearings in cities such as Oakland (for the second time) and Portland, the epicenter of the movement, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, was trashed, hosed, and disinfected starting about 1 a.m.

The Supreme Court will decide whether President Obama's landmark health care legislation, which requires that all Americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty, is unconstitutional. Jan Crawford reports.

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech world--starting early in the morning and updated all day. 1. The Winklevoss twins are now pressing ahead with their legal battle against Facebook not in the Supreme Court, but in the federal court in Boston.

By Douglas Kysar of Nature magazine The US Supreme Court this week gave its opinion on American Electric Power v. [More]

The small Canadian firm i4i has its patent infringement charge upheld in a unanimous verdict. What does this mean for the future of innovation? The Supreme Court issued a ruling against Microsoft Thursday, upholding a decision from a lower court

1. Apple and Google will be called back to testify before the Senate hearing on digital privacy on Thursday, but this time they'll also be joined by Bret Taylor, the CTO for Facebook

The Winklevoss brothers are at it again.

As a filmmaker--albeit for the very small screen rather than the very large one--it was my supreme pleasure to interview legendary director Werner Herzog ( Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn ) about his latest film Cave of Forgotten Dreams . Herzog's first foray into 3-D, the movie takes viewers on a journey through the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave in the South of France, which contains perfectly preserved charcoal drawings, many of which date to 30,000 years ago. [More]

There's pro-business and then there's pro-oligarchy. Our current Supreme Court, I believe, has crossed that line.