The 2025 government shutdown is hours away from breaking a record to be the longest-ever in history.

The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month.

Yet, from this unpromising start, he turned himself into the most influential vice president in modern U.S. history, transforming a job once famously described as “not worth a bucket of warm spit” int...

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, a key architect of George W Bush's "war on terror" and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 84.

News of Cheney's death prompted a range of statements from leaders around the world, reflecting both respect for his decades of public service and recognition of his controversial legacy.