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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar get plum committee assignments in GOP-led House

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar get plum committee assignments in GOP-led House

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who were each stripped of committee assignments by House Democrats for their incendiary rhetoric, have been given seats on multiple congressional panels in the now Republican-controlled chamber. Greene — an election denier who has often complained about the treatment of those arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol — was named to the Homeland Security Committee, multiple news outlets… Source link

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Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted with past statements regarding violence in court hearing

Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted with past statements regarding violence in court hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., faced questioning under oath Friday in a Georgia elections court from lawyers who say she violated the Constitution by aiding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and should therefore be disqualified from running for reelection. After the hearing, Judge Charles Beaudrot will issue a decision with his findings to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has the final authority to determine whether Greene is qualified to appear on a ballot, though his… Source link

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Reds rookie Hunter Greene breaks record for 100 mph pitches

Reds rookie Hunter Greene breaks record for 100 mph pitches

Two starts into his MLB career, Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Hunter Greene is exactly as advertised. Simply put, the rookie right-hander who went second overall in the 2017 MLB draft thanks to his easy triple-digit speed is lighting up the radar gun like no other pitcher in recent MLB history, if any MLB history. Greene made his second start for the Reds on Saturday at Dodger Stadium. By results, the Los Angeles native was strong enough, shutting down the Dodgers for five innings until… Source link

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In The Know by Yahoo Honors: Kahlil Greene

Gen Z Historian Age: 21 Hometown: Germantown, Maryland Make no mistake, Kahlil Greene is just getting started. Though he is only 21 years old, he’s already served as the student body president at Yale University, been a featured guest on CNN and had a New York Times profile written about him. Greene’s TikTok series, “How Everything on This App Originated with Black People,” has garnered millions of collective views but, more importantly, has shined a necessary spotlight on how Black… Source link

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In The Know by Yahoo Honors: Kahlil Greene

Gen Z Historian Age: 21 Hometown: Germantown, Maryland Make no mistake, Kahlil Greene is just getting started. Though he is only 21 years old, he’s already served as the student body president at Yale University, been a featured guest on CNN and had a New York Times profile written about him. Greene’s TikTok series, “How Everything on This App Originated with Black People,” has garnered millions of collective views but, more importantly, has shined a necessary spotlight on how Black… Source link

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McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star

Republican leaders in Congress sought to distance themselves Tuesday from comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate in the House of Representatives to the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.  The controversy was just the latest in a series of incendiary comments from Greene that stretch back to before she was elected last year. “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of… Source link

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