Siobhan Kennedy , Washington Correspondent
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.
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9/11 anniversary: US marks 20 years since Twin Towers attacks
Families of loved ones have described the ‘unbearable sorrow’ as they remember the terrible day 20 years ago, when almost 3000 lives were lost when hijacked planes smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
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IS ‘Beatle’ Alexanda Kotey admits terror offences in US
A British extremist accused of conspiring to kidnap and murder Western hostages in Iraq and Syria faces life behind bars, after pleading guilty to a series of charges in a US federal court.
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US Supreme Court refuse to block controversial Texas abortion law
The justices of the US Supreme Court have voted not to halt a new law in Texas that will strip most women in the state of the right to an abortion.
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Hurricane Ida: Speaking to the victims as over a million face a month without power
Howling winds, driving rain and storm surges – Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana facing at least a month without power and in Mississippi a motorway has collapsed.
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Hurricane Ida batters Louisiana leaving more than a million without power
Search and rescue teams have been deployed across southeast Louisiana, after the state was battered by Hurricane Ida, leaving a million people without power.
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Afghanistan: Biden pledges to ‘hunt down’ Kabul airport bombers
The White House has just warned the next few days of the evacuation mission will be the “most dangerous period to date” – just four days before the United States deadline to complete its withdrawal.
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US troops killed in Afghanistan terror attacks, says Pentagon
President Biden has been meeting his national security team in the White House situation room following twin bomb attacks on Kabul airport – the centre of ongoing evacuation efforts of US citizens and Afghan civilians.
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Afghanistan: US does not want to take risk of delaying withdrawal
In the US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to give an update on the evacuation.
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Afghanistan: US Pentagon confident all Americans will get out before deadline
The Pentagon has given more detail about stepping up evacuation efforts in Kabul.
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Afghanistan: Evacuations under intense scrutiny in US
In the US, the evacuation of citizens and Afghan allies is also under intense scrutiny.
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‘We will get you home’: Biden’s promise to Americans in Afghanistan
US President Joe Biden says to Americans in Afghanistan: “We will get you home”.
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Biden: US troops may stay beyond Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
In Washington, President Biden has said US troops could stay in Afghanistan beyond the end of the month to help evacuate American citizens who are still stranded there.
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Biden defends US withdrawal from Afghanistan in address to nation
A new report by the Afghanistan Reconstruction watchdog has said that there was no coherent strategy to rebuild the country.
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Biden under fire over ease of Taliban takeover after US troop withdrawal
Much of the blame for the fall of Afghanistan is being laid at the door of the Biden administration.
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More than 80 wildfires are burning across America’s north-west
A major wildfire has begun spreading from Northern California into Nevada, forcing residents in several communities to evacuate. Firefighters are battling to control the flames in temperatures soaring to 32 Celsius and high winds. There are more than 80 large wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest of America. Almost 22,000 firefighters have been deployed to…
