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Klete Keller, a two-time Olympics gold medallist swimmer, has been charged in connection with last week's armed riots at the US Capitol.

In the criminal complaint, filed today in US District Court in Washington, Keller is charged with knowingly entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct in the Capitol building and impeding law enforcement.

The champion swimmer was first identified in videos and photos of the riots posted on social media. The court documents include screenshots of footage showing Keller wearing a jacket with what appears to be an Olympic patch.

On Wednesday, the CEO of the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee Sarah Hirshland issued a statement condemning the actions of those involved with the storming of the Capitol, saying that those present "attacked the very fabric" of American democracy.

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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has just released a statement on the timeline for the upcoming impeachment trial.

He says even if the Senate convened this week, "no final verdict would be reached until after President Trump had left office".

Remember, Inauguration Day is 20 January. The Senate can still convict Trump after his departure, though.

"In light of this reality, I believe it will best serve our nation if Congress and the executive branch spend the next seven days completely focused on facilitating a safe inauguration and an orderly transfer of power to the incoming Biden Administration," McConnell said.

"I am grateful to the offices and institutions within the Capitol that are working around the clock, alongside federal and local law enforcement, to prepare for a safe and successful inauguration at the Capitol next Wednesday."

Earlier, we learned McConnell has not made a final decision on how he will vote in the impeachment trial, saying he intends to listen to the arguments when they are presented.

This is the moment Trump became the first president to be impeached twice.

Congress voted 232 to 197 on the sole article of impeachment.

Now, Trump faces trial in the senate.

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Ten Republicans voted with Democrats to impeach the president, making this vote the most bipartisan impeachment vote in US history.

They are:

• Liz Cheney of Wyoming (the third highest-ranking Republican in the House)
• Adam Kinzinger of Illinois (the only Republican that voted on a bill calling for Vice-President Mike Pence to take over as president yesterday)
• John Katko of New York (the first House Republican to say he'd vote to impeach)
• Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio
• Tom Rice of South Carolina
• Dan Newhouse of Washington State
• Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington State
• Fred Upton of Michigan
• David Valadao of Florida
• Peter Meijer of Michigan

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Yes, they can. Impeachment alone is not enough to bar a president from seeking office again.

But there's an exception.

If Donald Trump is impeached in the House, then convicted in a Senate trial, senators could then hold an additional vote on whether to explicitly bar him from running again.

This vote would require just a simple majority in the chamber.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has officially confirmed Donald Trump’s second impeachment.

Congress voted 232 to 197 on the sole article of impeachment, which charged Trump with “incitement of an insurrection” after last week’s riots at the US Capitol. Ten Republicans broke ranks and voted to impeach.

This vote marks an important change from the president’s first impeachment. In 2020, not a single House Republican voted for Trump’s impeachment.

And with the bang of the gavel, Donald Trump is the first president in US history to be impeached twice, following a vote in the House.

Trump now faces trial in the Senate.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

Donald Trump has made history once again, this time as the first president to be impeached twice.

A year ago, the move was opposed in lockstep by the Republican Party. This time, a handful of conservatives backed the move. It is a reflection not only of the gravity of the moment, but also the president’s declining influence in the final days of his administration.

Impeachment sets up a Senate trial for Trump that now appears destined to stretch into the early days of Joe Biden’s presidency, creating yet another challenge for the incoming president. It also will stoke an ongoing debate among Republicans over the direction their party takes in the days ahead.

The party is on a path that splits in two very different directions.

On one side is continued allegiance to the president’s brand of politics – one that created a new coalition of voters that delivered the White House and Congress in 2016, but lost both in 2020.

On the other is an uncertain future – but one free from the president’s unique brand of heat and rhetoric; unfiltered invective that even many Republicans now believe contributed to last week’s Capitol riot.

As it stands, Democrats have passed the threshold for enough votes to impeach President Donald Trump.

Counting continues, however, but here's the breakdown so far:

• 221 Democratic yeas
• 10 Republican yeas (this is more than initially expected)

As we reported earlier, lawmakers have begun voting on the impeachment resolution that charges President Trump with inciting violence against the government.

This process should take around an hour in all.

It's likely things will play out in a largely partisan way, much like the first impeachment go around.

But this time, we will see a handful of Republicans who are joining Democrats in rebuking the president for his actions.

According to a C-Span tally, so far seven Republicans have reneged and voted yes to impeachment.

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Republicans and Democrats today made very different cases as to why - or why not - Donald Trump should be impeached.

Here's a look at what some of them said:

Representative Doug LaMalfa, Republican of California

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second annual impeachment show extravaganza, brought to you by censors and left-wing media," LaMalfa said, adding that this session is about Democrats' "unbridled hatred of this president".

Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrat of Florida

"To overturn the 2020 election Trump incited a violent assault on Congress, a treasonous betrayal of our nation," she said. "He leaves us no choice but to immediately remove him from office."

Representative Diana Harshbarger, Republican of Tennessee

"I've been here all of one week and what I see instead of lawmakers who are truth seekers I see lawmakers who are power seekers," the freshman lawmaker said, adding she would not vote to impeach Trump.

Representative Terri Sewell, Democrat of Alabama.

I will vote for impeachment, Sewell said. "I do so with a heavy heart and a lasting and searing memory of being in this gallery, the people's House, fearing for my life, and why? Because the president of the United States incited others to be violent."

Results of the vote on whether to impeach President Trump for a second time is coming soon.

If the vote goes the way of the Democrats, as is widely expected, a trial will begin in the Senate in the coming days.

The debate session has concluded and House lawmakers are now voting on whether or not to impeach Trump for the second time in his presidency.

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Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the third highest ranking Republican and chairwoman of the party conference, has hit back at critics from her party that have called for her to resign from senior leadership.

The criticism followed her announcement she would vote to impeach Trump.

"I'm not going anywhere. This is a vote of conscience," she told reporters.

"It's one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the Civil War, constitutional crisis."

The decision by Cheney, a lifelong Republican whose father served as vice-president, signals the seriousness of the charges against Trump and a major change in tone among some Republicans.

All eyes and ears are on the House chamber as Republicans and Democrats debate the sole article of impeachment against the president. But here's what's happening outside the chamber.

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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has just said the following in a memo to colleagues.

“While the press has been full of speculation, I have not made a final decision on how I will vote and I intend to listen to the legal arguments when they are presented to the Senate,” he said.

The Senate will only stage a trial if the House votes shortly to impeach. The trial probably won't happen before Mr Trump leaves office.

Samantha Granville
BBC News, Capitol Hill

Last night, Speaker Pelosi implemented fines for members who do not wear masks on the House floor. Today, both Republicans and Democrats are using their masks to make political statements.

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Newly elected Democrat Cori Bush wore a mask that reads “Black Lives Matter” while she called President Trump the “white supremacist in chief” on the House floor.

Representative Marjorie Green wore a mask that says “Censored” as she spoke freely from the House floor against impeachment (her mask is a reference to conservative claims that social media companies are silencing their views).

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Tom McClintock, a Republican from California, spoke in a mask that reads: “This is as useless as our governor.” Ouch!

Meanwhile, journalists like us are mostly commenting on the nice patterns we see on each other’s masks.

Lebo Diseko
BBC News, Capitol Hill

They are currently debating and it’s slightly more rancorous than it started out.

We are expecting that the vote will come out "yes" to impeach. The Democrats do have the numbers for that - just a simple majority is needed.

Usually there would be an investigation phase but we’ve skipped that.

This is one of the criticisms Republicans have made - that they haven’t had the usual opportunity to see evidence and the normal standard investigation.

But Democrats respond by saying that this is so important and this was so egregious that it needs to happen.

There is an historical precedent that says a president can be impeached after he has left office.

The one thing that Joe Biden would really like to avoid is a situation where he is unable to confirm his Cabinet because the Senate is tied up with the impeachment hearings.

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Six Republicans in the House of Representatives have said they will buck their party and vote to impeach Trump, and more may soon join them.

• John Katko was the first Republican in the House to say he would vote to impeach. He serves a region in upstate New York that leans Democratic.
• Liz Cheney is the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney and represents Wyoming. She is the third-highest ranking Republican in the House and her decision to impeach Trump has provoked a backlash in her party.
• Adam Kinzinger, a frequent Trump critic, represents a district south of Chicago in the state of Illinois. He was the only Republican that voted on a bill calling for Vice-President Mike Pence to take over as president.
• Fred Upton of Michigan said he would vote to impeach to send "a clear message" about the importance of a peaceful transfer of power.
• Jaime Herrera Beutler, from Washington, said he would impeach because Trump did nothing to stop the violence as it was unfolding last week.
• Dan Newhouse, also from Washington, announced the same decision in a floor speech moments ago.

Laura Trevelyan
BBC World News America presenter

Donald Trump ran as the law and order president and his final days in office have been consumed by just that.

First came the mob trying to ransack the Capitol. And now, Democrats in Congress and some Republicans, too, are impeaching the president for inciting that insurrection.

Trump is trying to backpedal and distance himself by condemning violence in all forms. But the damage has been done. The interesting thing to watch is how many Republicans are going to vote to impeach him.

There were some suggestions that Senate leader Mitch McConnell might allow an impeachment trial even before Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, but today he shut the door firmly on that.

Any impeachment trial is going to be kicked into Joe Biden’s early days as president which poses a huge dilemma for Democrats because it will take attention away from confirming Joe Biden's appointees.