The crowd erupted as John Denver’s 1971 song filled the arena. Behind a black curtain, beneath a blue “Make America great again!” sign, Donald Trump was preparing to make his grand entrance.“I know when he’s waiting to come out his heart is pounding because he’s coming to a field of love,” said Gene Huber, 47, a former used car salesman who was attending his seventh Trump rally. “The rallies fuel him up.”Enter the showman, big, besuited, orange-topped, slowly traversing a black ramp to centre stage. The American president was greeted by roars as if for a rock star or sporting hero. He clapped in time to chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” from the 9,000-strong crowd. When he held aloft a black sign that said “Trump digs coal”, the cheers somehow became even louder.

Google executives have responded to a 3,300-word manifesto written by one of its male engineers that argues women aren’t suited for tech jobs for ”biological” reasons.The document has been circulating inside Google (GOOG) for some time, but it was made public by Motherboard on Saturday. Recode and Gizmodo published the document in full.Over the weekend, Google diversity vice president Danielle Brown and engineering VP Ari Balogh addressed the controversial document in separate messages to Google employees.Brown and Balogh condemned the document’s assertions and defended Google’s diversity efforts.

Apple owns $52.6 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, ranking it above countries like Israel, Mexico, Australia and the Netherlands — and one of the top 25 “major foreign holders” of U.S. government debt, according to a new report.U.S. Treasury securities, in the forms of bills, notes and bonds, are debt obligations of the U.S. government. In essence, it means that individuals are loaning money to the United States’ federal government in exchange for what amounts to the safest of investments.A major playerIn this case, though, it just serves to underline what a whale of a player Apple is on the world stage. Of this $52.6 billion, Apple owns $20.1 billion in short-term Treasury securities and $31.35 billion in long-term marketable Treasury securities, as per its latest regulatory filing.

It will be tough eclipsing this eclipse.The sun, moon and Earth will line up perfectly in the cosmos on Aug. 21, turning day into night for a few wondrous minutes, its path crossing the U.S. from sea to shining sea for the first time in nearly a century.Never will a total solar eclipse be so heavily viewed and studied — or celebrated.”We’re going to be looking at this event with unprecedented eyes,” promises Alex Young, a solar physicist who is coordinating NASA’s education and public outreach.And the party planning is at full tilt from Oregon to South Carolina.

When Allison announced her pregnancy to her family, she sent out an ultrasound picture along with a strongly worded warning.”I told my family, if I ever saw a picture of him online they would never see him again in real life.”She has good reason to be strict. A former criminal prosecutor, Allison (a pseudonym) dealt with sex offenders on a regular basis and says she’s seen seemingly innocuous photos of kids used for ”twisted purposes.” She has the added worry of criminals potentially seeking retribution and tracking her down online.For anyone in a visible job like acting, politics and journalism, sharing family photos can be fraught. A single picture of a child can be weaponized by anyone with a computer. Just ask journalist David French, who was targeted by alt-right trolls who photoshopped an image of his 7-year-old daughter inside a gas chamber.

The legal net around Donald Trump’s beleaguered presidency tightened dramatically this week with news that a grand jury has been established a few hundred yards from the White House, to pursue evidence of collusion with the Kremlin.It is a troubling development for the president, for several reasons. In the US legal system, a grand jury has broad powers to issue subpoenas, and ultimately indictments, at the request of prosecutors.What is a grand jury and how serious is it for Donald Trump? Read moreThe special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election, former FBI chief Robert Mueller, had been using a sitting grand jury in Virginia to authorise his team’s demands for documents and witnesses.