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The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was triggered when a woman with whom he was having an affair sent threatening e-mails to another woman close to him, according to three senior law enforcement officials with knowledge of the episode.

On the march to Baghdad in 2003, back when many Americans expected the Iraq war to last weeks and not years, a little-known two-star Army general named David H. Petraeus posed a question to a reporter accompanying him that would come to define the grueling U.S. combat mission there: “Tell me how this ends.”

CIA director David Petraeus has resigned from his post because of an extramarital affair. In a statement, Mr Petraeus said he had submitted his resignation to President Barack Obama, and that he had shown "extremely poor judgment".

David Petraeus has resigned as director of the CIA after admitting he had an extramarital affair. According to his letter of resignation, Petraeus asked President Barack Obama on Thursday to allow him to resign, and on Friday the president accepted. Petraeus said in a statement that he had shown "extremely poor judgment" in having an affair.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards says he has been diagnosed with a medical condition that would make it difficult for him to attend his approaching criminal trial over campaign finance...

In a story that plays out like an episode of The Good Wife Chicago Alderman, Sandi Jackson says she s sticking by her husband, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., despite his recently publicized affair with a blond Washington hostess. Jackson says her husband to told her of the affair two years ago.

Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with a staffer.

Despite being at the center of one of the most explosive scandals in American politics, John Edwards' mistress said she believes her relationship with the former presidential candidate may be just beginning.

What a guy - John Edwards is reportedly making his mistress his missus. The disgraced 2008 presidential contender has proposed to his baby-mama, Rielle Hunter, and is even setting her up in a swank $3.5 million beachfront mansion, The National Enquirer reported Wednesday.

The ex-mistress of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a "very private and personal" videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents....