The private Quaker school is the alma mater of Chelsea Clinton, as well as President Nixon's daughters. President-elect Obama and Michelle Obama also considered public schools, aides say. Malia and Sasha Obama are headed for the Washington-area private Quaker school that Chelsea Clinton attended, aides to the future first family confirmed Friday.

Apart from the beefed up security and new fame, the president-elect is glad to be able to sleep in his own bed and spend time with family. It's a far cry from the frenzied campaign days. There is some irony that it took winning the presidency for Barack Obama to settle into a schedule that borders on humdrum.

Klain, who helped Biden prepare for the debate, held the same position with Vice President Gore. Vice President-elect Joe Biden chose as his chief of staff a man who once served in that same role for Vice President Al Gore, Democratic officials said today.

Unions want the president-elect to enact rules to make it easier to unionize workplaces. But doing so could alienate business at a crucial time for the economy. Two months before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as president, opening salvos are being launched over what could become one of the thorniest issues his administration will face next year.

Conservative Muslims may find it harder to rally opposition to a U.S. led by a multicultural, charismatic president. He could also inspire an Internet-based revolt. Despising America has long been a Middle East pastime, but then the country that brought war to Iraq and orange-suited prisoners to Guantanamo Bay elected a Facebook-friendly president who speaks in poems.

She's gone from the South Side of Chicago to Harvard Law to becoming a high-powered professional and a future first lady -- but cherishes her role as mother to Malia and Sasha most. People are often surprised by Michelle Obama's skill as a public speaker. But by the time she began campaigning for her husband's presidential bid nearly two years ago, she was already a veteran of his political campaigns.

Excited to have a Democrat in the White House again, leaders across California are hoping to see millions in federal funds for education, environmental causes, healthcare, transportation and housing. If you've been elected to something somewhere in California, you're probably writing a wish list for President-elect Barack Obama.

The president-elect also discusses his historic election, national security, Bin Laden, Lincoln, FDR and college football. President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he was assembling his national security team as quickly as possible because there potentially could be "times of vulnerability" to terrorist attacks during White House transition periods.

Liberals hope the president-elect would name someone who could counter the court's conservative justices. But Obama has hinted that he favors a more moderate choice. Barack Obama's election probably does not herald a new liberal era at the Supreme Court, since none of the conservative justices -- who are in the majority -- is expected to retire in the next four years.

A high-level aide to California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has been charged in federal court with receiving and distributing child pornography.

Just as Sen. Ted Stevens appeared set to return to Congress, felony conviction and all, his re-election bid has faltered. If he loses, it also closes a possible door into the Senate anytime soon for Gov. Sarah Palin.

The severity of the nation's economic woes requires him to act before taking office or face an even deeper crisis, experts say. The wave of bad economic news that helped carry Barack Obama to an election victory this month now threatens to swamp his presidency even before he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

They lost their spots (coincidentally?) after their newspapers endorsed McCain. Also: 527 groups play a less prominent role than in '04, and election day weather divination won't be as accurate this t   Sen. Barack Obama's operation has kicked three newspaper reporters off its campaign plane. Obama's people say it was a tough decision to boot the reporters for the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News and the Washington Times. But, they say, there

Obama says affordable healthcare is the right of every American; McCain says he has a plan that will provide it without government mandates. On healthcare: right or responsibility? McCAIN: I think it's a responsibility in this respect, in that we should have available and affordable healthcare to every American citizen, to every family member. And with the plan that -- that I have, that will do that. But government mandates I'm always a little nervous

Anne Kilkenny's e-mail criticizing Sarah Palin was supposed to help inform 40 of her friends. More than 13,700 e-mail responses and half a million Google hits changed all that. The woman behind the infamous e-mail that aired criticisms of Sarah Palin to millions across the cyber-globe sat at a computer screen scrolling through unread messages, as dozens more popped into her inbox.

Decrying inaction on a financial bailout plan, Barack Obama and John McCain propose similar bipartisan solutions. They want to include raising the FDIC insurance limit to $250,000. DES MOINES -- The major presidential candidates this morning separately called for increasing government insurance on bank deposits as they both tried to show that they were helping to resolve the economic crisis.

Going into Thursday's vice presidential debate, Sarah Palin's former aides and Alaskan political rivals recall the candidate's jab-with-a-smile skillfulness and warn not to underestimate her. When she appeared for a candidate's forum in front of a room filled with unionized Alaskan electrical workers during her run for governor in early October 2006, Sarah Palin arrived woefully unprepared. When the union members grilled her on labor policy, Palin faltered.

Major parts of this year's request Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin submitted a request this year for 31 federal earmarks worth $197.8 million. Her memo and the list of projects can be found on the website of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens at http://stevens.senate.gov/earmarks/Approps-StateofAlaska.pdf . Here are the biggest earmarks:

Columbus, Ohio -- Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife are releasing a decade of his personal financial records, showing a veteran senator who earned less than many of his Senate colleagues.Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife are releasing a decade of his personal financial records, showing a veteran senator who earned less than many of his Senate colleagues. The Bidens' move is designed to pressure Republican vice presidential pick

The Republican vice presidential candidate says students should be taught about condoms. Her running mate -- and the party platform -- disagree. Teen pregnancy and sex education were thrust into the spotlight this week when Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin revealed that her 17-year-old daughter is five months pregnant.

The job involves important managerial responsibilities but provides little, if any, foreign policy experience, military officials say. Seeking to buttress the foreign policy credentials of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Republicans have repeatedly cited the vice presidential nominee's experience as commander of the Alaska National Guard.

A hard-line supporter of state controls, she's earned public acclaim, angered industry giants, allied with Democrats and alienated fellow Republicans. Days after she was sworn in as governor, Sarah Palin began to clean house at the department of natural resources, firing and demoting several top officials and eventually appointing a new director at the agency that oversees the energy companies that provide the state with 85% of its revenue.

His brother and sons have close ties to a law firm that has benefited from the senator's congressional votes. When Joe Biden's brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator's office on an important piece of business in Congress -- and in fact had recently benefited from his vote. The firm promised James and Hunter Biden

Researchers find that many people who think they are uncertain have unconsciously made up their minds based on deep-seated beliefs. Can't decide between Barack Obama and John McCain? Chances are your brain already has.

Associates of both Barack Obama and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden say they believe Biden will be chosen as Obama's running mate, though they caution they have not been told directly. On a day and night of political suspense, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden emerged as a leading contender Friday to become Barack Obama's vice presidential pick as two running mate rivals learned they had been eliminated.