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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
GROWING DIVIDE: Sen. John F. Kerry's suggestion that he would delay accepting the presidential nomination until after the Democratic National Convention, floated on Friday, has provided the clearest evidence yet of a growing divide between city and party officials planning the event.
The Boston Globe: Amid scrambling, rift shows
POLITICAL CONDEMNATION: Ralph Nader's presidential campaign is urging Democratic contender John Kerry to condemn a new political group, the National Progress Fund, which is running ads telling Nader supporters that voting for the consumer advocate would help President Bush.
The Washington Times: Nadar urges Kerry to stop opposition
ROCK THE VOTE: As Election Day 2004 draws near in a battleground state whose 27 electoral votes could prove crucial to the victor once again, a movement is rising in poor black communities to register and to educate, reassure and entreat.
The New York Times: Reassurance for Florida voters made wary of chaos of 2000
PARTY TIME: 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 Monday from Yale, her father's alma mater. Jenna Bush, an English major, received a degree Saturday from the University of Texas.
The Las Vegas Sun: Bush celebrates daughter's graduation
REPORTERS SUBPOENAED: 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.
The Las Vegas Sun: Feds subpoena Tim Russert, Time's reporter
PROTEST PERMITS: Linked by indignation over the war and economic and social issues, protesters from Chicago, Santa Barbara, California, Cleveland and scores of other places across the country are developing their plans to descend on New York City for the convention. The protesters are not deterred by the barriers they face. New York City has yet to issue any protest permits.
The New York Times: Permit or not, protesters prepare for New York
FACELIFT: President Bush's national security team, which has stayed remarkably intact despite missteps in Iraq and his slumping approval ratings, is likely to undergo a major facelift if Bush wins a second term. Maybe even before. Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to be first out the door in a second Bush administration -- unless Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld resigns before then amid a deteriorating situation in Iraq.
The Las Vegas Sun: Advisers likely will change if Bush wins
ENVIRONMENT ISSUES: With husband John Kerry running for president, Teresa Heinz Kerry again is asserting herself on environmental issues, partly because of her belief that the Bush administration is undoing the clean air law that her first husband -- and the first President Bush -- helped pass. In a series of speeches, including one earlier this month, Heinz Kerry has said it is ''a sin against humankind" that the current Bush administration has rolled back environmental policy on clean air and water.
The Boston Globe: Heinz Kerry has an ecology agenda
THE RETICENT SPEAKER: House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert does not say much, but his few words can pack a wallop. Frustrated by a budget impasse, Hastert took after Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, last week and got caught up in a feud with him on the subject of war and sacrifice.
The New York Times: Hastert, suddenly has plenty to say
BUSH IN HIS BUBBLE: All presidents live in a bubble, but Democrats, European officials and a group of moderate Republicans say that Bush lives in a bigger bubble than most. As the problems of the occupation and insurgency in Iraq have intensified, they say, Bush has appeared to retreat more than ever into his tight circle of aides.
The New York Times: The other long occupation
Compiled by Heather Riley
