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.
Immigration is already one of the big political issues in the US election, one that Democrats arriving in Chicago for their National Convention will be talking about over the coming days.
It began late, was entirely off camera and was peppered with technical glitches – but Donald Trump managed to bring up all his favourite talking points during a live streamed conversation on X, with its billionaire owner Elon Musk.
The once unthinkable spectre of civil war has been resurrected from the darkest pages of American history.
He is, he said, only here by the Grace of God. And the Republican faithful lapped up Donald Trump’s address to their National Convention last night – his first speech since a gunman came breathtakingly close to taking his life.
Pressure grows on Joe Biden to step out of the presidential race against Donald Trump.
With calls for Biden to step out of the presidential race increasing, what would happen if he decides to throw in the towel?
Four days after he tried to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Crooks’ motive remains a mystery.
Officers were alerted to Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks at least 90 seconds before he fired at Trump.
Attendees at the RNC were delighted with the pick of Trump loyalist JD Vance for vice president, but there’s a carefully crafted strategy behind it too.
The family of Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was among millions of voters profiled by Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign
Donald Trump has urged Americans to “stand united” and remain “defiant in the face of wickedness” after the assassination attempt against him.
It was dubbed a make or break press conference, with the stakes raised by a Biden campaign desperate to fight back against a rising number of Democrats calling for him to stand aside as the party’s candidate.
All eyes will be on Joe Biden this evening – not so much the substance of what he says but how he says it and how he appears, at a press conference at the end of the Nato summit.
Even one of his biggest Hollywood backers has penned an article saying Biden is not the man he used to be.
Earlier today Democrats met for the first time to discuss the ‘Biden crisis’ since the debate in Atlanta.