TLDR Headlines According to Bridget

May 24, 2024

ONE weekly roundup of news that you need to know, that values your time and peace!

Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi died this week in a helicopter crash. Predictably, his life has been described very differently depending on the news outlet you listen to.
Fox News took issue with the Biden administration offering their condolences. (Yes, they really did.) If you’re not sure why that’s “bad” this might clear things up.
In remembering Raisi, we should not honor the man, who earned the title "Butcher of Tehran" for his role as chief executioner during the mass murder of tens of thousands of innocent Iranians in 1988. He may have later held the title of ‘president,’ but in the end he was little more than the ayatollah’s chief lackey. Raisi’s job was to inflict pain on the Iranian people while the ayatollah’s wicked regime continued to loot and plunder them – a fact the world witnessed recently with the regime’s brutal crackdowns in response to widespread protests in 2022 through 2023.
YIKES.
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If you’ve followed the Vatican/China relationship over the Pope Francis era, that headline may make you shake your head in disbelief.
Bishop Joseph Shen Bin is the one referenced in this headline, and he was installed by the Chinese Communist Party, in spite of the Vatican “deal.” No rebuke was offered from Rome.
His speech included this gem, “Today the Chinese people are carrying out the great rebirth of the Chinese nation in a global way with Chinese-style modernization, and the Catholic Church in China must move in the same direction, following a path of ‘sinicization’ that is in line with Chinese society and culture today.”
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Welcome to today’s edition of “rules for thee and not for me!”
A judge on Wednesday granted Hunter Biden's request to have his tax trial in California postponed, citing the needs of the defendant to prepare for a June 3 trial in Delaware on federal gun charges.
Prosecutors opposed the request to delay the federal tax trial, dismissing prosecutors' argument about its "high-profile" nature. They say it's a “straightforward tax case.”
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On Sept. 29, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) finalized energy efficiency standards that required residential gas furnaces to achieve “an annual fuel utilization efficiency of 95 percent.” This is set to take effect in 2028. The current industry standard is 80 percent.
Senator Ted Cruz put forward a resolution to block the proposal saying the DOE standard, “will effectively ban all non-condensing furnace models, coercing a majority of American households to adopt electric heat pumps or pay thousands of dollars to renovate their homes to meet the requirements of new residential gas furnaces.”
The resolution passed 50-45.
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Valerie Huber, President of the Institute for Women’s Health, founded the institute after completing her service as the first special representative for global women’s health under former President Donald Trump.
She told EWTN president recently, “I had the whole world, but only one focus, and that was promoting women’s health. And to ensure that health was not equated with abortion, because it shouldn’t be, and it’s not.”
An example of the Institute’s recent work is collaboration with the first lady of Uganda to launch the Women’s Optimal Health Framework, a new initiative developed with the pro-life government of Guatemala that marks the “first life-affirming, family-strengthening framework that ministries of health can use in these countries to affirm every life.”
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