Richard Hall is The Independent’s Senior US Correspondent, based in New York. He has reported from across the country since 2020, hitting the road to cover human stories of protest, politics, civil rights, extremism, and Americana. During that time, he led in-depth investigations into the Biden administration’s role in Gaza’s famine, torture at Guantanamo Bay, violence at Waffle Houses and sex trafficking at low-budget hotel chains. During the 2020 presidential election, he was also the only reporter to be at both the infamous Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference and the attack on the US Capitol. Before moving to New York, he lived and worked in Beirut as The Independent’s Middle East correspondent. He covered the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of ISIS, the Kurdish fight for autonomy, an attempted coup in Turkey, climate change in Iraq, and upheaval and protest in Lebanon, reporting from conflict zones across the region.