Sarah Palin

Senator John McCain talks to Channel 4 News about a possible Mitt Romney presidency, international policy towards Syria and the upcoming vice-presidential debate.

There’s fear, there’s loathing, and there’s electoral politics. Top Republicans say President Obama’s foreign policy triggered the attacks on US diplomatic staff – calling it “disgraceful”.

It is cracked – but not broken yet. That old political glass ceiling is still blocking women from reaching the very top of American political power. What is going wrong?

It’s an American fried chicken chain with roots in evangelical politics. But now Chick Fil-A is at the centre of a national political storm over its CEO’s comments against gay marriage.

Sarah Palin will not seek the Republican US presidential nomination in 2012, ending months of speculation and leaving the Republican field largely settled.

Mitt Romney’s official announcement – even with the free chili – will not do anything to change the view that this is one of the weakest republican fields that’s been seen in a very long time. Sarah Smith blogs.

Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith, reports on President Obama’s attempts to lay to rest Republican rumours that he was born outside the USA. And Republican fears that the row could rebound on them.

US politicians pledged to be less vitriolic in their rhetoric after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. But will this last to the 2012 Presidential campaign?

The Tea Party’s latest standard-bearer – Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann – comes under fire after her personal response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, reports Sarah Smith.

Sarah Palin defends her response to the Arizona shootings after her reference to “blood libel” caused controversy last week.

President Barack Obama leads a memorial to the victims of the Arizona shooting spree and urges Americans to debate “in a way that heals, not a way that wounds”, writes Sarah Smith.

President Obama pleads for the Arizona shootings not to be used for “politics and point-scoring”, but – as Felicity Spector reports – the political debate is already hotting up.

Former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has posted an eight-minute video on her Facebook page reacting to the Tucson shootings, as Barack Obama arrives in Arizona.

At the annual Ronald Reagan dinner hosted by the Republican Party of Iowa, all the good folks who’ve paid $100 each for what looks like pork loin and doesn’t smell very appetising, are in no doubt that Sarah Palin is here to unofficially launch her bid for the White House in 2012.

Channel 4 News Washington correspondent Sarah Smith blogs that the only question that matters in American politics is, “Where would Sarah Palin sit on the plane to Iowa?”