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Powerful but polarizing Republican at odds with his party in later years over rejection of President Donald Trump, whom he called the ‘greatest ever threat to our Republic’

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Former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, architect of George W Bush’s “War on Terror,” has died at the age of 84.