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Houston: People gather in Houston for the No Kings nationwide demonstration.
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No Kings protests took place across the country from New York City to Atlanta to Los Angeles.
The 50501 Movement, which stands for 50 states, 50 protests, one movement, said the nationwide protests are aimed at calling attention to what they say are authoritarian actions of the Trump administration.
Here is what it looked like.
Texas
Houston: A protester shouts with a megaphone at No Kings protest.
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Dallas: Thousands march for the No Kings protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in downtown.
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Austin: A woman wears a duck beak during the No Kings protest at the Texas Capitol.
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Austin: Thousands of protestors gather during the No Kings protest at the Texas Capitol.
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Connecticut
Hartford: A passenger in a car gives a sign of support for protestors at the Connecticut State Capitol.
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Hartford: Demonstrators outside The Connecticut State Capitol chant during a No Kings protest that event organizers said an estimated 7000 people attended.
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Hartford, Ct.: A person wearing a twi-corner hat and spectacles resembling those affiliated with Benjamin Franklin.
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Missouri
St. Louis: Thousands march in downtown St. Louis during the No Kings protest.
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St. Louis: James Slinkard, 21, holds hands with Taylor Cunningham, 22, both of Cape Girardeau, Mo., while protesting. “I feel like I have the responsibility to be here because there are people who can’t be,” said Cunningham. “I feel like I have to protest.”
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St. Louis: Robert Hull, a 76-year-old demonstrator from St. Charles, left in green, protests alongside his granddaughter Maddie Flynn, 29 of Wentzville, center, during the No Kings protest, in downtown St. Louis. “I cannot stand to see injustices perpetrated against groups of people,” she said. “I have the privilege to speak up and my grandpa taught me to stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves.”
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Washington
Seattle: Demonstrators cheer after getting a horn from the Seattle Monorail while marching from Cal Anderson Park to Seattle Center.
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Seattle: Imelda, a demonstrator, holds a red rose while draped in an American flag while protesting.
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California
San Francisco: Thousands of protesters march down Dolores Street.
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San Francisco: People form a human banner at Ocean Beach.
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San Francisco: Thousands of protesters march down Dolores Street.
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San Diego: A musician watches as thousands of protestors, reflected in their sunglasses, march through downtown.
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Los Angeles: Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies stand guard on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall as protesters assemble.
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Los Angeles: Demonstrators deploy a giant banner reading “We the People,” the first three words of the U.S. Constitution’s preamble.
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Tennessee
In Nashville, protestors lined the streets around the city’s Germantown neighborhood during the No Kings protest.
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Georgia
Atlanta: Police deployed tear gas on protesters on Chamblee Tucker Road in Embry Hills on Saturday afternoon after some attempted to get onto the ramp to I-285.
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Macon, Ga.: People gathered Saturday in the same strip of downtown park used for a political rally nearly every weekend since the Hands Off protests in April.
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Macon: Protesters assembled in downtown Macon.
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Virginia
Charlottesvile, Va.: People take to the streets to protest.
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Oklahoma
Tulsa: Protesters gather for protest in downtown Tulsa.
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Minnesota
St. Paul: A demonstrator looks on as a speaker addresses the crowd during a “No Kings” protest.
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St. Paul: Demonstrators rally outside the Minnesota State Capitol building.
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St. Paul: People take photos as demonstrators march to the Minnesota State Capitol building.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia: Martin Luther King III, center right, and his wife Arndrea Waters King, center left, march.
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Philadelphia: Demonstrators fill Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Illinois
Chicago: Demonstrators take part in the No Kings Day protest.
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Florida
Tallahassee, Fla: Anna Marie Shealy dressed as Lady Liberty for the No Kings protest.
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West Palm Beach, Fla.: Palm Beach Sheriff officers keep protesters from crossing a bridge to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.
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Tallahassee, Fla.: People gather on the grounds of Florida’s old capitol.
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France
Paris, France: People holding umbrellas reading save democracy take part in the No Kings protest.
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Trump was listed as a passenger on eight flights on Epstein’s private jet, according to emailpublished at 11:58 GMT
Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist
One of the Epstein documents, external is an email saying that “Donald Trump traveled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware)”.
The email was sent on 7 January 2020 and is part of an email chain which includes the subject heading ‘RE: Epstein flight records’.
The sender and recipient are redacted but at the bottom of the email is a signature for an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York – with the name redacted.
The email states: “He is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present. He is listed as having traveled with, among others and at various times, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric”.
“On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers; on another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then-20-year-old” – with the person’s name redacted.
It goes on: “On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case”.
In 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, external for crimes including conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and sex trafficking of a minor.
Trump was a friend of Epstein’s for years, but the president has said they fell out in about 2004, years before Epstein was first arrested. Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and his presence on the flights does not indicate wrongdoing.
We have contacted the White House for a response to this particular file.
Dr. Tyler Jorgensen sets “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on a record player at Dell Seton Medical Center in Austin Texas. He uses vinyl records as a form of music therapy for palliative care patients.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Lying in her bed at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, 64-year-old Pamela Mansfield sways her feet to the rhythm of George Jones’ “She Thinks I Still Care.” Mansfield is still recovering much of her mobility after a recent neck surgery, but she finds a way to move to the music floating from a record player that was wheeled into her room.
“Seems to be the worst part is the stiffness in my ankles and the no feeling in the hands,” she says. “But music makes everything better.”
The record player is courtesy of the ATX-VINyL program, a project dreamed up by Dr. Tyler Jorgensen to bring music to the bedside of patients dealing with difficult diagnoses and treatments. He collaborates with a team of volunteers who wheel the player on a cart to patients’ rooms, along with a selection of records in their favorite genres.
“I think of this record player as a time machine,” he said. “You know, something starts spinning — an old, familiar song on a record player — and now you’re back at home, you’re out of the hospital, you’re with your family, you’re with your loved ones.”
Daniela Vargas, a volunteer for the ATX-VINyL program, wheels a record player to the hospital room of a palliative care patient in Austin, Texas.
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The healing power of Country music… and Thin Lizzy
Mansfield wanted to hear country music: Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, George Jones. That genre reminds her of listening to records with her parents, who helped form her taste in music. Almost as soon as the first record spins, she starts cracking jokes.
“I have great taste in music. Men, on the other hand … ehhh. I think my picker’s broken,” she says.
Other patients ask for jazz, R&B or holiday records.
The man who gave Jorgensen the idea for ATX-VINyL loved classic rock. That was around three years ago, when Jorgensen, a long-time emergency medicine physician, began a fellowship in palliative care — a specialty aimed at improving quality of life for people with serious conditions, including terminal illnesses.
Shortly after he began the fellowship, he says he struggled to connect with a particular patient.
“I couldn’t draw this man out, and I felt like he was really struggling and suffering,” Jorgensen said.
He had the idea to try playing the patient some music.
He went with “The Boys Are Back in Town,” by the 1970s Irish rock group Thin Lizzy, and saw an immediate change in the patient.
“He was telling me old stories about his life. He was getting more honest and vulnerable about the health challenges he was facing,” Jorgensen said. “And it just struck me that all this time I’ve been practicing medicine, there’s such a powerful tool that is almost universal to the human experience, which is music, and I’ve never tapped into it.”
Dr. Tyler Jorgensen plays vinyl records as a form of music therapy for palliative care patients in Austin, Texas. Willie Nelson’s albums are a perennial hit.
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Creating new memories
Jorgensen realized records could lift the spirits of patients dealing with heavy circumstances in hospital spaces that are often aesthetically bare. And he thought vinyl would offer a more personal touch than streaming a digital track through a smartphone or speaker.
“There’s just something inherently warm about the friction of a record — the pops, the scratches,” he said. “It sort of resonates through the wooden record player, and it just feels different.”
Since then, he has built up a collection of 60 records and counting at the hospital. The most-requested album, by a landslide, is Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours from 1977. Willie is also popular, along with Etta James and John Denver. And around the holidays, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas gets a lot of spins.
These days, it’s often a volunteer who rolls the record player from room to room after consulting nursing staff about patients and family members who are struggling and could use a visit.
Daniela Vargas, the UT Austin pre-med undergraduate who heads up the volunteer cohort, became passionate about music therapy years ago when she and her sister began playing violin for isolated patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. She said she sees similar benefits when she curates a collection of records for a patient today.
“We are usually not in the room for the entire time, so it’s a more intimate experience for the patient or family, but being able to interact with the patient in the beginning and at the end can be really transformative,” Vargas said.
Often, the palliative care patients visited by ATX-VINyL are near the end of life.
Jorgensen feels that the record player provides an interruption of the heaviness those patients and their families are experiencing. Suddenly, it’s possible to create a new, positive shared experience at a profoundly difficult time.
“Now you’re sort of looking at it together and thinking, ‘What are we going to do with this thing? Let’s play something for Mom, let’s play something for Dad.’” he said. “And you are creating a new, positive, shared experience in the setting of something that can otherwise be very sad, very heavy.”
Other patients, like Pamela Mansfield, are working painstakingly toward recovery.
She has had six neck surgeries since April, when she had a serious fall. But on the day she listened to the George Jones album, she had a small victory to celebrate: She stood up for three minutes, a record since her most recent surgery.
With the record spinning, she couldn’t help but think about the victories she’s still pursuing.
“It’s motivating,” she said. “Me and my broom could dance really well to some of this stuff.”
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