In Texas, politics meets pageantry as Houston Mayor John Whitmire taps Grammy-winning artist Brian McKnight to emcee the city ...

The death of a former vice president qualifies for lowering the flag as a part of the U.S. Flag Code, the Half Staff ...

It was one of the most surreal political moments in modern history. Dick Cheney died Nov. 3 at the age of 84, leaving behind ...

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the nation’s first and only female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a lifelong LGBTQ ally, announced Thursday that she will not seek re-election next year, after 38 ...

The former VP’s indifference to approval made him a boogeyman for the left and the right.

Texas Republicans' silence mirrored the response of  President Donald Trump, whom Dick Cheney famously criticized as a ...

Dick Cheney, a powerful vice president and a chief architect of the war in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and part of ...

Evan Smith, then Texas Monthly’s editor in chief, gives the behind-the-scenes story of how the 2007 Bum Steers cover came ...

As of Wednesday morning, President Trump had not publicly responded to the former vice president's death. Cheney had become a ...

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, flags are flown at half-staff for 10 days after the death of a vice president.