WASHINGTON (AP) — In a cordial beginning to their transfer of power, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met at the White House Thursday. Obama called the 90-minute meeting “excellent,” and his successor said he looked forward to receiving the outgoing president’s “counsel.” At the close of the Oval Office sit-down, Obama said to […]
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Trump Names Black GOP Maverick Ken Blackwell Domestic Transition Leader
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Republican selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead his domestic transition is an outspoken conservative Black man with a history as a party maverick. Ken Blackwell prevailed in an intraparty feud in 2006 to become Ohio’s first black nominee for governor. He also took on fellow Republicans in the state Legislature […]
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Trump Heads to the White House for Meeting with Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to the man whom he blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of Obama’s own presidency. President Barack Obama is set to […]