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.
Twitter may once have been the social media turf favoured by former US president Donald Trump.
Meta – the company which owns Facebook – has been hit with a record €1.2bn fine by the European Union, for mishandling peoples data when it was transferred from Europe to the United States.
The boss of the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been testifying in front of the US Congress about the promise and the peril posed by emerging AI-technologies – as well as the opportunities.
Donald Trump was back on prime time TV last night, as CNN, the station he’s previously branded as “fake news”, broadcast a town hall event in front of an enthusiastic crowd in New Hampshire.
Donald Trump has said he will appeal after becoming the first former US president to be branded a sexual abuser in court.
Now – Donald Trump might be under arrest – facing charges in a New York court – but he’s still ahead in the polls to become the Republican party’s presidential candidate in 2024.
The US airman accused of what is thought to be the biggest leak of classified US military documents in more than a decade has appeared in court in Boston.
Investigators in the United States have been frantically trying to track down the source of a huge cache of top secret US military documents which were leaked online.
The White House has admitted it does not know the extent of the classified document leak from the Pentagon, saying they have no idea if the threat to national security has been contained, or who might be behind it.
Yesterday the scene of a spectacle never before witnessed in America: that of a former president hunched over a courtroom table, flanked by lawyers as criminal charges were read out to him by a judge. An unforgettable image blazoned across every front page, perhaps placing Donald Trump exactly where he wants to be – front…
Never before has an American president, serving or former, faced criminal charges.
The district attorney’s office in New York is perhaps the most famous in America. Here a whole line up of felons from John Gotti, the Mafia boss to Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul, have had their mugshots and fingerprints taken.
“The President will not be put in handcuffs” is not a sentence we’d heard in America before.
When fire broke out in a migrant detention centre in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez on Monday, immigration officials quickly ran out of the building, along with 15 female detainees.
Investigators in Tennessee are trying to establish the motives of a 28-year-old who killed three children and three adults in a Nashville elementary school – the latest mass shooting in America, once again re-igniting the debate over gun control.