Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left, former Canadian prime ministers Sir John A. Macdonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King and Brian Mulroney. Photos from The ...

Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. In the race to the midterms this year, neither party is untouched by scandal. Texas Senate GOP hopeful Ken Paxton has faced legal battles and ...

From Watergate to modern political controversies, this video explores 25 of the biggest political scandals in modern history and how they changed governments, elections, and public trust in politics.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina was revealed this week in a painfully awkward news conference, is just the latest politician to be caught with his ...