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• 43 years after tragic car crash, Beau Biden’s death leaves Joe Biden grieving again
• Heartfelt tributes pour in for Beau Biden
• Surveillance powers set to lapse with no deal in Senate
• Sun returns to Texas, revealing flood damage across state
• Senate meets to debate future of U.S. telephone spying powers
• Obamas visit Biden family after death of vice president's son
• Qatar to extend restrictions on ex-Taliban detainees: U.S. official
• Kerry delays return to US after injury in bicycle crash
• Watchdog finds ex-Nazis got $20.2 million in Social Security
• Beau Biden dies at 46; son of VP had life of adversity
• More heavy rain but no new serious flooding in Houston area

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.

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.

Surveillance powers set to lapse with no deal in Senate Posted: 31 May 2015 04:36 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency will lose its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after an extraordinary Sunday Senate session failed to produce an 11th-hour deal to extend the fiercely contested program.

Sun returns to Texas, revealing flood damage across state Posted: 31 May 2015 02:05 PM PDT Most of Texas was set to get its first period of extended sunshine in weeks, allowing surging rivers to recede as emergency-management officials turn their attention to cleanup efforts in such places as Houston, where damage estimates top $45 million.

Senate meets to debate future of U.S. telephone spying powers Posted: 31 May 2015 02:45 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate convened 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. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Obamas visit Biden family after death of vice president's son Posted: 31 May 2015 03:12 PM PDT U.S. President Barack Obama visited Vice President Joe Biden and his family on Sunday to offer condolences after the death of Biden's son, Beau. Beau Biden, 46, who served eight years as attorney general of Delaware, died on Saturday after a recurrence of brain cancer. Obama and his wife, Michelle, went to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the vice president's official residence, to offer their condolences to the Biden family.

Qatar to extend restrictions on ex-Taliban detainees: U.S. official Posted: 31 May 2015 03:09 PM PDT Qatar has agreed to extend monitoring and travel restrictions on five Taliban detainees who were freed from the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention camp last year in exchange for a U.S. soldier, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Sunday. The official, who asked not to be identified, said the restrictions would continue while Washington was in discussions with Qatar about ensuring the five posed no threat to U.S. security. Qatar took in the men as part of a deal to free U.S. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who had been captured by militants in Afghanistan.

Kerry delays return to US after injury in bicycle crash Posted: 31 May 2015 03:08 PM 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.

Watchdog finds ex-Nazis got $20.2 million in Social Security Posted: 31 May 2015 03:23 PM 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.

Beau Biden dies at 46; son of VP had life of adversity Posted: 31 May 2015 01:01 PM PDT The former Delaware attorney general was reported to be undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington.

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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