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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

Jan. 6 pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were inoperable, says ex-agent who contradicts FBI’s official story

A former FBI agent who worked on the case says the pipe bombs planted near the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee a day before Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol were inoperable.

May 12, 2023

House Minority Leader Jeffries disparages CNN’s town hall event with Trump

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Thursday belittled CNN's town hall meeting with former President Donald Trump.

May 11, 2023

Jeffries slams GOP for false border-fentanyl claims

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday claimed Republicans' argument about the circumstances on the southern border was not true.

May 11, 2023

Rep. George Santos pledges to fight criminal charges, clear his name

Rep. George Santos, the disgraced New York Republican who fabricated most of his life story to get elected, said Wednesday that 13 charges of fraud against him is a "witch hunt" and he will fight to clear his name.

May 10, 2023

CIA helped gather signatures for letter discrediting Hunter Biden laptop story: House investigators

A CIA official helped wrangle signatories to an October 2020 letter of 51 former federal intelligence officials discrediting information from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop as Russian disinformation, according to a new congressional report.

May 10, 2023

Feds arrest Rep. George Santos, allege he siphoned political funds and lied on House forms

Rep. George Santos, the disgraced New York Republican who fabricated most of his life story to get elected, was arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple offenses related to an alleged scheme to use political donations for designer clothing and personal debts.

May 10, 2023

Feds reprosecuting man granted clemency by Trump, Congress demands answers

A decision by the Department of Justice to retry a case against a Florida nursing home owner whose sentence was commuted by President Trump has attracted new congressional scrutiny.

May 9, 2023

Wave of new gun laws wash across blue America, crash into Justice Thomas’ tougher court test

Democrat-led states are leading a mass rebellion against last year's Supreme Court ruling on gun rights, with a slew of new laws designed to test how far they can go in testing the limits of the Second Amendment.

May 6, 2023

Trump-DeSantis unity ticket scores with voters, heightens GOP chances to beat Biden

Perhaps former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would be better off teaming up than fighting each other for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

May 5, 2023

Trump camp is raising money for a GOP ballot harvesting operation

The Trump campaign is taking on Democrats' ballot-harvesting in key battleground states where billionaire liberal activist George Soros' groups are spending tens of millions targeting to energize President Biden's base.

May 4, 2023

House Republicans demand more information about State Department’s alleged censorship

House Republican lawmakers on the Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing the State Department's Global Engagement Center of censorship and demanded more information.

May 2, 2023

Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenas federal agencies for information on censorship through Big Tech

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed officials from three federal agencies for documents and information related to the committee's investigation into how the government coordinated with private companies and other third-party groups to censor speech.

April 28, 2023

Republicans set sights on eliminating Obama-era federal consumer protection bureau

Rep. Byron Donalds has reintroduced legislation to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an Obama-era creation that conservatives have long criticized as a government red-tape factory with no accountability to voters.

April 28, 2023

FBI director: 22% budget cut will hurt agency’s fight against violent crime, espionage

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told lawmakers on a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that cuts to the agency's 2024 budget would seriously harm the bureau's efforts against international espionage and violent criminals, including meddling by China.

April 27, 2023

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

Jan. 6 pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were inoperable, says ex-agent who contradicts FBI’s official story

House Minority Leader Jeffries disparages CNN’s town hall event with Trump

Jeffries slams GOP for false border-fentanyl claims

Rep. George Santos pledges to fight criminal charges, clear his name

CIA helped gather signatures for letter discrediting Hunter Biden laptop story: House investigators

Feds arrest Rep. George Santos, allege he siphoned political funds and lied on House forms

Feds reprosecuting man granted clemency by Trump, Congress demands answers

Wave of new gun laws wash across blue America, crash into Justice Thomas’ tougher court test

Trump-DeSantis unity ticket scores with voters, heightens GOP chances to beat Biden

Trump camp is raising money for a GOP ballot harvesting operation

House Republicans demand more information about State Department’s alleged censorship

Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenas federal agencies for information on censorship through Big Tech

Republicans set sights on eliminating Obama-era federal consumer protection bureau

FBI director: 22% budget cut will hurt agency’s fight against violent crime, espionage

Lawmakers seek more protections for Americans before reauthorizing FISA

ATF director faces scrutiny over skills, gun control regulations

House Oversight chairman threatens subpoena for information about John Kerry’s role in Biden admin

Biden family profited from human trafficking scheme, House investigators say

Mitt Romney faces potential primary trouble, new poll shows

NYC crime victim accuses Democrats of choosing politics over public safety