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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

Lawmakers spar over Justice Department priorities during hearing on threats against election workers

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.

August 3, 2022

Haley Stevens defeats Andy Levin in Michigan primary pitting two Democratic House members

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.

August 2, 2022

Eric Schmitt wins Missouri GOP Senate primary

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.

August 2, 2022

House Democrats bash party leaders for meddling in GOP primaries

Rank-and-file House Democrats are protesting their leaders' scheme to promote pro-Trump candidates in GOP primaries, a strategy based on the belief that they'll be easier to beat in the general election.

August 1, 2022

House Democrats privately say they don’t want Biden to run in 2024

House Democrats agree with most of their party voters who say President Biden should consider stepping aside and allow another nominee to run in 2024.

July 28, 2022

Senate Republicans introduce bill to beef up penalties for violent crimes

Senate Republicans introduced a broad package to clarify and strengthen violent crime laws related to homicide, bank robbery, carjacking, kidnapping and other offenses.

July 27, 2022

Far-left Dems squash Pelosi’s plan to pass police funding with gun control bills

Infighting among House Democrats on Wednesday threw into disarray plans to pass gun control and police funding bills when the party's far-left and Black members balked at giving more money to law enforcement.

July 27, 2022

Trump pushes law-and-order policy in first D.C. speech since leaving White House

Former President Trump, giving his first speech in Washington since leaving office, attacked soft-on-crime policies on Tuesday for leading to a national wave of violence in many U.S. cities, and said police must be allowed to do their jobs.

July 26, 2022

Former Trump officials clash ahead of former president’s D.C. speech at policy think tank

Trump White House official Marc Lotter clapped back at Peter Navarro after Mr. Navarro's scathing column about a conservative think tank launched by former Trump advisers.

July 26, 2022

America First think tank’s Washington conference offers 2024 policy platform for GOP

Conservatives gathered in Washington on Monday to push forward a Trump-inspired platform for the 2024 GOP presidential nominee that stressed law and order, economic prosperity and border security.

July 25, 2022

ATF goes to Nation’s Gun Show to boost its image, bust myths about the agency

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ramped up a public relations campaign recently at a massive gun show in Northern Virginia, warning gun sellers and buyers not to believe myths about the agency.

July 25, 2022

Sheriff: Residents should tell ATF agents conducting warrantless gun inspections to leave

A Washington state sheriff recently advised residents in his county that if agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) come to their homes without a search warrant asking to inspect their firearms, they can tell them to leave their property.

July 22, 2022

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Kerry Picket

Articles by Kerry Picket

Lawmakers spar over Justice Department priorities during hearing on threats against election workers

Haley Stevens defeats Andy Levin in Michigan primary pitting two Democratic House members

Eric Schmitt wins Missouri GOP Senate primary

House Democrats bash party leaders for meddling in GOP primaries

House Democrats privately say they don’t want Biden to run in 2024

Senate Republicans introduce bill to beef up penalties for violent crimes

Far-left Dems squash Pelosi’s plan to pass police funding with gun control bills

Trump pushes law-and-order policy in first D.C. speech since leaving White House

Former Trump officials clash ahead of former president’s D.C. speech at policy think tank

America First think tank’s Washington conference offers 2024 policy platform for GOP

ATF goes to Nation’s Gun Show to boost its image, bust myths about the agency

Sheriff: Residents should tell ATF agents conducting warrantless gun inspections to leave

Rep. James Comer: Evidence piling up to show Hunter Biden ‘guilty of everything’

GOP N.Y. gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin attacked at campaign event

Biden throws cold water on Pelosi’s Taiwan trip

Gun control activist David Hogg disrupts congressional hearing on new ‘assault weapon’ ban

GOP lawmaker calls on ATF to explain video of agents asking firearms owner for gun serial numbers

House GOP bets on assemblyman’s run to oust DCCC chair in New York congressional district

China threatens strong response if Pelosi visits Taiwan

Feds decline to prosecute Stephen Colbert staffers in unlawful entry case