Chuck Blazer admits World Cup bribes
Court documents released tonight show for the first time – in his own words – the admission of guilt of one of Fifa’s former top executives to accepting bribes.
Kylie Morris
Kylie Morris is the former Washington correspondent and the former Asia correspondent for Channel 4 News. She was also the presenter of More 4 News.
Kylie previously worked at the BBC as the Gaza correspondent from 2001-2002, Kabul correspondent 2002-2004, for which she won an FPA award, and then as the BBC Asia correspondent until joining Channel 4 News in 2006.
One of her first assignments for Channel 4 News was reporting the conflict in Lebanon in July 2006, for which we collectively won an RTS Award. She has been in and out of the newsroom in the last two years - recently she reported the Gulnaz film alongside Leslie Knott and Cleminitne Malpas which has just been nominated for another FPA award.
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Nebraska votes to abolish death penalty
Nebraska becomes the first conservative state to abolish the death penalty in more than 40 years.
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Police brutality in the land of Breaking Bad
Kylie Morris travels to Albuquerque, where you’re ten times more likely to be shot dead by a cop than you are in New York City.
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Race in America: from Ferguson to Baltimore
Channel 4 News Washington bureau has been reporting extensively on the issue of race in America over the past year.
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Curfew imposed in Baltimore as Freddie Gray protests turn violent
The Baltimore mayor imposes a city-wide curfew after protests over Freddie Gray’s death turn violent.
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This is what freedom looks like after decades in jail
America has more than two million people inside its prisons. But in 2014, a record number of prisoners were released after they were found to have been wrongfully convicted.
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American inmates released after decades in prison
Last year in the US a record number of prisoners were released after they were found to have been wrongfully convicted. Among them was Ricky Jackson, who wrongly spent 39 years in prison.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of carrying out Boston bombing
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is found guilty of killing three people and injuring 265 in the 2013 Boston marathon bombings.
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Another white officer, another black shooting
This may be America, but the video that shows the shooting of Walter Scott most echoes Soweto.
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Mac Conner: painting the original ‘Mad Men’
His paintings are from a golden age, the 1950s, when Manhattan was the centre of the world. Now, at 101, Mac Conner’s paintings are being brought to London.
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Iran nuclear deal: the final scene set as deadline looms
Politics as much as scientific detail will dictate in the next three months whether a nuclear deal with Iran will be the crowning glory of Barack Obama’s presidency.
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Ferguson ignites tensions that reveal divisions in the US
For protest organisers like Johnetta Elzie, everything comes back to Michael Brown. She told me: “The start of this movement is because of one dead black boy in the street for four and a half hours.”
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Homeless man shot by LAPD officer
A mobile phone recording of another “officer involved shooting” shows a black man being wrestled to the ground by four police officers before being shot.
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Suicide, women and race: the Oscars gets political
Rather than just a celebration of the “best and whitest”, the Oscars this year saw an outpouring of political statements – from women’s rights to immigration. These were the highlights.
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Jeb Bush sets sail for 2016 presidential campaign
Team Bush has set sail – but will have to wait more than 18 months to know whether it chose the right course.
