Just seven days to the inauguration of a new administration, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, was impeached on Wednesday.
With the development, Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice.
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday after a debate on the article of impeachment read by the Speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
The final vote was 232 to 197, with 10 House Republicans supporting the measure, while five abstained.
The matter will now go before the Senate, which will decide whether Trump should be convicted and removed from office or not.
The House voted on a single article of impeachment – a formal charge – accusing Trump of “incitement of insurrection” just a week after a pro-Trump mob rampaged through the US Capitol in a deadly protest.
The rioters disrupted the formal certification of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the November 3 election and sent lawmakers into hiding.
Biden is due to take office on January 20.
The mob attack followed an incendiary speech Trump delivered to thousands of supporters in which he repeated false claims that the election was fraudulent and urged them to march on the Capitol.
Five people, including a police officer, died as a result of the violence.