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 age 84.

A central project in the political life of former Vice President Dick Cheney was his push to expand presidential power, and the legacy he left became groundwork for President Trump’s own aggressive e...

By the time he died on Monday night, he had become an unlikely voice of resistance to what he saw as a different kind of threat to America, allied not just with those who had soured on him, like Mr. ...