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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

Republicans at border insist on security; Speaker Johnson raps Biden team for ‘unmitigated disaster’

House Speaker Mike Johnson led dozens of Republicans to the border in Texas on Wednesday, saying they got a first-hand look at the devastation of unprecedented illegal immigration and calling the situation "heartbreaking and infuriating."

January 3, 2024

House chairman leading impeachment calls Mayorkas ‘greatest domestic threat’

The House on Wednesday announced its first hearing on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, officially kicking off the quest to oust the man who's overseen the most chaotic border in modern history.

January 3, 2024

Maine Secretary of State Bellows says home targeted in swatting incident

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said on her Facebook page Saturday that her house was swatted.

December 30, 2023

GOP lawmakers say strategy to kick Trump off ballot is 2020 COVID election laws all over again

Republicans say legal maneuvers to remove former President Donald Trump from several states' GOP primary ballot are no different from when liberal activists successfully used the courts to change election laws during the COVID pandemic before the 2020 presidential campaign.

December 30, 2023

Swatting hits law professor Jonathan Turley

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley says he's the latest victim of swatting, an action of fake calls for police response.

December 30, 2023

Only 3.4% of U.S. journalists are Republicans: Survey

The number of full-time American journalists who say they're Republicans plummeted in the past decade, while Democrats in that profession rose.

December 30, 2023

Chinese spy balloon communicated with Beijing through U.S. internet provider, claims news report

The Chinese surveillance vessel that floated across the U.S. at the start of 2023 fed information to China through an American internet service provider.

December 30, 2023

Law enforcement increasingly enlists artificial intelligence to fight crime

It's not yet to the point of science fiction's "Minority Report," where police can arrest someone for "precrime" before they ever commit the act, but police across the country are turning to artificial intelligence to do their jobs.

December 27, 2023

Judge blocks California law banning handgun carry in most public places

California's Democratic lawmakers were unchastened by Wednesday's federal-court ruling putting a hold on their latest gun control laws before they were to take effect Jan. 1.

December 21, 2023

House Judiciary Committee subpoenas AG Garland over DOJ’s attempted surveillance of Congress

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday for information about the Justice Department's attempts to spy on members of Congress and congressional staff.

December 19, 2023

New York GOP-backed candidate for Santos seat says she won’t back abortion ban

Mazi Melesa Pilip, the New York GOP-backed candidate chosen to run in an upcoming special election to fill the vacated seat left open by expelled former Rep. George Santos, has revealed she does not support a federal ban on abortion.

December 19, 2023

GOP House member touts bill that would ban colleges forcing students to sign ‘diversity’ pledges

Rep. Dan Crenshaw wants to end the practice of forcing students to sign "diversity, equity and inclusion" DEI statements at higher education institutions.

December 19, 2023

Former Jan. 6 committee chair confirms probe records sent to prosecutors investigating Trump

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, chairman of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Select Committee, has confirmed to Republican lawmakers that the panel sent records to prosecutors who have filed charges against former President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had not preserved such material.

December 18, 2023

Dem staffer out from Senate job after revelation of sex video shot in Capitol Hill hearing room

A Capitol Hill staffer accused of filming himself having gay sex in a congressional hearing room has been separated from his job in Senator Ben Cardin's office.

December 16, 2023

‘Messy’ democracy: Speaker Johnson has same difficulties as McCarthy but more loyal allies

It's been a rough seven weeks for new House Speaker Mike Johnson, but despite Mr. Johnson's inexperience and initial stumbles, Republicans are in no hurry to replace him.

December 15, 2023

Bipartisan group of senators fail to stop FISA spying provision in year-end Pentagon bill

Sen. Rand Paul failed to strip the reauthorization of the government's chief surveillance power from the annual Pentagon policy spending bill Wednesday night as a bipartisan group of lawmakers fell six votes short.

December 13, 2023

Bipartisan effort emerges in Senate to remove FISA spy power from year-end Pentagon bill

A bipartisan group of senators is trying to strip reauthorization of the government's chief surveillance power from the annual Pentagon policy spending bill, threatening plans to finish the must-pass bill before Congress adjourns for the year on Thursday.

December 13, 2023

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

Republicans at border insist on security; Speaker Johnson raps Biden team for ‘unmitigated disaster’

House chairman leading impeachment calls Mayorkas ‘greatest domestic threat’

Maine Secretary of State Bellows says home targeted in swatting incident

GOP lawmakers say strategy to kick Trump off ballot is 2020 COVID election laws all over again

Swatting hits law professor Jonathan Turley

Only 3.4% of U.S. journalists are Republicans: Survey

Chinese spy balloon communicated with Beijing through U.S. internet provider, claims news report

Law enforcement increasingly enlists artificial intelligence to fight crime

Judge blocks California law banning handgun carry in most public places

House Judiciary Committee subpoenas AG Garland over DOJ’s attempted surveillance of Congress

New York GOP-backed candidate for Santos seat says she won’t back abortion ban

GOP House member touts bill that would ban colleges forcing students to sign ‘diversity’ pledges

Former Jan. 6 committee chair confirms probe records sent to prosecutors investigating Trump

Dem staffer out from Senate job after revelation of sex video shot in Capitol Hill hearing room

‘Messy’ democracy: Speaker Johnson has same difficulties as McCarthy but more loyal allies

Bipartisan group of senators fail to stop FISA spying provision in year-end Pentagon bill

Bipartisan effort emerges in Senate to remove FISA spy power from year-end Pentagon bill

New York court orders commission to redraw state’s congressional districts

House Freedom Caucus elects Bob Good as new chairman

Speaker Johnson withdraws both House FISA bills