Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the US for "No Kings" demonstrations, decrying what participants see as the government's swift drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.
Organisers said nearly seven million people took part in peaceful demonstrations in some 2700 cities and municipalities on Saturday - hundreds more locations than in a previous protest in June.
People carrying signs with slogans such as "Nothing is more patriotic than protesting" or "Resist Fascism" packed into New York City's Times Square and rallied by the thousands in parks in Boston, Atlanta and Chicago.
Demonstrators marched through Washington and downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside capitols in several Republican-led states, a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and