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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

Congressman accuses DOJ of hiding evidence of undercover agents involved in U.S. Capitol riot

Rep. Clay Higgins says the Justice Department is withholding exculpatory evidence from police video and audio recordings that reveal hundreds of undercover law enforcement officers were among the rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and helped incite the attack.

January 19, 2024

House Republicans pass pro-life bills before Roe v. Wade anniversary

House Republicans passed two pieces of pro-life legislation Thursday, days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion.

January 18, 2024

Federal agencies flagged Americans’ financial transactions using terms like ‘Trump’ and ‘MAGA’

The federal government flags terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" for financial institutions if Americans use those phrases when completing transactions, according to new documents obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

January 17, 2024

Bob Good not concerned about Trump campaign threats to oust him from office

Rep. Bob Good, Virginia Republican, brushed off reporters' questions about threats from Trump campaign manager Chris LaCivita, who said recently that the conservative firebrand would be unelectable in this year's GOP primary after Trump world puts him through the wringer.

January 17, 2024

Fox News cancels MyPillow ads

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced Friday that Fox News Channel dropped MyPillow commercials.

January 12, 2024

Congressional Democrats move to crack down on militia activity in the U.S.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers introduced bills Thursday to prevent private paramilitary activity in the U.S.

January 11, 2024

NYC students forced out of school building after officials move in nearly 2,000 migrants

New York City high school students' classes went remote Wednesday after nearly 2,000 migrants moved into their school building in Brooklyn following an evacuation from a tent shelter Tuesday to avoid a massive rainstorm.

January 10, 2024

Robert Menendez makes the case that he is the victim of political payback

Sen. Robert Menendez called the federal criminal corruption case against him "outrageous" and "unprecedented" and suggested Tuesday that it was an attempt to remove a key voice blocking some of President Biden's initiatives.

January 9, 2024

DOJ says it could have targeted nonviolent Jan. 6 protesters who did not enter Capitol

The Justice Department says its prosecutors could have but did not target all Jan. 6 protesters who gathered in "restricted" areas around the Capitol three years ago, regardless of whether they participated in violent acts or entered the Capitol building.

January 7, 2024

GOP lawmaker wants government shut down over illegal immigration flood

A Republican lawmaker who visited the southern border with other GOP members in Texas called for a government shutdown over the surge of illegal migrants entering the U.S.

January 5, 2024

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

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