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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Trump and supporters attack Biden at Republican convention
Donald Trump started the week-long Republican Party Convention last night with a speech attacking his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
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Trump is formally nominated as Republican presidential candidate
In Charlotte, North Carolina, Donald Trump and Mike Pence have been formally nominated as the Republican candidates for the White House as the party’s national convention gets underway. President Trump has already been trying to set the agenda by announcing emergency approval for a new blood plasma treatment for Covid patients – even though experts…
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Presidential nominee Joe Biden promises to ‘end the national darkness’ under Trump
With 74 days to go until the US election, the Democratic candidate Joe Biden has officially accepted the nomination to run for President.
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Trump’s former adviser Steve Bannon is charged with fraud over Mexico wall fundraising
One of President Trump’s former advisers has been charged with trying to defraud people who gave money to a fund to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
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US election: Joe Biden made official Democratic candidate
President Trump’s rival Joe Biden has been picked as the Democratic candidate to run against him in the election in November.
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Michelle Obama stars as virtual Democratic National Convention gets underway
Never in US history has there been a political convention like this one – as the Democrats head into the second night of their entirely virtual gathering.
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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.
