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May 25, 2012 4:49pm Joe Biden Reflects on Grief, Suicidal Thoughts After Death of Wife and Daughter (Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Vice President Joe Biden today delivered a deeply personal and, at times, emotional address to survivors of slain U.S. military service members, recounting his struggle with intense grief after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident almost 40 years ago. “For the first time in my life, I understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide,” Biden told a Washington gathering organized by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a non-profit advocacy group, to commemorate Memorial Day. “Not because they were deranged, not because they were nuts, because they’d been to the top of the mountain and they ... Continue reading →

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now the owner of 11 properties, thanks to two major real estate purchases he made in 2011. Unlike presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whose 13.9 percent 2010 tax rate has become the subject of much debate, the mayor, a billionaire, pays a federal income tax rate of 34.69 percent, though that does not take into account deductions from charitable contributions. The highest federal tax rate is 35 percent.Those details and more became public with the release this morning of the mayor's New York City Conflicts of Interest Board financial disclosure report, and a version of his 2011 federal and New York State tax returns.Reporters gathered at the midtown offices of the mayor's accountant, Geller & Company, to look through the documents.In June ... Continue reading →