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As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls the plans by a radical pastor to burn copies of the Koran a “disgraceful act”, Channel 4 News asks whether anti-Muslim sentiment is echoed across America.
US President Barack Obama defends the right of Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero, in New York, despite local opposition and a vocal campaign by families of 9/11 victims to block the project.
Gary Gibbon
There were thunder claps and lightning directly over Westminster as Frank Field was on his feet in the chamber warning of the Labour Party meeting its executioner in May 2010. Mr Field sounded like a man whose rebellion was slipping away from him and he blamed the government for threatening backbenchers that a defeat on…
Jon Snow
We are but 24 hours from America’s first black president and what feels here much more the world’s first black president – although, of course, he isn’t. Vast numbers of foreigners have come in, including, as I’ve mentioned, no small band of Britons. A voice called out to me yesterday on the street amidst thousands…
Matt Frei
Despite an outpouring of public anguish after the Newtown massacre, gun control measures called for at the time now seem impossibly ambitious in the face of US political realities.
Matt Frei
Washington Correspondent Matt Frei writes on the wearisome, but successful, nature of the American attack ads.
Voters in New Hampshire are casting their ballots in the first primary in America’s presidential race. Channel 4 News asks whether Mitt Romney will get the convincing victory he needs.