Charles Laurence

has reported from every corner of the USA and the New World. He currently lives with his teenage son and a dog in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, and Woodstock, New York.

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Americans: Bill and Ted Stevens's adventure

Alaska’s senior senator with a taste for pork faces jail on charges of concealing graft

First Posted October 7, 2008

Americans: The last trial of Dominick Dunne

Vanity Fair’s chronicler of the dark underbelly of US celebrity culture faces his final curtain call

First Posted September 23, 2008

Americans: meet Florida’s sugar daddy

Scarface was an amateur compared to Alfonso Fanjul Jr, whose family enjoys a monopoly on sugar in the US

First Posted September 17, 2008

First Dude of the Wild Frontier

Todd Palin is hailed as a ‘true Alaskan’. It’s not necessarily a compliment, discovers Charles Laurence

First Posted September 9, 2008

Interest rises in Sheila Bair

Forbes has named Sheila Bair America's most powerful woman. Who is she?

First Posted September 2, 2008

Locals and donkeys like my beach house

Series concluded: Charles Laurence finally moves into his renovated beach house in Turks and Caicos

First Posted August 18, 2008

A house to make Caribbean ghosts proud

Part 5: Keep it simple, Charles Laurence thinks, as his no-mod-cons beach house in the Turks and Caicos gets started

First Posted August 11, 2008

My dream - and my bank balance - are in danger

Part 4: Local politics raise their ugly head as Charles Laurence seeks to renovate his beachfront house in the Turks and Caicos

First Posted August 4, 2008