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• US VP Biden says Brazil-US relations enter new era

  -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says a new era in Brazil-United States relations should begin in 2013 with stronger trade ties and closer cooperation in education and science.Biden made his remarks Friday after meeting with President Dilma Rousseff and Vice   Read more »

• US VP Biden wraps up first leg of Brazil visit

  -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is wrapping up his visit to Rio de Janeiro with a visit to a slum before traveling to Brasilia for a Friday meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.Biden embraced and shook hands with residents of the Santa Maria hillside   Read more »

• Wisconsin boy gets handwritten response from Biden

  Monday when Biden's handwritten response arrived in the mail.In the note, the vice president says he agrees that chocolate bullets would make the country safer and happier. The note concludes: "People love chocolate. You are a good boy, Joe Biden."   Read more »

• State visits amplify Obama focus on Latin America

  its engagement with Latin America, hosting leaders from a pair of presidents at the White House and sending Vice President Joe Biden to visit two others.Peru's President Ollanta Humala and Chile's President Sebastian Pinera will travel to Washington in June   Read more »

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• Biden, Praising Congresswoman Fighting Cancer, Names Wrong Member

  President Joe Biden, in a speech Tuesday on gun control efforts, wanted to say something nice about Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-L.I.). McCarthy, who has spent a career working on the issue after her husband was killed and son wounded in the 1993 Long Island railroad 12:58 AM from New York Daily News Read more »

• Biden concedes W.H. gun push falters in Congress

  hard on its gun control push. But in the first event since the Senate’s failed April 17 background checks vote, Vice President Joe Biden insisted to a subdued audience at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Tuesday that he and President Barack Obama 6/18/13 from The Politico Read more »

• Journalist Michael Hastings Dead at 33

  of himself and his strategy for the war that he and his staff openly derided their civilian overseers, including Vice President Joe Biden. President Obama dismissed McChrystal over his comments in the story, which also won several awards, as if Hastings needed 6/18/13 from Outside the Beltway Read more »

• Poll: Americans view GOP in less favorable light than Democratic Party

  it still matters. Gabriel Gomez and the chicken-and-egg question Jimmy Fallon on President Obama’s approval rating (VIDEO) Why Joe Biden is talking about guns Poll shows low favorability for GOP: Americans view the Republican Party in a less favorable light 6/18/13 from The Washington Post Read more »

• Obama and Putin Signal a More Businesslike Path

  Obama and Mr. Putin that they would create a working group on improving trade and investment to be led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev. When Congress acted in December to grant Russia full status as a trading partner, 6/18/13 from The New York Times Read more »