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Kerry Picket

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

Factions on FISA told to negotiate overhaul; Republican hawks, watchdogs clash

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been pressuring two committees to stop butting heads and quickly meld their competing bills to rewrite the government's most powerful spy power, The Washington Times has learned.

January 30, 2024

Rep. Cori Bush under criminal investigation for misuse of campaign funds for ‘bodyguard’ she married

Rep. Cori Bush, the far-left Squad member, is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly misusing campaign funds to pay a bodyguard whom she later married.

January 30, 2024

Conservative activists to confront RNC at winter meeting in Las Vegas

Conservative activists plan to gather at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Las Vegas to deliver their grievances, sparking fears they will push a no-confidence vote against RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel.

January 27, 2024

RNC seeking new credit line to help climb out of money hole

The cash-strapped Republican National Committee will consider opening a line of credit when members gather for their winter meeting that starts Tuesday in Las Vegas, The Washington Times has learned.

January 26, 2024

House Jan. 6 committee files shielded from GOP due to ‘national security,’ top Democrat says

Federal agencies are withholding some Jan. 6 witness transcripts from House Republican investigators due to "national security" concerns, the Democrat who led the now-disbanded committee has revealed.

January 25, 2024

RNC chairwoman urges Nikki Haley to withdraw from presidential campaign

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel called on Nikki Haley to consider withdrawing from the presidential race Tuesday night.

January 24, 2024

GOP congressional leaders declare Trump ‘presumptive nominee’

Leaders of the GOP House and Senate congressional campaign arms declared former President Donald Trump the party's "presumptive nominee" without waiting for Tuesday night's results from the first Republican primary in New Hampshire.

January 23, 2024

Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee accused of deleting over 100 files before GOP took control of House

The now-defunct House Select Committee on Jan. 6 destroyed more than 100 encrypted files from its 2021 investigation before Republicans took over the chamber, House investigators say.

January 23, 2024

Bowman apologizes for lauding pro-Hamas speaker at district event

Rep. Jamaal Bowman is apologizing for introducing with praise a speaker who has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust to legitimize Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

January 22, 2024

New poll shows upcoming New York special election as a squeaker to replace Santos

A new poll of New York voters in the state's upcoming 3rd Congressional District special election shows a neck-and-neck contest to replace disgraced former Rep. George Santos.

January 19, 2024

Congressman accuses DOJ of hiding evidence of undercover agents involved in U.S. Capitol riot

Rep. Clay Higgins says the Justice Department is withholding exculpatory evidence from police video and audio recordings that reveal hundreds of undercover law enforcement officers were among the rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and helped incite the attack.

January 19, 2024

House Republicans pass pro-life bills before Roe v. Wade anniversary

House Republicans passed two pieces of pro-life legislation Thursday, days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

January 18, 2024

Federal agencies flagged Americans’ financial transactions using terms like ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’

The federal government flags terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" for financial institutions if Americans use those phrases when completing transactions, according to new documents obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

January 17, 2024

Bob Good not concerned about Trump campaign threats to oust him from office

Rep. Bob Good, Virginia Republican, brushed off reporters' questions about threats from Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, who said recently that the conservative firebrand would be unelectable in this year's GOP primary after Trump world puts him through the wringer.

January 17, 2024

Fox News cancels MyPillow ads

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced Friday that Fox News Channel dropped MyPillow commercials.

January 12, 2024

Congressional Democrats move to crack down on militia activity in the U.S.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers introduced bills Thursday to prevent private paramilitary activity in the U.S.

January 11, 2024

NYC students forced out of school building after officials move in nearly 2,000 migrants

New York City high school students' classes went remote Wednesday after nearly 2,000 migrants moved into their school building in Brooklyn following an evacuation from a tent shelter Tuesday to avoid a massive rainstorm.

January 10, 2024

Robert Menendez makes the case that he is the victim of political payback

Sen. Robert Menendez called the federal criminal corruption case against him "outrageous" and "unprecedented" and suggested Tuesday that it was an attempt to remove a key voice blocking some of President Biden's initiatives.

January 9, 2024

DOJ says it could have targeted nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters who did not enter Capitol

The Justice Department says its prosecutors could have but did not target all Jan. 6 protesters who gathered in "restricted" areas around the Capitol three years ago, regardless of whether they participated in violent acts or entered the Capitol building.

January 7, 2024

GOP lawmaker wants government shut down over illegal immigration flood

A Republican lawmaker who visited the southern border with other GOP members in Texas called for a government shutdown over the surge of illegal migrants entering the U.S.

January 5, 2024

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