Flynt hunts for political sex scandal
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Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt offered $1 million Sunday to anyone who could provide proof of an illicit sexual encounter with a high-ranking government official.
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U.S. lawmakers opened their own  investigation on Thursday of the cybersex scandal involving a  Republican congressman who sent lewd messages to young aides,  and will interview dozens of officials just weeks before the  November 7 elections, imperiling Republican control of  Congress.
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Some other Washington sex scandals from the past:
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A committee responsible for  enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives on  Thursday began investigating a sex scandal that has enveloped  Republicans struggling to keep control of Congress in the  November 7 election.
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A scandal over a U.S. Republican congressman sending sexually explicit e-mails to underage boys ratcheted up on Sunday with the FBI and a congressional ethics committee looking into the accusations.
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The sex scandal that forced Gov. James E. McGreevey to announce his resignation now involves everyone on New Jersey&#39;s A-List of political stars, its back-room advisers and political bosses.
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CHICAGO, Jan. 25 -- Last year, Detroit's flamboyant and controversial mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, denied under oath that he had had an affair with his chief of staff. Now the Detroit Free Press's revelation of 14,000 flirtatious and sometimes graphic sexual text messages between Kilpatrick and Chris...
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A committee responsible for enforcing ethics in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday began investigating a sex scandal that has enveloped Republicans struggling to keep control of Congress in the November 7 election.
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The Idaho Republican defiantly proclaimed his heterosexuality amid a political feeding frenzy over his guilty plea to charges of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport menâs room. Will his conservative constituents buy it?
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A conservative senator from America&#39;s Bible Belt has apologized after being exposed as a former customer of an upscale prostitution agency whose massive client list is said to include many Washington power brokers.
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ONE of the darkest chapters in Franceâs past resurfaced yesterday as a notorious bugging scandal, dubbed the French Watergate, came to trial more than 20 years after FranÃ§ois Mitterrand allegedly ordered the first of more than 150 illegal phone taps.
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Warsaw's right-wing mayor has become embroiled in another battle with the flourishing sex industry in deeply Catholic Poland by attempting to ban a highly-publicized &quot;world sex championships.&quot;
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Investigators searched the home of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Thursday, thrusting him back into the center of a political scandal, a judicial official said.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 22--Ah, temptation: You're a political campaign worker who is offered juicy inside info on your boss's archrival.
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Â· Party boss likely to face more corruption charges  Â· Case would hamper presidential ambitions
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A researcher for Cornwall MP Candy Atherton claims she asked him to "dig the dirt" on a gay political opponent.
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The syndicator of Ann Coulter&#039;s newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources.