Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent
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.
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Teachers fear reopening of schools amid high infection rates in US
The President is pushing for schools to re-open despite the rampant spread of coronavirus.
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Emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein released
Past emails between British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have just been released.
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Donald Trump suggests delaying US election
President Trump has floated the idea that this autumn’s presidential election should be delayed, saying that problems with postal ballots mean it will not be fair.
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Tech bosses grilled together for first time by Congress
Today for the first time, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google, are all appearing in front of the House subcommittee on market dominance.
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President Trump security adviser tests positive for Covid
President Trump’s National Security adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for coronavirus
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China orders closure of US consulate in Chengdu
They close our consulate – we’ll shut theirs: tensions between China and the United States escalate still further
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Trump trails Biden in election polls – as he announces plans to tackle gun violence
In America, the latest polls show Donald Trump trailing his democratic rival Joe Biden by seven points.
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Trump says pandemic ‘will get worse before it gets better’
The daily death toll from Covid-19 in America has risen back up to 1,000 where it has not been since the end of May.
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US governor’s ‘wear masks indoors’ order angers some on civil liberties grounds
In the United States the virus continues to surge with more than three million confirmed cases and a series of record-setting numbers of daily infections there.
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US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can see Trump’s tax records
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a New York prosecutor can press ahead with a subpoena to seek President Trump’s personal financial records as part of an investigation into hush money payments, declaring that “no citizen, not even the President…is above the common duty to produce evidence.” But in a separate ruling, the Justices…
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Covid-19 cases in US pass three million
In America, the number of cases of Covid-19 has now passed three million, with dramatic rises in Florida, California and Texas.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus after months of downplaying risks
He’s downplayed the risks of coronavirus for months – but today the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced he had tested positive for the disease.
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Prosecutors request Friday court appearance for Ghislaine Maxwell
The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was arrested last week over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has been moved to detention in New York and is expected to appear in court later this week.
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Trump facing renewed scrutiny over how much he knew about Russia Taliban claims
Donald Trump is facing renewed scrutiny over how much he knew about Russia allegedly paying the Taliban to kill US troops in Afghanistan.
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New York group trying to turn experiences of imprisonment into something positive
The American dream has become the African American nightmare.
