Dick Cheney, Influential and Polarising Former US Vice President, Dies at 84

Dick Cheney, who served as Vice President under George W. Bush, has died at age 84. Considered one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history, he was a chief architect of the "war on terror" and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A staunch conservative, Cheney also served as Secretary of Defense and White House Chief of Staff. In his later years, he became a prominent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, whom he called a "threat to our republic."