This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

All work on the critical $16 billion project to build a rail tunnel under the Hudson River to New York City will come to a halt by the end of next week unless the Trump administration reinstates federal funding for it, the project’s builder warned. nyti.ms/4rfx6vE