Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gives an update on the state's preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac.
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The opening of the Republican National Convention may have been postponed because of Tropical Storm Isaac, but the Tea Party faithful are soldiering on in the teeth of the storm.
The Tea Party Unity Rally 2012 is due to be held as scheduled at The River at Tampa Bay Church between 7:00 and 9:00 PM on Sunday. The event is sponsored by a number of different tea party groups and will feature Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, right-wing radio personality Neal Boortz, and others.
This livestream is from TheTeaParty.net. (Free registration required.)
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The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial went to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers.
Apple, which accuses the South Korean electronics giant of copying the iPhone and iPad too closely, is seeking damages of up to $2.75 billion and an injunction that could knock some Samsung products off the US market.
Even a delay in sales could endanger Samsung's position in the US market, where it is currently the top seller of smartphones.
Samsung has countered by arguing that its patents on wireless communication were infringed by Apple, and is demanding up to $422 million from the Silicon Valley manufacturer.
In closing arguments, Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny said that the story of Samsung's copying was laid out in the company's own internal documents.
In "three intense months of copying," Samsung had stolen four years of Apple's hard work on the iPhone, McElhinny told jurors.
"At the very top of Samsung's corporate structure, those executives were determined to cash in on the iPhone's success," he said. "Samsung was able to copy Apple's four-year investment, without taking any of the risks, because they were copying the world's most successful product."
McElhinny brushed aside Samsung's contention that the Apple designs stemmed from earlier tablet computers which could not be held in one's hand and used as a phone like the iPhone.
Samsung's attorney, Charles Verhoeven, told jurors that the company invented its own products and that Apple's goal is to stifle competition.
"Apple is here asking you to prevent its largest competitor from giving consumers what they want - smartphones with big screens," he said. "Why is Apple doing this? Rather than compete in the marketplace, Apple is seeking a competitive edge through the courtroom. It's seeking to block its biggest and most serious competitor from even attending the game."
Samsung's products were designed independently, as both designers called to testify had said, noted Verhoeven. The reason many smartphones have begun to look similar is due to consumer habits, he said - surfing the Internet, and watching video.
"Every single smartphone has a rectangular shape, rounded corners, and 90 percent of the real estate on the front of that phone is the screen," said Verhoeven.
"Is that because people are copying each other? No. It's because the technology advanced, and form is following function."
Apple lawyer Bill Lee countered that the company was not trying to stop competition - it just wanted to promote originality.
"No one is trying to stop them from selling smartphones," said Lee. "All we're saying is: make your own. Make your own designs, make your own phones, and compete on your own innovations."
The trial is wrapping up after 10 days of testimony over three weeks, in which Apple put its own designers and executives on the stand, along with experts, all of whom accused Samsung of illegally copying Apple designs.
Though Samsung witnesses said they had come up with the designs and icons they used on their own, internal company documents introduced as evidence did show they were aware that they were behind Apple when it came to some user-interface features.
The jury was expected to begin deliberations in the case on Wednesday, and will have to pore over a complicated 20-page form addressing hundreds of separate allegations, that Samsung violated Apple's patents and trademarks.
Last week, Judge Lucy Koh asked for one more settlement conference, with the chief executives of the two companies speaking directly by telephone.
"I see risk for both sides," Koh said at the time. "It's time for peace."
On Monday a Samsung lawyer confirmed that Apple chief Tim Cook and Samsung boss Kwon Oh-Hyun did talk but no settlement was reached.
This is one of several court cases around the world involving the two electronics giants in the hottest part of the tech sector - tablet computers and smartphones.
While the results so far have been mixed in courts in Europe and Australia, Samsung has a lot at stake in the US case, which could result in large damages or injunctions against its products in the American market.
A survey by research firm IDC showed Samsung shipped 50.2 million smartphones globally in the April-June period, while Apple sold 26 million iPhones. IDC said Samsung held 32.6 percent of the market to 16.9 percent for Apple.
Earlier this month, Samsung unveiled a Galaxy Note tablet designed to make a more personal connection with users and aiming to knock Apple's iPad off its market throne.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks to supporters near a coal mine in Beallsville, Ohio.
Romney attacked President Barack Obama's position on coal, saying that Obama's "disastrous energy policies" have meant fewer jobs. Obama has recently reversed his position on so-called "clean coal," embracing it in a recent radio ad to the dismay of clean energy and environmental advocates. Romney opposes regulations put on coal mines under the Clean Air Act and has been ambivalent on action to curb climate change.
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Obama continued his swing through Iowa on Tuesday, stopping in Oskaloosa to speak to supporters.
His campaigning in the state coincided with brand new VP pick Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Obama's stump speech touched on Congress' failure to pass the controversial farm bill, which Republicans slathered with $16 billion in cuts to the food stamp program.
On a surprise stop on Monday, Obama hit up the Iowa State Fair, where he reportedly ate a beer and a pork chop. He also purchased beers for 10 people, so long as they weren't holding a Romney sign.
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President Barack Obama spoke to supporters in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Monday as part of a three-day campaign stint in the state.
Recent polling suggests that Iowa could be a toss-up this November in the presidential election, and Obama's visit also coincides with new Republican VP pick Paul Ryan's stop in the state.
The stop in Iowa comes just after a July session in which Congress failed to reach an agreement on the controversial farm bill, the House version of which would have slashed $16 billion in food stamps.
According to remarks released in advance of the speech to major media outlets, Obama will say, "If you happen to see Congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities."
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign stop in Florida on Mondday.
A Reuters analysis found that Romney's vice presidential pick of Paul Ryan could be damaging to Republicans in Florida because Ryan's budget is particularly harsh on Medicare, and the state's elderly population might object to such cuts. Reuters cited a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll that found Americans trusted President Barack Obama's handling of Medicare to Romney's, 45 to 34 percent.
A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS poll found on July 30 that Obama is up 6 points in the key swing state of Florida.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder attend a vigil for the Sunday shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Cree, Wisconsin that claimed the lives of seven people, including the gunman who killed himself.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation held a press conference on Wednesday regarding the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
The FBI has said that the shooting, in which suspect Wade Michael Page entered the Sikh temple during services and shot six people before police shot and killed Page himself, is being investigated as an instance of domestic terrorism. The FBI said on Monday they're investigating a second person who is possibly connected to the shooting.
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney makes a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stopped at Acme Industries in Elk Grove Village, Illinois to speak to supporters.
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Authorities held a press conference on Monday to discuss the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
The shooter, reportedly 40-year-old Army veteran Wade Michael Page, was shot dead by police after he shot six and held many others hostage in a temple on Sunday. Page reportedly served from April 1992 to October 1998, ending his career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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NASA's largest Mars rover, Curiosity, is scheduled to land on Mars in perhaps the most complex landing on an alien world since space exploration began, according to the Guardian.
NASA spent $2.5 billion on the project, and will explore whether the planet has ever had the potential to support life. "Whether life has existed on Mars is an open question
that this mission, by itself, is not designed to answer," NASA wrote in a press release. "However, if this mission finds that the field site in Gale Crater has had
conditions favorable for habitability and for preserving evidence about life, those findings can shape future missions that would bring samples back to Earth for life-detection tests or for missions that carry advanced life-detection experiments to Mars. In this sense, the Mars Science Laboratory is the prospecting stage in a
step-by-step program of exploration, reconnaissance, prospecting and mining evidence for a definitive answer about whether life has existed on Mars."
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