political career

In New York, Rosie O'Donnell's older brother stakes his political career on marriage equality.

Mark Foley, the disgraced Florida congressman whose political career abruptly ended amid allegations that he sent sexually explicit instant messages and e-mails to teenage boys, will not face criminal charges in the state of Florida, investigators told ABC News Friday.

Former New Jersey governor James McGreevey says it was an affair with another man that wrecked his marriage and ended his political career--but the former aide implicated in the affair, Golan Cipel, an Israeli, denies the stories recounted in McGreevey's new tell-all memoir.

Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported Sunday. One of the men is the former escort whose allegations disgraced the Rev. Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Idaho Statesman reported.

Eight months after admitting he had a drinking problem and an affair with a close aide's wife, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom stands poised to win his second term without breaking a sweat. In any other city, Newsom's personal problems could easily have ended his political career. But in San Francisco they weren't enough even to attract a serious challenger. When hundreds of the city's left-wing power brokers met in June to nominate a candidate, no one could be persuaded to run against Newsom, who is best-known for opening City Hall to same-sex weddings six weeks into his first term.