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Kerry Picket is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times.
Picket covered the hill at other DC-based outlets including the Daily Caller and the Washington Examiner. Before that, she produced news for Robin Quivers of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wrote entertainment news for MTV Radio, and worked as a production assistant at MTV.com.
Picket is also a former radio guest host at SiriusXM Patriot 125 and appears frequently as a guest commentator on cable news programs and syndicated radio shows.
She can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kerry Picket

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attends a news conference about the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Schumer’s nightmare scenario: Mamdani’s win rekindles rumblings of AOC primary showdown

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's resounding election win is giving Senate Democratic leader Charles E. Schumer plenty to worry about.

November 5, 2025

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at Dutch Kills Playground on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Mamdani’s win in New York propels Democratic Party toward socialism

America's biggest city is about to be thrust into a socialist government, and, to the chagrin of many Democrats, the rest of the country will be watching.

November 4, 2025

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx mosque in New York on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Mamdani blames Trump for bomb threats and intimidation at the polls

New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday said reports of bomb threats at New Jersey polls are because of President Trump.

November 4, 2025

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on board Air Force One on his way back to the White House from a weekend trip at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump urges his NYC supporters to vote for Cuomo in mayoral race

President Trump called on his supporters in New York City Monday night to vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the president's onetime foe, in hopes of defeating frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in the city's mayoral race.

November 3, 2025

Sean Spiller, head of the teachers union New Jersey Education Association, speaks after the Democratic gubernatorial debate at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Feb. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Catalini) **FILE**

Teachers union talks up infusing social justice into New Jersey schools

The New Jersey union representing over 200,000 state educators is expected to host several talks at a consortium this week, where plans are afoot to discuss how to infuse social justice lesson plans into public schools.

November 3, 2025

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks to reporters in New York, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani releases Arabic-language campaign ad

New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani released an Arabic-language campaign ad on social media ahead of Tuesday's election.

November 3, 2025

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cheers along with supporters while campaigning in New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Cuomo makes final pitch to New York voters in last-stand attempt to close gap with Mamdani

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigned for mayor across all five New York City boroughs Monday, hoping to close a double-digit deficit with socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and telling voters the job is "too big" for his inexperienced rival.

November 3, 2025

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves to Rita Bellevue as she waits at a bus stop in New York, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani gives New Yorkers his final pitch, promises a ‘society we would like to see’

New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani spent the final weekend of his campaign telling his supporters that they have helped him build a movement that will transform the city, where injustice will be abolished and the poor will be uplifted.

November 2, 2025

Churchgoers prepare to take communion at a morning service at the Saint Charles Catholic Church, the site of a 2014 bomb attack blamed on Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, in the predominantly-Christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) **FILE**

Trump puts spotlight on Nigeria where Islamists reportedly killed thousands of Christians this year

President Trump on Friday declared Nigeria a country of particular concern, citing the "existential threat" Christianity is facing in the African country.

October 31, 2025

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, arrives to advance President Donald Trump's nominees for the federal bench, including Emil Bove, Trump's former defense lawyer, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grassley questions major U.S. nonprofits over purported financial ties to Chinese Communist Party

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is calling on three major tax-exempt groups to respond to reports as to whether their money have been funneled to the Chinese Communist Party.

October 28, 2025

Trucking students practice reverse parking in training trucks at the Driving Academy on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 in Linden, N.J., where students prepare to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with multilingual instructors. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

U.S. truck drivers sound alarm about the massive number of non-English-speaking truckers on the road

A growing number of U.S. truck drivers say they are fearful of the number of non-English-speaking truck drivers on the road.

October 28, 2025

Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower, Sept. 27, 2012, in Austin, Texas. A conservative quest to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards, with officials in about one-third of the states now taking some sort of action against it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Trump-allied think tank creates toolkit for students to launch right-wing groups on campus

The conservative America First Policy Institute has a toolkit for students facing viewpoint discrimination on campus.

October 27, 2025

President Donald Trump arrives at Haneda Airport before switching his ride to Marine One in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, following his visit at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump jabs Spanberger and Sherrill for their stances on energy and boys in girls’ sports

President Trump slammed Democratic gubernatorial nominees Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia over their stances on energy and boys in girls' sports.

October 27, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media after visiting the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Fadel Senna/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Rubio says IDF targeted strike Saturday didn’t violate ceasefire

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the U.S. does not see the Israeli strike over the weekend targeting a military official of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement as a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

October 27, 2025

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Bipartisan group of lawmakers calls on Trump to press China’s Xi to release activist Jimmy Lai

A bipartisan group of more than 30 senators led by Rick Scott of Florida urged President Trump ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to secure the release of pro-democracy leader Jimmy Lai.

October 23, 2025

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of then Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson on Capitol Hill in Washington, on March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Senate bill would increase $10,000 thresholds for financial transactions banks must report to feds

Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to increase the reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act.

October 23, 2025

New York City Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa speaks during a New York Young Republicans Club vigil for Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk at Madison Square Park on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Kena Betancur)

Sliwa angrily quits radio gig on air after boss calls on him to leave NYC mayoral race

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa angrily quit his WABC talk-radio job on Wednesday after the station's owner called on him to withdraw from the race.

October 22, 2025

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a rally with Hotel & Gaming Trades Council workers, in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Voters prepared to give communism a chance; ‘affordability’ message attracts young

Democratic voters in America's largest city are ready to elect socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor because they think socialism and communism have gotten a bad rap but are now the future of both their city and their party.

October 21, 2025

Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the metropolitan detention center of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, June 8, 2025, following the previous night's immigration raid protest. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

FAIR Sues LAPD and other law enforcement agencies for records from anti-ICE riots

The Federation for American Immigration Reform has filed lawsuits against five Los Angeles police agencies related to their actions during the riots against ICE agents earlier this year.

October 20, 2025

A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over his participation in a Young Republican group Telegram chat littered with racist and antisemitic remarks. State Senator Samuel Douglass, 26, was among dozens of Young Republican Club members from across the country who were part of the private text chats. (Photo: Vermont General Assembly)

Vermont state senator resigns after involvement in racist comments in Young Republican chat group

A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over his participation in a Young Republican group Telegram chat littered with racist and antisemitic remarks.

October 19, 2025