Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

For all of science's successes in understanding complex systems, brains are still mostly

terror in cognita. Maybe not for long. Researchers have published a staggering map of every

single neural connection within a section of a fruit flies brain. And East Africa is suffering

an invasion of locusts of nearly biblical proportions. Hundreds of billions of the insects are threatening

food supplies and lives across the entire region. The sad truth is that much of this plague

could have been prevented.

First up, though.

Not guilty.

Miss Morkowski.

Yesterday, America's Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power

and obstruction of Congress.

Donald John Trump B and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles.

It was the third such trial in the nation's history. In December, the House of Representatives

voted to impeach Mr. Trump after he was accused of soliciting foreign interference in the

2020 election.

Speaker of the House, I solemnly and sadly, opened the debate on the impeachment of the

president of the United States.

The Senate trial lasted just three weeks and no witnesses were called.

Without objection, the motion is agreed to. The Senate sitting as a court of impeachment

stands adjourned, sine die.

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