Dick Cheney, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84, was arguably one of the most powerful and influential US vice presidents in history.

In the final years of his life, Dick Cheney earned praise for breaking with his beloved Republican Party and defying Donald Trump, warning that Trump was a “threat to the republic.” That was commendable—and something of a counter to the efforts he made during his vice presidency to increase the power of the commander in chief and lay the foundation for the imperial presidency that Trump now seeks to establish.

One of the advocates who pushed for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Cheney was one of the most polarizing figures in modern political history.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who advised presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush and was a key architect of the war on terror, has died at the age of 84, his family announced Tuesday. "His beloved wife of 61 years,

For his entire first term, Bush had ceded control of foreign policy to Cheney and Rumsfeld. After he won reelection, Bush started taking back some of that power. Realizing that the Iraq war was going badly, he fired Rumsfeld and replaced him with an old favorite of his father’s, former CIA Director Robert Gates.

Dick Cheney died aged 84 on Monday but Iraq and the Middle East are still reeling from the effects of his quest for US dominance in the region

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Saddam Hussein has been a prisoner of war since his capture last month, Pentagon lawyers have determined. Despite that determination, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he knows of no formal declaration that the deposed Iraqi ...

Cheney, who died Monday at age 84, probably knew more about the workings of the U.S. government than any man active in politics at the time.