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President Donald Trump may not think that climate change should be a priority for the country, but the Climate March protests proved that the American people won’t stand for it.

Hundreds of thousands of environmentalists swarmed the streets of the U.S.’s largest cities on Saturday, urging the White House to take climate change seriously. 

Protestors at the Climate March, which was held on President Trump’s 100th day in office, denounced the Trump administration for signing executive orders that slashed policies that flight climate change, all in the name of a coal-focused “energy revolution.”

While the main march took place in Washington D.C. and in front of the White House, hundreds of sister marches were held across the country in a show of solidarity.

From Chicago to Denver, San Francisco to Honolulu, protesters marched in snow storms and sweltering heat to let their president know that they care about the planet ― and they need him to care about it too.

Below, take a look at Saturday’s Climate Marches as they marched on coast to coast.

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Will Ferrell slapped the suit back on Saturday to reprise his role of President George W. Bush at Samantha Bee’s “Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”

Ferrell came out as Bush, brazenly smoked a cigarette and asked the crowd, “How do you like me now?”

The SNL alum spoke for about five minutes before showing his latest portrait: Donald Trump. Except there’s just not enough yellow and orange in the world.

Ferrell reminded us all that sometimes when we think things can’t get any worse, someone says, “Here, hold my beer.”

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FAIRFAX, Va. ― In the first Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary debate on Saturday evening, Virginia Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam declined to attack former Rep. Tom Perriello for a controversial anti-abortion vote Perriello made in Congress.

Instead, both candidates emphasized their staunch support for abortion rights, promising to push back against restrictions proposed by the Republican-controlled Virginia legislature.

“I strongly support a woman’s right to choose. I have long supported Roe v. Wade and believe that it’s not enough just to ensure that that right exists on paper, but that there is meaningful and affordable access to that right,” Perriello said.

As a member of Congress in 2009, Perriello voted for the Stupak amendment, which would have barred federal funding from the Affordable Care Act from going toward insurance plans that cover abortions. He has since expressed “regret” for the vote, claiming he was trying to keep a promise to his constituents in a conservative district.

Northam didn’t bring up Perriello’s vote on Saturday, despite making it an issue on the campaign trail. Instead, he used the debate to tout his advocacy for abortion rights, including fighting a trans-vaginal ultrasound bill as a state senator in 2012.

“There is no excuse that a group of legislators ― by the way, most of them are men ― should be telling women what they should and shouldn’t be doing with their bodies. That needs to stop in Virginia,” Northam said.

David Turner, a spokesman for Northam’s campaign, said Northam may still bring up Perriello’s voting record in the remaining four debates.

“If Tom Perriello is going to minimize Ralph Northam’s role in blocking trans-vaginal ultrasound, we’re going to discuss his role in voting for a bill that Planned Parenthood said at the time was tantamount to banning abortion coverage,” Turner said.

Perriello has criticized Northam for voting twice for former President George W. Bush, a staunch foe of abortion rights who appointed two opponents of Roe v. Wade to the Supreme Court. Northam, a pediatric neurologist from Norfolk, claims he was not attentive to politics at the time and would have voted differently knowing what he knows now.

The two contenders’ strong stance on abortion rights comes as the Democratic Party struggles over whether to tolerate deviations from its pro-choice platform.

Last week, reproductive rights activists, led by NARAL Pro-Choice America, criticized the Democratic National Committee and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for embracing Heath Mello, a mayoral candidate in Omaha, Nebraska, who backed abortion restrictions as a state lawmaker. (Mello has since declared that he would protect reproductive rights as mayor.)

DNC Chair Tom Perez responded to the uproar with a statement publicly disagreeing with Mello and reaffirming the party’s strong commitment to abortion rights.

Perriello’s vote for the Stupak amendment has so far done little to undermine his status as the progressive favorite in the race. As a young congressman, he developed a reputation for supporting the agenda of then-President Barack Obama, despite the growing contempt for the administration in his district. Perriello, now 42, went on to head the Center for American Progress action fund and serve as a State Department special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Northam, 57, had all but locked up the Democratic nomination until the election of President Donald Trump inspired Perriello to jump in the race in January. The lieutenant governor enjoys the support of almost all of the Virginia Democratic establishment, including Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.

Perriello has also drawn national attention to the race, casting himself as the candidate best equipped to lead a state-level resistance to Trump’s policies. With hardline progressive positions like blanket opposition to the construction of oil and gas pipelines, he has attracted the support of high-profile progressives like Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

The primary election will occur on June 13. The most recent polling shows Perriello with a small lead.

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A chess coach in Malaysia is demanding an apology after his 12-year-old student was forced to withdraw from a chess tournament after officials deemed her dress too “seductive.”

Without revealing the minor’s name, Kaushal Khandhar, the girl’s chess coach, detailed on Facebook the “disturbing incident” that took place mid-April during the 2017 National Scholastic Chess Championships in Putrajaya, Malaysia. He included a photo of the girl’s so-called inappropriate dress, which appears to reach near the knee and cover both shoulders.

“One of my student, who is a 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL felt harassed and humiliated by the actions of Tournament Director and Chief Arbiter,” Khandhar, a member of the World Chess Federation, wrote.

After the second round of the chess tournament, Khandhar explained, the event’s chief arbiter told the competitor and her mother that the girl’s dress was too “seductive” for the event and claimed it was a “temptation from a certain angle far, far away.”

According to the Federation Internationale des Eches (FIDE) handbook, which the National Scholastic Chess Championships followed, the chief arbiter is responsible for ensuring the players’ comfort during the tournament.

Khandhar said that he’s been competing in Malaysian chess tournaments for nearly two decades and has never seen an issue like this before.

Tournament officials advised the girl’s mother to buy another outfit for the girl at a nearby mall before the start of the next round the following day, according to Khandhar. Since shops were closed that evening and opened too late the next day, the girl had to withdraw from the chess tournament, forfeiting the event’s registration fees, coaching costs and travel expenses.

The girl, Khandhar added, was the chess champion of her district in Kuala Lumpur with “tremendous potential.” He said that the officials’ comments about the girl’s outfit left her “extremely disturbed and embarrassed.” 

“We are absolutely DISGUSTED by the treatment of Tournament Director to a 12-year-old girl and her mother,” Khandhar wrote.

The girl’s mother, identified as Chin Wai Ling by The Star, told the Malaysian tabloid that her daughter was shocked that the arbiter had interrupted her chess match to comment on her dress.

“From that point onwards, she said all she could think of was whether anyone was peeping [at her] throughout the game,” Ling told The Star.

The FIDE handbook, which sets the standard for chess tournaments worldwide, states that all competitors are required to be “dressed in a suitable manner,” but does not offer a specific dress code. However, Chess Daily News published a FIDE dress code policy proposal that appears to allow dresses and skirts, but forbids “revealing attire” and “clothes that expose areas of the body usually covered in the location where the event is taking place.”

People responding to Khandhar’s Facebook post of the story slammed tournament officials for being perverted and sexualizing the young girl. Others could not figure out how this dress could be considered seductive.

Officials with the National Scholastic Championships and the Malaysian Chess Federation did not return HuffPost’s request for comment by the time of publication.

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As part of her “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” special on TBS, comedian Samantha Bee enlisted a slew of her peers to roast President Donald Trump.

Kumail Nanjiani, Retta, Patton Oswalt, Cameron Esposito, Billy Eichner and more hurled one-liners at Trump and his administration during Bee’s show, which aired at the same time as the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“You ever notice Betsy DeVos and a duffle bag of orphan’s bones are never in the same room together?” Eichner joked.

Nanjiani, one of the stars of HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” compared Trump to “that weird high school friend of yours that shows up at the party but doesn’t bring any beer, drinks everyone’s liquor, is weird to all the girls, and on the way out, doesn’t condemn hate crimes.”

Even comedy veteran Carl Reiner got in on the jokes, referencing his role in the film “Ocean’s 11.”

“Trump didn’t find the movie believable because it revolved around a casino that was actually making a profit,” Reiner said.

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