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 hailed what he called “substantial progress” after four hours of talks with China’s leader Xi Jinping, on the fringes of a global trade summit in San Francisco.
Donald Trump was conspicuous by his absence, as his rival Republican presidential hopefuls staged their third primary debate, discussing everything from Russia’s war in Ukraine to abortion rights.
In the United States, the Democrats have been celebrating a series of election victories across the country – including Ohio, where voters overwhelmingly backed access to abortion.
Donald Trump was on the witness stand today, as part of his civil fraud trial in New York. He’s accused of inflating the value of the property he owns. But while he’s fighting on one hand to keep his business empire together, his presidential bid seems to be going from strength to strength.
While US secretary of state Antony Blinken is in the Middle-East, 14 Democratic senators released a joint statement calling on Biden for a short-term cessation of hostilities to let humanitarian aid in and to increase the focus on releasing the hostages.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken is travelling back to the Middle East where he is expected to urge Israel to pause its attacks.
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Police have advised residents in southern Maine to stay home and lock their doors – as hundreds of police hunt for a gunman who shot dead 18 people and injured 13 others. Officers have named 40 year old Robert Card as a person of interest, describing him as armed and dangerous. The shootings happened at…
The hardline Republican congressman Jim Jordan says he won’t force a third vote on his bid to become speaker of the US House of Representatives after failing to win over enough support among fellow Republicans.
US President Joe Biden is due to leave Washington in the coming hours to fly into the region.
The US Secretary of State is headed to Jordan for the second leg of his trip after spending the day in Israel. In Tel Aviv, Antony Blinken promised unwavering support for Israel in its fight against what he described as Hamas’ “reign of terror”.
President Biden has today reaffirmed his commitment to Israel saying once again that ‘the United States has Israel’s back’. His words come as the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepares to go to Israel, promising to ensure the country is “equipped to defend themselves”.
In the United States, President Biden has been speaking about the situation in Israel.
The New York City Mayor has travelled to Mexico with the message that his city is full. This, as President Biden comes under fire from both Republicans and Democrats for his decision to use Trump-era funding to build a new stretch of border wall in Texas.
There’s a vacancy in one of the top jobs in US politics after the ousting the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Third in the presidential line of succession, the person who’d have to take charge if the President and Vice President were both indisposed, Republican Kevin McCarthy was voted out by his own party.