Marijuana Business Daily (also known as MJBizDaily) reported Thursday that many cannabis industry executives have seen the correlation between marijuana sales and COVID restrictions easing in the U.S. The executives noted that people had more idle time at home when bars and other businesses were shuttered in many areas, and some found themselves with extra income as well. Many of those people turned to cannabis products, and MJBizDaily found that year-over-year total sales increased 777 percent in 2020....

Details of the contract were not immediately available. Fox Sports reported the deal is pending a physical. TOP FREE AGENTS: 25 best | C | 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | OF | SP | RP Since coming over from Japan, Aoki sports a .287/.353/.380 slash line in four season with Brewers, Royals and Giants. Aoki, 33, clearly has a knack for putting the ball in play, but injury concerns may be the chief reason the Giants decided not to exercise his $5....

Barber, a fourth-round pick of the Cowboys in 2005, was found dead in his apartment in Frisco, Texas, per Clarence Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Barber’s cause of death is not currently known. He was 38, nine days shy of his 39th birthday. The running back played six seasons with Dallas between 2005 and 2010 and earned a reputation for being a hard-nosed, tough-to-tackle back. While never hitting the 1,000-yard mark with the Cowboys, Barber set a high-water mark of 975 yards rushing with Dallas in 2007 and was a big part of Dallas’ 13-3 NFC East champion season....

Psaki on Friday responded to a question about Biden’s record in terms of police funding, specifically the Community Oriented Policing Services federal grant program (COPS). The White House said GOP lawmakers have spent “decades” trying to “defund” federal funds for local policing efforts, and that Biden has adamantly been opposed to “defunding the police” since he announced his run 2020 for president. “The president ran on, most importantly, did not run on defunding the police, he’s always opposed defunding the police,” Psaki said, responding to a reporter’s question about police funding on Friday....

Greene tossed out several unfounded claims about Democrats—ranging from former President Barack Obama to Tlaib—saying they have backed funding for the anti-Israel group Hamas and other organizations she labeled “terrorists.” The GOP lawmaker replied to Tlaib’s Saturday tweet in which the Michigan congresswoman denounced Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused the Israeli military of targeting media organizations. The Associated Press and Al-Jazeera had offices in a Gaza City tower that was destroyed by the Israeli Defense Forces bombing on Saturday....

The Republican congresswoman urged people to ditch Twitter and join conservative network Gettr and the controversial “free speech” social media site Gab in protest at her being banned from the site. According to the internet archive website the WayBack Machine, since Greene was suspended from Twitter on January 2, the Georgia congresswoman has gained 44,600 followers on Gab, as well as around 23,600 followers on Gettr, amounting to more than 68,000 new social media followers overall....

The firebrand Georgia Republican on Wednesday blasted the Department of Justice (DOJ), which earlier called for Bannon to receive six months in prison and a fine of $200,000. Bannon, former adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, was convicted by a grand jury of defying a subpoena from the House January 6 committee. Greene follows other conservatives who’ve denounced federal law enforcement as they’ve scrutinized Trump and his allies. Bannon is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in district court in Washington, D....

Greene’s been a vocal critic of Fauci, who’s advised every president since Ronald Reagan and is considered the nation’s top infectious disease expert. She’s taken issue with his evolving stance on the response to the pandemic and is attempting to reduce his salary to $0, a move that’s garnered support from 15 other Republicans. Rep. Ronny Jackson, of Texas, is the latest Republican to back Greene’s bill and she thanked him for his support on Thursday, adding in a tweet that the “momentum is building....

“If we’re going to talk about going door-to-door to ask people if they’ve had the vaccine and offer it, then we should definitely talk to people about how to reduce obesity to get rid of … the number-one risk factor that can lead to hospitalization or death,” she said during her Tuesday news conference inside her Washington D.C. office. “This is also an issue that leads to many other medical problems, as well as high costs and health care, so I think this is something that people should be talking about,” she added....

A month after Greene was stripped of her committee assignments, Representative Jimmy Gomez introduced a resolution with 72 co-sponsors to expel the freshman congresswoman from Congress. It’s unlikely to succeed, as it would need support from 71 Republicans to pass, but it could force members of the GOP to go on the record about their support for Greene. That same on-the-record vote that Republicans could have to cast is why Greene says she’s Democrats’ “number one target....

The infrastructure bill would provide $550 billion in new spending on different areas including high-speed internet access, the development of roads and bridges, as well as airport projects and the Amtrak passenger rail service. But progressives have vowed to oppose the measure until they saw a far-reaching bill that funded paid family leave, universal prekindergarten, medicare expansion and strong measures to combat climate change. A make-or-break vote was due to take place on Thursday on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif....

Greene’s time in office has been controversial. Greene has come under fire for social media posts in which she espoused conspiracy theories about school shootings and climate change. Some of Greene’s social media posts indicate her support for the execution of some Democrats. Some lawmakers have denounced her views and called for her removal from Congress. On Friday, Greene said she would never “back down.” Greene warned that if Republicans “cower to the mob, and let the Democrats and the Fake News media take me out, they’re opening the door to come after every single Republican until there’s none left....

The congresswoman, who has previously expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, was given a temporary time-out by the social network on Sunday after spreading baseless voter fraud claims relating to the 2020 elections. Greene, who is described on her profile’s bio as being pro-life, pro-gun, and pro-Trump, lashed out at Twitter on Monday after regaining posting privileges. She wrote: “Contrary to how highly you think of yourself and your moral platitude, you are not the judge of humanity....

Greene made the accusation in a 12-part Monday morning tweetstorm, issued in response to an October 24 tweet from Ocasio-Cortez. In Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet, she called for the expulsion of any Congress members who helped plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet didn’t mention Greene by name, but it did link to a Rolling Stone article that named Greene as one of several Republican Congress members accused of conspiring with January 6 rally organizers....

“Thousands of people are reporting very serious life changing vaccine side effects from taking covid vaccines. 5,946 deaths are reported on the CDC website. Social media is censoring their stories & the media is silent. Biden is going to homes to push shots. Just say NO!” Greene’s full tweet read. Whether the use of the phrase “just say no” was an intentional nod to its use during the Reagan administration is unclear....

Greene, a Georgia Republican, is facing backlash for saying MAGA would have won the riot—which saw a mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters engage in a failed effort to force Congress to block President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral college victory—if she and Steve Bannon were in charge while speaking at an event hosted by the New York Young Republican Club on Saturday. “I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” Greene said....

Cuban’s comments came during an interview with Kara Swisher of The New York Times, when he was asked about the possibility of running for president during the next election. He responded that he has no interest in seeking office in 2024, saying that his “only interest was because of Trump.” “I just — because I’m just not a fan of his. I just don’t think he’s very smart. I don’t think he knew what he was doing, and I don’t think he cared to govern....

The problem now — and for Michigan, for years to come — is the guy on the other side of this rivalry made it patently clear what it means to play football at Michigan State. POLLS: AP Top 25 | Coaches | PLUS: Lessons for Ohio State | Ole Miss fan in tears While Hoke stumbled through yet another rambling mess of a postmortem after yet another loss in this rivalry, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio zeroed in on the state of college football in the state of Michigan....

“I don’t know,” Dantonio said on the Big Ten teleconference on Tuesday. “It’s pretty amped up, usually. I don’t know if under the lights does it. We need to play better than we did the last time we played under the lights. Let’s put it that way. I think our players can handle that.” MORE: How John O’Korn ignited Michigan’s offense The same could be said for the 11th-year Michigan State coach who is 7-3 against the Wolverines since taking over in East Lansing....