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Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping met for the final time Saturday, with the Chinese leader warning of a "hinge moment" in relations after Donald Trump's election. "I hope the two sides will work together to focus on cooperation, manage our differences, and make sure there is a smooth transition in the relationship and that it will continue to grow going forward," Xi said at the start of their last meeting together in Lima, Peru where they are attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
Standing over 1.8m tall, with a large, unruly shock of hair, the president-elect saw himself as the champion of the common people against the educated elites, while his enemies - of which he had a large number - saw him as an unsophisticated loudmouth and a bitter partisan. The country was divided and had for years been fighting close elections, in which even his wife's supposedly disreputable past was considered fair game.
Obama will close a three-nation, post-U.S. election... . President Barack Obama walks down the stairs from Air Force One during his arrival at Jorge Chavez International Airport in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.
On Friday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Washington Post Reporter Chris Cillizza argued "the greatest thing that happened to the Republican Party is Barack Obama." After agreeing with host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough that the Democrats don't have a bench, Cillizza said, "I always say that the greatest thing that happened to the Republican Party is Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama has said he hopes President-elect Donald Trump doesn't take a "realpolitik approach" to dealing with Russia. "My principal approach to Russia has been constant since I came into office," Obama said during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today, calling Russia an important country and superpower.
In this image made from a video provided by Hamilton LLC, actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Arron Burr, the nation's third vice president, in "Hamilton" speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest celebrity to attend the Broadway hit "Hamilton," but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage.
Andrea Aguilera sits at the Erie Neighborhood House Thursday in Chicago. Aguilera, 20, a student at a suburban Chicago college, said she feels uncertain since the election.
Donald Trump's first days as president-elect, and the public reaction to them, underscored the psychosis of a nation in the midst of an existential crisis, left in fidgety suspense. Regarding policy matters, as Salena Zito of The Atlantic pithily surmised, the degree of hand-wringing warranted generally depends on whether one takes Donald Trump literally but not seriously, or seriously but not literally - although most are probably currently suspended somewhere in between, and others are just plain terrified.
Let's just begin with this: Steve Bannon does not care one whit about ethics rules and possibly even about the law. Steve Bannon lives a life where chaos and darkness are his friends, along with his white supremacist cabal of supporters.
Washington : President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. AP/PTI It was 22:30 on November 8th and I was in the "Irish Village", an Ottawa complex of inter-connected pubs and site of the largest US Election-Night party in Canada's capital city.
Donald Trump's surprise victory in the presidential election, coupled with continued Republican control of both branches of the U.S. Congress, heralds significant changes in the United States' policy in trade, immigration, foreign affairs, energy and taxation. Many Canadians are understandably uneasy about the direction the U.S. may take under new leadership.
Obama traveled to South America to attend the annual Asi... . President Barack Obama boards Air Force One during a refueling stop at Lajes Field, Azores on the island of Terceira, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ami Bera won his bid for a third term to represent a Sacramento-area district that national Republican leaders had targeted. Bera faced a tough challenge from Republican Scott Jones, the Sacramento County sheriff who raised his profile by criticizing President Barack Obama's immigration policies.
President Barack Obama won't explicitly say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely he believes it. The president basically thinks anyone who gets in his way is transgressing the larger forces of history with a capital "H."
Yep. President-elect Donald J. Trump. That's still a thing. So while you continue to process that, we wanted to catch you up on some of some things you ought to read, hear and watch around the world of race and culture.
Online effort: Draft John Kasich for U.S. Senate The internet and social media are awash in efforts to draft politicians. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2fElulJ After Ohio Gov. John Kasich's visit with President Barack Obama last week, his political strategist is trading blows with the RNC chairman.
Ongoing protests of the four-state, $3.8 ... . An unidentified Dakota Access Pipeline protester leaves a trail of burning sage smoke as she walks past a row of law enforcement personnel standing guard in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota on Thursday, Nov. 17, ... .
After winning big at the polls only 10 days ago, backers of marijuana legalization fear their movement took a major hit Friday when President-elect Donald Trump chose Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions , a staunch legalization opponent, as his attorney general. It is false that marijuana use doesn't lead people to more drug use.
Dakota Access Pipeline protesters form a circle to sing, pray and demonstrate at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016. Ongoing protests of the four-state, $3.8 million pipeline in southern North Dakota have "significantly strained" law enforcement and the state Highway Patrol, which provides security at the state Capitol, Republican House Majority Leader Al Carlson said.