Owen Fairclough reports for CGTN from our Washington, D.C. office.
From election trails to Brexit, (nearly) Grexit and even Africa’s first World Cup, Owen has been a reporter for nearly 20 years in the UK, France and now in the United States, trying to make sense of perhaps the most defining story of our times: the Trump administration and the rise of populism.
Owen began his career as a newspaper and newswires reporter before betraying print journalism purists by crossing the aisle into TV with the BBC. He left the UK in 2008 to become business editor at France 24 and then moved across the Atlantic in 2014 to join CGTN America.
The unemployment rate dropped to 5.4% last month after the U.S. added nearly a million jobs for a second successive month. But, in Louisiana, fishermen can’t find enough hands on deck. See more. Read More...
By some estimates, tens of millions of people in the United States alone are now at risk of food insecurity, a global problem that reaches beyond hunger and goes into how people have access to food and how it is produced. CGTN’s Owen Fairclough […] Read More...
The sale of state and local government securities isn’t something that typically makes headlines – selling them helps local authorities around the U.S. finance their daily operations. So when the U.S. Treasury Department suspended the sale of these securities hours ago, it set off […] Read More...
The U.S. posted further evidence on Thursday that its economy has put the devastating impact of the pandemic behind it. Economic output expanded six-and-a-half percent over the last few months. The COVID-19 Delta variant is so prevalent, U.S. health authorities have reversed course on their guidance, […] Read More...
Hundreds of wildfires are devastating parts of the western United States and Canada. The smoke is creating hazy skylines and unhealthy air thousands of kilometers away. Read More...
Muslims across the U.S. were celebrating a scaled down Eid al-Adha festival for the second year running as the COVID-19 Delta variant sweeps the country. Eid falls at the same time this year as the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. But many Muslims here […] Read More...
Six months on, the U.S. under Biden is recovering from the pandemic and returning to some kind of normality. January 6 has left its mark both inside and outside the Capitol.
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It carries nearly half the fuel consumed along the entire East Coast of the United States. And the cyberattack that shutdown the Colonial Pipeline last month was enough for panicked buyers to run some gas stations dry. Now it’s emerged that those behind the attack […] Read More...
A year ago, the deaths of African Americans at the hands of police prompted a global protest over historic racial injustice that continues to resonate. Those protests have largely ended. But around the world, they’ve left a permanent mark, or in many cases, a […] Read More...
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