Donald Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached when the House of Representatives charged him with using the power of his office for personal gain in a partisan vote that could be the defining moment of his presidency.
The vote on Wednesday night paves the way for a January trial in the Senate, where Republican control makes it unlikely that Mr Trump will be removed from office — or that the tribal divisions afflicting American society will soon heal.
Following a day of often ferocious debate, the House voted almost entirely along party lines to impeach Mr Trump for abuse of power for pressing his Ukrainian counterpart to launch investigations into political rival Joe Biden and into debunked theories that Kyiv, rather than Russia, intervened in the 2016 US election.