SOUTH BEND — Democrat Valerie McCray lost the election as U.S. senator to Republican Jim Banks last fall. But, as she told a crowd of roughly 200 people in the bone-chilling 31 degrees at downtown’s Jon Hunt Memorial Plaza, that only “left me free to fight back with both hands and feet.”

Chanting "never again," hundreds of Iowans gathered on the steps of the Iowa Capitol Wednesday to denounce President Donald Trump's recent action to remove diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and protest his mass deportation plans.

Protests against Trump's immigration crackdown continued for a third day in downtown Los Angeles, with hundreds of students walking out of class to join.