Former US vice president and liberal leader, Walter Mondale, who lost to Ronald Reagan in one of the most lopsided presidential elections in 1984, has died at the age of 93.
The death of the former senator, ambassador and Minnesota attorney general was announced in a statement from his family.
"It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota," his family said in a statement on Monday, April 19.
No cause was given for Mondale’s death, according to the statement from his family.
Before serving as Jimmy Carter’s deputy between 1977 and 1981, the Democrat had 12 years in the Senate representing his home state of Minnesota. Under Bill...
UK monarch, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday, May 11, carried out her first major engagement since the funeral of her husband Prince Philip, confirming the UK government's plans to ban LGBTQ conversion therapy in a formal ceremony at the Houses of Parliament.
In the ceremonial event, the Queen opened a new session of Parliament and read aloud UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's priorities.
The Queen's Speech also included the reintroduction of a controversial bill to increase police powers, legally binding environmental targets, and changes to the UK's health and social services sector.
The speech is one of the 95-year-old monarch's most important symbolic duties and forms the centerpiece of the State Opening of Parliament ceremony.
It was her first...
