| 43 years after tragic car crash, Beau Biden’s death leaves Joe Biden grieving again Posted: 31 May 2015 08:42 AM PDT  Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address at Yale University, where he recalled the 1972 car accident that killed his wife, Neilia, and 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, and left his two sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, hospitalized.
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| Heartfelt tributes pour in for Beau Biden Posted: 31 May 2015 08:02 AM PDT  Leaders from both sides of the political aisle are mourning the death of Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, who died Saturday of brain cancer at age 46.
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| Kerry breaks leg in bicycle crash; ends overseas trip early Posted: 31 May 2015 09:02 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash Sunday after striking a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international conference on combating the Islamic State group.
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| Watchdog says ex-Nazis got $20.2 million in Social Security Posted: 31 May 2015 08:22 AM PDT  In a forthcoming report triggered by an Associated Press investigation, the top watchdog at the Social Security Administration found the agency paid $20.2 million in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards, and others who may have participated in the Third Reich's atrocities during World War II.
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| Vice President Joe Biden's son Beau dies of brain cancer Posted: 31 May 2015 10:51 AM PDT  The former Delaware attorney general was reported to be undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington.
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| Senate meets with key Patriot Act provisions on the ropes Posted: 31 May 2015 12:02 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Key Patriot Act anti-terror provisions, including bulk collection of Americans' phone records, expire at midnight unless senators come up with an 11th hour deal in an extraordinary Sunday afternoon session.
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| Senate set to convene on future of U.S. telephone spying powers Posted: 31 May 2015 09:16 AM PDT  By Douwe Miedema WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is set to convene in a rare Sunday session in a last-ditch attempt to pass legislation to allow U.S. spy agencies to continue to sweep up information on Americans' telephone calls and other business records. Failure to pass such legislation would mean that key provisions of the USA Patriot Act would expire and, facing a midnight (0400 GMT Monday) deadline, the National Security Agency would have to shut off a vast surveillance system. The Patriot Act was signed into law by Republican President George W. Bush after the Sept. ...
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| Joe Biden's son Beau dies of brain cancer Posted: 30 May 2015 09:07 PM PDT  By Jeff Mason and Frances Kerry WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, died on Saturday after battling brain cancer, the vice president said. "The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words," Vice President Biden said in a statement released by the White House. "We know that Beau's spirit will live on in all of us, especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter," he said.
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| Kerry breaks leg in cycling accident in Alps, returns home Posted: 31 May 2015 08:56 AM PDT  By Lesley Wroughton GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right leg in an accident while cycling a portion of the Tour de France route near Scionzier, France, on Sunday and is returning to the United States, his spokesman said. Kerry broke his femur but the injury is not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, spokesman John Kirby said. Kerry had been due later on Sunday to travel to Madrid, his first visit to Spain as secretary of state, to sign a bilateral defense agreement that would allow the United States to have permanent use of Moron air base, near Seville.
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| B.B. King recalled with love, humor at Mississippi funeral Posted: 30 May 2015 03:28 PM PDT  INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — B.B. King's early life personified the blues: He was born to dirt-poor sharecroppers in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta and left alone by the deaths of his mother and grandmother when he was a child. But he never let those circumstances hold him back or define him, a minister said Saturday at the funeral of the blues legend.
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| Martin O'Malley launches populist campaign from embattled hometown Posted: |
| More heavy rain but no new serious flooding in Houston area Posted: 30 May 2015 08:45 PM PDT  ROSENBERG, Texas (AP) — The seemingly ceaseless rain swept across areas of Texas again on Saturday, bringing fears of renewed flooding but no new serious problems.
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| Kerry, Zarif fail to make breakthrough in nuclear talks Posted: 30 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT  Tehran rejected a key Western demand for site inspections Saturday and differences remained after US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart held talks to secure a nuclear deal. With a deadline a month away, a senior Iranian negotiator said the Geneva talks between Kerry and Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif failed to bridge the differences between Tehran and world powers. "The differences are still there," Abbas Araghchi, deputy head of Iran's negotiating team, said at the end of the meeting.
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