Hundreds have been arrested across major cities in America.

• 185 people were arrested in Los Angeles, and one officer was injured
• 26 arrests were made and over 4,000 people took to the streets in Portland, Oregon. Police classified the gathering as a "riot"
• In Baltimore a peaceful crowd of 600 people marched through the city centre, blocking traffic
• Demonstrators also gathered in Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Francisco and other cities
• Students in high schools and universities led walk outs to protest the Trump election

Attention is turning towards the team Donald Trump is assembling to run his new government.

We will keep you abreast of all the developments today - and of any new protests on the third day since his stunning election victory.

We're pausing our live coverage for now, but here's a recap of today's developments:

• President-elect Donald Trump said it was a "great honour" to meet President Barack Obama for transition talks at the White House, adding he "very much looks forward" to future meetings

• Obama said he was "encouraged" by their "excellent" and "wide-ranging" conversation, which lasted over an hour

• White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the two men did not resolve their differences but "the meeting might have been at least a little less awkward than some might have expected"
• Trump's wife Melania also had a meeting with First Lady Michelle Obama 
• Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence also met Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, which Ryan described as "fantastic, productive"

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When Donald Trump met President Barack Obama at the White House, their antipathy was barely concealed. See the pictures here. 

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his relationship with Donald Trump is off to a good start.

Mr Trudeau spoke with the president-elect on Wednesday and extended what has become a traditional invitation to newly elected US leaders to visit Canada after the inauguration.

Mr Trump reciprocated the invite.

"It was a brief call but a strong beginning to what is going to be a constructive relationship," Mr Trudeau said on Thursday.

Although his own policy goals contradict many of Mr Trump's, the prime minister said he looks forward to developing a constructive working relationship with his new US counterpart.

Mr Trudeau also said Canada is open to re-examining the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) between Canada, the US and Mexico.

Mr Trump has called Nafta the worst trade deal the United States has ever signed.

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A professor of law at the George Washington University Law School has said that "President Obama's legacy truly stands on clay feet".

Jonathan Turley told Radio 4's PM programme that the way Obama passed some laws, "by going it alone", will mean they will be easier to change by his successor.

Students from Georgetown Day School staged a protest against the president-elect outside the new Trump hotel in Downtown Washington DC earlier. Some of them made an effort to be friendly to the lone pro-Trump supporter, who was urging them to give him a chance.

Donald Trump has just finished his meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, telling reporters in Capitol Hill: "We have a lot of priorities. A lot of really great priorities."

Echoing the comments he made alongside Paul Ryan earlier, he said the top three were immigration, healthcare and jobs - "big league jobs". 

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The Department of Homeland Security has issued a strongly-worded statement highlighting recent "illegal migration" statistics.

"Our borders cannot be open to illegal migration. We must, therefore, enforce the immigration laws consistent with our priorities. Those priorities are public safety and border security," Secretary Jeh Johnson, an Obama appointee, said in the press release.

Donald Trump has vowed to curb illegal immigration using a method of "extreme vetting".

"In October a total of 46,195 individuals were apprehended between ports of entry on our southwest border, compared with 39,501 in September and 37,048 in August," Secretary Johnson wrote.

The current number of inmates in immigration detention centres is 41,000, he said, adding that the average number is typically between 31,000 - 34,000.

Donald Trump will be sitting down with reporter Lesley Stahl from CBS's 60 Minutes programme, the network has announced.

The show is set to air this Sunday.

60 Minutes was also the first stop for President Barack Obama after his election in 2008.

Earlier this year, the programme was the first to sit down with Trump and Mike Pence shortly after the Indiana governor was announced as Trump's running mate.

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Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks has told reporters that President-elect Trump will remain in Washington DC overnight.

It is unclear if he will stay at his new hotel, which was opened a few months ago only blocks away from the White House. Some small protests have been held outside the hotel since the election result was announced.

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Bernie Sanders is not ruling out another presidential bid in four years time.

"We'll take one thing at a time, but I'm not ruling out anything," the 75-year-old told the Associated Press news agency in an interview.

He added: "It is an embarrassment, I think, to the entire of Democratic Party that millions of white working-class people decided to vote for Mr Trump, which suggests that the Democratic message of standing up for working people no longer holds much sway among workers in this country."

Hillary Clinton lost because of a "lack of enthusiasm" among Democrats, who did not turn out to vote, the Vermont senator said.

Our North America reporter Anthony Zurcher has taken a look at a Democratic Party in disarray. 

Trump met with Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill earlier. 

At the meeting, Trump talked about how excited he was to get started on his agenda, saying that high priorities would be immigration, healthcare and lowering taxes. 

After the brief remarks, Ryan took Trump and his wife to a balcony overlooking the construction work being done to erect a podium for his January inauguration. 

First Lady Michelle Obama has given Melania Trump a tour of the private residence at the White House.

The pair "stepped out onto the Truman balcony," spokesman Josh Earnest says, a place where the Obamas have spent plenty of "quality time".

They also talked about raising children at the White House.

No pictures have been released yet of their meeting. 

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Senior Democrat Elizabeth Warren has come out fighting today in a speech to a labour union, saying: "We will fight back against attacks on Latinos, African Americans, women, Muslims, immigrants, disabled Americans - on anyone."

"Whether Donald Trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the White House, we will not give an inch on this, not now, not ever," the progressive Massachusetts senator said, adding that they will "fight every step of the way" efforts to loosen financial regulations on Wall Street.

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Asked if President Obama will be a kind of opposition figure to Trump after he leaves office, White House spokesman Josh Earnest says he can't make any commitments on behalf of the president.

But he adds that Obama "deeply appreciated how President George W Bush, after leaving office, gave the new president some running room, gave him a little space...wasn't backseat driving in public" and constantly criticising him.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has just tweeted this threat to Donald Trump:

Given the heavy criticism that President Obama leveled at President-elect Trump - and vice-versa - during the campaign, it's no surprise that journalists are asking whether the president's opinions of the Republican have changed.

Does Obama now think Trump is fit to be president, one reporter asks White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

"The two men did not relitigate their differences in the Oval Office," he says with a slight smile. 

"We're onto the next phase now."

He also says it sounds like the meeting may have been "less awkward" than some people might have expected.

No other staff were there for the face-to-face.