US vice president loses eldest son to cancer
May 31, 2015  10:18
Beau Biden -- son of US Vice President Joe Biden -- has died after battling brain cancer for several years. He was 46. 

Beau, the oldest son of the US vice president and the rising star of a family dynasty, had been admitted recently to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda as he fought the cancer, a battle that his father largely kept private. 

"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," Vice President Biden said in a statement released last night.
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