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As 2013 begins with wealthy Americans in line for bigger tax bills, they're not alone. Tax fairness takes the spotlight worldwide this year, as cash-strapped governments look to impose more of the burden on well-heeled companies, individuals and institutions, and to catch and punish tax cheaters.

Florida's Aquarius Reef Base is the only working undersea lab left today. But now that federal funds have dried up, it may be forced to surface. Oceanographer Sylvia Earle joins Science Friday from inside Aquarius, 60 feet underwater, to talk about sponges, corals and other life she's observed on the reef.

After months of investigating the excessive wear and decay in tubes in the recently over-hauled generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the cause is in the heavily modified design. The NRC explained its findings at a community meeting in San Juan Capistrano Monday.

When senators return next week, they'll take up a plan to extend a federal benefits program for the chronically unemployed. Lawmakers failed to agree on how to pay for the program before leaving for break. The result: Since Monday, some 200,000 Americans a day have exhausted their standard benefits and can't apply for the extension.

Bipartisan bills are pending again in both the House and Senate to give buyers of hearing aids a small tax break. But, once again, it looks as though the legislation has a long way to go before it could become law.

Two New Jersey men appeared in federal court this week on terrorism charges. Federal prosecutors said the pair listened to Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who is suspected of inspiring recent home-grown terror plots including the Fort Hood massacre that left 13 people dead.

A motorist was killed and a U.S. Border Patrol agent injured early today when a car exploded in flames at the end of a freeway pursuit in the East County highlands.

After years of inaction, immigration policy changes suddenly have notable momentum in Washington.

The failure of the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee extends fiscal uncertainty and pushes a debate over the Bush-era tax cuts into a presidential election year. Congress could try to reverse automatic budget cuts set for 2013 — but President Obama has already warned against that approach.

Can for-profit health insurance companies be trusted to take care of the nation's sickest and most expensive patients?