Day: December 31, 2024

Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair ‘grateful’ to get back to football after suspension for vicious hit

9:22 pm December 31, 2024

Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair released a statement on Monday night as he is set to return to the team following a three-game suspension for a big hit on Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Al-Shaair thanked Texans owners Cal and Hannah McNair, general manager Nick Caserio and head coach DeMeco Ryans, and others who defended […]

Netanyahu goes against doctor’s orders, appears in Israeli parliament after surgery

9:17 pm December 31, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in the hall of the Israeli parliament on Tuesday for a crucial budget-related vote, despite the objections of doctors following prostate surgery on Sunday night, the Israeli news agency Tazpit Press Service (TPS) reports. Netanyahu, 75, was accompanied to the Knesset Plenum by his personal physician, Dr. Tzvi Berkowitz and appeared in good […]

Biden moving to ban oil and gas leases for 20 years in Nevada region, just weeks before Trump inauguration

9:12 pm December 31, 2024

The Biden administration is attempting to implement last-minute restrictions on oil and gas drilling in the west just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. On Monday, the Department of the Interior announced plans to pursue a 20-year ban on oil and gas leases in 264,000 acres of Nevada’s Ruby Mountains. The administration submitted an application […]

Freed Hamas hostage sends message to Trump to save American husband, others from ‘hell’ of captivity

9:11 pm December 31, 2024

Freed Hamas hostage Aviva Siegel is desperate to see her husband Keith brought home alive more than 450 days after attackers abducted him on Oct. 7, 2023. Speaking to “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday, Siegel sent a message to President-elect Donald Trump to deliver him and other remaining hostages from “hell” as he prepares for […]

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt predicts majority of US schools will be ‘phone-free’ by next fall

9:00 pm December 31, 2024

Social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt recently predicted that U.S. schools will have banned smartphones from classrooms by next fall. Haidt, whose recently published book “The Anxious Generation” awakened Americans to the harmful effects of smartphones and social media on their children, spoke to The Free Press (TFP) recently, saying that parents and educators are […]