Today’s headlines: Sara Duterte, NCAP, Asian Games
Oct 5, 2026
The nine-hour impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday, including a one-hour lunch break, saw the proceedings tackle their biggest sum yet--P4.4 billion.
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday posted an image on X of Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III sitting in a dimly lit room furnished only with a monobloc chair and table and a gas lamp.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unveiled new proposals Monday for regulating cryptocurrency markets, after an effort to pass digital asset legislation through Congress came up short last month. The agency, one of two main financial regulators expected to oversee the industry, gave notice of its plans to move forward with rulemaking on both crypto...
'I've been doing this for 42 years. I've had a lot of cases... and I think by far this is the one that has caught me off guard,' Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy said.
Accusations that Vice President Sara Duterte has links to China because she allegedly received funds from the Chinese are without basis, her spokesman said on Monday.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. shared on Monday his childhood dream of becoming a musician or a scientist, revealing that he even studied music for a couple of years abroad.
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — Police in Carrascal, Surigao del Sur, have launched a deeper investigation into the death of a vocal pro-Duterte vlogger on Sunday morning. The victim, Philip Morales Engbino, 48, a married native of Minglanilla, Cebu, was also the manager of EZMMI GenCon, a major contractor for Strong Group Mining Corp.
House Committee on Appropriations chairperson Mikaela Suansing on Monday said projects in the proposed 2027 national budget had undergone several layers of review, amid concerns raised by Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian over alleged “red-flag” items.
Officials said that the kayaker was fishing near Paradise Cove when he caught a shark and as he tried to release the shark, it bit him and caused him to fall out of the kayak.
TACLOBAN CITY — A female third-year college student at the Biliran Province State University (BiPSU) in Naval was brought to the school’s guidance office on Monday after allegedly threatening to shoot one of her teachers, prompting a quick response from school officials and police. The incident, reported around 10 a.m., was contained without anyone being
The House prosecution panel has yet to decide whether to drop the bribery charge in its impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte, lead prosecutor Gerville Luistro of Batangas said Monday.
For more than eight decades, the remains of US fighter pilot Morton Sher lay unrecovered in China. A photograph of a memorial to him in a Hunan village eventually helped investigators find where his plane crashed in 1943. Sher was buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, in December 2025, a homecoming that offers a rare example of what US-China cooperation can achieve for families of missing servicemen. That cooperation has now drawn fresh attention. After the recent summit between...
