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Images of the White House in Washington, DC as President Donald Trump faces becoming only the third US leader ever to be impeached. Ahead of the vote in the US House of Representatives, Trump went on Twitter to once again insist that he has done "nothing wrong". IMAGES
US President Joe Biden's immigration chief escapes impeachment over the border crisis by a razor-thin margin, in a show of support that left House Republicans two votes short of the total they needed to force a Senate trial. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has long been in Republicans' crosshairs over what they describe as a humanitarian crisis, with record numbers of mainly South and Central Americans trying to enter the United States from neighboring Mexico. IMAGES
The White House says that President Joe Biden had done nothing wrong after Republican lawmakers launched an impeachment inquiry against him, rejecting their allegations as baseless. "They have turned out with no evidence, none, that he did anything wrong. The president didn't do anything wrong," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
A bipartisan majority of lawmakers in the House of Representatives votes to impeach Donald Trump seven days from the end of his term. IMAGES
The US House of Representatives begins its momentous vote on impeaching President Donald Trump for a second time, on charges of "incitement of insurrection." After hours of intense debate, a bipartisan majority of members is expected to impeach the president, who urged supporters last week to march on the US Capitol and "fight like hell," actions that Democrats say incited a mob to stage a violent and deadly uprising. IMAGES