It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life.

The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. 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.

Beau’s life was defined by service to others. As a young lawyer, he worked to establish the rule of law in war-torn Kosovo. A major in the Delaware National Guard, he was an Iraq War veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star. As Delaware’s Attorney General, he fought for the powerless and made it his mission to protect children from abuse.

More than his professional accomplishments, Beau measured himself as a husband, father, son and brother. His absolute honor made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did.

In the words of the Biden family: Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known.

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UPDATES Rain Continues to drown out much of the Dallas-Fort Worth Area this Saturday. President Obama issued a federal disaster declaration for areas affected by the flooding. Residents in several Texas counties have been advised to seek safe shelter, obey law enforcement, adhere to warnings, and move to higher grounds. On Saturday, parts of Texas have already seen inches of rain and flash floods.  UPDATES Over, Memorial Day Weekend, heavy storms and rain led to flash flooding across Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Officials in Texas are still searching for eleven missing persons.Rain and flooding led to death in destruction in the area of Acuña, Mexico. At least thirteen people died as a result in Mexico.  After flooding and the tornadoes produced in the region, Mexico's President is promising aid to the region. In Oklahoma and Texas, the death tolls have risen to nineteen people . As a result of the flooding, there has been at least 32 deaths. As of Tuesday, more than 80,000 people are still without electricity. Houston schools and other nearby districts have remain closed. The process of clean-up, restoring electricity, and receiving aid has begun in these regions.

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This past weekend heavy rainstorm produced floods that destroyed local communities in Texas and Oklahoma. Rain pounded the local communities both Saturday and Sunday leaving some whole communities surrounded by water and mud.   The storms stretch from line from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Tornadoes and major flash floods left at least 2,000 Texas to become evacuated from their homes. The floods also left two people dead in Oklahoma and one death in Texas.

"It looks pretty bad out there...We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs."" Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith said of Wimberley, Texas.

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So how exactly does live anthrax get shipped in the mail by the U.S. Military? This is the question many people are asking after live anthrax spores spread across 11 U.S. states and two foreign countries. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, an Army biodefense facility in Utah, mistakenly sent live samples to 18 private and military laboratories. Most of the samples were sent through Fed-Ex mail contained live spores.

“At this time we do not suspect any risk to the general public,” the CDC said in a statement Thursday.

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The Omaha World-Herald notes: "In the most suspenseful decision to play out in Nebraska's one-house Legislature in years, lawmakers voted 30-19 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of Legislative Bill 268. Without a vote to spare, the override replaced lethal injection with life in prison."

At a conference for investors late last year, Yum CEO Greg Creed referred to the shifting attitudes and the desire for "real food" as a revolution in the industry.

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"It looks pretty bad out there...We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs."" Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith said of Wimberley, Texas.

“This bold new partnership between Univision and The Root underscores the ties that have long bound people of color together throughout the Western Hemisphere and is a sign of even greater levels of communication, collaboration and exchange between these culturally vital groups of people.”
- Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's chairman and co-founder

“Like Univision, The Root aims to serve a significant segment of America’s diverse population,” Isaac Lee, president of news and digital for Univision Communications,said in a press release. “Our diverse communities are continuing to define the fabric of the country, from buying power, to social influence, to elections.

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One mother was so upset, she attacked him outside of the office.

The #sayhername campaign seeks to recognize, remember, and change state violence against black women and girls in America. There has been many cases in the headlines recently that tell the story how black men are often treated with violence and killed by the police. The struggle of black women and their stories often remains a a silent one.  On May 21st, a national day of action was called to recognize this struggle. Demonstrators across the nation, took the streets to honor recent victims such as Aiyana Stanley-Jones and Rekia Boyd, as well as the countless of victims of police brutality.

Rose Berry works for the local chapter of the Black Youth Project 100 said:“We wanted to kick off the day, give them a dose of black women’s liberation with their morning coffee,” she said. “We won’t be ignored anymore. We’re not invisible. We’ve never been invisible.”

“I just couldn’t imagine a grown man hitting my child,” Edward Torrence said.

“I really feel that’s wrong,” added Iris Wood.

A steel from video footage of substitute whipping 6th graders.