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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Joel Snyder. People packed the streets of cities and towns across the nation for this weekend's No Kings rallies, a demonstration largely peaceful. Karen Tsar of member station WUKY reports on a rally in Kentucky, a state where more than 60 percent of voters chose Donald Trump for president each time he's been on the ballot.
In Kentucky's second largest city, the No Kings Rally was lively but peaceful, filling the city's courthouse square and ending with a march through downtown. Outside Kentucky's state capitol in Frankfort, a similar atmosphere, chanting, music, and dancing, that at times felt much like a celebration. Gina Morales said having her voice heard was the most American thing she could ever do.
I think a lot of people are so discouraged that they've just shut their mouths. And silence is deadly.
24 official No Kings rallies were held across Kentucky. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr in Frankfurt.
The No Kings rallies were held amid the government shutdown now on its 19th day. Democrats say President Trump should get involved to bring it to an end. But NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben says Trump has so far remained on the sidelines.
Republicans and Democrats alike are dug in. And Trump doesn't seem himself to be in a hurry to fix things. He's using the shutdown to pick winners and losers within the government. He has said he's trying to hurt what he calls Democrat programs.
What were the highlights of the No Kings rallies across the nation?
And meanwhile, while some workers are starting to go unpaid, he says he's going to make sure that some military, FBI, ICE, that they will get paid.
Israel and Hamas are accusing each other of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. The two sides traded fire today in southern Gaza. Israeli media say Israel responded with airstrikes after troops came under fire outside the southern town of Rafah. A busy 17-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in Southern California closed for hours Saturday while the vice president and defense secretary attended a live fire event at Camp Pendleton. From member station KPBS, Andrew Dyer reports.
Vice President J.D. Vance tells the 15,000 sailors and Marines the days of leaders injecting politics into the military are over.
Now when officials try to shift focus to mandating diversity quotas, or they try to inject partisan politics into the American Armed Forces, they impede the Marine Corps' ability to do its best work.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was greeted by raucous applause.
I think you guys might be my favorite. Don't tell anybody.
The amphibious assault demonstration that led to the temporary shutdown of the Interstate 5 freeway was held several miles up the beach from the event venue and broadcast to the crowd via video. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Dyer at Camp Pendleton.
This is NPR. The Louvre Museum in Paris is closed. France's interior minister says thieves have stolen several pieces of priceless jewelry. The robbery happened when the museum opened today. French media say the thieves entered from the riverside of the Louvre, where construction is underway, using a crane to smash an upstairs window to gain access to the gallery they targeted. They're said to have stolen jewelry from the Napoleon Collection. Officials say at least one piece has been recovered. Japan's ruling party has forged a coalition with a major opposition party. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports from Tokyo that this clears the way for them to vote on Japan's first female prime minister on Tuesday.
The Kyoto News Agency quotes ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, and opposition Japan Innovation Party officials as saying they've agreed in principle to form a coalition and will sign a formal agreement on Monday. That puts the LDP close to having enough votes in parliament to elect their new president, Sanae Takeichi, as Japan's prime minister. Takeichi is poised to break through Japan's biggest glass ceiling, but she's no feminist and supports a conservative definition of gender roles.
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