A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.

Cheney - the VP under President Bush from 2001 to 2009 - died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Monday night.

University of Chicago professor arrested at anti-ICE rally posts scathing response to Dick Cheney's death, calling former VP a 'mass murderer' on social media.

Cheney helped shape the old Republican Party as a vice president who embraced aggressive antiterrorism tactics, only to see his party transformed by Trump and MAGA.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at 84. Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said Tuesday.

The Washington insider whose vast experience of American politics was crucial to the presidency of George W Bush and widely seen as the architect of the "war on terror.

"Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death," wrote Eman Abdelhadi, a columnist for In These Times.

Cheney dramatically expanded the use of White House executive power in selling and waging one of the most disastrous and avoidable wars in US history.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s notable career moments included the global war on terror, endorsing same-sex marriage and backing the Iraq war.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney died at age 84, his family announced Tuesday. CBS News' Major Garrett and former White House official Ashley Davis reflect on Cheney's impact on American politics.