Big Stakes on Small Devices: Apple and Samsung Square Off in Federal Court

The high-stakes trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. geared up Monday as jury selection for the patent infringement case commenced in federal court in San Jose, Calif.

People sporting Batman shirts entered the Arapahoe County Courthouse Monday to hear the charges brought against James Holmes, the 24-year-old accused of opening fire at a midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises." The July 20 shooting in Aurora, Colo. left 12 dead and 58 injured.

Less than a week after the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that left 12 dead, there has been little policy response from the political world -- no prominent new proposals or legislation. In fact, there's been precious little disagreement about the traditionally divisive issue of gun laws.

James Holmes -- the suspect in the shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., in which 12 people were murdered -- appeared in court for the first time Monday, looking motionless, dazed and, at times, half-asleep. His hair was dyed a bright red-orange and he did not say anything during the 15-minute appearance.

James Holmes -- the suspect in the shooting rampage in Aurora, Colo., in which 12 people were murdered -- appeared in court for the first time Monday, looking motionless, dazed and, at times, half-asleep.

A gunman fired into a suburban Denver movie theater Thursday night during a midnight opening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others, authorities in Aurora, Colo., said.

There are events that transcend politics in America, and the Thursday night shooting at a movie theater outside Denver is one such example. The tragic killing of at least a dozen people will likely result in the pause button being hit for at least a day in what has been a brutal stretch of the campaign.

Since 1982, Texas had used a three-drug cocktail in lethal injections for death row executions. But now the state has switched to a single-drug injection due to production shortages of other lethal drugs. Jeffrey Brown talks to The Associated Press' Michael Graczyk about the change.