Washington | Senators have acquitted Donald Trump on two historic articles of impeachment, rejecting a welter of evidence that was dismissed by all but a single Republican as insufficient to throw him from office.

Two long-awaited rounds of voting late on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) brought an end to one of the most divisive and aggressive periods in Washington's political history and cleared the path for what is expected to be a bruising battle for the White House in November.