Obama to host Trump at White House

A triumphant Donald Trump heads to the White House Thursday for talks with President Barack Obama on securing a smooth transition of power and steading nerves after an election that shocked the world. Forty-eight hours after Trump's upset win, the 70-year-old president-elect will get a chance to measure the drapes ahead of his January inauguration. Trump has questioned whether Obama was born in the United States -- a suggestion laden with deep racial overtones -- and the Democratic commander-in-