Tracey Mumford
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1,190 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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The organizers said 8 million people took part, one of the largest protests in recent history.
The Times has not independently confirmed the numbers spread over thousands of protest sites.
One of the largest gatherings took place outside the Minnesota state capitol, where people turned out in part to protest the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Preddy by federal agents in Minneapolis this year.
Opposition to ICE and the administration's immigration crackdown remained a key part of the rallying cry at the protests.
But there were also chants of, end this war.
At least in some places, the war in Iran seemed to be motivating many younger people to turn out.
A 22-year-old organizer at a rally near the University of Iowa said the crowd there was a lot younger than at previous No Kings demonstrations, which she attributed in part to anger over the new conflict in the Middle East.
The White House itself has mocked the nationwide protests.
An administration spokeswoman said earlier that, quote, the only people who care about these Trump derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.
And finally, every year at a mass the night before Easter, the Roman Catholic Church welcomes new converts.
This weekend in the U.S., there will be a surprising number of them.
The Archdiocese of Detroit will have almost 1,500, most in two decades.
The same trend is happening in Los Angeles and Phoenix, as well as smaller rural places like Gallup, New Mexico and Allentown, Pennsylvania.
One cardinal told the Times that when a bunch of bishops got together at a conference recently, they were all asking each other, what's your number?
What's your number?
For quite a while, the broader Christian population in the U.S.
had been declining.
But a survey from Pew showed last year that it stabilized.
As for why Catholicism in particular is calling to people, there are a lot of theories.
Some converts told the Times they were feeling disconnected or lonely, and they thought the church could help.
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