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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

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a news conference in Ceres, Calif., April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) ** FILE **

America First think tank challenges California’s sanctuary policies in federal court

The America First Policy Institute filed a federal lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta on behalf of the City of El Cajon, challenging the state's sanctuary policy.

May 4, 2026

A Spirit Airlines 319 Airbus approaches Manchester Boston Regional Airport for a landing, Friday, June 2, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump gives Spirit Airlines final bailout offer as airline considers shutting down

President Trump confirmed the White House is considering a deal to bail out financially distressed Spirit Airlines.

May 1, 2026

From left, FBI Director Kash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, arrive and prepare for a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, March 19, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Congress passes 45-day extension of federal surveillance law as debate over protections continues

Congress punted its deadline to reauthorize a foreign surveillance law for the second time on Thursday as lawmakers continue to debate privacy protections for Americans' data caught in the spying operations.

April 30, 2026

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., questions U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer as he testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Senate extends federal surveillance law for 45 days, sends to House

Senate lawmakers on Thursday approved a short-term extension of a provision in the federal surveillance law to hash out the final terms of its reauthorization.

April 30, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Senate Republicans aim for 45-day FISA extension

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans have urged their Democratic colleagues to agree to extend the expiring federal surveillance law for another 45 days, but one Democrat wants a shorter extension under one condition.

April 30, 2026

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions at a news conference following a closed-door GOP meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes FISA bill as GOP works through other intraparty feuds

House Republican leaders negotiated their way through fierce intraparty opposition and passed on Wednesday two of the three key pieces of legislation on their agenda for the week, but their struggles are far from over.

April 29, 2026

A semi-automatic Glock pistol is fired at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), National Services Center, March 2, 2023, in Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

ATF releases landmark package aimed at bolstering, clarifying Second Amendment rights

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and newly confirmed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Robert Cekada unveiled a package of 34 proposed and final rules Wednesday to scale back and revise Biden-era gun regulations.

April 29, 2026

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Republicans at an impasse to advance FISA reauthorization before Thursday deadline

Congressional Republicans delayed key procedural votes Tuesday to advance an extension of the foreign surveillance law that expires Thursday.

April 28, 2026

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks about Virginia's redistricting vote as Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., right, looks on, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Hakeem Jeffries doubles down on call for ‘maximum warfare’ on Republicans

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he stood by his remarks about engaging in "maximum warfare" with Republicans when it came to the battle over congressional redistricting.

April 27, 2026

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins speaks during an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Family Research Council helping feds take on Southern Poverty Law Center

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said his organization is assisting the FBI's investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been indicted for funding hate groups it claimed to fight.

April 27, 2026

U.S. Secret Service agents respond near President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘Quite an evening’: Trump ready for round two after gunshots force dinner cancellation

President Trump said "let the show go on," but listened to the Secret Service who abruptly whisked him away from the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington after a shooter fired off half a dozen rounds outside the ballroom.

April 25, 2026

Secret service agents respond during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Shots fired at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump rushed from the stage

Shots were fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday night, forcing guests to duck under tables in the Washington Hilton ballroom.

April 25, 2026

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minn., right, and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., left, listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

Civil liberties groups slam Johnson’s spy law rewrite as a ‘three-year blank check’ for the FBI

House Speaker Mike Johnson's new proposal to update laws for government spying got a big thumbs-down from civil liberties advocates who say it does not do enough to protect Americans' privacy rights.

April 24, 2026

A semi-automatic Glock pistol is fired at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), National Services Center, March 2, 2023, in Martinsburg, W.Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

D.C. court renews magazine ban, plans to rehear case

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday restored a city prohibition on gun magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds until a rehearing of the case.

April 24, 2026

The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., on Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ** FILE **

House GOP makes new bid to overhaul FISA spy laws

House Republicans offered up a new plan Thursday to tweak laws for spying on foreigners.

April 23, 2026

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a news conference about the budget process that Republicans hope will fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump calls on Schumer to apologize for ripping Border Patrol, ICE

President Trump on Thursday demanded that Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer apologize to immigration authorities for remarks the New York Democrat made on the chamber's floor.

April 23, 2026

An election worker tears off "I Voted" stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Judge blocks certification of Democrats’ win in Virginia redistricting referendum

A Virginia judge has stopped the state from certifying the results of Tuesday's referendum in which voters narrowly approved Democrats' new gerrymandered congressional map.

April 22, 2026

A Michigan voter inserts her absentee voter ballot into a drop box in Troy, Mich. on Oct. 15, 2020. After the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and his supporters claimed thousands of votes had been cast fraudulently on behalf of dead voters, even naming specific deceased people whose ballots were supposedly counted. But these claims, which spread in many states including Arizona, Virginia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, were found to be false. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump alleges Virginia pro-Democrat referendum vote was ‘rigged,’ lays blame on mail-in ballots

President Trump said Wednesday that Virginia's redistricting referendum was "rigged," saying Republicans were ahead in the voting against the Democratic-proposed map until a "massive mail in ballot drop" helped Democrats win.

April 22, 2026

Voting booths are seen at the Culpeper County Voter Registration office during the early voting period for the Virginia redistricting referendum Friday, April 3, 2026, in Culpeper, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Republicans lose in Virginia redistricting referendum but fight on in the state’s high court

Republicans are now turning to the Virginia Supreme Court for a last chance to stop Democrats' new gerrymandered congressional map before the midterm elections in November.

April 22, 2026

President Donald Trump dances after speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church, Friday, April 17, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trump announces Iranian female protesters won’t be executed

President Trump announced on social media Wednesday that the eight Iranian women scheduled to be executed by the regime now won't be.

April 22, 2026