Day: February 7, 2024

Hamas offers remaining hostages for prisoners, 135-day cease-fire in deal Biden calls ‘a little over the top’

12:05 pm February 7, 2024

Hamas has offered to release all remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a 135-day cease-fire, a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the release of well over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. The terrorist organization made the offer to Israel on Tuesday in response to previous terms sent to them last week by Egypt and Qatar. The […]

Party glow sticks to be tested by US Navy to detect biothreats: ‘Highly sensitive’

12:04 pm February 7, 2024

A common party favor may be turning into a handy U.S. military tool. Researchers at the University of Houston have discovered how glow sticks can be used in the testing and detection of biothreats. Glow sticks have proven to be more than the fun, colorful wands often worn as bracelets and necklaces at parties, per […]

Cruz doubles down on McConnell resignation call, says border bill gave every Democrats ‘self-righteous’ cover

11:00 am February 7, 2024

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz doubled down Tuesday on his call for fresh leadership in the upper chamber’s GOP caucus, saying the Senate’s crafting of its border bill has been a disaster from its inception. Cruz told Fox News that by calculating the amount of illegal immigrants permitted per day through the law it portrayed […]

Two dozen killed after election offices in Pakistan bombed twice the day before elections

10:44 am February 7, 2024

A couple of bombings in Pakistan at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate killed at least 24 people and wounded more than two dozen others on Wednesday, the day before parliamentary elections. The first attack happened in Pashin, a district in Baluchistan province, provincial government spokesperson Jan Achakzai said. Officials […]

South Carolina seeks to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad; says painless death not required

10:35 am February 7, 2024

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state’s Supreme Court that two of the state’s forms of execution — the old electric chair method and the new firing squad method — are cruel and unusual punishments, although the state claims that “painless” deaths […]