![Walter Mondale served as vice president under Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 [File:Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-20T014549Z_1542756570_RC2DZM91D1PQ_RTRMADP_3_PEOPLE-MONDALE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic, who was US vice president under Jimmy Carter died on Monday.
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![Hyung Oh Kim, an 85-year-old immigrant from South Korea, and wife, Ki Sook, 77, in their apartment in the Koreatown neighbourhood of Los Angeles. Amid the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes, Kim, who came to the States in 1989 with his wife and children, asks himself whether he made the right decision these days. "I never had this type of fear before," said Kim. [Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21109677267535.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Amid a surge of anti-Asian violence, fear creeps in and alters the daily life of vulnerable Asian senior citizens.
![US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said if countries invest in new coal-fired power plants or factories, they will hear about it from US diplomats [File: Martin Bertrand/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/371106849.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Secretary of state says US will lose out on ‘countless jobs’ if it does not catch up with China in climate policies.
![Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that Beijing will continue its anti-COVID-19 cooperation with the World Health Organization and other countries and do more to help developing countries defeat the virus [Kevin Yao/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-20T022423Z_220920735_RC2EZM9QEEY5_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-BOAO.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Chinese leader says global affairs cannot be decided by just a few countries as rivalry with US intensifies.
![US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was memorialised in the rotunda of the US Capitol on February 3 [File: Demetrius Freeman/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-02-03T154854Z_1053847445_RC23LL9ZQ0I3_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-CAPITOL-SICKNICK.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Officer Brian Sicknick died from strokes caused by a blood clot in artery to his brain, medical examiner’s report finds.
![Daunte Wright’s death was followed by protests outside the city’s police station, with some demonstrators hurling objects at officers who have responded at times with gas and rubber bullets before clearing the scene with a riot line [Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-19T023827Z_275717096_RC2OYM94XHZT_RTRMADP_3_USA-MINNESOTA-SHOOTING.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Witness tells Al Jazeera police took ‘at least four minutes’ to get Wright out of car after shooting near Minneapolis.
![A plan put forward by the United Mine Workers of America calls for significant expansion of tax incentives for renewable energy and preference in hiring for dislocated miners, among other provisions [File: J David Ake/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP21103010366420.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
UMWA’s president said ensuring jobs for displaced miners is crucial to any infrastructure bill taken up by Congress.
![While the matter already has dragged on more than two years, Meng Wanzhou's lawyers on Monday asked the Supreme Court of British Columbia to put proceedings on hold until August to give them time to examine documents from Huawei’s bank, HSBC Bank Plc, that have just been released by order of a court in Hong Kong [File: Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/371110368.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018.
![Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk towards the US Capitol in Washington on January 6 [File: Carolyn Kaster/ AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21109618514952.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
A federal judge ruled that Joseph Biggs and Ethan Nordean are dangerous and should not be free pending trial.
![The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union said in a filing that Amazon threatened workers with layoffs and even the closing of the warehouse if they unionised [File: Jay Reeves/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21089718039308.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union alleges that Amazon threatened workers with layoffs if they unionised.
![Dominion Voting Systems sued Mike Lindell and MyPillow in February in United States federal court, seeking $1.3bn in damages and claiming the pillow company boosted sales by as much as 40 percent by echoing former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the US election was rigged [File: Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/371103862.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump loyalist, is locked in a legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems.
![Facing sanctions by the West, embattled Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko met Russia Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on April 16 [Alexander Astafyev/ Sputnik via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-16T102855Z_1585256928_RC2YWM98V6LQ_RTRMADP_3_BELARUS-RUSSIA.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
New US sanctions are aimed at state-owned enterprises that support the government of Belarus President Lukashenko.
![The US Supreme Court is casting doubt that migrants who entered the US illegally but have been given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) are able to apply for legal citizenship [File: Will Dunham/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-03-05T000000Z_378408706_RC235M9GKI7D_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-IMMIGRATION.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Some of the justices are sceptical that some migrants who entered the US illegally should be offered legal citizenship.
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Tribal groups are vying over $8bn in funding intended for tribal governments under the 2020 CARES Act.
