Our VOA colleagues have a nice video on incoming first lady Melania Trump, who is Slovenian-born.
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have unveiled the website for a foundation for his new presidential center in Chicago.
Here's the accompanying video, in which the Obamas say that after "a little break," they want suggestions for the project.
Obama says it will be more than a museum, but "a living, working, center for citizenship" with efforts "all over the city, the country, and the world."
AP notes: Melania Trump initially reached to shake Michelle Obama's hand, but the first lady instead gave her a hug.
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, arrived in the past hour at the U.S. Capitol for the ceremonies.
Tradition dictates tea and coffee for this momentous meeting between the U.S. president-elect and outgoing president and their spouses.
The outgoing and incoming U.S. presidents and their wives at the north entrance to the White House moments ago.
Many former leaders and other V.I.P.s are meanwhile arriving at the U.S. Capitol Building, whose west front is the site of the inauguration ceremony and where the freshly inaugurated president, vice president, and other senior officials and guests will lunch together after the swearing-in.
Our correspondent Mike Eckel is out and about in Washington D.C.