Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
President Biden has made Rafah a red line – vowing to halt weapon supplies if Israel launches a major invasion.
For weeks, President Biden and his administration have been urging the Israelis not to launch a full-scale offensive against Rafah.
President Biden spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu to reiterate US concerns about any Israeli invasion of Rafah, and the State Department has reiterated that a hostage deal and ceasefire is in the ‘best interests’ of Israel and the Palestinian people.
For the last fortnight, America’s tented protest movement has spread from campus to campus, seemingly unabated by political condemnation.
The ongoing protests against the war in Gaza that have been galvanising students at colleges across the USA.
Divisions in the United States over gun control will be amplified in the run up to November’s presidential election. That has been particularly stark in the state of Tennessee. A year ago a shooting at a school in the state capital Nashville that left three nine-year-olds dead sparked protests in the legislative building. Democrat representative…
The impact of events on the Middle East is being felt on university campuses across the world.
Once Donald Trump would’ve looked at the dilapidated Manhattan Criminal Courthouse and its courtrooms as a real estate opportunity. For the next six weeks it is where he will spend hour after hour, away from the campaign trail, his political and personal future on the line. The 45th president and the first to go on…
US House Speaker Mike Johnson is making a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago – hoping to save his job.
OJ Simpson has died of cancer at the age of 76.
It was a time before the West was truly won, nearly 50 years before statehood and six decades before women would get the vote. Arizona in 1864 was a wild and inhospitable place, but it did have laws, including one which banned abortion in nearly all circumstances.
The Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has continued his visit to Washington, aiming to hammer home the case for the US Congress to pass a bill containing much-needed financial aid for Ukraine.
With Ukraine under the cosh, a devastating war in Gaza and the present world order fraying at the seams, there was much for the Foreign Secretary to discuss with his US counterpart Antony Blinken on a visit to Washington today.
The best view of today’s solar eclipse is along the so-called ‘path of totality’ in North America, along which millions today flocked to see the sun blocked out for around four-and-a-half minutes.
He was known as the ‘Crypto King’, feted by politicians, endorsed by celebrities and entrusted with billions of dollars of funds.