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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday. Such a meeting is customary between the outgoing president and the incoming president, and is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of power under America’s democracy. But Trump, a Republican, did not host Biden, a Democrat, for a sit-down after the 2020 election, when Trump lost his reelection bid. Trump sought the presidency four years later, and this week he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat.

A storm system that dumped multiple feet of wet, heavy snow on Colorado this week is moving on, as counties south and east of Denver continue to dig themselves out of the slush. Flakes are continuing to fall between Denver International Airport and the southeast side of the metropolitan area, but as of Saturday morning, Zach Hiris, a meteorologist at the Boulder office of the National Weather Service, said the snow is expected to let up by the end of the day across most of the state. “We’re pretty much in the last gasp of the storm this morning,” he said. The Palmer Divide area south of Denver and Lincoln County saw the worst of the storm, with up to 40 inches of snow accumulating along the Palmer Divide and about 38 inches of snow reported in rural Genoa, according to Hiris.

As the reality of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory begins to settle, LGBTQ+ rights groups and individuals are grappling with the realities of what that means—especially now that he has a GOP-majority Senate to back him on his policies. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Throughout his campaign, Trump showcased an anti-trans rhetoric across his speeches, ads, and written platform policies.

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for Nov. 9, 2024 as of 9:20 a.m. Saturday: Air Force Academy, CO — 23 inches at 9:12 a.m. Aspen Springs, CO — 20.8 inches at 4:32 a.m. Aurora, CO — 19 inches at 12 a.m. Bear Lake, CO — 11 inches at 12 a.m. Berthoud Pass, CO — 6 inches at 12 a.m. Black Forest, CO — 27 inches at 6:22 a.m. Boone, CO — 6.5 inches at 6 p.m.

MIAMI— From Pennsylvania to Florida to Texas, areas with high numbers of Hispanics often had little in common on Election Day other than backing Republican Donald Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris for president. Trump, the president-elect, made inroads in heavily Puerto Rican areas of eastern Pennsylvania where the vice president spent the last full day of her campaign.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and backers of Ballot Issue 2R, a sales tax increase aimed at fueling affordable housing investments and programs, conceded the measure’s narrow defeat early Saturday morning. While it made up ground in later returns after Tuesday’s election, the measure was rejected on 51% of city ballots counted so far, according to the latest results released by the Denver Elections Division on Friday evening. That’s a slight improvement over preliminary results released Tuesday, when the measure had a rejection rate of 52.2%.