Nearly 7 million people showed up for Saturday’s rallies – including more than 100,000 people in New York, organizers and officials said. Along with larger events in major cities, small pockets of “No Kings” protesters cropped up along busy thoroughfares,

Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the US to protest what they fear is the American government’s, led by the Trump administration, swift drift into authoritarianism.

The shutdown has closed federal programmes and services and is testing Trump administration’s balance of power, as the way in which the aggressive executive has confronted the Congress and courts, th...