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Joe Biden's son Beau dies of brain cancer

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,

Kerry breaks leg in cycling accident in Alps, returns home

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

Jeb Bush says U.S. should embed some troops with Iraqis for training

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Jeb Bush, calling President Barack Obama’s handling of the Islamic State a failure, said the United States should embed some U.S. troops with Iraqi forces to train them and identify targets. The expected Republican presidential candidate, in an interview to be aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said he was not calling for U.S. combat forces to be deployed in Iraq, in