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Leading Democratic Party presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden posted a family photo Christmas greetings tweet Wednesday morning with wife Jill and six other family members gathered before a fireplace along with a heartfelt message, “May your time with loved ones be full of peace, laughter, and joy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. With love, from my family to yours.” It’s a beautiful Christmas scene being played out all across America this morning, including for many families like the Bidens, the absence of the black sheep member of the family.

Seething at what they consider racist slurs against African-Americans displaced by Hurricane Katrina, activists here Friday took verbal aim at gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman and west Houston residents who last week urged city officials to send evacuees back home. "The nerve of the white man to talk about shipping anyone anywhere," Houston activist Quanell X told a small group of reporters and the public Friday at a Texas Southern University news conference. "This is disgraceful." His comments came as local and New Orleans activists gathered in Houston to craft a response to the comments, which they said smeared the estimated...