“The Bidens aren’t going home” — this was the joke from the folksy US Vice president at his last event of his six-day voyage of discovery in Ireland yesterday.

Politicians, military leaders and celebrities from across the US have paid farewell to former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, whose death at age 46 opened yet another chapter of grief for his father, vice president Joe Biden.

US VICE PRESIDENT Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, yesterday was forced to reject allegations he divulged the location of a secret bunker in Washington used by the vice president in the event of an emergency.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama and his family officially opened the annual Easter Egg Roll yesterday, cheering on a large throng of children lined up for fun and games on the South Lawn of the White House.

Karen McCarthy reports from New York on the trail of deceit as US presidential candidates take liberties with the truth.