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.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has issued a memo blocking Justice Department employees from communicating with members of Congress in the wake of stunning whistleblower disclosures regarding the FBI probe into Hunter Biden's business affairs.
Rank-and-file FBI agents say they cannot see how FBI Director Christopher A. Wray stays in his position after The Washington Times' exclusive report about a senior bureau official stepping down under scrutiny for suspected political bias affecting investigations.
A senior FBI official in the bureau's Washington field office has abruptly resigned after coming under congressional scrutiny for suspected political bias in handling the investigation of Hunter Biden's laptop computer.
Democrats hope Pat Ryan's unexpected win in a special election to fill a vacant House seat in New York's 19th Congressional District is a sign that the GOP's "red wave" will be reduced to a puddle come November.
Republicans failed in their bid to flip a swing district seat in New York's 19th Congressional District in a special election considered to be a bellwether race ahead of the midterm elections.
Rep. Jerry Nadler prevailed Tuesday in a bitter primary slugfest for the Democratic nomination for New York's 12th Congressional District seat, defeating fellow veteran lawmaker Carolyn Maloney in one of the most closely watched congressional primaries of the year.
House Republicans say new allegations from FBI whistleblowers about corruption within the bureau's management and executive ranks are "appalling" and will be investigated as more revelations about the agency surface.
FBI whistleblowers accused bureau management in different field offices of corruption, cover-ups and retaliation against rank-and-file agents who attempted to expose it, The Washington Times has learned.
The Democrats' massive tax and spending bill has cleared Congress, with the House giving final approval to the $740 billion bill along party lines and sending it to President Biden for his signature.
The FBI's Aug. 8 raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence was aimed at finding evidence related to the ongoing probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol that Democrats want to blame on Mr. Trump ahead of the 2022 midterms and 2024 presidential election.
Some House Republicans envision a "Church-style" committee hearing to hold officials in the Biden Justice Department accountable for targeting President Donald Trump and his political allies.
The Democratic National Committee's plan to potentially reshuffle its 2024 early presidential primary schedule opened up one of its most vulnerable incumbents to GOP attacks.
An Arizona gun store owner wants to know why an ATF inspector, whom he captured on video, took numerous photos of his sales records on her personal phone.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on conservative political activists in Dallas on Thursday to join him and his European supporters in defeating progressive liberalism.
Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Wednesday over the Justice Department's priorities during a hearing on the Biden administration's efforts to protect election workers from harassment and threats in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.
Rep. Haley Stevens, a two-term lawmaker, defeated Rep. Andy Levin in a Michigan Democratic House primary Tuesday night that pitted the two incumbents against one another.
State Attorney General Eric Schmitt won the Missouri GOP Senate race Tuesday, emerging victorious in a crowded field of candidates that included disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens and Rep. Vicky Hartzler.