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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Republican Debate: Presidential hopefuls gear up for first televised hustings – minus Donald Trump
Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has travelled to Georgia to surrender over state criminal charges that he tried to overturn the former U.S. President’s 2020 election defeat.
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Hawaii wildfires: first victims named as death toll rises past 100
President Biden has said he’ll visit the site of the catastrophic wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui next week.
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Donald Trump and allies charged in Georgia for election meddling
Donald Trump now has ten days to turn himself in – after a court in Georgia accused him and 18 others of attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election there.
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One man’s escape from Hawaii wildfires as 96 confirmed dead
The recovery of the dead in Maui is painfully slow after a wildfire that laid waste to almost every building in the historic resort town of Lahaina.
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Hawaii wildfires deadliest in the US in over 100 years
The Governor of Hawaii has warned the number of people who have died in the wildfires will rise, making this the deadliest fire in the US for more than a hundred years.
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Hawaii wildfires: Over 80 people dead
Officials in Hawaii are trying to determine how devastating wildfires were able to rip through the historic town of Lahaina on the island of Maui so quickly and without warning.
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36 dead as wildfires tear through Hawaiian island of Maui
We are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, Hawaii fire chiefs have warned – as the devastating wildfires which have swept through Maui island continue to burn.
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Ohio vote delivers victory for abortion rights
Voters in Ohio have roundly defeated a proposal which would have made it more difficult to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution.
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Trump pleads not guilty to election subversion charges
Mr Trump had been lamenting the change he’d seen in Washington DC since leaving the White House.
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Donald Trump due in court for obstruction and conspiracy charges
As Donald Trump is due in court to answer charges including conspiracy to disenfranchise voters, security measures have been stepped up in Washington DC.
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Trump charged with bid to overturn 2020 election results
Donald Trump wasted no time in branding his latest indictment on criminal charges as a “pathetic attempt” by the Biden family to weaponise justice in order to interfere with the 2024 Presidential election.
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Trump faces more charges over Mar-a-Lago files
Donald Trump has been hit with more charges over his alleged mishandling of classified files. The former U.S. President is accused of asking an employee to delete security footage at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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Emmett Till: Biden signs proclamation to establish national monument honouring Black teenager murdered in racist lynching
The new monument will be built on three protected sites – including the place where Emmett Till was born, eighty two years ago.
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Trump lawyers quit after second indictment
For the second time this year, a lawyer for Donald Trump confirmed he’ll surrender to the authorities after being criminally indicted.
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Canadian wildfire smoke cloaks eastern USA
Millions of people in the east of the United States have been told to stay indoors or wear masks as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires makes breathing hazardous.
