The Latest Breaking News from Watergate

While former US President Donald Trump is the first to be indicted, he is not the first to face a political scandal.

John Dean thinks it’s ‘very likely’ that one or more of Mr Trump’s co-defendants in the case will flip on the former president – something that he did during the Watergate scandal

The new season of Leon Neyfakh’s Fiasco podcast relives a bleak chapter of US history when a white man became a folk hero after shooting four black youths

How far could a president go to stay in office if convinced his re-election was crucial to the nation? What liability would he face? And how much stress can the fragile structure of democracy stand?

The enjoyably daft sci-fi twister starring Ben Affleck is a good jumping-off point for classic intrigues ranging from The 39 Steps and JFK to Soylent Green and The Net

Donald Trump’s frantic, cynical and preposterous attempts to hang on to power after losing the 2020 election were a dark moment in US history

Donald Trump and his allies are pledging to remake the presidency if he is elected again, giving him and the office more authority than it has ever had and certainly far more than the framers of the US Constitution envisioned.

Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew had never gotten along well. It likely didn’t pain the president much to acquiesce in the ousting of his vice president over illegal kickbacks while the president struggled to keep his own job. It was 1973, and Nixon still gave every indication that he wanted…

Although Gerald R. Ford was never elected as vice president or president and served for only two-and-a-half years, didn’t get the United States involved in many foreign adventures, and inconsistently muddled through in combating the stagflation created by his two predecessors, he was a far more critical president than one…

“I would say we are getting closer and closer to another federal indictment," former Watergate prosecutor says

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr., a larger-than-life former U.S. senator and governor who helped create the state income tax while becoming one of the most dominant figures in Connecticut politics for decades, died Wednesday after a short illness, his family confirmed.