Sarah Smith

The backlash against President Obama in the US midterm elections has even spread to those who depend on the aid they could lose if the Republicans win power, as Sarah Smith reports from Kentucky.

A surge in the number of female candidates in the running or the US mid term elections is changing the face of US politics, writes Washington correspondent Sarah Smith.

That’s the question many Americans still can’t answer. Before he was even elected Obama was called “the biggest celebrity in the world” Yet most Americans feel they still don’t really know him.

Does the US face a terrorist threat “from within similar to the 7/7 bombings in the UK? Sarah Smith investigates for Channel 4 News.

As the last fighting forces leave Iraq, US soldiers have been proclaiming they “have won the war”. President Barack Obama didn’t dare make such bold claims in his address from the Oval Office.

Dozens of Hamas members have been arrested across the West Bank after the shooting of four Jewish settlers. The attacks threaten to overshadow the start of fresh peace talks.

As California considers legalising cannabis by voting for Proposition 19 in November, which will allow the state to “regulate, control and tax cannabis”.

With the UN saying CIA use of drones in Pakistan is “illegal”, Channel 4 News correspondent Sarah Smith visits an army base training soldiers to use them as America’s main weapon against al-Qaida.

Iowa made history in January 2008 as the first state to put a black candidate at the top of a presidential election poll. Channel 4 News returns to discover what voters made of President Barack Obama.

Burning coal is the cheapest way America makes electricity but it is dirty. Sarah Smith visits the coal mining heartland of West Virginia and finds a way of life under threat.