Today's coverage agenda: North Korea, Sonia Sotomayor, gay marriage

Here are the stories we covering and plan to post today:

In US news ...

• Peter Grier in Washington scopes out US options to try to rein in North Korea’s nuclear program.

• Mike Farrell in San Francisco previews the much-anticipated decision of the California Supreme Court on the gay-marriage ban in that state. He will write again later in the day after the court decision is announced.

• Politics writer Linda Feldmann and Supreme Court reporter Warren Richey report on Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court and why Obama picked her. They are likely to follow up with at least one further reporter this evening.

• NASA is embarking on a time of historic change with manned spaceflight in the balance. Pete Spotts looks at the challenges ahead for the new NASA administrator.

• Laurent Belsie will be posting separate news blogs on the fall in S&P/Case-Shiller index of housing prices, which showed a drop last month, and the Consumer Confidence Index, which rose.

• Dante Chinni checks in on a Patchwork Nation community with a tourism-based economy and finds that Memorial Day weekend business wasn't great, but was better than last year.

In world news ...

• Peter Ford In Beijing reports on how North Korea’s neighbors are reacting to Pyongyang’s nuclear test Monday.

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