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Obama offered to help Biden financially during son's illness By Reuters Published: 22:30 EST, 11 January 2016 | Updated: 22:30 EST, 11 January 2016 WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said President Barack Obama offered to give him money to help with expenses after his son Beau was battling cancer. In an interview broadcast on CNN on Monday, Biden said Obama made the offer during lunch after Biden told him he was considering selling his house to raise funds to help Beau, who died of brain cancer in May 2015 at age 46. Biden said at the...

Vice President Joe Biden offered effusive praise for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Monday, lauding Hillary Clinton's chief rival for doing a "heck of a job" on the campaign trail and praising Sanders for offering an authentic voice on income inequality. And while Biden said Democrats had a slate of "great candidates" running for president, he suggested Clinton was a newcomer to issues like the growing gap between rich and poor. "Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real. And he has credibility on it," Biden said during an interview with CNN chief political analyst Gloria...