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Washington (AFP) - A sprawling conspiracy, a cornered president clinging to power, a White House cover-up: for Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks, the mushrooming controversy around Donald Trump's alleged plot to take down US democracy is a movie she's seen before.

When Richard Nixon’s administration covered up its involvement in the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s offices, a new cinematic catnip was born.

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