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On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.

On June 16, 2022, the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol used its two-hour hearing to paint a picture of a relentless campaign by former President Donald Trump and his allies to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence into throwing the election to Trump.

Fifty years later, the Watergate scandal is remembered in broad strokes

It took close to two years for Richard Nixon to be driven from the presidency in disgrace after the Watergate break-in 50 years ago

One botched break-in 50 years ago today would end up changing US history and American politics forever as it set of a series of events that brought down then president Richard Nixon

Watergate and Jan. 6 are a half-century apart, in vastly different eras, and they were about different things

Fifty years ago Friday, burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington, the first chapter of a story that would transform American politics. The anniversary comes as Congress investigates the greatest constitutional crisis since then. Just as Watergate-era leaders instituted important reforms to address the weaknesses of the system that…

One of the more curious legacies of the Watergate scandal is so obvious that we barely notice it.

Fifty years on from the Watergate scandal, the threat of impeachment that made Nixon resign has not fazed twice-impeached Trump — who could run for president again.

Friday is the 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary that would end Richard M. Nixon's presidency two years later. By then, his vice president and successor, Gerald R. Ford Jr., would tell Americans, "Our long national nightmare is over."

Three Cuban exiles on an anti-communist crusade helped Nixon's team carry out the infamous break-in