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.
British MPs have been told to delete TikTok on their work phones, just days after the government issued the same instruction to ministers over security concerns.
Share prices have tumbled again in the troubled Credit Suisse bank – sending markets across Europe and the United States into the red.
When a US surveillance drone ditched in the Black Sea two days ago, Moscow rejected the Americans’ claims that the actions of a Russian fighter jet had forced it down.
An American surveillance drone has been brought down over the Black Sea – after it was hit by a Russian aircraft.
HSBC has bought up the UK arm of the collapsed American Silicon Valley Bank for just one pound – under a deal brokered by the government aimed at protecting UK investors and tech startups from incurring huge losses.
Fox News may have served as a very public platform for the baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, but behind the scenes things were very different.
China’s foreign minister has warned of potential conflict with the United States – declaring that a policy of “all out containment and suppression” was a “zero sum game”. In his first press conference since taking on the job, Qin Gang said China’s close ties with Russia were a model for global foreign relations. It follows…
“This is the hardest of the hardcore MAGA” or ‘Make America Great Again’, says a former White House advisor to Donald Trump – kicking off the annual gathering of Trump’s conservative American right.
The head of America’s FBI has said he believes that the Coronavirus pandemic most likely originated in a Chinese lab. Christopher Wray said agency assessments had long suggested that “a potential lab incident” in Wuhan was behind the outbreak.
In the US, five former Memphis police officers have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Tyre Nichols, in their first court appearance.
Their town was shrouded in clouds of black fumes after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed – but when residents of East Palestine in Ohio tried to meet representatives of the train company last night demanding answers, the company didn’t show up.
The former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, was once a close ally of Donald Trump.
A fortnight ago the world barely knew anything about high altitude spy balloons.
At first the Chinese refused to admit the balloon was theirs, then they said it was a meteorological airship that had blown off course.
The brutal beating of Tyre Nichols has reignited a debate of racial justice and police reform, Memphis, Tennessee, has a dark history when it comes to racial violence.