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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

In this Feb. 27, 2013, photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Hacker group ShinyHunters claims massive breach of FBI employee data

A well-known group of hackers said it breached several FBI-related services and stole data "on all FBI employees and applicants."

September 22, 2026

China's President Xi Jinping, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, May 14, 2026. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Republican Rep. Chris Smith urges Trump to confront Xi about Americans jailed in China

With as many as 300 Americans reported to be languishing in Chinese prisons, some subjected to sexual abuse, racial discrimination, and torture, Rep. Chris Smith is demanding that President Trump make their release a centerpiece of his upcoming summit with China's President Xi Jinping.

September 21, 2026

Vice President J.D. Vance speaks during a Republican National Committee's Midterm Rally at the Mid-America Center, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP)

Vance defends White House press ban, says outlets can still report

Vice President J.D. Vance said Monday that President Trump is not banning media outlets, saying the three outlets barred from the White House campus can still report but will no longer have special access to deliver propaganda.

September 21, 2026

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally for democratic candidates in Monroe, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) ** FILE **

Bipartisan coalition fights California’s ‘Job Creator’ tax

A billionaire wealth tax on the California ballot is polling ahead by 6 points and a bipartisan coalition of business leaders and politicians is warning it could force the state's tech giants and other job creators out of the state.

September 21, 2026

President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Tech titans to flank Trump, Xi at White House state dinner next week

When President Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House next week, they will be flanked by the architects of America's tech economy.

September 19, 2026

Sid Rosenberg speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Vance courts NYC conservative Jewish radio host in White House sit-down

Conservative New York City talk radio host Sid Rosenberg, a critic of Vice President J.D. Vance's stance on Israel, said he's more optimistic about him after their White House meeting on Thursday.

September 18, 2026

Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks as then-Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner) ** FILE **

Raskin, Whitehouse discuss plans if Democrats retake Congress

Democratic lawmakers and allied advocacy groups are promising aggressive oversight of the Trump Justice Department, presidential pardons and executive overreach if Democrats reclaim congressional majorities in the midterm elections.

September 17, 2026

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, speaks at the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Ohio’s GOP senators push bill to block illegal immigrant licenses

Ohio's Republican senators introduced familiar legislation that would prohibit illegal immigrants from obtaining "drive-only" licenses by withholding federal funds from states that issue them to those who cannot provide proof of citizenship.

September 16, 2026

Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at the Republican convention Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Attorney General Blanche accuses Democrats of phony ‘panic’ over AI before midterm elections

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday accused Democratic senators of orchestrating a politically timed panic over artificial intelligence.

September 15, 2026

An electrical worker work power on the street for repair power in Gary, Ind, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, more than a week after a deadly storm passes through the area. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Congress pushed to act now to stop looming crisis for America’s electric grid

America's electrical grid is hurtling toward a crisis point, according to the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

September 14, 2026

Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at the FBI Field Office in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Feds ban 870,000 suspected pandemic fraudsters from getting future government loans

Vice President J.D. Vance announced Monday that the government is barring 870,000 people from getting future federal loans because they are suspected of defrauding the government during the pandemic.

September 14, 2026

Vice President JD Vance talks to reporters before he boards Air Force Two, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

J.D. Vance warns that Big Tech’s plea for federal regulation may be a ‘Trojan horse’

Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday raised pointed suspicions about the motives behind Big Tech's growing calls for federal regulation of artificial intelligence.

September 14, 2026

Vice President J.D. Vance arrives on the stage at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Mexican-flag protester interrupts J.D. Vance’s speech at Republican midterm convention

A protester interrupted Vice President J.D. Vance during his remarks at the Republican convention in Dallas, throwing a Mexican flag at the stage.

September 10, 2026

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Scammers exploit Trump’s $5,000 dividend pledge with fake text alerts

People say they're receiving texts from scam operators trying to exploit President Trump's $5,000 dividend pledge.

September 10, 2026

Flags and flowers are placed by the names of those killed during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Donald King) **FILE**

A rushed goodbye, a missed phone call: Sorrow lingers 25 years after 9/11

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Maria McHugh saw her husband's name light up her phone and let it go to voicemail. He would never call again.

September 10, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Thune booed at GOP midterm convention during Trump speech

Senate Majority Leader John Thune was booed the moment President Trump mentioned his name during his remarks at the Republican midterm convention Wednesday night in Dallas.

September 9, 2026

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican convention Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says $20 trillion in foreign investment poured into U.S. since he took office

President Trump told a packed Texas arena Wednesday night that over $20 trillion in foreign investment has flooded into the U.S. in less than two years of his second term.

September 9, 2026

A tourist takes pictures of human skulls of Cambodian Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek stupa, better known as the "Killing Fields," on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) ** FILE **

First Anti-Communist Film Festival set for six flicks in October

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation announced the lineup for its Anti-Communist Film Festival next month.

September 9, 2026

Zuhdi Jasser speaks during a news conference in front of police headquarters in New York on Monday, March 5, 2012. Jasser was there with dozens of activists to demonstrate their support for the NYPD and their surveillance of Muslim groups across the Northeast. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

House campaign in Arizona puts a spotlight on perceived Marxist-Islamist threat

Navy veteran Zuhdi Jasser, the only Muslim running as a Republican in this year's House races, is using his campaign to counter what he warns is a confluence of socialist and Islamist ideology from today's Democratic candidates.

September 7, 2026

Coinbase exec: Tax bill would complete crypto capital ‘trifecta’

A top executive at the crypto marketplace Coinbase said the U.S. is within reach of becoming the global capital of cryptocurrency -- but only if Congress delivers on one final piece of unfinished business: tax policy.

September 7, 2026