The Latest on anti-Donald Trump protests around the country (all times PST):
7:20 p.m.
Demonstrators gathered for a second day outside Chicago’s Trump Tower to protest the election of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president.
One day after thousands marched around the city’s business district blocking traffic and gathering at the 98-story hotel and condominium, about 50 people demonstrated at the building Thursday.
One protester, 24-year-old Jessica Orman, says the demonstrators aren’t happy with the president-elect and “we’re trying to let everyone know that.”
The demonstrators were met with cheers from several people shopping and dining in the area, while at least one person driving by shouted they should “shut up and accept democracy.”
Thousands have been gathering in cities across the nation to voice opposition to Trump’s election. Trump was on Twitter on Thursday, calling the demonstrators “professional protesters, incited by the media.”___
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7:17 p.m.
Protesters are blocking Interstate 94 in Minneapolis after demonstrators marched from an anti-Donald Trump rally at the University of Minnesota.
Traffic was blocked in both directions on the heavily traveled highway Thursday night.
It was the second night of protests in the Twin Cities over Trump’s election as president. Similar protests popped up in cities across the nation both Wednesday and Thursday nights.
The Star Tribune reports demonstrators entered I-94 after marching down Franklin Avenue. The protesters blocked both lanes and chanted “Shut it down.”
Officers from the Minnesota State Patrol and the Minneapolis and St. Paul police departments rushed to the area with lights flashing. A line of protesters faced officers on the freeway.
Anti-Trump protesters also staged a demonstration in St. Paul on Wednesday night.
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7:15 p.m.
For the second night in a row, people in Philadelphia have taken to the streets to protest Donald Trump’s presidential win.
Hundreds of protesters gathered Thursday evening near City Hall. They held signs bearing slogans like “Not Our President,” ”Trans Against Trump” and “Make America Safe For All.”
Twenty-three-year-old Jeanine Feito held a sign that read “Not 1 More Deportation.” The Cuban-American Temple University student says she acknowledges Trump as president-elect, but doesn’t accept it.
People passed Dixie cups holding candles in a vigil that organizers say was meant to provide a place to “mourn, grieve and be in community together.”
The crowd rallied with calls and responses, including “We must remember to love ourselves and each other” and “not our president.”
Demonstrators later marched around the city.
Police called the protests peaceful.
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7:10 p.m.
Hundreds of protesters displeased with Donald Trump’s election as president have marched through Baltimore to the stadium where the Ravens were playing a football game.
Protesters marched downtown to the Inner Harbor and then to the M&T Bank Stadium, where the Ravens were hosting the Cleveland Browns for Thursday Night Football.
The protest brought traffic to a standstill but was otherwise peaceful.
The Baltimore Police Department says in statement that the protest attracted a crowd of roughly 600 people. The statement says two people were detained by police but no one has been charged.
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7 p.m.
President-elect Donald Trump is back on Twitter, taking on the protesters who have gathered in cities across the nation since his election.
Trump tweets: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!”
Thousands have been gathering in cities from New York to Dallas to San Francisco to voice opposition to Trump’s election.
Trump’s complaint Thursday about the media echoes the rhetoric of his campaign, when he railed against the press as “disgusting” and “dishonest.”
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6:26 p.m.
For a second straight night, dozens of demonstrators rallied and marched in downtown Dallas to protest the election of President-elect Donald Trump.
About 300 people gathered Thursday night at Dealey Plaza to speak against the election. Just like Wednesday night, Thursday’s demonstration was peaceful with no disturbances or arrests reported. It ended with a march into the heart of downtown Dallas by demonstrators carrying signs bearing such slogans as “Love Trumps Hate” and “Spirit Unbreakable.”
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5:40 p.m.
Scattered protests around the country continue to follow the unexpected election of Donald Trump as president, with hundreds marching in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A crowd that included parents with children in strollers gathered Thursday night near Philadelphia’s City Hall. They held signs bearing slogans like “Not Our President,” ”Trans Against Trump” and “Make America Safe For All.”
About 500 people turned out in Louisville, Kentucky, chanting and carrying signs as they marched downtown. A day earlier, five people were arrested at Western Kentucky University as demonstrators protested Trump’s election.
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3:20 p.m.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has condemned anti-Trump demonstrators who damaged property and blocked traffic.
But he also said Thursday he’s proud of the thousands of people who took to streets peacefully on Wednesday.
The mayor, a Democrat and grandson of a Mexican immigrant, said he might have hit the bricks as well if he was younger. He called the peaceful demonstrations “a beautiful expression of democracy.”
On Thursday, a few dozen people again blocked a freeway in the Boyle Heights area. Authorities cleared one group but a second continued to block an onramp.
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12:40 p.m.
Police at a Central Texas university want to know who is behind fliers posted on campus that urge formation of “tar and feather vigilante squads” to “arrest and torture” campus diversity advocates.
The fliers posted around the Texas State University campus Thursday morning featured a picture of armed white men labeled “Texas State Vigilantes” beneath a U.S. flag. It professes support for President-elect Donald Trump and Republican majorities in Congress. Aside from the acts against diversity advocates, the flier also urges augmenting a border wall by irradiation with nuclear waste and stocking the Rio Grande with alligators and piranhas. It also urges the sabotage of campus toilets.
Campus police Sgt. Rolando Belmares (beh-MAH’-rehs) says at least five fliers were posted around the San Marcos campus before a campus anti-Trump demonstration.
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11:20 a.m.
High school students in San Francisco chanted “not my president” and waved rainbow and Mexican flags as they marched through the city’s downtown in protest of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential win.
The San Francisco Unified School District said Wednesday that more than 1,000 students staged a citywide walkout on Thursday.
Bystanders in the heavily Democratic city high-fived them from the sidelines.
Thousands have taken to the streets around the country since Tuesday’s election. Demonstrators have disrupted traffic, burned a giant papier-mache Trump head and declared that they refused to accept Trump’s victory.
Demonstrations have been held in New England, the Midwest and the West Coast.
Trump supporters have taken to social media to express their scorn of the protests, saying demonstrators are hypocrites for not accepting the democratic process because they don’t like the results.
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12 a.m.
Several hundred people flooded onto one of the busiest freeways in Los Angeles, causing a miles-long traffic backup in protest of the presidential election of Donald Trump.
The protesters, who had remained peaceful and not overly disruptive for most of the night, poured on to U.S. 101, which links downtown LA to Hollywood, and stayed there for most of an hour. Drivers sat and waited. Many got out of their cars.
The crowd was slowly starting to disperse as many of the demonstrators left the freeway and others were taken into police custody.
There was no violence between officers and protesters.
The demonstrators were among thousands who took to streets in protest of Trump across the country, from New York to Texas to much of the West Coast.
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