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The ongoing government shutdown entered its 36th full day on Wednesday, which officially makes it the longest in U.S. history. It takes the title from the most recent shutdown, which stretched from ...

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.

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