Trump faces impeachment today

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives is all but certain to pass two articles of impeachment today against President Trump, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. That would make him only the third American president ever to be impeached, and set the stage for a Senate trial early next year.

On the eve of a momentous vote, pro-impeachment protests broke out across the country. Mr. Trump also raged against the proceedings in a rambling letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that was heavy on hyperbole, unproven charges and long-simmering grievances against his own government. (We fact-checked it.)

Related: Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told The Times that he had informed the president that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was, in Mr. Giuliani’s view, impeding investigations that could benefit Mr. Trump. The ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, was later removed.

Catch up: A former director of both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. wrote in an Op-Ed that Mr. Giuliani’s “activities of late concerning Ukraine have, at a minimum, failed the smell test of propriety.”