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.
The Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has continued his visit to Washington, aiming to hammer home the case for the US Congress to pass a bill containing much-needed financial aid for Ukraine.
With Ukraine under the cosh, a devastating war in Gaza and the present world order fraying at the seams, there was much for the Foreign Secretary to discuss with his US counterpart Antony Blinken on a visit to Washington today.
The best view of today’s solar eclipse is along the so-called ‘path of totality’ in North America, along which millions today flocked to see the sun blocked out for around four-and-a-half minutes.
He was known as the ‘Crypto King’, feted by politicians, endorsed by celebrities and entrusted with billions of dollars of funds.
Investigators in the US city of Baltimore have recovered the data recorder from the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge, causing it to collapse.
Eight people were believed to have been on the Baltimore bridge when the massive container ship smashed into it in the early hours. Most of the 1.6 mile-long structure collapsed in seconds – sending those on it plunging into the river below.
Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy joins us from outside the State Department.
Russia and China have blocked a US draft resolution at the UN Security Council that tied an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Think about smartphones and you’ll probably think iPhone – the ubiquitous handset that has come to dominate the market since it was launched in 2007. But the makers of Apple now face a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice, who accuse the firm of engineering an illegal monopoly – blocking third party developers and…
kennIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been holding a video call with Republican senators in Washington after refusing demands from President Biden to abandon a ground offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. It comes amid growing tension between the Israeli government and the Biden Administration and senior Democrats in Washington, led by Chuck…
Besides his announcement on aid to Gaza, Joe Biden came out swinging at Donald Trump last night in his annual State of the Union address to Congress. Facing accusations from Trump that he’s too old and incapable, the President took aim at the man he would only refer to as “his predecessor”.
It’s the rematch few voters said they wanted, but the votes cast yesterday on Super Tuesday have effectively locked in a US Presidential election contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November.
It’s been a good week for Donald Trump with polls showing him ahead of Joe Biden in the presidential race.
The Israel-Gaza conflict has impacted the US Presidential race where, despite a comfortable win for Joe Biden in Michigan’s Democratic primary, he faced a significant protest vote.
For conservative Americans, and one former British prime minister, it’s the highlight of the political year.