The whole world watched the second impeachment of former US President Donald Trump and his acquittal. In many cases, if media coverage is an indication, the global audience paid rapt attention. The BBC was one of many outlets that carried the Senate proceedings live. France24 television broadcast much of the proceedings on their English and French services, with simultaneous translation into French, including the final vote and subsequent responses by Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Republican Mitch McConnell -- both of whom condemned Trump's actions, but with McConnell nonetheless voting to acquit the former President.

Congressional Republicans have crystallized an ominous question by rejecting consequences for Donald Trump over the January 6 riot in his impeachment trial and welcoming conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia into their caucus: Has the extremist wing of the GOP coalition grown too big for the party to confront?

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he spoke to former President Donald Trump after his acquittal in his second impeachment trial and that Trump is "excited" about the midterms in 2022.

On March 2, 1797, President George Washington wrote a letter comparing himself to a "wearied traveler who sees a resting place, and is bending his body to lean thereon." The idea of retiring after his controversy-filled second term was "most grateful to my soul," Washington confided to his former secretary of war, Henry Knox.

Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday praised Senate Republicans who broke with the party ranks and voted against former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, saying if he were a senator, he would have done the same.

Del. Stacey Plaskett on Sunday defended the Democratic House managers' decision not to call witnesses in former President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial, saying a day after Trump's acquittal that they "needed more senators with spines" in order to convict him.

Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI), one of the House impeachment managers for Trump's second trial, reacts to the Senate vote acquitting the former president.

"Saturday Night Live" featured Republican Senators appearing on Tucker Carlson's show to talk about former President Trump's impeachment acquittal.

The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial Saturday, and "Saturday Night Live" made sure to lampoon the day's proceedings using their own Tucker Carlson.

In the moments after former President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate for a second time in a little more than a year, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell rose to speak.