Resignation, Affair | featured news

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

After nearly four hours of deliberation and multiple rounds of balloting, the South Carolina Republican Party voted Monday night to censure Mark Sanford for traveling overseas to visit his mistress -- but stopped short of calling on the governor to resign.

Political fate shifts after admission of encounters with women in addition to Argentine mistress.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's spokesman confirmed to ABC News that the governor, plagued by the scandal of his extramarital affair, did indeed consider resigning. Gov. Sanford's mystery mistress has been identified by ...

A new SurveyUSA poll in South Carolina finds that 60% of residents think Gov. Mark Sanford (R) should resign while 34% think he should remain in office.