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NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Americans are taking to the streets today

to protest in no-kings rallies against the Trump administration. Organizers say more than

2,500 were planned today.

In New York, police say a rally in Manhattan has already ended, was peaceful, and there were

no arrests. And peers Joel Rose reports large crowds also gathered in Washington, D.C.

Welcome to D.C. Protesters filled several city blocks on Pennsylvania Avenue between the U.S. Capitol and the White House.

Marianne Donlin of Virginia says she's worried the Trump administration is abusing its power.

I feel like we're heading to like a country like Russia or China or Korea, and citizens need to push back and stand up for our rights and for our

Constitution. Elijah Kitchen of Delaware rejected the charge by Republican leaders that the protests

are hate America rallies. We're here because we love the United States. We love our country.

Kitchen also said it was crazy to suggest, as some GOP leaders have, that protesters were being

paid to attend. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. Former Republican New York Congressman George

Santos has been freed from prison after serving less than three months of a seven-year prison

term for fraud and identity theft. President Trump commuted his sentence yesterday, and fears Brian Mann has more.

When Santos was sentenced for his crimes in April, officials in Trump's Justice Department

called it a victory, saying in a statement the former lawmaker was finally being held accountable

for the mountain of lies, theft, and fraud he perpetrated.

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