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.
More legal drama in America with the highest political consequences. The Manhattan District Attorney says he is open to delaying sentencing for Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. Trump’s lawyers requested a delay after the court decided former presidents should have immunity from prosecution for official acts, arguing that some evidence…
It’s quite something when a candidate describes being referred to a criminal court to decide whether his prosecution should continue – as a big win.
According to the pollsters, it’s the rematch voters don’t want. But if Americans were hoping for reassurance from the first televised debate of the 2024 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, they didn’t get it.
It’s debate night again but this time in America.
After nearly 14 years ensconced at various times in a stately home, a foreign Embassy and then in a high security prison, the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the country.
Hunter Biden has been found guilty of lying about his drug use in order to illegally buy a gun.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: ‘He blamed President Biden, called the judge a ‘tyrant’ and described the trial as a ‘scam’. Donald Trump says he’ll appeal against his criminal conviction – declaring that he is ‘willing to do whatever I have to do to save my country.’
A jury in Manhattan found that the 45th president deliberately falsified business records as part of a cover-up to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
The fate of Donald Trump now rests in the hands of twelve New Yorkers.
Donald Trump’s defence team have been wrapping up their case at his hush money trial in New York.
She may have played a virtual assistant in the film ‘Her’, but Scarlett Johansson is not happy that ‘Sky’ – one of the voices of OpenAI’s new chatbot – sounds “eerily similar” to her. The chatbot was meant to herald a revolutionary new chapter in the development of Artificial Intelligence – a virtual assistant with…
He was Donald Trump’s fixer – known in New York as the pitbull who squashed inconvenient stories and helped flam up the flattering ones. But will Michael Cohen’s evidence now put the former president in a fix of his own?
President Biden has made Rafah a red line – vowing to halt weapon supplies if Israel launches a major invasion.
For weeks, President Biden and his administration have been urging the Israelis not to launch a full-scale offensive against Rafah.
President Biden spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu to reiterate US concerns about any Israeli invasion of Rafah, and the State Department has reiterated that a hostage deal and ceasefire is in the ‘best interests’ of Israel and the Palestinian people.