Connecticut

Bush twins’ graduation celebrations continue

Capping a busy family weekend, President Bush on Sunday celebrated the impending graduation of his daughter Barbara from Yale University, the day after doing the same for daughter Jenna in Texas.

Barbara Bush picks up a degree in humanities today from Yale, her father’s alma mater. Jenna Bush, an English major, received a degree Saturday from the University of Texas.

After staying overnight at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, the president flew to New Haven and went to the home of Yale’s president, a few doors down from a residence where Bush’s father lived when he was an undergraduate in the 1940s.

Boston

Nader recommends running mates for Kerry

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said Sunday he had advised John Kerry to choose North Carolina Sen. John Edwards or Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt as his running mate on the Democratic ticket.

Kerry won’t discuss whom he is considering for vice president, but his advisers have been examining Edwards and Gephardt, two of Kerry’s rivals from the Democratic primaries.

“They’re very careful,” Nader said on ABC’s “This Week.” “They’re not going to cause him any embarrassment. And they do bring an additional voter support for him.”

Kerry met with Nader on Wednesday in Washington.

New York City

Journalists subpoenaed in CIA agent leak

Tim Russert from NBC and a journalist from Time Inc. have received federal subpoenas to face questioning about the alleged leak of an undercover CIA weapons expert’s identity, but both news organizations said Sunday they would fight the subpoenas.

The companies said the subpoenas came from a special grand jury investigating whether the Bush administration improperly disclosed the identity of the agent, Valerie Plame, after her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, publicly challenged the White House’s claim that Iraq had been trying to obtain uranium for nuclear weapons from Africa.

NBC and Time said the subpoenas were aimed at Russert, the “Meet the Press” host and moderator, and Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, both of whom have reported on the Plame controversy.