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Whitmer, who has been criticized by some Democrats for taking a friendlier tone with President Donald Trump than in his last term, suggested her willingness to work with others tois what has made her an effective leader for the battleground state, which Trump won last fall and in 2016.

In the past month, Whitmer notched a successful deal with the Trump administration toand jobs at an air force base, and Trump assured Midwest leaders that he will fund a project to protect the Great Lakes fromThere also were some awkward moments alongside Trump, scorn from those who would like Whitmer to more vehemently oppose the Republican president and disagreement among top Democrats about how best to approach him.

, sharing a surprising embrace. The president praised her as doing an “excellent job” — a departure from his criticism of her during his first term. Whitmer also had an awkwardin the Oval Office earlier this year, something Whitmer made light of during her address by jokingly holding a binder in front of her face, emulating a photo taken that day in April.

“And that’s why I don’t care much about headlines. What I care about is making headway,” she said in an address given to Michigan’s political elites and business leaders at a policy conference.

“Over the past six and a half years, I have found that leadership is about fighting hard, often quietly, for your big goals,” she said. “Your tolerance for taking a few punches to win the fight.”BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the

of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here.ever transplanted into people came from animals born on this special research farm in the Blue Ridge mountains – behind locked gates, where entry requires washing down your vehicle, swapping your clothes for medical scrubs and stepping into tubs of disinfectant to clean your boots between each air-conditioned barn.

“These are precious animals,” said David Ayares of Revivicor Inc., who spent decades learning to clone pigs with just the right genetic changes to allowThe biosecurity gets even tighter just a few miles away in Christiansburg, Virginia, where a new herd is being raised – pigs expected to supply organs for formal studies of animal-to-human transplantation as soon as next year.